Is there anyway for us to enable the holiday event for our servers?
I would also like to know :). Apparently you add this -beta holidayevent to your command line but we can't edit the command line on this host?
If Wildcard did this like the Halloween event, it's a huge undertaking for Arkservers.io to download the beta and make it available for all of us. WC screwed us on Halloween, I'm sure they screwed us on Christmas, too. Make your server patrons happy and just download the Raptor Claus mod and Randi's Christmas Mod...both are probably better than the official event anyway.
The "-beta holidayevent" isn't a command line flag. I've seen some posts on forums claiming this, but they're wrong. It's a parameter to steamcmd to download a different branch of the game. This is the same weird thing Studio Wildcard did for the Halloween event, and we can't support it for the same reason.
I wrote up an explanation that you can read on the blog here.
I just published a blog post with a longer explanation of what happened. I'm sorry, guys! =(
Not your fault, Wild Card has been trying to take more control over their game and giving unofficial servers less capabilities, understandable and all but i still wish they wouldn't. Also thank you for the reply, its always a good thing when your hosting company is willing to answer questions, even if the news isn't what you were hoping for, but keeping us informed is reassuring.