ASE: PvE Server Rules.

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1. General Server Guidelines!

The PACK Disclaimer and Players Responsibility NOTICE:

❝Your presence in this server implies accepting these rules, including all further changes. We reserve the right to modify these rules in any way we deem necessary and at any moment, at our own discretion, it is your responsibility to check for them.❞

These rules are not comprehensive and use of loopholes to violate the spirit of these rules is subject to enforcement. Failure to follow these rules will result in being removed from the community! Furthermore, If someone is a participant of our Discord, and/or a Player on our Servers, A ban on Discord may also be pursued on the Server Cluster. Please follow all of the RULES found here!

We are unable to provide any refunds to persons or clans for loss of items, resources, in-game properties and so on, regardless of the reason. The Pack Gaming is not responsible for replacing items or Dinos due to ASE Glitches, Steam Cloud Errors, or Corrupted Players Clients.

We work on a "3 Strikes Method"

Please read through and consider the spirit of the rules, not just the specific wording. And make sure your clanmates are also aware of them as their actions can affect you. Any infraction by a player will most likely have repercussions for the entire clan. Other than this official post of rules, we do not issue warnings ahead of Admin intervention.

1. You and your Tribe/Clan get a warning. Such as a sign in your base or a message to talk with an admin.

2. You and your Tribe/Clan get a second warning. Same as above but Tames are confiscated, or buildings removed. Written note added to the Admins Log recording your player name and Tribe.

3. You and your Tribe/Clan get a third warning. As verified by our Admins Log. We are done, and you are Perm Banned.

Reporting Infractions:

Please contact us through our Discord, (https://discord.gg/RJVVraV), and fill out a ticket in our Discord (#Support-Tickets)

2. Infractions

Hacks and Exploits

Hacking, or using Exploits and other situations deemed as extreme will be met with a permanent ban on the first offense. Included in this category are: Real-Money Trading (RMT), use of third-party programs that inject code and modify aspects of the game to provide unfair advantage against other players. And abuses of game mechanics to obtain an unfair advantage over other players including creating a detrimental play experience through reduced server or game performance.

Harassment - Griefing

We allow coarse humor, rough language, and or content. If this is not for you, Thank you for your interest, but we may not be the BEST FIT for you. There are some offensive and defamatory chat and user-created content DEEMED NOT PERMITTED. Personal threats, doxing, stalking. This rule also extends to character names, guild names, in-game signs, any other type of communication in Server. Our admin team considers all the above action types of harassment . If reported to admins, you will receive up to a 5 day Temp - ban . Continued Harassment of this type will lead to a Perma-Ban.

If you experience Harassment / Griefing / or observe inappropriate content in-game, please fill out a ticket in our Discord (#Support-Tickets)

3. Auto-decay and Claiming

DO NOT destroy/claim/or remove parts of bases, NAMED any of the following variations:

<name> (ADMIN); <name> (OWNER); <name> {Owner/Admin}; "The PACK"**Admin {Community Buildings} . You will be banned!

The PACK uses extended rates (12 RL Days for Dinos), all structures and tamed dinosaurs WILL auto-decay. This means that if nobody in your tribe logs into the game every 7-10 days, your structures and dinosaurs may disappear. In general, higher-tier structures will last longer than lower-tier structures.

It is the responsibility of the Player to make sure they refresh all timers on the servers they play on. You must RENDER the items to actually prevent the decay of the item this can take up to 15 min. interval in your base moving about to properly render in all sections of the build in your players render radius. To show your own auto-decay timer. Face the structure and press the H button to see the auto-decay timer. This represents the next time you or someone in your tribe must log in, or the structure will be destroyed.

Any tribe that is fully inactive (24 days of no log ins) will be dino/structure wiped by admins. Please advise the admin team of prolonged (over 12 days) absences if you are not abandoning your base.

ASE Auto Decay timers:

Unique Auto Decay timers:

Isolated (non-connected) foundations or pillars less than 24 hours. Dinosaur in a trap/cryopod: is as long as the lifetime of the container it's stored in. Vaults and Tek Dedicated Storage will last longer than the foundation they sit on. The decay timer for a vault will reset whenever it falls. All other structures will be destroyed when the foundation they sit on is destroyed.

