The best way to farm should not be to fly around on pt collecting drops, I love your server settings, but the drops are so unbalanced, they are balanaced around normal ark where you have 100 ways to farm stuff, and maewings + drills to instantly farm anything in the game, asa you do not. Getting 3k cooked metal from 1 drop is just crazy.
What I am trying to say, keep the current loot Quality, but reduce the Quantity by at least 5 times, can even be 10 times for it to be balanced. Also there should be 0 vegie cakes in drops, it is just silly a wild tamed stego can wipe any base because arb price is 2x.