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Things frequently break, as in the counter sometimes gets a "No employee available" or employees suddenly stop using the brewery. Sometimes selling the furniture and repurchasing fixes it. Sometimes it doesn't. I don't mind some bugs, but things like this make it to where you can't increase income, which is the primary gameplay objective. Ale won't craft at all. Have resources, have employees, nothing happens. Lager breaks and no one will craft it anymore.

Not recommended, even at 6 bucks.

Got killed by a brontosaurus while taming a pteranadon in the jungle at night because a T-rex attacked it.

Came back to find someone looting my corpse. Killed her with my fists.

Her boyfriend stabbed me in the back of the head. Died.

Respawned, re-equipped, dodge shots from my OWN GUN THAT THEY STOLE, killed boyfriend with spear to the face.

Punched out woman while she was screaming profanity's at me in in-game voice chat.

Drowned her in a river, screaming the whole time.

Got all my stuff back.

Threw a grenade into the thieves thatch hut. Boom.

Justice.

10/10 Would justice again.

In all seriousness, the Official servers lack clear rules and administration. Do yourself a favor, find a good unofficial server, and the game will be loads better. No hacking, no cheaters, no lag, no rubberbanding, etc. You'll also find a better community on these servers, which is part of the fun in a game like this.

As for leveling, it's quite easy, as everything you do that requires input from yourself except taming, gives you exp from 1 to 67, which is current max level. Hence, you don't have to move on to a new area, like some other games on the market.

The game is harsh, however, and it does not go easy on you. If your T-rex dies, that you just spent 7 hours taming, it's dead. There's no way to bring it back, or rez it, or take backs. If you get overly attached to the things you tame, play PVE. You'll have a much more fun time, because if you play PVP, you may just log in naked on the beach with everything you own destroyed. Again, play on an unofficial with rules that you agree with. Some unofficials don't allow base leveling, or killing of passive dino's, etc.

You'll want to find a tribe, because the more people you have working on a base, the stronger it will be, and the less time it will take building it. Once you get to metal tier, the sheer amount of stones you need to make a small metal building will be astonishing, so you need to work with others to accomplish goals that are out of a single players reach.

If you play on a PVP server, know that at some point, you will wake up dead. It's only a matter of time before this happens. Expect it, and have a backup plan. IE: A small hidden home, preferrably metal, with supplies for retaming, rearming, retooling, etc., so that you don't have to start from a stone axe again.

Overall, it's an excellent experience, as long as you are OK with an EA title. You'll find bugs that will screw you over and cause you to lose tons of your time, but that's par for the course at this stage of development.

There is no other survival game on the market that comes close to Ark at the moment. My playtime attests to that fact.

If you pick it up, good luck on the isle! If you have questions, stop by my stream and ask away. I'm live from Morning (10 AM MST) to afternoon (3PM MST), and from evening (6-7PM MST) until late at night (1-3AM MST). On day 16 of a 30 Day streaming challenge, so 7 days a week.

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