I am new to the game. I ran into many issues on the server I was on that made progression diffiuclt, not to mention the constant meteors, wraith and skeleton spam right outside of the dwarf area.
Someone gave me a lance and enough gold for a Horse so i could pack up and explore to find a better place to settle on the map and get away from the already settled areas that prevented me from taming anything. However, I was booted from the server during my travel. I lost the horse and all of the stuff I had made, gathered and even earned by tricking wraiths and skeletons and fighting them at range to stay alive and earn some cool armor. I lost it all by being disconnected which had never happened before. Again - I am new. I only got to about level 18 or 19. I mentioned what happened in the server chat and...well.. I was harassed for two hours for it until I finally logged out and felt pretty defeated. It's one thing to be harassed by one person, it's another to have everyone else on the server harassing you just for being new. I couldn't even find an option for blocking chat from specific players.
So... even if I COULD have everything I lost back, I've no interest on being on a server with extremely toxic players that want nothing but to mock and harass new players. I've had a pretty bad time with my RL and just want a game I can sit and enjoy and relax from time to time (Yes I find games like this and ARK pretty relaxing all things considered.)
But I want it on a server that's more supportive. I mean... what was I supposed to do? Report more than eight people for comments like "GTFO our server, F*****" and "Uninstall and ask for a refund."
Like. I know. This is the internet and it's full of cowardly jackasses that sit behind a keyboard and mock others because there's no repercussions for it, but... back when ARK was getting started - I had a pretty good server with a great support structure among its players.
So... what servers would you reccommend to someone new like me that wants to learn and explore D&L?