Welcome to our weekly Suggestion Results. Here we will be reviewing the list of highly requested suggestions from our community. Reminder, if your poll is elected for an official poll and passes as a confirmed change, you will receive a £5 Giftcard for our store - https://shop.mtsark.co.uk/ The featured polls all met the following requirements; ● Have a total of 75+ votes overall ● Have a 75% majority in favour of the change ● Has not recently been featured in previous suggestion results This Week's Community Polls (PC Steam) Pastor Mike#6941 remove breed timer from cryos Board Comments: Moved to official polls. Officially Polled S4lty#0429 Make an mod / plugin that is able to show you which tribemember turned off stuff like turrets, generator in tribelog. It would make insideing cases much more easier for mods / admins. Should also show if it ran out of gas / elem on it own Board Comments: Sadly not possible for us to do currently. Overruled Fish.#4484 Add a way for MTS to track how much resources you’ve farmed. For example metal, you can possibly add a hall of fame spot for best PvE’r and it would also help with tribe recruitment. You’d be able to see how much you’ve farmed on MyMTS along with a leaderboard. Board Comments: We are looking into ways of expanding MyMTS and this is on the list of potential ideas, we'll keep it stored. Acknowledged boba#3617 Make it that mantis' aren't able to be ridden in lave golem. (if its possible) ATM mantis removes the idea of ground pvp in golem. Board Comments: It's not possible to remove riding Mantis in certain areas of the map. The only thing I can suggest is to create a poll to make them untameable/unbreedable etc. Acknowledged keddz#7958 Permanent 5x taming, makes it easier to start midweek without affecting bigger tribes Board Comments: 2.5x weekdays, 5.0x weekends is already high enough. Especially with a shop containing kibble. Overruled cloud#0367 Make it so u can see who imprinted a dino in a cryopod. Board Comments: We don't feel comfortable changing cryopods at this time as Wildcard seem to keep changing them, we'll wait for the dust to settle a bit. Overruled aedizzy#7635 Able to see who put teleporter on public in tribe log Board Comments: Sadly not possible for us to do currently. Overruled rax#1199 Nerf the harvesting reward from the tribe wars - either the multiplier or the duration Board Comments: It's still the first week of tribe wars, things will inevitably change and adapt. I'm sure the prizes will be tweaked if deemed necessary. Acknowledged This Week's Community Polls (Playstation) aamir#5386 increase the smelting rate a bit and decrease the alpha spawn rate Board Comments: It's not possible for us to edit smelting time on console, and Alpha spawns rates are vanilla and we do not plan to change them at this time. Overruled Ronnievee#6021 add a small weight buff Board Comments: Player's already received double weight per level, this is high enough. Remember MTS is meant to be very vanilla in terms of unofficial and we do not want the seesaw to tip too much in the other direction. Overruled Danilo#4922 buff rhinos so they can rage gigas Board Comments: It's not possible for us to do at this time. Overruled The Goat#9081 buff Dino raising Board Comments: 10x Breeding & increased imprinting per level is already VERY high. Overruled If you don't see your suggestion that means it has failed the minimum requirements to feature in our weekly post. Suggestions Channel has been reset and ready for a new week of suggestions, please honor the suggestion blacklist and feel free to suggest & vote on any changes or features you would like to see added to MTS Ark. MTS Board

- Launching Friday 12th March @ 8pm GMT - Thank you to everyone who played during Season 2 helping make it our most successful Season ever! We have followed the cluster closely since we entered Chapter 2 and heard all your feedback. Given the overwhelming success of the last two seasons, we will be making minimal changes - But changes nonetheless, check out the info below. Chapter 2, Season 3 CORE SETTINGS (No changes) Tribe Limit = 8 Man Harvesting & XP = 2x Taming = 2.5x Breeding = 5.0x SEASON 3 CHANGES ► $1000 PRIZE! Hall of Famer Tribe this season will win a $1000 Cash Prize (not store giftcard) for their Tribe! ► Increased Paracer HP stat per level by approximately 15%. Following a successful poll mid-way through Season 2, we are now able to introduce this change for Season 3. ► Removed Stego "Tail Whip" (right-click) ability. After feedback from Season - Stegos & Aberrant Stegos will no longer be able to perform the right-click Tail Whip ability. ► Maximum Genesis Hexagons per Character changed from 2,500,000 to 150,000. This change has been introduced to combat a dupe method on MTS, where players were duping their characters and spending points on Loot Crates over and over. Although this change does not fully fix the dupe method, it severely impacts the productivity of it - We will continue to counter this method but further development is required. ► Aberration Radiation Sickness readded. Radiation Sickness will be back in Radiation Zones Aberration as intended. ► Island Ice Cave