Community Crunch 381: Sunsets on ASE, New Horizons on ASA and FAQ

8 hours ago, Grissom said:

Please please tell me how anything will change from EA with these new magical animals on the Island.  Base building will be 100% the same. Doed, Anky, Argy no one will have a rhynia early on. Moving large dinos will be a quetz. Nothing has been added to the island that changes the meta of building or logistic of the early game other than some gatherers like the Theri and it isn't even specifically better at one building feature than anything else.   The island we know we are getting as of now will be 100% the same as how it was in EA other than a handful of creatures are are mostly combat oriented.

1. What "Magical animals" are you referring to? I don't see any fantasy tames safe for the unicorn.

2. Doed, Anky, and Argy are all pretty far inland and thus not exactly easy to get. And Quetz's won't be any easier to get either.

3. Rhynia on the other hand will weirdly be possible so long you use a creature with high drag weight (such as a bronto, which spawns just about everywhere). It's getting the saddle that's the tricky part with a saddle that unlocks at an insane level 90... Buuuut leveling is pretty easy if you just rush Explorer notes and kill anything with a pulse between finds, you could possibly get there within 3-5 days with enough hard work.

4. You also didn't have Megatheriums, Frogs, Basilosaurs, Moschops, Microraptor, or A HUGE NUMBER OF OTHER ISLAND NATIVE TAMES on the first day of ASE, but you sure as hell will have them on ASA.

5. ASE didn't have redwoods, The Snow Biome, the active crater in the volcano, or even CAVES when it first came out. So you are factually incorrect with that statement.

6. English clearly isn't your native language, so I can't take you all that seriously with how ridiculous you phrase things. please get better or just use your mother tongue.

11 hours ago, Grissom said:

THE COMPANY also is a stable entity which in good faith has operated there product for 8 years and kept a consistent working system for that time. Private servers come and go and die all the time on top of Admins using there personal judgment and emotions to run servers. This isn't something you deal with as much when your dealing with a company. And by the way the company didn't just randomly shut off the servers one day they gave months and months of notice and as of right now I have that save file so it can still be loaded and played.

And yes MANY unofficial public servers I would say the majority have mods to make the game easier and have boosted rates. Some make the game harder like the Hunted but far more just make the game less of a challenge. People can play how they want but all this is just a fact.

BTW your own argument is Moot because its licensed product and all you are doing is buying the right to use it not to own it (read the TOS) so if the company wants to take unofficial server rentals away they can do this as well and the only thing you can do is run it on a private dedicated.

Show me where I said they shut off the servers randomly. I said they would do it if they deem it financially lucrative. Whether they give notice or not is irrelevant in the face of that fact. If the cost of maintenance outweighs the revenue generated by keeping it up or would detract from another project they deem more beneficial then the server goes against the interest of the company and has to go. An admin may have to rely on personal judgment, however that judgment generally will be quicker than what you get trying to get in touch with wildcard for support.
Even now there are people who submitted a ticket months ago about a problem and were never addressed. Your presumption that most unofficials have mods also shows that you have zero clue how things work beyond the pc sphere. When two thirds of unofficial servers in totality are as of this time not mod compatible it’s ridiculous to claim “most” servers use mods. Come Asa perhaps but now? No. Lastly, what is even the point of mentioning the license? I know full well that they can bring down any and all servers. I literally stated as much when I said they can pull it all down. The crux of my point is that no matter how you spin it as long as you play the game someone somewhere will be able to determine whether or not you play should you choose to play online.