Age Of Ark

“Age of Ark” is a new competitive multiplayer total conversion mod + a new map that creates a faster and more strategic gameplay. This mod uses aspects from RTS games such as Age of Empires and Starcraft to simplify the gathering/taming/crafting/building of Ark: Survival Evolved so the players can focus fighting and strategy.

IMPORTANT NOTE 3: Fixed prior issues. If you find any bugs post them in the forum thread below and I'll get to fixing them.

Age of Ark forum post https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?90311-WIP-Age-of-Ark

===GAMEPLAY=== Players start on a platform in the sky. When the desired number of players/tribes have joined everyone is given a parachute and 1 player from each tribe is given a Town Center. Players have 60 seconds to jump off the platform before it collapses. Tribes make their way to a safe location, place their Town Center, and start collecting materials to construct a base to craft new buildings/upgrades. Town Centers have 3 important upgrades: Stone Egg, Bronze Egg, and Iron Egg. Crafting these blueprints is expensive. The eggs created from these blueprints are used in crafting sequentially more powerful items.

Each building has unique upgrades that are contained in crates. They need to be placed for the player to receive the blueprint from inside. Dinosaurs that are crafted are also contained in crates. Place them on the ground and the dinosaur will burst out! Every blueprint is accessible if the player is willing to pay for it. Don’t have the resources to craft a blueprint for a certain item? Just go steal it from an opponent! Love weapons that the opponent is using? Eliminate them and take it. They might even have dinosaur crates!

The goal of the mod is to eliminate all other tribes. While a tribe has a Town Center placed the team can respawn infinitely. When a tribe does not have a Town Center all their players have a light beam above their heads alerting everyone to their location and when a player dies that player is permanently dead.

===MAP=== The map is comprised of a circular center area with lots of resources and surrounding it are 8 forested plateaus. The plateaus each have the same amount of resources on top and are the perfect location to start your base. Each of those plateaus can be scaled through 3 entrances: one on the front and one on the left and right.

===BUILDINGS=== TOWN CENTER Defend this for it is the center of civilization. Research and craft the next tier of egg to advance your technology. If this building is destroyed and a player on that tribe dies they are eliminated.

ARMORY Arm yourself to help your tribe.

AVIARY Craft flying dinosaurs. Doesn’t that sound awesome!

STABLE Home to your run-of-the-mill land-based dinosaurs such as Raptors and Carnos.

FOUNDRY Craft powerful grenades and rocket launchers and guns.

TOWER A late game tower that fires at advancing hordes.

WALL Cheap and quick way to slow down enemies.

MARKET Here a player can trade any resource for 20 of another resource. Traded resource rates are mathematically balanced to each other based on the approximate amount available on the map and the time they take to collect.

===OTHER=== INI settings [AgeOfArkSettings] (inside GameUserSettings.ini). If you don't see [AgeOfArkSettings], just add it manually. The number of players required to start the game: NumRequiredPlayers=X The number of required tribes to start the game: NumRequiredTribes=X The amount of time to wait before launching the game after those two requirements are satisfied: BeginGameTime=X.

Example: requires 32 players and 8 tribes to be in the server, game starts 120 seconds after both are true. [AgeOfArkSettings] NumRequiredPlayers=32 NumRequiredTribes=8 BeginGameTime=120