4. Dino Rules:

DINO CAPS: PER TRIBE - PER MAP

Tribal Cap limit = 500 Un-Stasis dinos. Tribal Stored Dino Cap limit = 2000 Trapped/Cryoed Dinos. Our cluster has set the normal Server Dino Cap = 8000. (Smaller Dino Cap Maps may impose a different Tribal Cap Arrangement)

WANDER RULES:

Beetles, snails, oviraptors, Dodos may be on “wander” while tethered to a hitching post. Limit the same gender to stop overpopulation explosions. ALL "WANDERING DINOS" should be "Tagged" for fast retrieval if they escape. Outside of these acceptable use guidelines, NO OTHER DINOS can be set to wandering! Wandering Dinos that escape, and are not retrieved within a decay cycle (12 days) will be Deleted at The Pack Admins discretion. With no recompense!

DEFENSE DINOS RULES:

ALL DINOS NOT ENCUMBERED and on AGGRESSIVE, running loose outside base walls, will be SHOT ON SIGHT. NO EXCEPTIONS and no RECOMPENSE. Defensive settings allowed = Neutral, and attack my target. No other setting is approved for Defensive Dinos. The Defensive Dino must be encumbered to the point it cannot walk in any direction. "Turret" dinos are acceptable. ALL DEFENSE DINOS should be "Tagged" for fast retrieval if they escape.

Do not use a hitching post for this setting (it stops the Dino from defending). Do Not Set any Defensive Dino on WANDER! These will sometimes go rouge on resets or server crashes, and phase your walls.

SCATTERED DINOS:

Do NOT leave Tamed /Claimed Dinos all over the map! These will be Deleted at The Pack Admins discretion. With no recompense! NO UNCLAIMING DINOS at the CC's, trap and place in the donations bin. Do not un-claim dinos in the wild to circumvent the Tribal dino cap in breeding!

BREEDING RULES:

Dino Storage terminals space allows [300 slots] only. Soulpods can be stored in any container. Please limit to 250 Pods per container outside of the DS Terminals. All male animals that you do NOT want to breed with others need to be clipped/cryoed, or kept out of the range of the female breeders. Overpopulations will be met with Deletion of all juveniles found. We ask that high level breeders please clip dinos, so abuse of your bloodlines does not occur. Cloning of Clones, and Neutered Dinos is prohibited. This is a Banning OFFENSE.

EXT Titans:

Titans (Kaiju's) are NOT to be transferred off of the map they were captured on, and must be left on passive when not in use.

5. Server Building Restrictions

Please remember that there are other players sharing the server with you. NO MASSIVE BUILDS of 4000+ tiles. All Building rules are designed around a Solo Player Or a multiplayer tribe. No personal bases if you are part of a tribe on the same MAP. Building tile = a tile is any building piece, or object you can "Place" in your base.

BUILDING SIZES:

• ONE Main base per map, ONE Outpost per map per clan/tribe. Except where NOTED.

• Building tile counts should be under 3000 tiles for a Main BASE.

• DO NOT BUILD a box that encompasses the full 80x80x24. Instead use a Fence line of Gates to reduce the lag. Build inside such gates.

• MAIN BASE - a maximum of 80x80x24 Building tiles. THIS allotment includes all FENCE LINES and the Buildings that form the Base inside that FENCE LINE.

• OUTPOSTS: a maximum of 30x30x24. THIS allotment includes all FENCE LINES and the Buildings that form the Outpost inside that FENCE LINE. (NOTE: Not Applicable to SE.)

BI-LEVEL BUILDS: - including Ocean Bases and Tree Platforms.

• The Maximum possible height from bottom tile to top tile is 32 building tiles.

• One staircase build is allowed on the outside of the base walls.

• Ocean Bases - max possible footprint is 30x30x32 building tiles.

• Aerial Tree Platforms- max possible footprint is 30x30x32 building tiles.

• Unique Tall bases in Extinction City. -Max possible footprint is 40x40x32 Building tiles.

MOBILE BASES: - (Water Craft, Platform saddles.)

• 20x20x12. Maximum size without a Special Exception (Some ship builds can be made into an Exception.)

• When NOT in use they need to be parked near the Clan/Tribes Main base or Outpost.

• Platform Saddles have specific build limits built in. And when built on, count as multiple tames in your base count.

