#Wipe Schedules NOT on a Weekday afternoon

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pale dawn
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If wipes are scheduled on a Weekday afternoon time (ie. Most are Wed/Thurs 12pm CT), then maybe plan for a Friday at a similar time. Friday wipes would allow the working class to play when getting home after work, then also being able to follow up the next day. #adultsplaywithdinostoo

sweet furnace
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Everyone has different schedules, I work weekends for example

pale dawn
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This is US data in 2023, but I am certain similar trends would be expected across the global for Weekday vs weekend.

sweet furnace
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Rust, which has about 20x the numbers of Ark ASE+ ASA combined, always wipes on a thursday.

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Our maps capped out, so people are home 🙂

pale dawn
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I'm not trying to cause offense with my constructive criticism. I am just trying to point out a missed market of the larger population of players that work during the week.

I'm not sure it is fair to compare Rust to Ark and one's success to the other.

Rust doesn't have finite base locations and the effort to raid a location is much more time costly than on Ark. Also, keep in mind popular unofficial servers on Rust wipe much more frequently by their design (twice a week or weekly). Apples to oranges.

Yes, Elite Ark is successful and your maps are capped out. Congratulations to your success and I am happy for that also. I am just pointing out to the possibility of hitting a higher player base at launch. So what is 5 capped servers now, could be even more capped servers on a Friday launch where a higher playing population is more likely to occur.