That's gonna be a no from me dawg:

From bottom to top:

https://i.imgur.com/rWiaYiw.png

Then when you were banned you re-joined with an alt and did this:

https://i.imgur.com/iacrN4q.png

https://i.imgur.com/y6SMYMV.png

Sorry for the late reply. Discord notifications stopped working a while back.

Have you tried contacting Worf?

Could you please do ccc in your console? This will copy the coordinates of your current location to your clipboard, and paste here so that we can teleport directly.

This player has been banned. Thank you.

Will investigate. Thank you!

If a mod for this pops up, then it's personally it's something I'd really like to see. I'll keep this in mind as mods start rolling into the workshop as it would be really cool to establish a micro-economy.

Great idea!

How do you see this being accomplished?

We are hard-pressed to make this announcement, however, in the interest of ensuring a fair experience for everyone that joins this community, we will be turning off the Atlas claim system on all of the Supreme Gaming Atlas servers for an undefined amount of time. This however, does not mean that it will be a permanent change.

Over the last week the players have face a lot of frustration with how the claim system currently operates, which have prompted us to add a few basic rules with how many claims people could make and preventing claim stealing. The fact of the matter is, that there is a large number of players that either negligently or malignantly violate these rules creating the following problems:

• Setting down claims without immediate use (place-holding). This removes land which could be immediately used by another player.
• Under-utilizing claims. While even under the 3 claim limit, players are claiming with no real intent of building and skirting by the rules by building minimal structures to feign active development/progress.
• Some people have figured out entire claims can be stolen, and once done allows them to demolish and sink structures and ships in addition to stealing any resources there which cost players a lot of time and effort.

For the health of the community, we have to be prepared for new players. As it stands, new players are having a difficult time finding any land and are finding themselves in a difficult position where they have to decide to stay and sail for an unknown amount of time in HOPES to find available land, or leave the server and go to a lower population server where they have a higher likelihood of finding a land. As a community, the more players we have, the more opportunities for trading, making friends, and fun and engaging experiences.

This, we predict, will not be a very popular decision among the already established companies. Some arguments we have seen include:

1. Players will be able to build close to each other. Some people don’t like to have their neighbors too close to them or players.
2. Players will be able to spam structures as a form of territory claim
3. Resources that would have been protected by a claim would no longer be and would allow other players to build on them. This is especially true for areas where rare resources are abnormally present.
4. Will fully interrupt the taxation system.

Please consider the following points, as a counter argument. In order:

1. This will tackle the problem of new players not finding any area to build. Even as we plan to roll out more shards, it is only a matter of time before those islands are saturated and maximum capacity is reached simply due to how large claims are and how valuable shoreline real-estate is for shipyards. In all fairness, the biggest value to shorelines is the ability to have a place to craft and release a ship. This game is all about boats, and without a boat players are severely restricted with how much of the map they can travel to and explore. Larger development centers such as main bases can be easily relocated slightly more inland.
2. We plan to introduce the same building and territory restrictions we use in our Ark PVE servers to combat this. Territory claims will work as follow:

• A maximum of two bases per shard are allowed. These are defined as:
  -- Permanent
  -- These bases must be active development centers, where a lot of company activity is focused.
  -- Any size
  -- Must not block, enclose, or be built on more than two sides of another company’s structures. Leave enough of a buffer for all parties to expand.
• An undetermined limit for outposts. These are defined as:
  -- Small temporary location that is clear-able on demand if another player wishes to establish a permanent base on.
  -- Not built in a location where a large base would be built.
  -- Accompanied with the bare-bone basics such as a bed, a few crafting stations, boxes, etc.
  -- Maximum size of 4x4 foundations.
• Foundation, pillar, etc spam is not permitted and treated the same way as excessive claims.
• Structures will have traditional decay timers that will require timer a timer refresh occasionally. After the timer depletes, as would with inactive players and companies, these structures will automatically decay and continuously open new land for new and existing players.

3. Areas that are abnormally rich in precious resources can be protected in such a manner that can prevent players from building on them. Furthermore we are able to introduce a building restriction list for areas that should be considered common to everyone, on which building will be restricted and any structures placed there would be demolished on sight without prior notice. This is something we also employ on our Ark PVE servers and has worked wonderfully.
4. Unfortunately the taxation system will be crippled by the removal of the claim system and players will no longer be able to tax other players harvesting resources on their territory. While losing passive resource gathering will be a bummer for those territory owners with desirable resources, the resources will continue to exist and is always faster to harvest by hand. Any other resources that are not considered “valuable” are abundant in excess that passive gains are mostly insignificant.

We are fully aware of some of the upcoming changes to the claim system in official patches next week, these have the potential to introduce new problems.

• From what we have gathered, without the ability to restrict territories as neutral through settings, people will set their claims to restricted and we’ll end up back where we are currently with land scarcity.

At the core of this decision is the amount of time that fixing problems related to the claim system, that the admin team has to expend. Please understand that while we love to provide the services we do, we also have real-life obligations (school, work, etc) and are also active players in-game. At the current moment, the claim system is so broken that players with the know-how can use these broken mechanics in such a way that even with admin commands we are unable to do anything. This results in claims being temporarily un-removable for the duration of the remaining claim upkeep timer. We strongly believe that this time could be better spent in future improvements and server developments.

