Delran

It says right in the submission that the saddle is metal, -not- Tek. It also says the turret can be placed, so the turret is not a requirement in order to use the saddle. That would be up to the player and what they wanted to do. Normal metal armored saddle without for those that don't want it, or normal metal armored saddle + whichever turret on the saddle's placement node for those that do.

It would depend on which comments you're specifically referring to. On one end of the spectrum you have the usual broken record take of, "it doesn't fit on this map" which I've seen mindlessly droned on and on by countless people, which is also factually incorrect, or those who just needlessly hate on the submission without adding anything of value merely because they dislike it. Or the delusional people who think because it's placed high a few times without winning it should then not continue to be submitted in other votes merely because they personally dislike it. On the other end you have the anti-Maevia mob downvoting anything remotely positive about it because that's what they've done since the very beginning of these votes.

You merely need a few more forum comments/posts. At 6 total posts on your account you should then be able to upvote whatever creatures you like on this current one and also in future votes. You're currently at 4/6 of the total posts needed in order to be allowed to vote/upvote.

@Binarymonk Yep, just keep commenting on various topics to get some "miles" on your account, so to speak. Then at 6 you should be able to upvote whatever creatures you like on this and future votes.

You're currently an "Early Bird", which means you haven't posted enough on the forums. You currently have 1 total post. IIRC, you need 6 total posts before you're allowed to vote/upvote any creature submission. This is an attempt to partially block out influencers from having their audience spam vote a certain creature to a potential victory, and to also help reduce botting votes for certain submissions. You're limited to 4 posts a day on the forums unless that's changed from when I got out of my Early Bird status a few votes ago. You can continue to post on various ARK forum posts, even this same topic or other creature submission posts in the current vote, to get your total account/player posts on the ARK Forums up to 6 total. Then you'll be able to upvote whichever critters you want in these creature submission posts. Hopefully this helps you out!

To all those continuing with the same broken record statement of, "it doesn't fit here", that is a factually incorrect statement. It could realistically exist on any ARK outside of ones that are entirely glacial (or perhaps entirely underwater as well?). Spiders, including jumping spiders, exist almost everywhere on Earth outside of polar regions. A quick and easy Google search of, "Do jumping spiders live everywhere in the world?" yields these results: "You can find jumping spiders all over the world, except in polar areas like Antarctica. Most are found in tropical forests, temperate forests, grasslands, scrublands, and sometimes deserts."

Spider gang family sticks together. You have my vote with your fellow spooder!

