PVE server with PVP zone idea

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As you say, Real, negating damage would imbalance wild vs player with the buff on.

Also, from my experience in MMOs going back… well far to long lol… blanket enabling of PvP usually results in exploits/griefing as players dedicate their lives to finding ways to grief.

A safer way would be to strictly control under what circumstances PvP damage can occur - a so-called “white-list” approach rather than “black-list”.

The code logic could be quite simple: if you are in a particular zone (maybe code it use the zone name, “Such and Such Peak”… or some bool flag)… then apply an invisible buff to players and tamed dinos to bool toggle “world damage” (which seems to work in my tests of admin-only structure destroying pike). Or whatever other toggle the devs implemented.

One thing is for sure… it’s something the devs will need to do… BUT IT WOULD BE INCREDIBLY AWESOME (!!) to be able to flag mountain peaks (crystal/obsidian harvest locations) as PvP zones during certain times of the week. Add to that a “no build” zone flag and it would be perfect.

Devs… you guys listening? Make Ark the best game on the planet!

toggling world damage would completely negate the structure settings, armor stats, damagetype settings. Currently it is set so that dino A can only damage a certain sctructure set, but takes increased/decreased damage from outside sources. If you were to enable world damage, then all structures would take damage from everything, and armor would no longer negate/reduce certain damage types.