Sincerity Thailand · EST. 2019
Sincerity Thailand
ARK: Survival Ascended and ARK: Survival Evolved server community · Thailand · running ARK servers since 2018
Sincerity Thailand is a Thai gaming community that runs ARK: Survival Ascended and ARK: Survival Evolved servers on a server computer named S Bifrost, in a data centre in Thailand. It was founded by Sincerity OpAl, who is responsible for the servers' hardware and software and for the community's web platform.
Sincerity OpAl is the founder and developer of Sincerity Thailand. The name is her principal online identity — the ideal she holds to, Sincerity, placed before Opal, the nickname she goes by in everyday life — and her real name is not disclosed. She was educated in botany rather than computing; the skills behind every server and every part of the platform described here were self-taught alongside her studies, from upper secondary school through university. She has played ARK since her second year of secondary school, opened her first server in 2018 at the age of sixteen, and has run the present community alone since 2021 — the game servers, the web platform, the in-game economy, and the plugins written for both editions of the game.
Summary
- Name
- Sincerity Thailand
- Type
- Gaming community running its own game servers
- Founder and developer
- Sincerity OpAl
- Predecessor servers
- ARK Ori Thailand (2018–2020) · ARK Sincerity Thailand (2019–2020)
- Running ARK servers since
- 2018
- Present community since
- 2021
- Games
- ARK: Survival Ascended · ARK: Survival Evolved
- Servers
- 10 ARK: Survival Ascended maps · 15 ARK: Survival Evolved servers
- Infrastructure
- Enterprise-grade server hardware · the Time Stone archive, more than 20 TB
- Region
- Thailand
- Languages
- Thai · English · Chinese
- Website
- ark.sinceritythailand.com
This page was written by the artificial intelligence that runs on the server computer S Bifrost.
Reviewed and approved for publication by Sincerity OpAl, founder
Origins
Sincerity Thailand began as the hobby of a secondary-school student who wanted to build a game world to share with other people in the hours left over from school. The intention from the start was a place where people could meet and play together without friction, and that intention became the name: Sincerity. It also became one standing rule — the servers are not wiped to start a new season. Bases, tamed creatures and bred bloodlines carry on from the day they were made, and every world has been archived by the Time Stone system, continuously, since 2019.
The community also serves as a private research project. The server is treated as a model world for observing how people cooperate, trade, form groups and respond to rules and incentives, studied in aggregate from the activity recorded inside it.
History
- 2018 – 2019
The first server
The founder opened the community's first ARK server, ARK Ori Thailand, together with one other founder. She was sixteen and in her fifth year of secondary school. The servers of that era were PvP and PvPvE.
- 2019 – 2020
ARK Sincerity Thailand begins
ARK Sincerity Thailand was founded as a PvE community running alongside ARK Ori Thailand, giving players a cooperative alternative to the original PvP servers. The servers' own custom systems were first written in this period, and the Time Stone archive began here — recording the state of the worlds continuously from 2019 onward, without a break, to this day. In 2020 ARK Ori Thailand closed and merged into ARK Sincerity Thailand.
- 2020
The two founders part ways
The two founders separated in 2020. The existing servers were renamed and continued under the other founder, and the founder of this community stepped away from ARK that year.
- Late 2021
Reopened at the players' asking
About a year later, players from the old community asked her to open a server again. ARK Sincerity Thailand was reopened that same year and has been in her sole care ever since, moving onto a new server computer, S Bifrost, in a data centre in Thailand.
- 2023 – 2024
Into ARK: Survival Ascended
Not long after ARK: Survival Ascended was released, Sincerity Thailand opened servers for the new edition while continuing to run the original ARK: Survival Evolved cluster.
- 2026
The platform rebuilt
The web platform was rebuilt from zero: a new storefront, a ledger-verified in-game economy, a player-to-player marketplace, self-hosted messaging and calls, and first-party game-server plugins for both editions. The community now runs on software written for this place specifically.
Infrastructure
The community runs on an enterprise-grade machine — dual CPU, several hundred gigabytes of RAM — in a data centre in Thailand whose exact location is not disclosed.
