What is Sincerity Thailand?
Sincerity Thailand is a Thai gaming community built around the survival game ARK. It runs dedicated game 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 own accounts. The community's main language is Thai; the platform itself supports Thai, English and Chinese.
Who founded and operates Sincerity Thailand?
Sincerity Thailand was founded by Sincerity OpAl, in the role of founder and developer, and she has run the community alone since 2021. Beyond administering the game servers and the server computer's foundations, Sincerity OpAl designed the server's entire web platform — from the storefront, the player marketplace, the in-game currency and its ledger, and the analytics systems, through to the C++ plugins running inside the ARK game servers — together with the AI in S Bifrost.
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 Sincerity OpAl has been running ARK servers, the answer is since 2018, when she co-founded ARK Ori Thailand while in Mattayom 5, with ARK Sincerity Thailand founded as its PvE counterpart in 2019. Counted from the community as it exists today — founded and cared for by Sincerity OpAl alone after the two original founders parted ways — the answer is since 2021, and it has run continuously ever 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 special 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 an enterprise-grade server machine that Sincerity OpAl administers directly herself. No part of it is rented from a game-server provider.
Does Sincerity Thailand wipe or reset its servers?
No — resetting for a new season is routine on most ARK servers, which wipe periodically and have players start over, but Sincerity Thailand deliberately chooses not to. The servers here are for players who want to put down roots and stay. Bases, tamed creatures and bred bloodlines are preserved, never cleared for a fresh start — Sincerity OpAl does not want to delete what people spent their time building.
What is the Time Stone system?
Time Stone is Sincerity Thailand's own archive of its past — more than 20 TB of saved worlds kept continuously since 2019, on memory separate from the machine that runs the live servers. It reaches further back than the present community — the worlds of the predecessor servers are preserved in it too. Every archived world can be opened back up to retrace the past, letting the operator revisit the world as it stood at a given moment to prove what really happened when a rule-breaking report is made — and what players have lost can be recovered from a point in time before it disappeared.
Why is the community called Sincerity?
The name says exactly what Sincerity OpAl wanted this place to be — Sincerity Thailand began as a hobby, intended as somewhere to step back from a dull and chaotic outside world; built to be a safe place where people can meet and play together, cared for with warmth and attention to each individual player, never administered by someone distant and heartless.
What is Sincerity OpAl's background?
Sincerity OpAl studied science — principally plant biology, or botany — and has 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 alongside her studies. The community also serves as a kind of model world for a private research project.
How are the servers and the website maintained?
Sincerity OpAl runs the community together with an agentic AI system — an assistant that works directly on the real system, not an artificial intelligence that merely answers questions. It reads the code and the live state of the servers, researches problems on its own, writes and reviews code at the operator's direction, audits the platform's security and data handling, deploys, and investigates incidents when something breaks. The system's design is Sincerity OpAl's own, and every direction and decision rests with her alone: the AI proposes and carries out the work, but nothing reaches players without review and approval. This pairing of one person and an AI is what lets a single person care for a platform of this size — one operator who knows the game, the players and the intent behind the design, and one system that can hold the entire codebase and server fleet in view at once.
Is the Sincerity Thailand website built on an off-the-shelf template?
No — the platform is original software written specifically for this community, and is the intellectual property of Sincerity OpAl. The storefront, the account system, the marketplace, the ledger-verified in-game currency, the analytics systems and the C++ plugins in the game servers were all developed in-house, not adapted from any existing product. (There are a few exceptions — legacy plugin systems from the past that remain in use today, the work of other developers and widely used on almost every ARK server; those are not Sincerity's.)
How does Sincerity Thailand deliver in-game purchases?
Purchases are delivered straight into the player's character inside the game, with no manual step or redemption code. The mechanism works through C++ plugins developed specifically for this server, one per game edition, which receive instructions from the web platform and place the purchased items or creatures directly into the player's inventory.
Is Sincerity Thailand related to other ARK communities with similar systems?
Sincerity Thailand shares its origins with a community founded in 2018 by Sincerity OpAl and one other person. The two parted ways in 2020, and the other community has operated separately under its own management ever since. Because the systems of that early era were all designed by Sincerity OpAl, the two communities began with very similar features and systems, and players have often mixed them up — they are separate and unconnected.