RUINS: -

Follow all building restrictions put forth in the above rules, and follow the Prohibitive Build Areas for your map.

• Please do not block any entrance to artifacts.

• Stay within Main Base Size of at maximum of 80x80x24 Building tiles

CAVE BUILDS: - (includes: sea, land, and nooks)

Follow all building restrictions put forth in the above rules, and follow the Prohibitive Build Areas for your map.

• Caves that are less than 30 x 30 building tiles are Outpost Sized at a maximum of 30x30x24 Building tiles

• Caves over 60 x60 building tiles are Main Base Sized at a maximum of 80x80x24 Building tiles.

• Recommended that you just Gate up the cave entrance IF YOU ARE the only occupant. And Do not build a giant box in the cave.

SMALL ISLAND BUILDS: - (includes: aerial, atoll, & space)

Follow all building restrictions put forth in the above rules, and follow the Prohibitive Build Areas for your map.

• Islands that are less than 30 x 30 building tiles are Outpost Sized at a maximum of 30x30x24 Building tiles

• Islands over 60 x 60 building tiles are Main Base Sized at maximum of 80x80x24 Building tiles.

ENCLOSED VALLEY BUILDS: -

Follow all building restrictions put forth in the above rules, and follow the Prohibitive Build Areas for your map.

• Enclosed Valleys that are less than 30 x 30 building tiles are Outpost Sized at a maximum of 30x30x24 Building tiles.

• Enclosed Valleys over 60 x 60 building tiles are Main Base Sized at maximum of 80x80x24 Building tiles.

TELEPORT PADS: (All versions) -

• All versions of teleporters are restricted to 3 of each per tribe.

• Follow any rule that states no tribal teleports allowed near this POI.

TAMING PENS/SPIKE FENCE WALLS: -

• Any taming pen outside your base walls (not attached to base) has 48 hours MIN before admins remove it.

AUTOMATION FARMS: -

• Gacha Breeding is limited to 50 Animals per tribe out of stasis. And not in the Gavagers.

• S+ Gavagers are limited to 10 gavagers per tribe/per map. Limited in the mod INI.

• Crop plots - ALL KINDS - are limited to a total of 50 per TRIBE.

• Please enclose your plant y stacks so we don't have so many aerial graphic artifacts.

• S+ Ded. Storage - Please do not have multiple dedicated units per resource item!

6. BUILDING RESTRICTIONS:

Abuse Of The Claim System

• NO building tiles placed/spammed to prevent other players’ access to the POI, or a base location.

• Render Distance Rule - Space between NON Allianced Bases is 75 building tiles.

Obelisks

• Do not build on the Obelisk Platform or attach a base to the Obelisk itself.

• Do not leave dinos on obelisk platforms over 48 hours.

Resources and Protected Resource Areas.

• Do not build on groups of 5 nodes or more, or mixed resource nodes of 7 nodes or more.

• No building/tribal teleporters within 75 Building tiles of any Protected Resource Area.

• No building/tribal teleporters inside Resource Caves that supply a unique resource including special dino spawns.

Supply Drops/Loot Crates -

• No building/tribal teleporters near any LOOT resource.

• All players must have a way to the supply drop area on foot with unlocked gates.

• Respect others when doing a loot run and if you see a person landed next to one, fly to the next.

• Stealing a drop out from others is considered Griefing and will be met with disciplinary actions.

• Cave Loot crates are a first come first serve opportunity.

• Artifact caves No building/tribal teleporters inside the cave.

• Do not leave tames in loot caves.

Unique POI (Points of Interest):

• Lore notes / Extinction City Terminals - All players must have a way to the POI on foot with unlocked gates.

• Waterways deep enough for a raft - All players must have a way to around your base on foot with unlocked gates.

• Walkways, and Aerial Ramps - All players must have a way to around your base on foot with unlocked gates.

• Aberration Waterfalls into the other zones. Please Do Not Block these.

7. Prohibited Areas per ASE Map

Aberration Prohibited Areas:

• Keep the waterways clear for Boat traffic.

• Do not lock Gas collectors.

• No building within 200 foundations of any Public Refinery area.

• ANY Cave or Ruin that has an artifact, lore note, rune stone, Do NOT Block the way to the item.