IMPORTANT: The current roadmap for Maevia is being discontinued. Due to outside circumstances that have suddenly transpired, Extinction will be the Maevia's last submission within these creature votes for ASA. To all of the loyal Maevia fans that have been behind Sovi and now myself, your support has meant the world to both of us! Thanks again for rallying behind this awesome creature we've all come to love over these last several votes! [Idea/suggestion by Shadlos, but we agree entirely with the concept.] (Below is a way for the different turrets to have their own clear strengths and weaknesses.) [Smaller/Lighter tier turrets] Highest rate of fire that also allows you to keep all movement abilities with no restrictions. However, all damage inflicted by these turrets are reduced by a certain % to compensate for the higher rate of fire while maintaining full movement capability. [Larger/Heavier tier turrets] Highest damage output of all turrets available. Something of a slower, moveable siege attacker with this tier of turret attached. The drawback to this is at the expense of drastically slowing your movement speed, disabling your ability to climb, jump, etc, and a severely reduced rate of fire. 🕯️Dossier!🕯️ "If there's one thing I can say about Maevia eureka, you do not want to be caught in its sights! I once witnessed a jumper locking onto its prey with the most incredible accuracy, lunging at it with lightning speed and within the blink of an eye, its prey was being saved as a snack for later. They seem to have the genes of a few other spiders like that of the ogre spider, as it can cast a gathering of its webbing along with a little dab of the venom droplet it keeps stored on its head, working that into its web to create paralytic bolas that seem to render its prey unconscious. I have reason to believe the hairs that grow on its back legs came from the peacock spider, but due to its need for protection, it also uses these 'feathers' as a menacing face that can scare off large predators, I've seen some tribes set up posts that they can hang from around the fronts of their bases. I will say one thing is for certain. Though they are nearly the size of a dire bear, they are quite the cuties, especially for being a spider. There is a certain intelligence you can see when you look into their eyes. I just can't place it, but they make truly remarkable companions with the ability to rapidly scale walls, caves, cliffsides, and the like. By no means are they a beast of burden, however they make up for this with their abilities to constrict or assassinate their targets. Maevia Eureka can take down much larger prey with its torpor inducing bola, the net cast, and this makes them remarkable allies for taming other creatures. Here on Extinction in particular I’ve witnessed the Maevia variant present actively protecting survivors from other creature threats. Whether this surprising, but welcome, protective behavior is due to a potential coexistence with humans from the past, or stems from their species’ understanding that allying with survivors, rather than attacking on sight, gives both the best chance at survival, I do not know. But who am I to question this heroic creature that has saved the lives of other survivors, as well as my own, on numerous occasions? Their intervention during confrontations in the wild has been a complete lifesaver." Hello there! I've been a huge supporter of the Maevia ever since I first saw its initial entry several creature votes ago. I'm not the original author/creator, which 100% belongs to Sovira and their awesome design/art/etc. I'm working collaboratively with them and posting in their stead to the forums so that they don't have to deal with things on that end due to outside factors in their personal life. However, there is no need to worry! Sovira will still be aiding Maevia from behind the scenes with new designs and the like for future map variants. - Delraz “Maevia Eureka is the jumping spider which is said to have lived once between 23 and 15 million years ago, and it’s now back for Extinction! Once more giving us the opportunity to possibly ride around on jumping spiders in the game we all know and love, Ark! I want to point out how much I appreciate those of you who've stood by and supported our jumper, yes ours! We stand together with this! It has been an uphill battle fighting against those who automatically drop Maevia to last place due to phobia reasons, which I do receive a lot of dislike for outside of here 💔 This has also been the case with our other dear spider friend, Yingi, and the snake Gigantophis from another vote. Spiders and snakes are generally the most hated creatures on Earth, after all. The jumping spider is quite fortunate that they are viewed as so cute to many who normally fear spiders! These are my thoughts on how Maevia eureka could fit into the world we play in, in a way that reflects real life jumping spiders combined with genetic modifications from other spiders, and how they might fit into Ark in a fun and meaningful way that reflects other creatures of Ark and how important each and every one of these creatures is. I felt that, as Maevia is more of a taming companion, this gives us a different way to tame creatures using a non-harmful method! As we all know, Ark is anything but hospitable in the slightest, there are many risks you take while engaging with your targets due to the fact that everywhere in Ark can be quite chaotic at any moment so having to be weary of your surroundings at all times is one thing, but the larger the creature, the weaker the bola... You may find yourself having to maneuver around an area and keep your targets attention while allowing for your jumper to gather enough venom to ensnare it once again.” [New Ability] 🕷️Architect The Maevia can shoot out a heavier form of non-sticky webbing to create a temporary bridge for smaller medium creatures and below (Para and below) to traverse to the other side of chasms, webbed ladders to climb up to higher terrain, or crude stairs to descend from higher ledges to lower ones. 🛡️ Saddle With the map's extremely harsh environment that has constant threats, corrupted, and OSD's, comes a high need for survivability! The Maevia's advanced saddle offers enforcer-like body armor (metal armor, -not- Tek) to protect its weaker leg joints. This armor also entirely encases their squishy, vulnerable abdomen. On the metal plating protecting the abdomen is a flat spot which allows an unmanned turret to be placed on it. Supply the correct ammunition for whichever specific turret that you placed onto the Maevia's armored backside to allow it to automatically target your foes in combat, both in PVE and PVP situations. 🏞️Habitat This is a creature that is capable of being added to any map in the game due to its likeliness of living in caves, but also as jumping spiders can be found in so many different environments, there particularly are no limits to where they could be found! 🕷️Ability - Tranq Bola The thought is that jumpers could take the droplets they store and work them into their webbing to create venom-coated webs that could be thrown like a bola. The webs would have a tranquilizing effect whenever touched, thus causing their target to build up torpor and eventually go unconscious. 🕷️Ability - Latching As a jumping spider, they have outstanding agility and the ability to crawl on walls, but at a more rapid pace, maybe even with the cost of stamina drain for balance! An optional thing I had given thought to was the ability to fully latch onto its target in order to accurately cover them with their readied net. 🕷️Ability - Prey Lure You're out roaming around on your two equus when one of them begins to pick up an irresistible scent coming from a nearby cave wall. Your equus is nibbling on a suspended droplet when you notice the faint glinting coming off the web it's attached to, within an instant a jumper has lunged at your equus covering it with its bola and is quickly wrapping it up in its webbing, but in order to free your companion you need to tear at the webbing, as a few good hits will send that jumper scurrying up the wall to hide! 🕷️Ability - Locking On / Jumping This is the single feature that would make this creature so invaluable, and even possibly make it require a very difficult feat for taming it due to that power, as with the spiders extreme accuracy, it has the ability to lock its attention onto its prey, much like our real world jumping spiders who wait for the right moment to pounce, and this could also be useful for when using its projectile web net, or if grappling with a single web possibly! This is a pretty big part of what makes them 'jumping' spiders after all! In contrast to its normal and Aberrant cousins, the Extinction Maevia can easily navigate the vast wastelands found across Extinction due to its vastly enhanced jumping capability which allows it to traverse greater chunks of terrain in a single leap, similar to that of a Procoptodon. 🕷️Trait - Scary Face This spider was designed in thought with evolving to be able to terrify larger than normal predators, making it an incredibly useful tame for bases, keeping your creatures better protected when having to move them around the map, I imagined it could come with an extra ability to raise its back legs with its abdomen to stay in this stance on the ground, or you could enable an option within the radial menu allowing it to find and hang down from a nearby pole, perhaps even a new item for the spiders and flyers alike, akin to a perch? 🕷️Trait/Ability - Dance! Jumping spiders in the real world have very little differentiation on sizes between male and female. When you have befriended a male jumper through an emote game and some bonding, he has the ability to dance for a female with your guidance. When you do the dance, the taming meter will begin to fill up, if you succeed with 50% of the meter, the bar lights up and gives you the option to continue enchanting her or to stop. If you choose to stop, she deems you worthy of carrying her offspring and she will allow your boy to breed with her, gifting you an egg if you protect her while she gestates! However, if you continue to 100% on the meter, you can outright impress her enough that she will bond with you and conclude the taming process! From both Sovira and myself, thanks as always for all the love you possess for the Maevia! 1 Vote = 1 Maevia who is forever grateful for your support! Potential alterations/changes suggested by others Maevia fans: The Maevia could also have corruption-like looks/effects similar to other Extinction creatures on its abdomen and it could shoot a strong corrupted climbable webbing. Instead of a tranq bomb what if the Maevia can use corrupted nodes as a special type of venom to inject into other creatures, thus inflicting a 'berserk' effect similar to corrupted creatures making them attack anything and everything in sight including humans even when tamed. This won't be instant though and will slowly come into affect similar to Rhynio sap attacks that can be cured with cryopod narcotic (because it makes it sleepier), or the creature being imprinted (the affect will take longer to activate the larger the creature). Instead of a latching ability, it could also potentially be a hit-and-run type of attack where it jumps on its prey/enemy, bites, and instantly springs away (the bite can inflict either bleed tranq or the berserk status effect.) The maevia can have 3 types of bite: venom bite- the maevias basic bite dealing little damage on impact but high damage over time. tranq bite- torpor inflicting bite little damage (needs narcotic to function). berserk bite- same damage as venom bite but inflicts the corruption berserk affect (uses corrupt nodes) Gacha coccoons, small creatures could be snatched and turned into coccoons, hung up and could produce goodies or other useful materials. Radial menu where the production, torpor, and other things could be enhanced, as well as weight of creatures depending on torpor percentage, for how small/medium/large the taming capability could be for jumpers. Torpor resistance due to thick fur/hairs.

