ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Capitalism Research Table [OPEN SOURCE] (Discontinued)
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I needed more than 1000 characters. Sorry bud.
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I don't mean to criticize. We love the mod and find it's the best economy based mod out there for our purposes. I spent a great deal of time trying to figure out how to make it work from fiddling with it because I couldn't understand the videos very well (my fault bro I have a bad ear for accents) and the written info just seemed quite lacking compared to some of the other mods I've used. A good example of what I mean, and I realize this probably wasn't easy given that it's in parts; in Structures Plus mod, discussions has a post 'Everything you need to know about this mod' pinned at the top.
The first post explains where the config goes, and has every config command line for the mod in one easy to copy/paste posting.
(Yours do not. They are broken up. I copy/pasted from your posts a multitude of times to build the config for just one part of this mod, let alone each.)
The next post in that discussion has a break down of every single config command you just copied and explains each and every one and what it does, what its min/max values are, etc.
(Yours do not. I have config commands in here I have no idea what they do.)

I lack an understanding of certain things in this mod, and I wish I could find answers using ctrl-f on comments but I cant.
Why does the player table exist when the advanced table is better? Can't i just remove the player table?
I spent 3 days trying to figure out the research table. It told me I would find an engram (lvl 0 ep 0) and it turns out several pages into its comments they are spawn only tables. It took us a while to figure out everyone could use it, because the mod description implies it to be player/tribe exclusive.
Still haven't figured out how bank excahnage tab works.
A lot of the setup of this mod was change a line, reboot the server and go wash dishes for 10 minutes. Then come back and see what changed.

As for suggestions, I honestly don't have much. I can't imagine how difficult it must be to handle this kind of documentation across so many parts of 1 mod. Perhaps handle them the same way you handled your FAQ, which can be found in the discussion of each mod, but links to the exact same post every time. You definitely should stop breaking up code bits over 5 posts, and be sure to explain what I'm changing. Each NPC table shouldn't have a seperate page explaining it when they're all in the same mod.

I realize you're doing the best you can and I don't have a lot of answers. I just wanted to point out I had a hard time learning this mod. Maybe I'm just too noob to git gud but this is the only mod I struggled with on my server, and that's worth taking note.
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Impulse  [kehittäjä] 14.8.2018 klo 10.24 
The sad thing is, i cannot do it right. If i put it all in one documentation then people will be confused. If i don't put in in one, they will be confused too.

If you'd give actual examples for gus.in or game.ini settings that were difficult to understand, then i'd be able to correct that and add a view lines more to explain them. But if i don't get feedback from the community then i'll come to the conclusion, everything seems fine.

Thanks for your feedback and sorry for the late answer, i don't get notified by steam if someone opens a new discussion.
No worries, with a little determination we figured it out in the end. I understand the limitations of this stuff, and I wasn't trying to fault you or your designs or anything. I really enjoyed the mod, although most of the server didn't much care for it. I think there's a general mindset among the playerbase of ARK and it gets a little too.... primal instinct.

Thanks for the fun bud!
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