I'm hoping someone can help me understand what I am doing wrong on a dedicated ARK server my friends and I are playing on. I am attempting to build a giant motorboat, and it is my understanding that by increasing the "Platform Saddle Build Area Bounds Multiplier" setting, I should be able to build bigger boats, correct? If that is correct, I can't seem to get it to work. I've increased the setting all the way to 10,000 and can still only build the vanilla distance on the motorboat. Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong? Is there a different setting I need to use? I'm new to hosting my own server, so I would assume there is something I am entirely missing.

This is likely due to the fact that many of the structure limits are set upon creation of the actor / object, so when you change such a setting htat affects something already spawned (such as structure limit, connected foundations max, breeding interval, etc) you have to either wait for the other limit to expire (such is the case in breeding / hatching /feeding.) or replace the object in question. 

Do note, however, the limit you're messing with is capped in Vanilla to 100 due to the fact that going beyond the limits can cause drasting performance problems when compounded by multiple moving bases.

Most Online ARK Videos that have such abominations are typically in single player, or non-dedicated sessions due to how those systems handle such things versus how a server has to treat them.

Every time your base moves by half a foundation, it forces the server to recalculate all hypothermal, hyperthremal, food trough range, turret range, aggro range, (some dinos aggro on humans and dinos only, while others will also aggro on structures) for all non-hibernated entities on the server. 

Once you delete the boat, reboot the server (to absolutely ensure the setting change takes effect) and launch the new boat, you'll want to be careful, as people are like goldfish, and will absolutely take your settings to their limits just because the limit is there and they want ot find it. And when they do, don't be surprisedpikachu.gif when your server gets laggy / starts to crash if your community builds 3-4 boats, a few brontos and quetz, and two para's with 1000+ structures on them.

One of myservers had a Bronto with a platform saddle, generator, and turrets on wander, along with 3-4 moschops on follow / aggro, with Automated ARK set to auto pickup everything in range that drops, as well as sort from the mosschop inventories. They called it their auto harvester.

If any player got near the blasted thing, the server would crash. I had to download the map into single player on my RTX rig, and admin gun the whole structure to 1s and 0s, then save the map and reload it to keep the server working.