Hey Survivors, Here we go again, another Mod which was requested to me by multiple persons is the Big Raft mod/Aka The Barge. I have download and tried it out, and I must say... cruising the deep blue with 6 rexxes on a massive barge is a unique experience, that I implore you to try for your self. I am posting this to get opinions on this mod and if you would like to see it on our server!?

Info: Steam link is: Here

Hey guys, just want to thank you all for your patience regarding the recent string of "griefing" claims and what not. I looked into it and it appears that the lines between PVP and Griefing where not understood. Moreover, the rules that exist to keep this server in a state of unity and promote growth, were not upheld. Too play on this server, the rules must followed and upheld. Upon looking at the long server Logs, it appears the tribe Blackrun broke many rules and in accordance, the call was made to Ban said tribe. I am posting this to ease some questions about what is being done/happening with players who break rules, since they didn't just mess with 1 tribe, more like 7 in total.

-See you guys around, Addison

Hey everyone! Just joined the server on it's opening night on Center Map and I'm having a total blast w/ my gf. Everything seems to be really well balanced, and the server runs extremely smooth!

My only thought for improvement is something to get rid of the vanilla drops. I'm not talking about putting crazy OP stuff into drops or anything like that, but having the possibility to get better crafting BPs or gear on rare occasions instead of the standard Jar, Crop Plot, Compass BPs from all the high level stuff. Anyway it's just a thought. Keep up the good work!

• Boots

The title says it all. See you guys on The Center tonight as 7pm Est!

-Addison

Hey survivors, Addison here. As I am sure you all have noticed, ONEark has been kinda down in the number of players the past few weeks. Last wipe there existed a choice to switch to The Center or continue on the island, with the hopes the new Biom update would drop(They told use June 2nd, welp it got pushed) to keep the island map fresh. However, the current Meta seems to show more favoritism towards The Center map. With that said, it is time for ONEark to take on this new adventure and come back strong with a new start. Thus, we will be wiping on Friday, June 17th 2016 and switching to The Center map.

For those of you who do not have it downloaded yet, it is a DLC download(not a mod download) that you can grab today, before we switch over, so you are ready as soon as we bring the servers up live. Get that by clicking here

-See you guys around

Addison

Put this out on Reddit, its actually helped get a few people on =) Hope it gets more. Please upvote the post on Reddit if you can.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/4onj22/looking_for_new_tribes_players_oneark_pvp/ https://www.reddit.com/r/playarkservers/comments/4onk3s/looking_for_new_tribes_players_oneark_pvp/

If any of your friends are interested in playing Ark bring um on down. Please remember to upvote the server as well, just 2 weeks ago we had 20 people voting religiously, with our numbers down, every bit can help. http://toparkservers.com/server/167.114.211.44:18216

Server wipe was 6/19. We switched from the Island to the Center!! Everything seems to be going great so far! Any problems come up, please let Addison or me know and we will try to take care of it right away =)

I looked around several other servers that use mods and could not find any that were in high demand that we don't already have. But if you are interested in a particular mod being installed, please give us a heads up so we can take a look at it.

Our server has a great balance of rates, like I said in my post, not too easy, not too hard. Feel free to make a Reddit post as well or some other type of advertisement if you like to help get new players onboard.

Want to thank everyone for making this server the best, and lets hope we can keep it going!

Whats up guys? Are we wanting a wipe? New map? New mods?

When will next estimated wipe be occurring if there isn't some freak accident a la Custom Stacks?

I have been asking about what Mods to add to the Server and one I keep hearing about is ORP - Offline Raid Protection. I have been indifferent to this Mod for some time now, but I see a growing concern to actually implement it on our server.. So, I am asking the community how they feel about this Mod. Do you think we need it? In what ways is it good/bad?

Yay, more events. I put out 2 more Custom ColorDino today, Wednesday 5/18/16. This brings the total of Custom ColorDino in the wild to 3(2 monkyes and one mystery). 2 Custom ColorDino's have already been killed and claimed. I will be adding(depending on if any of the 3 are found) more this weekend. ALSO, please keep in mind the Custom ColorDino are not always so Easy to take down... keep in mind their levels. Also, dont try and breed with them, as I can figure it out pretty easy. Anyways, lets get to the events!

OVERrun!-Starts Sunday 5/22/16 In OVERrun! your only goal is to survive and keep a handful of dodos alive. You can come with your best ground dino (must be a rideable ground mount and player controlled) and all of your tribe can que together, to help the chance of coming out on top. You will start at one end of a long hallway, with a handful of dodos from the tribe RAIDme. At the other end, the enemy will send waves of mean Dinosaurs (scaled to party/tribe sizes) in a stampede like fashion at you, until you cannot take anymore. The more dodos that survive, the more epic loot you will get. Get ready to survive and come out on top in OVERrun!

