So you want to play PvP on 'ARK: Survival Evolved'

Here's little tour of the PVP environment of ARK: Survival Evolved. Things you'll face on these servers are harsh and you shouldn't go there before reading this, especially if you haven't even played the game yet.

Accepting the rumors

The things that people say about the griefers is true: They will kill your dinosaurs, steal your stuff, abuse your body, and destroy your house as soon as you go to sleep. In fact, a lot of tribes organize a group to play past midnight for the sole reason of hunting sleeping players. And that's the keyword here: Tribes. If you are playing on a PvP server, you have to keep in mind that you're not supposed to do it at your pace and take your time building your little tatch hut with it's little thatch fence with your raptor and a couple of dilos. Slowly learning the game by yourself, taking everything in, eventually upgrading to wood, then stone and so forth.

If you plan on playing in a PvP server, you gotta take this game seriously. You either find a group of friends to play with you, or you join a tribe as soon as possible. If you play alone, you might find a hidden spot where your stuff will be safe for one or two nights, maybe even a week, but alone, you're doomed to be found, robbed and killed. You'll have the work of a whole week go down the drain. If you're joining a PvP server, you're doing it for tribe warfare and that thing can get really intense pretty fast. With eagles swooping down to grab enemies and dropping them from high altitudes to their deaths, or tactical dropping raptors inside their base to wreak havoc, T-rexes working as battering rams at the enemies' gates while rockets fly at them, auto-turrets spewing bullets at your carno army, sabretooths leaping over walls. It is a beauty to behold.