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Brilliant! And I could tell everyone about more interesting features to search for and then not actually include any! By the time they searched out the 100 million or so planets I would be rolling in cash.

Theres a trick/exploit in ARK to avoid falldamage. Jump off your mount the moment before you hit the ground. You'll take minimum damage and dinos don't take any falldamage unmounted. Seems like this isn't a known fact when I see some people take ridiculous amounts of falldamage.

Has anyone tried recreating a World War Z-type survival experience? That's pretty much my dream with Cata but I always run into the same problems.

I remove all the extraneous zombies, creatures, etc. until I'm left with some fairly normal zoms and wildlife and NPC's. I try to take balanced, RP-heavy perks.

I find that the sound mechanics for spawning zombies are terrible, leading to broken immersion when a basement I just cleared out is suddenly full again, or a patch of forest I've scoured for days suddenly contains a horde. The other option, static zombies, leads to weird gamey experiences where I've cleared out a certain portion of the city and face no risk at all beyond the occasional NPC.

And then, once I finally do make it pretty far with a vehicle and gear and food and a base, it just becomes immediately boring without any of the usual end-game content - I find that stuff pretty cheesy and ridiculous so I tend to avoid it anyways. Like, boring because nothing is threatening anymore. And unlike DF, my attempts at RP end up just feeling like meaningless tedium for the sake of a story.

I guess I just want more RP focused mechanics, lessening the stat-focused item-sorting elements of the game and refining the survival-sim aspects into something less repetitive/gamey. Maybe I should just STFU and start modding. . .