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Every single thing you do affects your state and your skills:. This is not a bug. Your willpower level is especially important. When your willpower is low, you are only able to do things you really want to. Every decision you have to make costs willpower, and decisions where you have to suppress an appealing option for a less appealing one e.
A key part of playing the game is balancing your competing priorities with the state of your body. Choosing the right tasks at the right time is most of the game. You need to put time into things that ensure a healthy state — like food and sleep — to keep your willpower high. And then you need to develop your skills with what you have left.
Combinations of skills are the most effective.
You should study that. The odds of anyone being born in their optimal location are virtually zero, so research your options, and consider moving early. Location is a multiplier to all of your skills and states.
Early in the game it can be common to reject and be rejected by other players. Most players will find money increases throughout the early game, but that this actually introduces more problems, not less. For example, education or a mortgage can be worthwhile but are not necessarily so, depending on the education or the mortgage. Borrowing to buy new shoes is not. Your options change as the game progresses. This makes it harder to develop yourself as quickly.
All players die after about 29, days, or 80 years. All things created are impermanent, strive on with awareness. You are weak, unaccustomed to the game, and unfamiliar to the landscape. Don't be discouraged, this will surely change. Other players are there to help and hurt you, tread carefully. The single most valuable thing in Ark, is your experience. It allows you to make good decisions, live longer, and live stronger.
There are 2 ways that we learn the game, but the most common is through failure. The best thing you can do for your tribemates and new recruits, is train them. In this guide I will touch on the essential areas of experience that your tribe needs. One of the scariest things you can do in Ark, is bring a noob into your tribe. You already know they are going to do something stupid, and get dinos killed.
On a pervious server, 25, we had a noob recruit by the name of BugsBunny. He used to whistle all the time to get our attention in game, and he had no idea what J did. So one day he pressed J and all the dinos started following him. He was scared because the carnos were chasing him and he thought they were trying to kill him.
But it was too late, he jumped off the cliff we lived on, and the dinos followed him. I managed to save a few but a bunch drowned. This is why training is essential. Yes, even whistle training… The best training exercise I required for noobs to enter my tribes, was to make them tame a raptor of their own. We provided them the meat and narcos to get the job done, but they had to go find the raptor, lead it back, and tame it. That raptor was theirs and only theirs to ride. It gave them pride, a sense of accomplishment, and a dino to get killed because they are dumb.
Showing them where stuff is stored in base, show them the area and where to get the best resources, telling them who are the tribe friends, and who to avoid. Have them make tons of narco so they can level up, let them ride the carno before the rex, and show them how to get meat. They need to understand the capabilities of each dino, without the possibility of losing them… especially flying dinos.
Lastly, ask your new players what they are interested in; building, taming, pvp. Educate them accordingly, and give them essential tasks in the tribe to develop those skills. While you may have solo tamed a quetzal, some of your guys maybe only tamed a raptor solo. Educating them on the tools that can and should be used for knocking a dino out, and why kibble is the best thing in the game. How to gently knock out a dino, as to get the best tamed levels.
Starving the dino, how to hustle jerky, how to encourage high level wild spawns, and where to find the best dinos. I can tell you where I think the best taming spots are, but every server might have some differences, so you should know best. I know you are eager for this section. PvP is one of the smallest parts of the game, if you consider the time spent doing anything else. But it is the threat of PvP that drives us to build bigger, tame more, and wear armor.
Even doing a friendly, war games with another tribe without risking dinos, is a good way to get experience. Shoot each one in the torso, and ask them how much damage was caused.
Do the same thing with different guns, as well as wearing cloth armor, leather, chitin, and metal. Knowing the damage caused by certain weapons is very valuable. Even hand weapons too. Dino Damage — Same thing, line your tribe up, tell them how much damage the dino has, give everyone a chomp. Dino Riding — Being skilled at picking someone up from a moving dino is a nice skill to have. Have your tribe practice doing that to eachother. They will soon realize how hard it is to pick someone up from a sprinting saber with an argent. Suicide - Part of PvP is imprisoning people, they need to know how to handle themselved when knocked out or locked up.
Kill Yourself Combat Shooting — Have your tribe fight each other with scoped rifles or shotguns, or even pick off dinos. They need to know how to hit someone, and how the weapons do damage. Explosives — Throwing grenades is something everyone should know how to do. Not just how to land them close to a door, but how to hold them for 4. C4 is expensive, but if you do it once, you get the jist of it. Educating your tribe on how many grenades it takes to destroy a reinforced wood door, or how many C4 it takes to blow down a behemoth gate door.
Advanced Tactics — Using things like platform buildings and turrets, or boats. Creating safe zones, quickly setting up turret bases, dropping grenades from argents, shooting while being carried on an argent, etc. Tribes are the bread of this game. The social interaction, co-operative taming and fighting, and trading between tribes are a core part of this game. Some of you will be a great asset to any tribe, and some of you will be great solo players. The following lessons will cover all the aspects of managing a tribe. Finding competent people is hard.
One thing that I can say I have done well with in Ark, is recruiting great players. Great builders, tamers, and PvPers. It all starts with their appearance. They may appear in global, casually looking for an established tribe, or you may find them out solo taming a carno. Either way, do your research on them. Talk to them and invite them to be steam friends.
Interview them, have a set of questions that you ask everyone, like Rick Grimes in Walking Dead. Just because they only have 80 hours on Ark, doesn't mean they wont be an asset.
They may be very trainable. Be very careful when allowing very young players into your tribe. One of the best indicators of a good tribe member, is someone who can succeed on their own. Probably the best person I ever recruited started as a solo player who built a significant building on his own. He was awesome at building and finding the best spots to grind out resources fast. The picture of the collisseum below was taken long after i recruited him, he built it by himself with a doed and a mammoth. I believe it was over k stone to complete Another strategy, is merging with a smaller tribe members , that is showing promise, but is behind in it's development from your tribe.
This is always a bit tough, because of the culture that they had, their relationships, and the security of their stuff and dinos. Give it a few days, and make sure your original tribe members make an effort to bond with them. Who knows who could sneak up on you with a grenade. Got all of the basics down and want some advice on where to parachute in and where to get your hands on the best guns? Check out this guide! If you're having issues with game performance, check out this article.
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Dino Damage — Same thing, line your tribe up, tell them how much damage the dino has, give everyone a chomp. Just ask them to prepare the stuff to tame a new quetz. The following lessons will cover all the aspects of managing a tribe. Either way, do your research on them. It allows you to make good decisions, live longer, and live stronger. Help enough people get what they want most out of life, pretty much guarantees that you will eventually get what you want.
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