I’m sorry but this is just not true,
Even from the graphics point of view Ark uses an entirely different type of model that essentially is at lower resolution from CE. I would need to go into technical terms to adequately explain.
But a single player model in Conan has roughly 10x the vertices of an Ark player model.

Ark achieves it’s resolution through a different render method than Conan.

What this means? basically Conan needs more internet bandwidth than Ark.
That is the true reason for the lower player cap on CE servers.

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