Ghost Division is a community whose members know each other for years and hosted different kinds of game server.
From Arma to Minecraft to Ark, a lot has been there but the popularity of the Ark server was so huge that the project keeps growing to this day.
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Ghost Division is, apart from our many and loyal players, staffed by four owners, four server admins and two developers, whereby some people undertake several duties. But generally speaking:
A list with our staff members can be found here: https://the-ghost-division.com/team/
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Yes, we grant our community a certain say, so our players can make suggestions, e.g. which mod they'd like to have.
We'll take a closer look at those mods, given there's a deep interest by the community and they seem a good addition in terms of gameplay and balancing.
If a mod is shortlisted we'll test it on our test server to ensure compatibility and absence of errors.
The mod will be accepted if all required criteria are fulfilled.
Additional suggestions and critique is considered e.g. feedback about various server/mod settings, and is changed in the interest of the community if that change means a reasonable and positive effect on the gameplay and fun.
Huge changes are synchronized with the community by polls. That way our players have the possibility to shape the game server they are playing on to a certain extend.
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We've changed and adapted the rules and settings over the last three years to provide long lasting fun and the lowest latency possible.
Structures, creatures and items add up on PvE servers quite fast because not a lot will be lost due to missing PvP and raids. The many items stored in several storages also increase server load each time a client requests the inventory from the server. Thousand of structures in hundreds of chunks that have to be rendered, active players that are traveling through those chunks and request data from the server all of the time, additionally wild and tamed dinos that are within all players' reach and have to be computed, drops and farming... even a modern and overclocked root server reaches its limits with that. Also because Ark unfortunately doesn't utilize multithreading very well.
Those are some reasons why we have a base limit and a size limit for the additional outpost for example.
We have over 450 registered tribes and a tame limit of 400 or just 100 per tribe is not possible without sacrificing performance. Sure, some people move on and a few slots will be freed but in the meanwhile everyone can't have any new dinos as long as the (global) tame limit is reached. New players will be pinned for quite some time, get frustrated and move on. We don't want that, of course.
Therefore we've introduced the Dino Storage modthat allows every tribe to have as many dinos as they like, while the world tame limit is respected and the server performance is not affected that much. That's why there is a tribe limit of 50 active dinos which may look weird or not enough at first but dino storage is easy to handle and it allows you to have all the dinos you want - just ask the breeders on our servers.
Other settings that may be different from all the other casual servers are based on personal experience, mod related circumstances, balancing, discussions (with players) in our forum or requests that we considered plausible and beneficial for the community.
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Farming/harvesting as well as experience is x3. Taming and breeding is x10.
That means that you'll get three times as much as on the official servers. It'ss enough to build up quite fast without getting too much which can become pretty boring after a while.
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We're currently using Structure Plus (S+), Platform Plus, Super Spyglass, Resource Stacks 2.x, Auction House 2.x, TCs Auto Reward and Dino Storage.
The complete list to each mod can be found on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/sha…filedetails/?id=957314846
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No, a wipe of the server is not planned.
Playing on our server for weeks or even months is wanted and possible.
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No, we don't replace lost or deleted items or dinos. Even if it is not the fault of the affected player e.g. server crash or restart (due to mod update) during a boss fight.
The only exception is made when the loss was caused explicitly by an admin e.g. accidently or unlawfully deletion of a base.
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There are. Our PvP-server were shut down mid-summer 2018 after about 3 years because there were more and more violations despite stricter rules.
Therefore we took care of our PvE cluster and the new concept gained a lot of popularity.
After that was done we rebooted the PvP cluster with similar changes and a new balancing that make PvP situations more dynamic and lowers the risk of overly long raids.
The new PvP cluster is online since October 2018 and the server are listed on our Discord or here:
PvP-The Island: steam://connect/145.239.149.197:22016
PvP-The Center: steam://connect/145.239.149.197:23016
PvP-Ragnarok: steam://connect/145.239.149.197:25016
PvP-Aberration: steam://connect/145.239.149.197:26016
PvP-Extinction: steam://connect/145.239.149.197:24016
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No, not if you're informing us about your absence.
Every player can use the ticket system to submit and request a vaccation break. Just tell us your player name, tribe, coords of your base, server and when/for how long you're absent. We'll consider that when cleaning the servers so you can continue where you left off.
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Ghost Coins are our virtual token that can be exchanged for voting rewards on our Ark server.
The Coins can be obtained by voting for our server on ark-servers.net
How voting works is explained in the FAQ under 'Voting'.
A list with our voting rewards can be found here: voting rewards
The list with the links to vote for our server can be found on the right side on our forum.
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No, see "Donations".
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As described under 'Ghost Coins' you can earn GC by voting for our servers. For every vote you will receive 3GC, so you can earn 9GC each day you vote for our three advertised servers on ark-servers.net
In order to vote you have to be logged in into our forum with your Steam account, so the system recognizes you as voter and can credit the proceeds (GC). Receiving Ghost Coins requires not just our network but also the response of ark-servers.net which may take a while, so your GCs may not be accredited right away but with a delay of a few hours.
Kat already wrote a detailed 'how to' on our forum, so check it out to learn: how to vote
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The ticketsystem is our support feature which allows our players to send us support requests. From the usual help requests over vaccation applications to voting rewards - everything can be requested.
Just click on 'Ticketsystem' in the header menu and then on "+New Ticket" on the new page.
The required information should be self-explanatory. Tickets are privat, so only the creator and the Ghost Division admins can read them.
Depending on the day and time of day it takes a certain time until a ticket is answered. Once your ticket has been answered you'll be shown a notification on the notification icon in the upper right corner.
https://the-ghost-division.com/ticketsystem/
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Apart from the in game chat and voice people can use our communication proposals to stay in touch with other players or us.
The forum is just one of the possibilities as we also host a TeamSpeak and Discord server that are free to use.
TS3: the-ghost-division.de
Discord: https://discord.gg/9SF2s9T
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So far the rules are available in English and German.
Our honorary member Kat
was so kind to translate the rules into Polish. That should avoid problems based on a language barrier.
Other languages than that are currently not available.
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To keep the Ghost Division servers running they have to be paid of course. The money comes out of private pockets, which is only partly possible every month because apart from the root server there are additional costs like the forum and licences without who we could not offer all services and some features.
Therefore we rely on the community's help and they can support us to keep things running with donations: https://the-ghost-division.com/donation/
The money is exclusively used to pay for the server and the donation list is publically available: https://the-ghost-division.com/donation-list/
Furthermore there's an infobox on the right side on the forum that shows the monthly donation goal and progress.
From 25€ and up a donator gets the donator ranknot just on the forums but also in game (PvE-Cluster).
The chat color is neon-colored and differs from "non-donators".
Other chat colors show other ranks, e.g. bright green is server admin and powerful red means server owner.
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No, we oppose a "Pay-to-Win" concept for our community.
Every player has and shall have the opportunity to achieve anything in the game on their own. Pay-to-Win makes only sense when the game is so difficult for players that they are practically compelled to spend money to progress. We think that's immoral and decline such methods.
Sure, not everyone has time every day to play (for hours and hours) and makes slower progress than others but on the marketplace for example are often good dinos for sale, as well as in game on the auction house (mod) that can be acquired gratuitously. Additionally, many people will offer help if asked properly and we clear the server regularily but don't wipe, so you got time.
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