General Discussion: Feedback, Ideas, and Suggestions for the ARK: Survival Ascended Linux Server Manager

[Zerschranzer]

Welcome to the general discussion thread for the ARK: Survival Ascended Linux Server Manager!

This space is dedicated to:

• Sharing your thoughts about the ARK: Survival Ascended Linux Server Manager.
• Suggesting new features or improvements.
• Reporting minor usability issues or quirks.
• Asking general questions about the script or its functionality.

Feel free to:

• Share your experiences using the manager.
• Propose changes or ideas that could make it even better.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

[mattague]

I am just jumping into this after hosting a few clusters of ASE for friends in the past. Everything seems so well done, I am genuinely very impressed with the ease of this, especially since it is also managing proton on top of everything. I am extremely grateful for all of the work put into this so far, it has made things a million times easier. I am just thinking of two useful things.

1. I would love a way to sync mods between instances, so I don't have to edit four indivual instance_config.ini files and make sure to add/remove the same number from all of them.

2. Also, would it be possible to copy an existing instance, and just enter the new name, then bring up the instance_config.ini preloaded with the information from another instance, so I don't have to go through and type in the same admin password, server password, max players, and everything else? It could copy the other ini config files into the new instance folder, and warn the user to adjust the map name and save name.

Alternatively, we could have a parent config file that we put some of these values into(modIDs, the first part of the server name(and then in the instance_config.ini append the map name at the end of this variable), max number of players, clusterID, and start up parameters) and have the individiual instances use variables to pull that information from the main file.

[mattague]

I was also thinking this could be just for clusters, as it might not be useful otherwise. It would also be handy in the case of clusters to use the same Game.ini and GameUserSettings.ini file between all of the servers, similar to how the ?AltSaveDirectoryName functioned in ASE

[Kalyandra80]

Hello
First of all, I would like to say that this script is really great. As a complete newbie in this field, I managed to create a complete cluster using the tool, but I don't know if it's available and I'm just too stupid to find it. It would be nice if the tool would do automatic ARK or mod updates and if you have to shut down the server, it wouldn't shut down immediately, but with a timer and notification that you can set.
Otherwise, the script is really great, especially for beginners.
I apologize for my English, as I have to work with a translator because English is not my native language :)
Best regards