Buff We heard your feedback from Season 2, and Ice Cave will be getting some love. The change we are making is lowering the ceiling of the chokepoint to be a maximum height of a Human character being able to walk and run through, meaning trikes and anything similar can no longer walk through the chokepoint. ► New Quality of Life & Visuals We've added some new quality of life visuals and effects to Item Caches. Item caches that are not tribe-owned will now have a visual effect around them showing if those bags have been looted. We have also added a new visual effect for Cryopods & Empty Cryopods. Examples are shown below. Green & White Effect = Tribe & Player has not checked Item Cache Green Effect = Tribe has not checked Item Cache White Effect = Player has not checked Item Cache No Effect = Item Cache has been checked by Player + Tribe ► New Exclusive Anti-Popcorn Mod After thorough testing and multiple meetings with the mod developer. We are very excited to be adding Recycled Popcorn Mod to our cluster, this mod solves the popcorning issue once and for all making online raids worth it once again. How it works: Once a group of single items, item caches, dead bodies expire, the loot will be transported into a Void Glitch. Loot can be taken back out by attacking it with melee or weapons (very short distance) or biting on the Void glitch with a dino. Void glitches cannot be destroyed & will remain on the map until the loot is taken back out or expires (Voids will last for around 1 hour). Void glitches operate via a grid, so the map will not be spammed with Voids - instead, all dropped loot within a certain grid will all be entered into the same nearby void glitch to prevent spam. Void glitches can be accessed by anyone who is close enough to interact with them. Void glitch expiration timer increases each time a new item is added to it. A predefined list of "junk" items will be exempt from entering Void glitches to prevent junk from creating voids. ► Lowered Base Temperature on Scorched Earth by around 40% To make Heat Stroke and the map more enjoyable, quality of life change for tribes living & fobbing there. ► Re-added Ziplines Aberration players will be happy to hear. After the fix from Wildcard, we are happy to re-add Ziplines back to our cluster. ► New MyMTS "Kick Me" feature Fed up with the error "There is already a player with this account connected!" bug? You can now use the "Kick Me" button on MyMTS to allow you to rejoin your map. This feature is coming very soon! ► Character Transferring with Inventory block via PvP Cooldown If you are in active PvP Cooldown, you will be unable to instantly transfer off map to another server. You are still able to upload items or transfer your character if you are naked. But transferring with an inventory is now prohibited if you are in active PvP. We have made this change to stop players from "escaping" PvP by leaving a server suddenly where they would normally be met with a transfer timer on official etc. PvP Cooldown has been lowered to 2.5mins from 5mins following this change. ► Max 2 Gateways per Platform Saddle Matching official server settings for Gateframes on Paracers etc. ► New Weekly Tribe Wars Event every Friday! We are super excited to announce a brand new weekly event to our Main Cluster - TRIBE WARS. Tribe wars is a unique event where every Friday tribes will clash in an objective-based game mode on a separate server for 4 hours until midnight GMT. Here's how it works. Every Friday @ 8pm GMT - Tribe Wars server will open to the cluster. Players will be able to transfer dinos/items to Tribe Wars instantly. There will be 2x predefined locations of capturable TEK Teleporter zones similar to King of the Hill or Capture the Artifact. These structures are Admin Spawned and cannot be destroyed and act as Foundation Claim Range. Tribes can capture the structure by holding "E" and using the radial menu Once a capture zone has been capture that tribe must defend it, other tribes are allowed to attack the zone The server has a 20 turret limit so it will be more focused on Player & Dino PvP, but players can still build defences/FOBs. The Tribes who hold the zone by the time the event ends will win boosted rates & discounted shop for the week. Notifications will be displayed in-game for when a tribe captures, contests, or owns a capture zone. The Tribe Wars server will be open for 4 hours from 8pm - 00:00am GMT Each week, a new map and different Capture locations will be chosen for Tribe Wars to keep things fresh. More details on Tribe Wars coming in a separate post soon. Feedback or ideas are welcome. On behalf of the MTS Admin Team Hamilton - Fire - Mr F - Ben - Driftor - Lost Treasure - Punksteve - Moneddi