• All Caves on AB have building prevention enabled.

• Do not block Resource nodes (groups of 5 or more or including Metal, OBS, and Crystal nodes)

Extinction Prohibited Areas:

• Sunken Forest Beaver Lake- do not block the spawns in the middle of the lake. Build back from the water's edge.

• Any city terminal must be treated like a public transmitter, you may be enclosed within a base, but that area must remain accessible to the public via a gate system.

• All Oil or Water wells should be UNLOCKED or in an admin's tribe.

• No building within 200 foundations of any Public Refinery area.

• ANY Cave or Ruin that has an artifact, lore note, rune stone, Do NOT Block the way to the item.

• Specific Caves that have artifacts in them have building prevention enabled. Those that do not are free to build in.

• If a Cave Falls into the following Resource node rule, or has special Dino Spawns you MAY NOT build in it.

• Do not block Resource nodes (groups of 5 or more or including Metal, OBS, and Crystal nodes)

Fjordur Prohibited Areas:

• Broken Meadows Waterfall Cave- [[Desmodus Spawn]] 38.2|74.8

• Fjordur Public Resources -03.87|73.97 Metal Crystal and Gems[Do NOT Build area]

• Drengrheimr (The Old Grave Cave) Behind a destructible rock. " 03.41|32.79 [Do NOT Build area [[Artifact of the Hunter]]

• Bear Caverns" 10.12|84.47 "[Do NOT Build area] [[Artifact of the Shadow]]

• Vanaheim Wyvern's Cave 12.77|65.06 [Do NOT Build Area] [[Poison Wyvern spawn]]

• Asgard Terminal 20.5|37.2 "[Do Not Build Area][[Hati & Skol Dungeon]]

• " The Snowglobe 20.60|8.74 [Do Not Build Area – [[Ferox Spawns]]

• "Molten Caverns" 20.90|57.37"[Do Not Build Area - [[Artifact of the Clever]][[Artifact of the Massive]][[Artifact of the Pack ]]"[[Desmondus Spawns]]

• "Secret Terminal(Asgard)" 25.0|10.8 [Do NOT Build area [[Artifact of the Chaos]]

• Asgard Wyvern's Cave 29.71|8.31 "[Do NOT Build area][[Lightning Wyvern spawn]]"

• "Marianna Caverns UNDERWATER"3.71|04.08"[Do NOT Build area [[Artifact of the Brute]][[Artifact of the Depths]][[Artifact of the Devourer ]]

• " Fjordur Public Metal Mtn-2 30.38|52.89 "Metal, OBS, & Runestones[Do NOT Build area]"

• "Forburg (Helms Deep) " 32.0|66.1[Fjordur Community Center] Fjordur Public Crystal 32.11|69.02 Below Helms Deep in a cavern, Crystal.

• Fjordur Public Metal, Oil, Obs. 32.2 | 67.4 "Above Helms Deep with OIL, OBS, Metal[Do NOT Build area]

• " Fjordur Public OIL, Metal and Obs. 36.86|95.76 "Cave with OIL, Metal and Obs.[Do NOT Build area]"

• "Lindbjord Forest Cave" 4.52|47.32"[Do NOT Build Area][[ Beyla Dungeon]]"

• "The Hidden Worlds"40.90|57.40 Holds terminals used to teleport to other realms [Do not Build area] [[POI]]

• Asgard Drake Nest 42.04|49.21 "[Do NOT Build Area] [[Rockdrakes spawn area]]

• " Fjordur Public Crystal & Oil 44.82|42.44 "Crystal and Oil[Do NOT Build area]"

• "The Golden Caverns (Hall of Fame Rm and LOOT boxes)" 45.66|60.69"Patreon Gratitude Cave[Do not Build area [[POI]]

• " Living Lake Public Beaver Pond 46.94|73.18 "Beaver Pond & dams(Vardiland Beaver Lake)[Do NOT Build area]

• " The Snakepit 49.4|14.2 "[Do NOT Build Area] [[Artifact of the Brute]]

• " Beiygjaheimr- 56.74|84.69 "[Do NOT Build Area][[Megapithecus Dungeon]][[Artifact of the Stalker]]

• " The Over Grown Grave 57.31|65.77 [Do Not Build Area] - [[Broodmother Dungeon]]

