ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Riderless XP [Outdated/Open Source]
Carey 26 Oct, 2020 @ 6:29pm
Extremely Laggy
This mod is extremely buggy for me/my server. Even with less than 20 dinos active/1 player online/present. Yet this mod makes it so that I (or players) cannot mount or dismount my dinos, or i lag out of the game/server entirely because of harvesting or killing. The dino you're riding seems to get an infinite loop of xp.

I'm not sure how you have it set up structurally in the mod itself but it should do these things:
- Dino got xp? was it from this mod? Yes? > do not give xp to dinos
- Player got xp? Nice > check distance of dinos
- Was a dino being ridden? No > add xp if in range
- Was a dino being ridden? Yes?? Cool! > do not add additional xp from this mod

That's it. That should be it. It should not continue to loop and check for xp gains (which it seems to do). Because right now passive XP gain that other dinos get also loops back into other dinos (like my penguin farm, them leveling up levels each other up which levels the other dinos up and so on) because the longer the server is up, the more this mod breaks it. -- No dino should get xp because of xp that this mod has gotten.

The server can't keep up with the transferred XP.

Mod removed, no issues. Mod in-game, infinite lag that cannot be fixed by any other means.

IF you do have it programmed that way then I humbly request you look into why it has an infinite lag because we'd love to implement this - but we can't so long as it lags out the whole server (or single player game at that rate). We've run this server (and again, tested on SP) with 54 mods with no issues, until this mod is added.

Sorry if this is overly critical but we tried to get it to work all day, for two days. We really wanted it to work out. :(
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ItsTomButOn*****  [developer] 6 Nov, 2020 @ 9:19am 
No, no, I'm grateful for any bug report I can get, helps get the mod to a working state :).

As for the lagging issue.. I'm not exactly sure what could be causing it, though I did update the mod earlier today, maybe there were bugs which I didn't know about, but I did some limited testing just now without any issues. Please, do let me know if the mod still causes lag issues.
Carey 6 Nov, 2020 @ 6:12pm 
We'll drop it in our test server and see if it repeats, definitely! Maybe together we can pinpoint it.
BladeTurbo 23 Nov, 2020 @ 8:20pm 
I had this same issue where I would lag when mounting dinos. I saw this post and tested by removing the mod and no more mounting lag.
QcDarkNinja 30 May, 2021 @ 1:14pm 
I am having the same issue on my friend's server, and theres like 1-3 players on whole server.
Just a pointer, it seems (not sure though) to happen when I start the industrial grinder in order to give mad EXP to all my dinos. I have maybe about 20 dinos in range in my base.

It takes a very long time for the EXP to actually show up, so that's what I think this is, the mod distributes way too much EXP gains at the same time and can't keep up.

I will try to remove the EXP gains from generic/passive exp, maybe that's would help?
QcDarkNinja 30 May, 2021 @ 9:02pm 
OK so it seems that removing the EXP sharing from generic helped, the bug is not happening anymore. We didn't change anything else than that.

So the config should look like this:
[RiderlessXP]
ExperienceSharingDistance=6000.0
HideBuffIconFromHUD=True
SharedExpMultiplier=0.75
ExpShareTypes=kill,harvest,craft,special
AutoTurretsShareExp=False
TurretExpMultiplier=0.75

So basically just remove the "generic" word (with coma) from the line "ExpShareTypes".
Elite-Noob! 14 Jul, 2021 @ 3:21am 
I can confirm that the lag becomes unplayable from a certain number of tamed dinosaurs, as soon as you set something in the Fabricator etc. You can wait several minutes as soon as you want to step on a dinosaur, you just stand next to the dinosaur and nothing happens from that moment on .

Really a shame, I love this mod and hope that it is possible to fix it. Maybe in the form of a structure with a fixed range in which the dinosaurs have to stand in order to receive the shared XP?
Carey 14 Jul, 2021 @ 3:34am 
Originally posted by Elite-Noob!:
I can confirm that the lag becomes unplayable from a certain number of tamed dinosaurs, as soon as you set something in the Fabricator etc. You can wait several minutes as soon as you want to step on a dinosaur, you just stand next to the dinosaur and nothing happens from that moment on .

Really a shame, I love this mod and hope that it is possible to fix it. Maybe in the form of a structure with a fixed range in which the dinosaurs have to stand in order to receive the shared XP?

QcDarkNinja posted a small fix in the configs which is to disable "generic" experience by removing it from the ExPShareTypes. I feel like this should be off by default, as that in itself should fix the mod. If crafting things such as the fabricator also lags them out, then try removing "craft" from there as well. Then they will get kill, harvest, and special experience from each other and you.
Elite-Noob! 14 Jul, 2021 @ 4:09am 
I've already tried that, but the lag is still there, albeit not as pronounced. Possibly S+ no longer harmonizes with the mod.
Carey 14 Jul, 2021 @ 12:40pm 
Ah man, maybe. Sorry to hear that friend.
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