Family Sharing Update

Hello islanders, Very rarely do I come out of my cage office to make formal announcements or address certain issues, as I feel most changes are common sense and casual necessities but we just did something pretty huge that can impact many of you in a lot of ways. Recently we turned off family sharing as a default options for servers, however, it will remained disabled on official servers indefinitely. I know this is a punch in the gut to some players who are relatively reliant on family sharing who didn't use it for any malicious intent, but overall the capability for family sharing brings a heavy negative impact to the experience of any players involved in the game when it is abused. We've had a surge of documented reports and incidents of players using bait tactics through family sharing to bring in massive swarms of player groups to kill anyone not involved with their group, as well as using family sharing to keep an indefinite position as a fully grown apex animal. I fully understand anyone who has the concern of "Well, why not fix the system instead of turning off family sharing?" and the answer is simple: Time and resources. There's only a few of us active on the project, and the time it takes to fix the system isn't cost effective when we are trying to push forward on other areas of the game we have neglected while exploring different methods of gameplay and dinosaurs. This is a solution that will remain until the new spawn system is in, of which we will return to the family sharing issue and look at its return to official servers so we can fix the core of the problem instead of simply shutting the gate and saying it can't happen. Logging issues are a common issue in survival games that has (so far) receieved no clear solution across the board for the genre. As it remains an option, we feel that this shouldn't impact any private servers that rely on family sharing for genuine use, though what you do on your private servers is none of our business. As always, if new issues occur from this, feel free to report it on the game's Discord. We hear you and we will respond. Regards, The Isle Development Team