• Fjordur Public OIL, Metal and Obs. 58.38|78.39 "Cave with Metal, OIL, Obs, and Crys.[Do NOT Build area]"

• "Nideshem Depths(labyrinth with puzzles and several traps)(UNDERWATER)" 71.8|01.2"[Do NOT Build area][[Artifact of the Massive]]

• " Sulfur Pools Public Area 72.64|91.35 "Gigantic Sulfur Pool area.[Do NOT Build area]"

• "Djuprjord The Forgotten Caverns(Pirate ship cave)" 76.83|65.60"[Do NOT Build area] [[Artifact of the Cunning]]

• " Jotunheim Cave - 77.69|30.82"[[Steinbjorn Dungeon]] [[Artifact of the Void]] "

• Fjordur Public Metal Mtn. 79.26|36.46 "Side of a MTN covered in metal nodes[Do NOT Build area]

• " The Frozen Fortress 8.69|24.48 "[Do NOT Build area [[Artifact of the Skylord]][[Artifact of the Strong]]

• " Balheimr Tar Pits. 80.46|80.80 "Balheimr Volcanic Isle stone pathway above the tar pits.[Do NOT Build Area]"

• "Dvergheimr(The Old Kingdom)" 86.2|5.3"[Do NOT Build Area][[Dragon Dungeon]]"

• "Caverns of Time - Lunar cave UNDERWATER "86.28|98.17" Red, Blue, Green Gems[Do NOT Build area][[AB Dinos Spawn]

• "Faheimr (Biolum Chamber)" 86.8|12.8"Red, Blue, Green Gems[Do NOT Build area][[AB Dinos Spawn]]

• " Fjordur Public Metal & Oil 90.02|45.14 "Metal and Oil[Do NOT Build area]

• " Mount Doom Caverns 90.73|78.52 [Do NOT Build area [[Artifact of the Immune]] [[Desmondus Spawns]]

• Quiet Pond Public Beaver Pond 93.06|32.74 "Beaver Pond & dams(Vanaland Beaver Lake)[Do NOT Build area]

• " The Throat of Flames 95.88|80.64 "[Do NOT Build area] [[Magmasaur]] spawn]

• " All Oil or Water wells should be UNLOCKED or in an admin's tribe.

• No building within 200 foundations of any Public Refinery area. ANY Cave or Ruin that has an artifact, lore note, rune stone, Do NOT Block the way to the item.

• Specific Caves that have artifacts in them have building prevention enabled. Those that do not are free to build in.

• If a Cave Falls into the following Resource node rule, or has special Dino Spawns you MAY NOT build in it.

• Do not block Resource nodes (groups of 5 or more or including Metal, OBS, and Crystal nodes)

Genesis - 2 Prohibited Areas:

• No building ON Mission DISC areas or within 50 foundations in an arc around the Mission Disc areas.

• No building on a bare spot or a structure with a Lore Cache, IF HLNA activates over a spot, do not build there.

• No building on the Upper most bridges that span the TRENCHES. This includes the natural rock spans. Do NOT block these with Gates.

• No building in the Tunnels that lead to SPACE. Do NOT block these with Gates.

• No building in the Tunnels that lead to the UNDERSEA Area known as the SUMP. Do NOT block these with Gates.

• Only one Admin approved TP within the render of the Rockwell Prime Dias.

• Do NOT place S+ Harvester's in the Mutagen Field in Rockwell's Innards. ​

• All Oil or Water wells should be UNLOCKED or in an admin's tribe.

• No building within 200 foundations of any Public Refinery area.

• ANY Cave or Ruin that has an artifact, lore note, rune stone, Do NOT Block the way to the item.

• Specific Caves that have artifacts in them have building prevention enabled. Those that do not are free to build in.

• If a Cave Falls into the following Resource node rule, or has special Dino Spawns you MAY NOT build in it.

• Do not block Resource nodes (groups of 5 or more or including Metal, OBS, and Crystal nodes)

Island Prohibited Areas:

• Penguin Island[[Organic Polymer Farming]]

• Hidden Lake[[Protected Beaver Spawn]]

• Underwater Resource Caves [[Resource Area]] ​

• Oil Fields area [[Resource Area]]

• Silica Pearls lake [[Resource Area]]

• No building within 200 foundations of any Public Refinery area.