Introducing MTS Classic PvP! Survivors, we are happy to announce a brand new cluster coming to MTS this February which offers a completely new and fresh take on ARK PvP. A provisional release date has been set to Fri 19th February @ 6pm GMT What is MTS Classic? MTS Classic PvP is our version of the original Classic Clusters made by Studio Wildcard. The "old school" cluster of our community. A unique throwback hybrid mix of the traditional days of ARK and the early beginnings of MTS. Combining the origin of ARK, non-DLC maps & original dinos with a lower tribe size, quality of life, and PvP balance via modding MTS brings to all its clusters. For players who love the "classic" ARK - Experience MTS' custom-designed cluster for maximum nostalgia. So what's different? Quick Summary Maps = Ragnarok, Scorched, Center, Island, Valguero Tribe Size = 5 XP = 2x Harvesting & Taming = 6x Breeding = 10x Avg. Wipe = 6 weeks (subject to change) Heavy Land PvP Focus With very limited options for Flyer Dinos, the emphasis has been placed on ground PvP of Humans & dinos with some buffs to some of ARKs original much-loved creatures. Gone are the well known damage-dealing flyers such as the Griffins & Wyverns, with flyers being restricted to utility only of Pteranodons, Argents & Quetzals. Dino Restrictions No taming allowed for TEK Dinos, Griffins, Wyverns, Gigas, and Mantis. MTS Classic PvP Mod A brand new mod has been designed for the classic cluster. View the mod changes below; Increase Rex Melee Damage by around 25% Increase Spino Melee Damage by around 20% Increase Bronto HP stat per level by around 20% Increase Paracer HP stat per level by around 15% Allow Stegos Riders to be able to be dismounted while using any mode Stego “impale” ability only works on grounded Humans, not riders or dinos Rock Elementals cannot be cryopodded First 20 seconds of a cryopodded dino being thrown out it has a debuff so it takes 50% more damage, deal 50% less damage and has a 50% movement speed penalty (All creatures) Nerf flamethrower from 9% to 7% hp (min 10, max 100) per second for 6 seconds Bola entangle time vs Humans decreased from 25s to 15s Increased Bola weight from 0.5 to 1.0 Some features still subject to change No Cave Building + Turret Limit Increase Tribes will not be permitted to build in the majority of ARKs caves on our Classic Cluster. This is to keep the population of players on open land where an even playing field can be maintained, bringing back the nostalgic prospect of Land Bases - leaving the "Cave Meta" behind. Turret Limit has been increased from 100 to 150 for more coverage of your land bases! No TEK or Element No TEK will be available to unlock on our Classic Cluster. As a replacement for ARK Bosses giving Element & TEK Engrams - we will have the bosses in our Classic Cluster drop "high end" loot & blueprints with a fully designed & customized random drop table. The harder the boss fight, the higher quantity, quality, and chance of blueprints you shall receive. Boss fights are also the only way to obtain Empty Cryopods - more on that below. Bosses are definitely worth completing on MTS Classic. No DLC Content No Extinction, Genesis, or Aberration DLC content apart from Hazard Hat, Plant Z (Abe), Cryofridge & Cryopods (Ext). Rock Elementals As the cluster has no TEK Turrets or Velonasaurs etc. Rock Elementals found on Ragnarok & Scorched Earth will have an overall 50% lower chance to spawn and will also be unable to be cryopodded at all. Rock Elementals can still be uploaded and downloaded from ARK Data however and each tribe has a maximum Limit of 2 Rock Ele's at once using our /DinoLimit plugin. Cryopods For the quality of life they provide, Cryopods will be included in MTS Classic. However, they will not be as easily obtained as you know. Cryopods cannot be crafted by players at all, the only way to obtain Empty Cryopods is to defeat bosses. All boss fights drop Cryopods 100% of the time, whether it's Gamma Island Broodmother or Alpha Valguero Oasis. The higher difficulty the boss & boss fight the higher yield of cryopods you shall receive - The idea of this change is to make cryopods have extreme value and purpose of use, all while keeping some of the original gameplay intact. Severely reduced Structure Limit for Platform Saddles & Boats Following the inclusion of Quetzals, we have made the number of structures placeable on Platform saddles at a very minimum. Players will be able to create a simple 1x1 for the Rider while using Platform saddles, to ensure no hatchframe builds can be exploited on our Classic Cluster - sadly this change also affects Rafts & Motorboats which is a small sacrifice to pay as this is a Land PvP focus cluster. Offline Raid Protection ORP is back for Classic! Tribes will receive 3x Structure Resistance and 3x Turret Damage when their roster is offline. ORP activation is required by placing an ORP structure in your choice of location. Remember - this structure can be destroyed by other players to remove your ORP buffs so make sure you have it well protected. Plant Z For the use it provides countering some of ARKs most menacing creatures. Plant Z Seeds will be available to purchase using the in-game shop. Donations & In-game Shop The in-game shop will be practically a copy-paste of our already existing in-game shop for our Main & Beginners clusters with some slight tweaks such as Cryopods etc. MTS Memberships and whitelists will also work on the Classic Cluster as players know. Instructions for pre-orders will be provided the week of launch. View our entire MTS Classic Settings page by clicking here! See you on Classic! The MTS Team