Why dayz servers cap to 60

[DexaLL -]

just bought this game, and it's hard to find people around map is so huge bug player cap is small like 60 people only? really ? why won't they make servers bigger so more people can join it's so hard to find people

[PorkChop]

Because the vehicles will start flying in the sky and zeds will walk thru walls because of system lag and overload.

[Kurdain]

There are many community servers well over 60 player limits.
They run fine, usually.
Some higher than 120 players.

[Homeschooliazon]

Back in the day we had 30 players limit

[Charles N. Tris]

Originally posted by Homeschooliazon:

Back in the day we had 30 players limit

Modern equipment can run many more players and the DAYZ SA has been modified to make traveling take longer, they really need to up official servers to 100 if they don't want MP to die. Its currently so boring, never see any other players, maybe 1 per hour I play.

Instead of having 20 servers that are all empty why not make 12 with more player count?

[\m/]

Cuz the engine is at the limit with scripts / network traffic.
For example a server can have 8000 server-fps + gigabit connection and Zs can still walk on the spot if enough other scripts are loaded..

[Idaho]

It's a small map. with 60 people logged in you'll run into another survivor every 3-5 minutes.

[Vince ✟]

Because the game is ASS and OLD and larger servers cost more. Cherno is NOT as small map, and within 5 minutes you'll not see ♥♥♥♥, as much as 50 minutes.

[BIT Bear]

Majority of people run the same routes (almost exactly the same as DayZ Mod years ago) so it doesn't matter how many players there are. Even if you play with only 30 on a server you will run into people fairly often. At least thats my experience after 160 hours.

[DexaLL -]

why is everyone responding now lol

[Idaho]

Originally posted by *(:

Because the game is ASS and OLD and larger servers cost more. Cherno is NOT as small map, and within 5 minutes you'll not see ♥♥♥♥, as much as 50 minutes.

Can sprint across cherno in half an hour. That is a TINY map, relatively speaking.

[Envy The Dead]

Some servers allow 120 and run just fine

[Ranceed]

Originally posted by DexaLL -:

why is everyone responding now lol

No ones noticed its a necro. makes me wonder what searched dragged up this topic

[PorkChop]

Originally posted by Ranceed:

Originally posted by DexaLL -:

why is everyone responding now lol

No ones noticed its a necro. makes me wonder what searched dragged up this topic

To be fair, 11 month old posts are not that necro yet. It is funny when a post from 2014 pops up about every 2 weeks.

[Envy The Dead]

It says in the steam forum rules to look up similar topics before creating a new one

[Envy The Dead]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

Never got the want for more players, I feel like 20-30 is fine for the map size given the setting. Its set after an apocalypse, most of humanity is dead, we shouldnt be running into people every 2 mins.

If there is 100 people in a patch of land the size of Chenarus, then globally there are sooooo many people left alive... what kind of apocalypse is that supposed to be?

100 people for thousands of square KM isnt a lot and avoiding or hiding from other players isnt how the game is meant to be played imo