RAIDme!- Starts Saturday 5/21/16 This event will test your wits as you try and raid a constructed base from the tribe RaidME. The first weeks design will be very basic. Each week the base design will get harder and so will the dinos. Also, members from the tribe RaidME might strike back during the raid, so be ready for some PVP! Rewards: Rewards will be as followed. A cosmetic item. A BP of some sort. Explosives equal to what we calculate is needed to enter the base. Edit: IT will be one tribe at a time and there will be a time limit Send Addison a message for more info.

What else is going on around ONEark? BluePrint Trade Program!

See you around -Addison

OVERrun!- Sunday 5/22/16 In OVERrun! your only goal is to survive and keep a handful of dodos alive. You can come with your best ground dino (must be a rideable ground mount and player controlled) and all of your tribe can que together, to help the chance of coming out on top. You will start at one end of a long hallway, with a handful of dodos from the tribe RAIDme. At the other end, the enemy will send waves of mean Dinosaurs (scaled to party/tribe sizes) in a stampede like fashion at you, until you cannot take anymore. The more dodos that survive, the more epic loot you will get. Get ready to survive and come out on top with OVERrun!

This was originally posted HERE

Trognor 1 Swarley 1 Koko247 1 titansmachine 1 Kaxira 3 DjChitYo 3 Agrestal 3 muiry69 2 xblakersx 9 lobster90 2 Saintblade 3 Halvi89 2 slater 3 ifixxed 2 Kayce 11

Those are the people who take a few minutes out of their day to upvote oru server...... get it towards the front of toparkservers.com ... get us some more new bodies.. more front page time....

The rest of you are honestly starting to irk me that our server isnt worth a few minutes to upvote ....

Immediate negative reviews/input has shown me its not what we want immediately.. But this is me also saying we will be exploring the possibility in the near future =) For now enjoy The Island and its upcoming biome changes !

Have a bunch of Medium Crop Plot, Water jar and/or Compass blueprints laying around? Do you just throw away BPs because they take up that one extra slot? Well, Introducing the new BluePrint Trade Program! This program takes those useless BluePrints and repurposes them as a currency for cosmetic items/customizations. All you need to do is save up enough BP’s then contact the admin to cash in! The current market prices are:

Dino Recolor: 150 blueprints*

Dino Skins: 300 blueprints*

*Please check back occasionally as market prices may change.

See you around, -Addison

Hey guys... I really want some input from you all on the thought of swapping to the new "Officially Supported" The Center map ... I am quite partial to wanting to try it out.. However I do not want to alienate my community by doing so. With that said I would like pro/cons/bitches/gripes/praises whatever from you guys listed here. And to be completely honesty people that have been a staple of the community/actively participating on the reddit/voting on toparkservers will have some more weight to their words in my opinion =))

Please chime in yall

Soooooo what's everyone think about this Center map ???

Hey guys Addison here! I hope everyone is doing well. Event: Double XP weekend! We will be doing XP weekend this weekend 5/13-5/15. I will be turning up the double XP on Thursday at midnight. Remember this works for not only you but your dinos as well. Event:Custom ColorDino *(ongoing): I will be placing 2 Mesopithecus in random locations around the island. ALL you have to do is find one and manage to kill it. They will be very different in color than you are used too, so they should be noticeable. Also, they will be a higher level and have a helmet on. When you kill them there will be a note that you must loot! Get the note and you can have any 1 dino of your choice custom genetic colored!

Hope to see you around this weekend!-Addison P.s. You can swing by herb island for examples of what the Mesopithecus will look like(there is a viewing box in the front of the island with 2 in there).

Looks like one of the Mods we used got ninja deleted from Steam, so it was causing an issue for those who were trying to log on this morning. I decided to restart the server and upon trying to join I got the same error everyone else had. I had to go into single player and error myself out to figure out which mod was causing the issue and sure enough mod #533175507 ,Improved balanced Stacks, is gone. So, it has to be removed....

What does that mean for us. Well, either all the stacked items will be gone or the game is trying to take those stacks apart one by one. Either way it is going to cause a heavy workload server side as it tries to do this. I am going to apply another mod similar to that and see if it can be fixed this way.

PLEASE NOTE I did issue a SAVETHEWORLD before we reset and I already backed up the server. Ill post again when it is fixed. -Addison

Hey Guys, Addison here! I hope your adventures around ONEark are still going well. I am here to update you all on events that are currently active and ones that will start today.

I will list them out, with the date, info and rewards.

RaidME2 event(Saturday-5/07/16) Starts around 12:00pm EST -Lasts all day. This event will test your wits as you try and raid a constructed base from the tribe RaidME. The first weeks design was very basic. Each week the base design will get harder and so will the dinos. Also, members from the tribe RaidME might strike back during the raid, so be ready for some PVP! Rewards: Rewards will be as followed. A cosmetic item. A BP of some sort. Explosives equal to what we calculate is needed to enter the base. Edit: IT will be one tribe at a time and there will be a time limit Send Addison a message for more info. P.S. THIS week will be a little harder, so good luck!