Until Grapeshot grants us the tools to properly deal with this issues, these changes will take effect as of this post. We hope you agree or, at the very least, understand our grounds.

Please leave your comments below or on the server discord @ https://discord.gg/2uEa5xQ

TL;DR: Claim system is going away, get rekt.

Hey there.

Edit: Giving it a second though, yes there were some recent changes. We did a server migration a week ago and the IP's changed, so you will need to adjust your connections. The connections you want to use are:

Extinction (Official DLC) PVP    :    [s2.supremegaming.gg:27017]
Ragnarok PVP                     :    [s2.supremegaming.gg:27019]

Aberration PVE                   :    [s1.supremegaming.gg:27019]
Center PVE                       :    [s1.supremegaming.gg:27021]
Extinction (Official DLC) PVE    :    [s1.supremegaming.gg:27017]
EC (Mod) PVE                     :    [s2.supremegaming.gg:27029]
Island PVE                       :    [s1.supremegaming.gg:27023]
Ragnarok PVE                     :    [s1.supremegaming.gg:27025]

We issued in-game warnings and pushed discord announcements a week before, so you may not have caught them depending on when the last time you played was.

I'm confident this fixes your connection problem, but if it doesn't proceed below.

I do not recognize your steam name, so that's a good start into assuming you're not banned.

Being banned from our servers would not lead to servers being unresponsive or invisible through the steam sever browser. This leads me to believe that your issue with connecting to the servers is purely connection based.

Try this:

Play with that limiter, and test if any of the options work. This is found in Steam -> Settings

Apologies if this has been your experience. That kind of behaviour is not acceptable on the PVE servers and is subject to an immediate ban. However, we do require some form of proof, whether it be screenshots or video. Do you have or are able to get any?

The Official Extinction DLC is right around the corner and will be something that’s exciting for everyone, but games are best played with friends (or new members). As a growing community, we’d like to give back as a token of appreciation for allowing us operate for as long as we have. For the first time ever in Supreme Gaming's history, we will be holding a raffle/giveaway for a limited number of Extinction DLC keys. Woot!

For new arrivals or those needing a quick refresher, we have bee running Ark servers for over 2 years now, hosting two different game mode clusters: one PVE and one PVP. For this raffle/giveaway we have allocated a maximum of 6 total keys, split evenly across the two clusters meaning 3 for PVE and 3 for PVP. The system enabling us to hold this raffle is the in-game points and shop, which for those unfamiliar with it, allows players to earn hourly points through in-game play, one-time donations, or Patreon subscriptions.

This is a 100% opt-in event and does require a small buy-in in order to keep the pool of participants limited to those which have a degree of commitment to our servers and services and will most likely expend their DLC time here. Each player is eligible for a single ticket entry across clusters, costing 500 points. New and existing members are eligible for this event. To purchase your raffle ticket, please use the following code through in-game chat:

/buy raffleTicket 1

To see your point balance, you can use:

/points

Additional technical details on this event are outlined below. If you have any questions, please take a moment to read through them and if you still have a question following that, please post in this thread.

Good luck and have fun!

Who is eligible for this raffle event?

Anyone that does not fit in the following categories:

• Admins
• Prospects
• Banned

How long will raffle entries be allowed?

Raffle tickets will be purchasable in-game from the time of this post up until a week before the DLC is released.

How will winners be decided?

To preserve anonymity and remove any source of bias, a full list of participant SteamID's will be run through a randomized selector and 3 for PVP and 3 for PVE will be selected. Who knows, we might stream it?

Can I buy one ticket on each map?

Technically you can, but you won't want to. Any duplicate purchases for raffle tickets will be discarded as we are limiting the entry limit of one per person.

I play on both PVP and PVE clusters, can I buy one ticket on each cluster?

Again, yes but duplicates will be removed when we compile a full list of Steam ID's so only one ticket will count.

I want to purchase a ticket on X cluster, does it matter on which map I do it?

No. As long as you purchase a ticket on a cluster map, your raffle ticket will be considered.

How can I earn points for a raffle entry?

Points can be earned through hourly in-game disbursements, one-time donations, or Patreon subscriptions.

For those folks that have already been playing on our servers, you may already have the required number of points saved up.

For those folks that are just joining us, the base hourly point gain rate is 5 per hour, so it would only require 100 hours of game play to earn the required number of points to purchase a ticket.

For those wanting to make monetary contributions and use their reward points on a ticket instead, the value of a ticket comes out to be shy of $4.25 USD.

Can I purchase raffle tickets outside of the game?

No. In order to purchase a raffle ticket you will have to log in to any of our Supreme Gaming Ark servers and purchase your ticket there.

How will winners be notified?

We recommend joining our server Discord for the latest announcements. In he event that we hold a live stream deciding winners, we will be posting the link there as well.

We will make every effort to reach out to you via Discord and Steam once winners are decided. In the event that we do not receive a response from you, your reward will be surrendered after 7 days and be given to another recipient.