It fits on any map outside of one that is entirely an arctic wasteland. Jumping spiders in the real world exist in almost all biomes/regions, after all.

I'm glad I was able to post it fairly quickly. Now it's up to the ARK players on the forums to get it into the top 10 and keep it there. Hopefully that will be the case and the loyal fans stick around to keep voting for it, but only time will tell. Good luck to everybody out there even if you aren't voting for the Maevia! May the best submission win in the end.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: After careful deliberation with Sovira about the Maevia's future and its place on The Center map, we have come to the conclusion to bow out of The Center's creature vote. The Maevia will return for more (but not all) future maps where it will feel more at home than it would have on The Center. This will in turn free up another spot for another well-deserving author/creature that fits The Center better. For everybody who has already voted and shown their love for the Maevia in yet another round, your support means everything to us! That's what keeps us going in our continued efforts with the Maevia moving forward, but for maps that are better suited than this one. If you see this after making your initial vote, make sure to support whichever other entries you love for The Center. There are definitely tons of other amazing entries out there! Below is a direct quote from Sovira themself on the decision: "Maevia Eureka is being withdrawn from The Center Creature Voting Contest. After a lot of thought and consideration, it just feels unfair for her to take up a potential spot where a creature who stands their best chance to shine in this more so water based map, could make it into the top ten. Another thing to consider was the fact that none of us want to see any creature submission become 'washed up' by over-submitting it, nobody deserves to have that kind of hatred towards their genuine hard work and effort, when all they want is to see the creature make it into the game some day! I want to give a massive thank you to those who have supported her through this, and I'm so sorry to tear her down from you guys like this, I think in the long run it's going to help her chances later on as well as giving another person the chance they deserve to make it. We are making plans on having her submitted to Valguero, Extinction, Genesis 1, and Fjordur if that map happens to have another voting event, with a fresh alternative variant for Extinction! Please forgive me for this, and I hope that you understand the decision behind this." - Sovira [Maevia roadmap for future creature votes] Valguero - Spawning in Aberrant zone (Aberrant variant) Extinction - Spawning in City and/or Forest (New Variant specific to Extinction) Fjordur - Spawning in Aberrant caves/zones + Vanaheim (Aberrant variant) Genesis I - Aberrant caves, Bog (Aberrant Variant)

Maevia fated to always be the runner up it would seem. Sad times. :')

Well, hopefully you put the Maevia as your #1 choice in the voting before it ended. That was roughly 1 hour and 45 minutes ago now. Winning a creature vote is obviously quite difficult. Not to mention there were a lot of other great entries for Abby, as there are in every map's creature vote. All we can do now is wait another four days to have the results shown. Then we'll see if those results are good or bad for the Maevia's cause into becoming an official creature in ARK one day.

It might be a spooder, but it's the cutest of them all by far.

There truly are a lot of cool creature submissions this vote. It's a shame Wildcard isn't doing batches of 3, but with their constant delays for everything it makes sense. But just imagine getting batches of 3 like how we got with some of the free DLC maps previously. It'd be amazing to get 3 in-game creatures from the Top 10 of every creature vote. Unfortunately, we are not in that timeline.