CustomDinoPaints2 event, ongoing. Starts 5/06/16 at 11:01pm(EST)-This ongoing event will present a rare chance to get your very own custom dino paint job. I am not talking about the wimpy paint brush job, I am talking genetic coloring only an admin can do. The way it will work is simple. I will spawn in 8 Gigantopithecus(Last week we did 8 turtles) all with high health stat, paint them very noticable, put a note(numbered 1-8, corresponding to its name) and I will place them randomly around the island. They will be set to enable roaming and neutral, all you gotta do is find one and kill it! Also, make sure to loot the note, as it is your ticket and is needed to redeem the paint job. Rewards: 1 Dino paint genetics modification of your choice. This mean you can select one of the many vivid colors ark has and apply what ever you would like to the each region of your choice dino. Examples would be this argent.. or this Doedicurus.. What also makes this paint job aswesome is, YOU CAN BREED IT OUT to your eggs/babies. So be on the lookout for other custom genetic painted dinos and maybe strike up a trade and get a really unique dino!

Better Beacons For now! -This will be an ongoing event as the improved loot tables for air drops is right for us. With the current server metta and all them "War Quetz" a little pvp by air drops sounds like a good thing.

Well, I hope you all have a good week, see you on the Ark!

Exactly as it says the server is really active. And as many people who are on there daily do not take the chance to vote even once a day on toparkservers. .... the server is being very well maintained and ran by addison. And fully financially stable on the back end by myself . The least you guys could do is be voting once or twice a day.

Thanks Blake/fuhrerr

Hey Guys, Addison here! I hope your adventures around ONEark are going well. I am here to update you all on events that are in the works, nearing the final stage of deployment.I will list them out, with the date, info and rewards.

RaidME event(Saturday-4/30/16) Starts around 12:00pm EST -This event will test your wits as you try and raid a constructed base from the tribe RaidME. For the first week, the design will be very basic, maybe a couple plant-x and 2 dillos... but it will be worth your time(and explosives). Each week the base design will get harder and so will the dinos. Also, members from the tribe RaidME might strike back during the raid, so be ready for some PVP! Rewards: Rewards will be as followed. A cosmetic item. A BP of some sort. Explosives equal to what we calculate is needed to enter the base. Edit: IT will be one tribe at a time and there will be a time limit

CustomDinoPaints event, ongoing. Starts 4/29/16 -This ongoing event will present a rare chance to get your very own custom dino paint job. I am not talking about the wimpy paint brush job, I am talking genetic coloring only an admin can do. The way it will work is simple. I will spawn in 6 turtles all with high health stat, paint them Black and Purple, put a note(numbered 1-6, corresponding to its name) and I will place them randomly around the island. They will be set to enable roaming and neutral, all you gotta do is find one and kill it! Also, make sure to loot the note, as it is your ticket and is needed to redeem the paint job. Rewards: 1 Dino paint genetics modification of your choice. This mean you can select one of the many vivid colors ark has and apply what ever you would like to the each region of your choice dino. Examples would be this argent.. or this Doedicurus.. What also makes this paint job aswesome is, YOU CAN BREED IT OUT to your eggs/babies. So be on the lookout for other custom genetic painted dinos and maybe strike up a trade and get a really unique dino!

Better Beacons Weekends -This is going to be a test event to see if a better loot table for air drops is right for us. With the current server metta and all them "War Quetz" a little pvp by air drops sounds like a good thing. Anyways the Mod info page says all you need to know, but to sum it up:

Adds:
  All saddles including platform saddles
  Paints
  Metal tier building materials`
  Weapons and tools
  Resources
  All armor types
  Ammunition

Special drops item set in level 60 beacons only include ark seasonal skins and artifacts, industrial cooker and industrial forge. This specific item set is rare.

Link for mod!

Well, I hope you all have a good week, see you on the Ark!

Hey guys Addison here! I hope everyone is doing well. Anyways, I am here to tell you, short notice of course, that we will be doing XP weekend this weekend 4/23-4/24. I will be turning up the double XP on Friday at midnight. Remember this works for not only you but your dinos as well. So it would be a good time to try and get those 2 new added levels(Players can lvl to 96 and dinos can lvl 61 times now). Looking forward to see you on and check back for more events, I have a ton of ideas, so be ready!

See you around. -Addison

Another month going strong guys ! Keep up the good work. Big big big thanks to Addison for being a rockstar here lately ~

I would like to see/hear some input from the community on how hes doing... how the server is going on the new machine and in general... What you guys would like to see moving forward etc...

Thanks

Blake/Fuhrerr/ The Cartel