How does pve work

The only advantage I see from this at all, is the servers have people on them, and the servers don't just quit after a couple months due to hosting issues. Am I right? Fairly on point. All I see them as is a place for people to build creatively. When you think of it, there really is no long term goal other than build a big base That's not to say that PvE is flawless.

Bases get so freakin' massive that everytime you go near one, it feels like your game is gonna crash. Not to mention that using land animals gets obnoxious because of said bases blocking popular traffic areas. I played on a Center server once where a tribe had blocked off the mouth of an entire river. And another had blocked off the land entrance of the South Jungle cave. The bases might be aesthetically pleasing, but everywhere else looks like a wasteland because all you see is a field of thatch foundations.

And, speaking of, if you manage to down an animal in the wild, there's at least a forty percent chance of you not being able to protect it with spike walls or mark your location with a campfire, because you're too close to someone else's foundations or whatever. And, like you said, a lot of animals lose their functionality.

Don't mind the bird-grabbing thing, though; makes taming too easy, in my opinion. I mostly did it because I unfortunately don't have time to play on a daily basis, and I was getting sick and tired of being destroyed and raided every time I logged back in to the PvP server I was playing in ;-. Also, like FlyingSheep kinda said, I really enjoy the building and taming part of the game, and that used to work perfectly fine.

I just hope that PvE servers will get the same possibilities as the PvP ones over time. You can technically PvP on PvE servers, but it has to be consensual. Not a lot of people use it and, even if they did, I'm guessing it'd be much in the same way as PvP servers: Fly, Pick and Drop. There's no reason not use it. I'm a solo player and I just don't have the time to play pvp. I love building and raising, that's something that I probably wouldn't do in pvp. They do keep screwing us over though.

My dream of getting to end game solo is dying. I'm sick of the trolls building in the volcano. All those immature people in the chat. I'm almost done with ark. Pfft, true. Not gonna risk their stuff getting thoroughly leaned, but they'll keep talking trash. I mean, hell, if stuff dies in a fight, then at least you've got more to do. Replace and regrow for the next fight. I believe that above all else, the main thing that gets people to "put up" with PvE is that ultimately, these people are the ones that don't want to put in the work on making a base, then waking up the next day to find it all demolished by some obnoxious tribe.

Sort still happens anyway. I like logging in and not having to random spawn because my home has been broken into and my body violated. More From Forbes. Nov 11, , pm EST. Nov 11, , am EST. Nov 10, , pm EST. Edit Story. Oct 12, , am EDT. To combat this problem, designers have been toying with more emergent gameplay for online RPGs, where the actions of gamers can permanently alter the world in which the game is played, causing new storylines to emerge.

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Dictionary Dictionary Term of the Day. Natural Language Processing. Am yet to find a PvP server that actually leaves peoples buildings alone and only targets other high level tribes but again the dev's didnt think it through PvP in any survival game ends up in a derp fest with the children grieving for they can. If anything flyers in PvP need a stronger debuff against low levels being picked up without a bow or gun cant kill them to stop you being tossed from height.

Rinera View Profile View Posts. You could play in a Hardcore server if you don't want to be excluded from features that PvP servers have. The people there are either low levels that come in, die once and go away, casuals that mind their own business or high level people that would almost never take chances in losing their progress so they keep a low profile. EDIT: Admittedly, if you don't have a friend to play with you, you will most likely be playing by yourself there.

Last edited by Rinera ; 1 Jul, pm. James View Profile View Posts. On a PvE server the greifers have legitimate invulnerability and you can't do anything to stop them. Also on Pve servers thatch structures have a 4day decay so if you havent logged in in 4days its open to demolish by anyone wood structures last longer have a day decay system as long as u log in structures are safe. Dinos cant be kited to demo your structures, Your birds can only airlift tribe mates which means grieving by flyer isnt possible.