About Our Community
After being wiped on one too many servers, Lewimaron decided he’d had enough. On the 9th of June all the way back in 2016…
The Jamon Paradigm was founded!
Since then we’ve had many ups and downs, but we still maintain the same enthusiasm and pride in everything we do and look forward to the future!
We have a dedicated and professional Admin team ready to serve the community and maintain balance in the cluster! Below, you can read a little bit about them.
Lewimaron
The big cheese, the one who started it all. Nearly four years as main admin of the servers and still going strong. He’s the one who pays for everything and sets up all the cool server stuff.
Pfenix
Pfenix is an illustrator and math nerd that lives in Oklahoma City. She loves math, puns, and Troodons.
Hailey
Absolute masochist and chaos goblin, regularly breaks the servers and is not to be trusted under any circumstances.
Bear
Bear is a well traveled California native. She owns her own business, specializing in marine photography but also dabbles in illustration.
Serenity
Serenity is a New York girl that has a strong passion for animals and video gaming. You can find her zooming around on her bright yellow and blue colored dinos, especially Griffins!We have a number of really helpful volunteers who help out with all sorts of fancy stuff. Pretty much none of this would be possible without them!
Fascinare
Fascinare is a self-taught hobbyist programmer, having worked with code on and off since the mid 2000s. Adept with Discord and trying her best to wrangle with Ark.
Skipjuh
Skipjuh is a professional video editor who makes all of our trailers and other videos.
JWallace3D
JWallace3D is the original graphic designer who created all of our logos and graphics.
yFear
Web developer by day, avid gamer by night. Already made a habit of setting the website on fire.Timeline
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June 2016
Community Founded
Lewimaron got fed up with playing at the whim of other server owners and founded The Jamon Paradigm with a single center server
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September 2016
Scorched Earth!
Scorched Earth was released and we quickly got a second server up and running for the new map!
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October 2016
The First Wipe
After realising that The Center wasn’t receiving the support it deserved, we decided to wipe the server and switch to The Island, as well as finally clustering the Scorched Earth server.
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February 2017
The First Great Cataclysm
After a lapse in judgement due to personal issues, the servers were swept away overnight by a pair of lying charlatans and the community was all but destroyed...
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June 2017
Rebirth!
Finally the dark ages ended and we purchased our own dedicated server! This hosted Island, Center, and Scorched Earth ARK servers!
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June 2017
Ragnarok!
A few days after rebirth, the new Ragnarok map was released! We had a brand new server up the very next day.
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August 2017
More Power!!
After massive community growth due to Ragnarok, we invested in a new, more powerful dedicated server to power the community.
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December 2017
Aberration
A new DLC! We had a server up on the same day as launch and it was very successful.
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January 2018
The Second Great Cataclysm
Due to a major hardware failure, we were forced to wipe the entire ARK cluster.
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August 2018
Massive Expansion!
We upgraded to a new dual dedicated server setup that allowed us to expand massively into a 9 server cluster!
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November 2018
Extinction
The new Extinction DLC released and we saw the highest player counts we’ve ever seen across all our servers.
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November 2018
New Website
Zerahar did an amazing job building this new website!
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February 2019
RP Time
We launched our brand new ARK RP server!
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February 2019
Bringing balance to the cluster!
After a year of overdoing the events and boosts, it was decided that a whole cluster wipe was necessary in order to bring balance back to the cluster.
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April 2019
Unlimited Power!!
In order to better serve our needs, and provide more reliability in the cluster, all servers were migrated back to a single more powerful machine capable of hosting all 8 servers together.
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May 2019
Not RP Time
In May 2019, all the admins from the RP server quit in protest after being told to put in some effort. The RP server was no more
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July 2019
Crank it to 11!
After massive financial support from the community, we decided to get ourselves a new dedicated server and launch 3 new maps!