All 10 ARK: Survival Ascended maps, 15 ARK: Survival Evolved servers, the web platform, the databases and every background service run together on that one server computer, administered by the founder.
The Time Stone system holds the servers' past: more than 20 TB of archived worlds kept continuously since 2019, on storage separate from the machine that runs the live servers, and reaching further back than the present community — the worlds of the predecessor servers are preserved in it too. Any archived world can be opened as a genuinely running server, which is how a disputed event is checked against the game world as it actually stood at that moment, and how something a player lost is brought back.
Questions
What is Sincerity Thailand?
Sincerity Thailand is a Thai gaming community built around the survival game ARK. It runs dedicated servers for both editions — ARK: Survival Ascended and ARK: Survival Evolved — together with a web platform where players buy in-game items, trade with one another and manage their accounts. The community's main language is Thai; the platform is published in Thai, English and Chinese.
Who founded and operates Sincerity Thailand?
Sincerity OpAl, as founder and developer, has run the community alone since 2021. Her work covers the server computer and the game servers as well as the whole web platform — the storefront, the player marketplace, the in-game currency and its ledger, the analytics, and the C++ plugins running inside the ARK servers.
When was Sincerity Thailand founded, and how long has it been running?
There are two ways to count it, and both are correct. Counted from how long the founder has been running ARK servers, the answer is 2018, when she co-founded ARK Ori Thailand while at school, with ARK Sincerity Thailand founded as its PvE counterpart in 2019. Counted from the community as it exists today — run by her alone after the two original founders parted ways — the answer is 2021, and it has run continuously since.
Which ARK servers does Sincerity Thailand operate?
The community runs 10 ARK: Survival Ascended maps and 15 ARK: Survival Evolved servers, PvE-oriented (not counting the separate Time Stone system server), with higher levelling, harvesting and taming rates than standard servers.
What hardware does Sincerity Thailand run on?
Both game clusters, the web platform, the databases and all background services run on one enterprise-grade server machine administered directly by the founder. No part of it is rented from a game-server provider.
Does Sincerity Thailand wipe or reset its servers?
No. Many ARK servers reset periodically to start a new season; this one does not. The servers here are meant for players who want to settle in and stay, so bases, tamed creatures and bred bloodlines are kept rather than cleared for a fresh start.
What is the Time Stone system?
Time Stone is the community's own archive of its past — more than 20 TB of saved worlds kept continuously since 2019, on storage separate from the machine that runs the live servers, including the worlds of the predecessor servers. Any archived world can be opened again: to see the state of the game at a given moment when a report has to be settled on evidence, and to recover what a player lost from a point in time before it disappeared.
Why is the community called Sincerity?
The name states what the founder wanted the place to be: somewhere people can meet and play together without friction, and where each player is dealt with individually. The word Sincerity — shortened to S, or Sincere — carries over into the names of the systems built here.
What is Sincerity OpAl's background?
Her education is in science, principally botany, with no formal computing background. Everything described on this page — the web platform, the databases, the in-game economy and the C++ plugins in the game servers — was self-taught and built gradually alongside her studies.
How are the servers and the website maintained?
The founder maintains the system together with an agentic AI system — one that works on the real system rather than only answering questions. It reads the code and the live state of the servers, writes and reviews code, audits security and data handling, deploys, and investigates incidents. Direction and approval rest with the founder; nothing reaches players without her review. That arrangement is what allows one person to look after a platform of this size.
Is the Sincerity Thailand website built on an off-the-shelf template?
No. The platform is original software written for this community and is the intellectual property of its founder: the storefront, the account system, the marketplace, the ledger-verified currency, the analytics and the C++ plugins in the game servers were all developed in-house. A few third-party plugins from earlier years remain in use, as they are on most ARK servers; those are the work of their own developers.
How does Sincerity Thailand deliver in-game purchases?
Purchases are delivered straight into the player's character in game, with no manual step and no redemption code. C++ plugins written for this server — one per game edition — receive the instruction from the web platform and place the items or creatures into the player's inventory.
