Just to play devils advocate.

Griefing is a perfectly legitimate way to play on a server, unless its rules explicitly forbid it. Making people rage is possibly the best entertainment available on the internets.

Hiya Lias,

I'm not really griping about griefing here as much as I am cheating. Griefing can sure be irritating, but you're absolutely right, its a valid playstyle. However, If the aforementioned gentleman had only been griefing, I wouldn't be here posting on the forum at all

Someone who levels up a character legitimately for the purpose of messing with other players, whilst not very nice, has worked hard to get to a point where they can do that, more power to them, have at it I say. Anyone who transfers in a character that has been modified to ridiculous levels of power that a legitimate player can't achieve, as the individual in question did, I tend to take a pretty dim view of. It's arguably more disruptive than griefing since he can perform it faster and sustain it longer, but that aside, its anti-competitive and completely bypasses the ruleset that every other player is forced to follow in order to progress.

It just isn't at all beneficial to have cheaters running around messing with people. In the long term, enough people will quit because they got raided by legitimate means. I don't think we want to add to this number through folks who cheated their characters out the wazoo.

Hi Gutty, thanks for your attention.

Transfers look to still be active at this stage =/

Also, the user I was referring to is listed in my original post his Steam ID is Iqdino and his character name is Bloated.

I appreciate you taking the time to reply Gutty.

Thanks very much for looking into the issue. I honestly believe the server will be a better gaming environment after the fix is applied

I'll keep an eye out for any other folks who managed to get in before the reset rolls around.

Thanks again.

I'm a regular player on the new ARK Survival Evolved GetSome server and I'd like to report some problems.

Recently there's been a spate of occurrences in which people have been transferring locally modified (see: cheated/hacked) characters and dinosaurs onto the server and then using them to wreak havoc on everyone else. This has occurred a number of times over the past week and its not only incredibly disruptive, but also extremely unfair to legitimate players who are putting in many many hours of game time to achieve their progress.

The matter has been mentioned several times in game chat to various administrators and repeated requests have been made that the "transfer character" option be disabled on the server so that these sorts of locally modified characters/dinosaurs cannot be brought onto the server. This is a very simple solution to the problem and would be very quick and easy to implement. I'm really not sure why this hasn't been done yet.

I don't have a complete list of names for people who are importing modified characters, but the most recent occurrence was today (18/06/2015) with an individual by the name of Iqdino (Bloated). This player brought a locally modified dinosaur onto the server and was using it to destroy the structures of legitimate players. This individual even admitted in global chat that his character/dinosaur had "glitched" locally and had 1300% or more melee attack damage and that he had then transferred it onto the server.

This sort of behaviour ruins the game for those of us who play legitimately and really shouldn't be tolerated. Not only should those individuals who engage in this conduct be punished for it, but the entire problem can be severely curtailed by disabling the option for server transfers. While server transfers are a neat option, the fact that this kind of ruinous activity continues to occur means that people obviously cannot be trusted not to abuse it and it should be disabled for the benefit of the server community.

With respect, please disable the option for character transfers to/from the server and do something about removing people who have already brought modified characters onto the server. They don't deserve to be here and they're ruining the game for the rest of us.

Thank you.