• ANY Cave or Ruin that has an artifact, lore note, rune stone, Do NOT Block the way to the item.

• All Caves on Island have building prevention enabled.

• Do not block Resource nodes (groups of 5 or more or including Metal, OBS, and Crystal nodes)

Ragnarök Prohibited Areas:

(Other than specified metal node areas, Metal nodes are not included in this map as there are so many.)

• The giant beaver dams

• The Metal cave in the Canyons.

• All Oil or Water wells should be UNLOCKED or in an admin's tribe.

• No building within 200 foundations of any Public Refinery area.

• ANY Cave or Ruin that has an artifact, lore note, rune stone, Do NOT Block the way to the item.

• Specific Caves that have artifacts in them have building prevention enabled. Those that do not are free to build in.

• If a Cave Falls into the following Resource node rule, or has special Dino Spawns you MAY NOT build in it.

• Do not block Resource nodes (groups of 5 or more or including Metal, OBS, and Crystal nodes)

8. Unexplained Deaths, Client Crashes, and Server Issues.

We are unable to provide any refunds to persons or clans for loss of items, resources, in-game properties and so on, regardless of the reason. The Pack Gaming is not responsible for replacing items or Dinos due to ARK Glitches, Steam Cloud Errors, or Corrupted Players Clients.

Boss Battles

To be teleported into a Boss arena AND out of the arena, you MUST be dismounted. Teleportation to the Titan summoned area or bosses does not require you to dismount. All Tek gears and Tek saddles are banned (WC setting) from the island Boss arena (Excluding Tek Cave/Overseer Arena) and Manticore Arena, and attempting to wear it inside when entering will either force unequip it, or drop at where the boss was summoned).

After beating an ascension boss (e.g: Manticore in Manticore Arena in Scorched Earth), you will lose any item not allowed to be uploaded into ARK Data (e.g.:trophies, tributes, Element). To avoid this, put such items inside a creature inventory before ascension happens. Unfortunately we can not recover dinos, or items lost this way, they are often treated like they were sent into mesh and hit an anti mesh barrier.

Player Deaths:

Merging into Anti Meshing Barriers (Skybox - Ground mesh layer-etc.) This includes the deaths while using a teleporter. Some caves now have the Ground Mesh protection turned on and trying to teleport into a cave will cause a Player Client Crash. And usually a death. Deaths while AFK. Are not always explained in the tribal logs. Most times we can not define what happened. Occasionally some Deaths will be recoverable in the Death Recovery mods, unless you pass the 60 min Death cache decay limit. Deaths while logged out. Are not always explained in the tribal logs. Most times we can not define what happened. Occasionally some Deaths will be recoverable in the Awesome Death Recovery on the teleport pad, unless you pass the 30 min Death cache decay limit. To Prevent Player loss of items. Store all inventory in a storage chest near your log out point. Store Gear and hotbar items in a "Loadout Mannequin". Log out in a sleeping pod or locked onto a bed. If you need to AFK, make sure to set your settings for at least 30 mins AFK, and again store items and log out on a bed of some sort.

Client Side Crashes:

Any type of Client Side Crash can create a loss of saved data for the player. As well as Player deaths and dino deaths while you were handling the crash. These incidents will not produce a bag or recoverable items in the death recovery system. Admins have no access to the Servers ARKData.sav files and can not replace a players file in the server.

Server Crashes and Restarts:

Server Crashes will have a 5 to 14 min. Rollback to the save Prior to the restart, or to the last save before the Crash. All Data collected between the Save timestamp and the restart / Crash will be erased. Server Restarts will have a save 3 mins prior to a Restart. If you do not log out before the 3 min. Mark, you can lose some game data to the server resetting. Please always try to get to a safe stopping point before the 5 min Restart warning!

Transfer Errors:

Characters/Dinos/Items uploaded to ARK cloud have a 24-hour time limit in multiplayer. Ensure you are set to download them into another server before the timer runs out, or else your items will decay in your upload when the timer goes past 0.

Steam Cloud Errors involve Characters/Dinos/Items uploaded to the ARK cloud. If this upload is corrupted, Admins and Owners can NOT Access the data stored in the Steam cloud and your information is lost.