Finding a permanent OFFICIAL SERVER, that does not vanish into thin air.

[Brown]

Maybe SOMEONE, someone out there, in the great land of oz, or the knowledgeable steam community, or maybe some with insider info can gleam some light into my desperate life as I struggle oh soooo much with trying to figure out the entagled web of how the OFFICIAL servers are being hosted.

I do not want to join the community servers just yet, I have tried to understand how the OFFICIAL servers work, I see that some are hosted by fragnet, and gameservers, and titles such as DAL and TX exist, but,
IT SEEMS, whenever I start a base, and choose to stick to one, IT MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHES...

SHOULD I JUST SUCCUMB TO THE BOTTOM FEEDING BREED OF SERVER HOPPING SCUM, or is there hope that I MAY SOME DAY FIND A OFFICIAL SERVER, THAT, i know THIS MAY SOUND LIKE I AM ASKING FOR JUST WAY TO MUCH HERE, but maybe actual start a camp, with a TENT, i know I sound silly, but I mean , come on, the game has been finally released...

ANYWAYS, maybe some one can slap my face with some knowledge so that I know how this works. DO THE official SERVERS always dissappear. for example, DAL IP: 35.247.24.222:2502?

This is one of the OFFICIAL SERVERS THAT VANISHED,
IS THIS HOW THE GAME WORKS?
O M G I've lost my mind
Thank you .

[R[e]venge®-uk*]

Persistance can break on any server with a crash or incorrect shutdown.

To be fair if you are planning on base building i would choose a good community server over any public one, maybe an RP server???

[Derleth]

If that server appeared at 1.0 release and disappeared the other day it was one of the temporary servers that were up for the duration of the free weekend. Those are all gone, any other official server that you can find now should be "permanent". By permanent meaning that they should be up until BI decide to reduce the amount of official servers permanently, something that will not be happening any time soon. Last time it happened was when 0.63 was about to move to experimental, very few players were still playing 0.62 by then so they took a number of 0.62 servers down and moved them to experimental and stress testing.

[Brown]

I think the free servers were hosted by multiplay??? RIGHT? whatever

[Derleth]

Originally posted by Brown:

I think the free servers were hosted by multiplay??? RIGHT? whatever

Yeah, they were contracted by Bohemia for the event. Apparently most or all of those servers were virtual machines as well which made the already dodgy server performance (some new bug, it was perfectly fine in beta...) an even worse mess on those servers.

In any case, any server you find in the official tab now won't be going anywhere soon. Quite the opposite, just now they're taking down a number of Xbox servers and moving them to PC to increase capacity, much to the chagrin of the Xbox community. If they were whiny before...

[Brown]

I think i just saw more multiplay servers up today, not sure, I have the OFFICIAL servers favorited and stick with the favorited filter... SO I have some tents set up on said name servers, hosted by fragnet i think, Hopefully they don't go anywhere...

[etwas]

another multiplay server just disappeared. i doubt it takes longer than 15 minutes to restart. maybe its back tomorrow. good i just pitched a tent^^

[etwas]

i played on a 3pp server on multiplay and as its not coming back, i thought i start with a fresh character on a 1pp server (fragnet this time, in hope they dont disappear aswell) and they share one hive? what and why?

[Rhaaxerus]

In my experience with the servers throughout the years;
The Official servers are never to be relied on. Yes they're "official" so you can find one with consistent ping and know that it'll be there. But with the updates each week and every time they make changes you can never really trust them having "permanency".

Community servers really are your best hope if you want to have something longlasting. But even then you're relying on the server admin to not make resets or changes, and hope that there's no improper shutdowns that would prompt a persistence wipe.
This game relies entirely on an online infrastructure so you're not going to have the saved permanence of a single player game like fallout, etc.
Right now I'm not investing in base building or trying to hold onto anything yet.
"Vanity, vanity, all is vanity. Like grasping after the wind"

[Derleth]

Originally posted by Rhaazerus Orzhov:

In my experience with the servers throughout the years;
The Official servers are never to be relied on. Yes they're "official" so you can find one with consistent ping and know that it'll be there. But with the updates each week and every time they make changes you can never really trust them having "permanency".

Community servers really are your best hope if you want to have something longlasting. But even then you're relying on the server admin to not make resets or changes, and hope that there's no improper shutdowns that would prompt a persistence wipe.
This game relies entirely on an online infrastructure so you're not going to have the saved permanence of a single player game like fallout, etc.
Right now I'm not investing in base building or trying to hold onto anything yet.
"Vanity, vanity, all is vanity. Like grasping after the wind"

True. If persistent base building is important to you, your best bet is to scan active community servers and find one that does regular persistence backups and has a ruleset and playerbase suiting your tastes. My primary go-to for example is Dayzcore, a hardcore survival (very scarce food and much less weapons and ammo than on official servers) server where they have reliable persistence backups.

[Brown]

Yea i was trying to find an answer as to how to keep track of the official servers, they seem to always dissappear, some pop back up, some don't... ... I don't agree how the official servers are ran(good enough for now I guess ), whoever it is, there should be more priority given to the fact that base building is now a big selling point in the Freaking GAME.... RIGHT?