Banning is a big deal – please make sure to carefully proceed here and make sure you have the backing of other admins before proceeding
Also keep in mind – Xbox allows players to create free xbox accounts and use those to play Ark. Example. BadPlayer gets banned. He creates a new email address and signs up for a free xbox account with that email address. Then he logs on to his original BadPlayer xbox account and logs onto his new free account…. then starts up Ark. Ark recognizes that BadPlayer has an xbox live gold account and has paid for Ark. So it lets his new Freebie account log on and play. Within the player list for that server — it doesnt show BadPlayer (who was banned) it shows the new Freebie account.
Players can do this as many times as they want to keep logging onto servers and causing problems. Keep an eye on them
Banning Checklist
Checklist before Banning/Wiping
Offending player name:
Offending player spec ID:
Offending player GT:
Offending player tribe:
Offending player discord name:
Any other players in tribe:
Offense:
Proof of offense:
(Screenshots to follow)
Proof of warning:
(Screenshots to follow)
Proof that offending party continued:
(Screenshot to follow)
Actions taken:
If tribe wiped who approved it:
Submit this form to #ark-player-notes once completed (edited)
How to Steam ID Ban a player (edited)
First enable admin overlay
setcheatplayer 1
Next, look at any tribe owned structure you are banning, and find the “Team: 983877897384” (edited)
Next admin code you will use will need that number. Example code below: (edited)
cheat gettribeidplayerlist ##########
Now, you have all the players Steam IDs in that tribe, write down / pic the one you need for banning
cheat banplayer SteamID#
Note: If you can’t find the player’s ID and it just says “0” as the players Steam ID it means they were last logged onto another map so you will have to search for what map they last logged onto until it shows a long number.
Kicking Players
This is only temporary, they can rejoin
Showmyadminmanager
Select the players name from the list, choose “Kick Player”
You can also Ban the player with the same option
Wiping Players Structures and Dinos
Make sure you’re looking directly at the structure or dino of the tribe you are going to wipe… Also keep in mind, depending on how large they have built up, a structure wipe may crash the server and cause a slight rollback
AdminCheat DestroyTribeDinos
AdminCheat DestroyTribeStructures