So, I apologize for asking this here if it is any sort of a bother. I was reading through a lot of the information on this mod and just have a few questions. Normally I'm all for just testing things myself but honestly ARK has my stress levels pretty much maxed out at the moment. I'm hoping these are things that someone here would be more knowledgeable about and be able to answer fairly easily... My computer is not exactly made for gaming, and ARK takes upwards of an hour to load sometimes- with or without mods.

Unfortunately I am finding this post difficult to type up right now... Sorry about that, I hope I am able to explain decently enough.

I play singleplayer and non-dedicated (private, local). The latency of my satellite internet makes online play... a whole other can of worms.


Question 1- Game Rendering of owned Dinos
So, normal vanilla ARK, do the creatures that belong to you (or your tribe) get rendered and loaded regardless of distance from you or other players? I know that dinos go into hibernation and stasis and all that, but does your owned creatures being physically present in the world, even if out of render distance, cause extra data to be loaded that may cause lag/issues with lower spec systems? Or does having them far enough away help with those issues?

Question 2- Stored Dinos present but not 'Rendered'
This relates to the previous question, but as this mod lets the creature data persist in the location it was 'captured' at... Would this make any sort of a difference to loading issues? Would it be better to have the capture locations for dinos being far away from your main 'base' (in terms of strain on the game)?


I know I had more to ask, but I cannot for the life of me think of it. Sorry, pretty sick right now, I shouldn't even be trying to... ask things?

I'm driving myself crazy trying to figure out a solution that will let my sister and I play ARK together with less overall lag and overloading issues. Of all the things that cause us trouble, I have found our owned creatures to be the largest issue. I tried the mod 'Dino Station' purely because it was featured on the main page of the workshop and I wondered if it would help. And it did, amazingly so, whereas other 'solutions' we had tried (such as keeping our Dinos further away) did help but not to the extent of that mod.

However, that mod has an issue right now of dinos being cloned and overwriting others on server restarts (which obviously happens every day with a singleplayer/non-dedicated game). I'm wondering if using a combination of that mod, this mod, and distance would be able to be a decent compromise.

I've been brainstorming and testing and trying to get things to work for over a week now- just with the 'dino storage' aspect mind you, much longer in general. If anyone has any answers or suggestions, please give me a hand?