I've logged almost 400 hours in Ark on one character, so when I raise my concern over these people, it's not because I'm a sore loser, don't know how to deal with loss or get particularly butthurt.
My tribe is the largest on the server and we've grown twice in size while dealing with two allied ones. We've raised several full kibble rexes and had 15 turrets defending our base area. We've got apprentice+ flak in all slots.
This is not bragging, it's just to give an idea of our strength (and yes, I get that there are stronger tribes on other servers).
The guys we've been dealing with have done the following:
1. Their guys punch out ours through flak, to full torpor in one hit.
2. When we pick them up with birds, we can't attack or let them go again.
3. One guy that we held with a bird took 3 clips of assault rifle to the head, point blank, before he died. His helmet broke around the 70 mark.
4. They autoloot corpses within a certain radius. We discovered this when they looted a corpse they should not have been able to even see (buried under two of our rexes). They are also somehow able to circumvent turret pincode and can loot ammo out of it.
5. Their animals are either immortal or have insane health - one lvl 77 pteranodon took several c4 charges, shotgun blasts (by the guy who got lifted) and longneck rifle shots. As they put it, "learning to tame" should somehow make this possible...
There are more things, like out of render distance headshotting, them always being at red supply drops when they spawn, sleays knnowing where we are when we try to ambush and a few other suspicious things.
These guys are a menace to the whole server. They pretend to help people, but run protection schemes for others to do the taming for them. Every weekend they kill off any big dinos that others have tamed to maintain superiority. They raid people who just started out. While this is just part of the game, it should give you an idea of what they're like.
My question is, what the hell do we do against them? Is there a way to report these guys? Have any of you heard of anything like this on other official servers?
Personally I'd just start over on a different server, but my friends want to stay and fight. They're not thrilled about giving up or starting over again.