[h1]Greeting Survivors![/h1] Welcome to the first edition of Community Crunch! This will hopefully become a weekly segment of content to share made by the community, for the community! As well as any little changes I want to make survivors aware about, which happen within our community ;). [h1]Reddit![/h1] First things first, I’m pleased to announce that work has finally begun on the [url=http://www.reddit.com/r/playark]/r/playark[/url] subreddit! Sorry about the major delay, we’ve been busy at all fronts here and I’d like to give a shout-out to /u/amitkilo and /u/RT-Pickred for pretty much setting it up, much love <3 You can check it out here with its own [url=http://redd.it/3603uh]announcement[/url] to get things going! This will just act as another platform for discussion however we’ll still have all our announcements and develop activity here on steam, though I’ll be over there too much like how I am on Facebook and Twitter! Steam is our priority and we plan to make us of all its fantastic features, but I’ll be dabbling and speaking to as many people as I can across other various channels. [h1]Steam Forums![/h1] There’s been a lot of active and healthy discussion so far about the game and we’re all super chuffed! We hope you guys continue to provide your feedback, share your plans with the game and just keep on truckin’. I’m going to start organising the forum and creating some new categories to help keep things a bit cleaner :). We’ll be sticking to a [b]General Discussion[/b] section, this will just be talking about ARK, asking about features, suggestions if you’d like. The other sections you’ll have available to you are [b]Tribes, Community Content and Off Topic[/b]. We’re a big advocate of what you guys create and what you want to share, it definitely deserves its own section to prevent it from getting buried and easy access! As for tribes – a huge part of the game and something you’ve already begun setting up, hopefully the section will help new users find a tribe to play with, as well assist pre-established ones in furthering themselves. Last but not least, off-topic will just be a place for you guys to do basic interactions with one another, such as introducing yourself. We aren’t going to be dictators with super-strict rules, all we ask is you respect one another, keep the extremely Not Safe For Work or Not Safe For Life materials out of here and the spam to a minimum. Once we hit Early Access, I’ll be doing a bit of a revision and changing some things up – but that doesn’t matter right now :) [h1]Fan site Galore![/h1] Since the announcement there have been a ton of fan sites and blogs popping up all over the board. People are re-writing FAQs in their native language! There’s people doing research into the words that have been said, a collection of answers – so many neat things and we love it! KEEP IT COMING :). I’ll be sharing some of the ones I’ve come across, and if you’ve seen any more you’d like to share – drop me a message and I’ll be sure to do so! Simple of http://www.arkbulletin.com/ has this to say: “Ark Bulletin exists as a resource for people to stay up to date on the development of ARK: Survival Evolved. We believe 'simplicity is the ultimate sophistication' and our site reflects that. We post content that is relevant, to the point and detailed” MrMackeyMKayyy of http://arkaholic.com/ has this to say: “As the first, and the largest, English-language ARK: Survival Evolved news blog and forum, we collect, analyse, summarise and disseminate information about the game, while giving users a place to discuss it, and anything else they want, on our forums.” Tamaster92 is also currently forging an active RP Community! He says you can check out their upcoming site here: www.arkrp.com and they’ve got an active thread going here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/617335934127046215/ - He hopes to launch a few days after early access begins. Steel, Cayos and Carrot of http://www.syngaming.net/ has this to share "SYNGaming plans on being a pillar of the ARK community. We are dedicated to bring you a uniquely modded dedicated server that is based off the players suggestions!" Musa of https://www.facebook.com/groups/ARKSurvivalEvolved/ has this to say "ARK: Survival Evolved Facebook Group exists to bring all gamers and survivors together for any Console, here you can find your Tribe, share your experience with YouTube videos, we're also going to make Top 5 Mods and Experiences Weekly" And that’s not all! We’ve also got some active communities from other regions! Here’s a list of them, feel free to get in touch with me and I can add more to the list <3 Spanish: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ARKESP Russian: http://ark-play.ru/ & https://vk.com/arksurvivalevolved & http://ark.bigpandabar.com/ French: https://ark.gamewave.fr/ German: www.playark.de & http://steamcommunity.com/groups/arkgermany &http://www.ascendance.de Polish: https://www.facebook.com/pages/ARK-Survival-Evolved-Polska/692593337553824?hc_location=ufi & https://www.facebook.com/ARKSURVIVALEVOLVED Brazilian: https://www.facebook.com/groups/827581650624378/ That’s all for today folk! I’ll see how regularly I can make this post, but it all depends on what there is to share. Thank you so much for all your contribution so far – I have loved watching all your Youtube reaction videos to the trailer, reviews, thoughts – it’s been great! Seriously! If you want to show me something – feel free to tweet it at me, @SurviveTheArk or shoot me a message here, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/survivetheark or on Reddit! -Your friendly neighbourhood Community Manager, Jat