Ben, My guess for the adventure packs only being accessible to buyers is that the stuff will be on the maps but you just can’t craft/tame/use(probably can use) the oasisaur is probably tamable with an engram you can’t have without the pack or just simply it’ll say “purchase the frontier adventure pack to tame this Dino” or something (depending on taming method) and that it will still spawn as it is a base game creature technically you just can’t tame unless you own the pack similarly to when newer dlcs for evolved came out somebody could go tame one for you and go to a non paid map that you can play on and give it/it’s babies to you, they might do it a bit differently because this is a different case, But if they do it like they’ve always done you can ride your tribmates oasisaur/train you just can’t craft/tame it unless you own the pack and I’m sure the packs are gonna be like a third of the price that the dlcs were originally but I mean they’ve gotta make money somehow this is way better than what they could’ve done I’m just excited that we’re gonna get 6 new creatures on top of the 11-12 voted ones and the 4 new map ones it’s crazy also the new map is probably gonna be on the other side of the planet and the storyline of it will connect extinction and genesis better because it’s the only hole in the plot they can fill (before ark 2) but I’m getting off topic.. oh, oh, also I’m pretty sure they are expanding scorched earth because they said they are adding more caves (does that mean new bosses too? or just some caves don’t have artifacts..) and with the frontier adventure packs additions (trains and oasisaur) like can the oasisaur even fit on scorched like come on the art shows three of them in the desert maybe five of those things could fit on the evolved scorched and why would we need trains with that tiny map to go around the circle of the dune sea.. anyway this got way off topic.. one more thing Ben, you said you’ve never had time to play much, I get that, you can create a solo server and when you back out it pauses (just be careful apparently you have to manually save it using commands or it deletes save data currently..) and you can mess with settings to make it less of a grind. Only problem is you can’t play with other people that way but there are servers you can find with boosted settings and if you play pve you don’t really gotta get on a lot to play.. (or you can do what I did at first and go into creative and just hacke through bosses and cheat explorer notes to learn the story 🤣🤣 but maybe that’s just me)

-Wyvernain yes, I ramble.. you got a problem with that there’s the door.😂