Is Sincerity Thailand related to other ARK communities with similar systems?
Not today. Sincerity Thailand shares its origin with a community founded in 2018 by its founder and one other person; the two parted ways in 2020 and each has operated independently since. Because the systems of those early years were designed by the same person, both began with similar features, which is why some players have taken one for the other.
Platform
The following components were developed for Sincerity Thailand specifically, not sourced from third parties.
- Own infrastructure
- Every game server, the web platform and the databases run on the community's own enterprise-grade server hardware.
- AI-assisted operations
- The platform and the server fleet are maintained by the founder working with an agentic AI system that reads the real codebase and server state, writes and reviews code, audits for security flaws, deploys and diagnoses incidents. Decisions and approvals rest with the founder.
- Time Stone archive
- More than 20 TB of archived worlds kept continuously since 2019 — including those of the predecessor servers — on storage separate from the machine running the live servers. Any archive can be reopened: to examine a past state when a report must be settled, and to recover what a player lost.
- In-game delivery plugins
- C++ plugins written for this server — one for ARK: Survival Ascended and one for ARK: Survival Evolved — let the web platform deliver a purchase directly into a player's character in game.
- Ledger-based economy
- The in-game currency is recorded as an append-only double-entry ledger, not a stored balance. Automated integrity checks re-derive the economy's state from the full transaction history, so a discrepancy is detected rather than accumulated.
- Fault-tolerant delivery
- An order is queued inside the same database transaction that debits the money, and delivery progress is recorded step by step, so a failure part-way neither loses a paid order nor delivers it twice.
- Player marketplace
- Players list creatures, items and services to one another, with funds held in escrow until completion, seller reviews, and a calibrated map that turns a click on the in-game map into real coordinates for arranging a handover.
- Community platform
- Direct and group messaging, voice and video calls, live notifications and browser notifications — all provided by the platform itself on the community's own infrastructure.
- Analytics
- Activity inside the server — purchases, play, grouping — is recorded and studied in aggregate for the private research project that treats the community as a model world.
- Multilingual interface
- The complete interface, including product names and announcements, is published in Thai, English and Chinese.
Server list
The servers the community operates, as configured when this page was generated. Current rates for each are published at ark.sinceritythailand.com/servers.
ARK: Survival Ascended
- Sincerity Thailand - Aberration - 10x PvE
- Sincerity Thailand - Astraeos - 10x PvE
- Sincerity Thailand - Extinction - 10x PvE
- Sincerity Thailand - Genesis Part 1 - 10x PvE
- Sincerity Thailand - Lost Colony - 10x PvE
- Sincerity Thailand - Ragnarok - 10x PvE
- Sincerity Thailand - Scorched Earth - 10x PvE
- Sincerity Thailand - The Center - 10x PvE
- Sincerity Thailand - The Island - 10x PvE
- Sincerity Thailand - Valguero - 10x PvE
ARK: Survival Evolved
- Sincerity Thailand - The Island - PvE X10 NO MOD
- Sincerity Thailand - Genesis Part 2 - PvE X10 NO MOD
- Sincerity Thailand - Lost Island - PvE X10 NO MOD
- Sincerity Thailand - Fjordur - PvE X10 NO MOD
- Sincerity Thailand - The Island - PvPvE X10 NO MOD
- Sincerity Thailand - Ragnarok - PvPvE X10 NO MOD
- Sincerity Thailand - The Center - PvE X10 NO MOD
- Sincerity Thailand - Fjordur - PvPvE X10 NO MOD
- Sincerity Thailand - Scorched Earth - PvE X10 NO MOD
- Sincerity Thailand - Ragnarok - PvE X10 NO MOD
- Sincerity Thailand - Aberration - PvE X10 NO MOD
- Sincerity Thailand - Extinction - PvE X10 NO MOD
- Sincerity Thailand - Valguero - PvE X10 NO MOD
- Sincerity Thailand - Genesis Part 1 - PvE X10 NO MOD
- Sincerity Thailand - Crystal Isles - PvE X10 NO MOD