Hosting a Server

[𒀀𒂵𒉡𒆠.n0 m3rCy☣☠]

I have some questions :
How long is the developement of this game going to take serverwize? I've been wanting to rent a DayZ Standalone server for a long time but they are both overpriced and restricted up to the point as to where you have to put up with pretty much anything on your own server and you cannot restrict/control any part of it as far as I have seen so I was wondering when this is going to be resolved? It's not that I mind paying for servers it's just that when it's slotlocked and price per slot is at approx 1£+ and admin-denial then I really dont see the point.. ?

[KLOWN]

read the road map sticky it is in there somwhere

[𒀀𒂵𒉡𒆠.n0 m3rCy☣☠]

Yeah. I still dont get the slotlock. I cannot reserve any slots for me and my friends, I cannot lock the server, I'm supposed to keep it public but cant kick hackers/exploiters and other "funny" people.. You know, racism/verbal harrasment, the usual ♥♥♥♥ that comes with a populated world.

[xCerou]

DayZ Servers are expensive today yes, still im renting my own :P

I actually understand why they limit admins as much as they do, because In a game like this, an admin can easily kick others to get loot and ♥♥♥♥ and abuse a lot.

Im glad admins today only can kick / Ban players, everything else must be done through the control panel of your host provider such as restarts and messages in the chat.

I'd although be happy if they could give admins the possibility to see the name of the player somehow like a tag on their chest, if you sopt a cheater for example, it's literally impossible for an admin today to do anything than a restart to prevent ♥♥♥♥ from going down.

Private hives should solve some of these issue's I hope :)

[Nina]

Originally posted by .n0 m3rCy:

Yeah. I still dont get the slotlock. I cannot reserve any slots for me and my friends, I cannot lock the server, I'm supposed to keep it public but cant kick hackers/exploiters and other "funny" people.. You know, racism/verbal harrasment, the usual ♥♥♥♥ that comes with a populated world.

Don't rent a server. Just wait a bit longer until modding support and private servers are added. (They're coming later this year, around the same time.)

Edit;
And the "slot lock" is there (I assume) so servers can't be used by a group of loot-hoarders and their friends. (Same reason why you can't lock your server. The server would still be connected to the same Hive as everybody else, meaning that you could loot without fear of dying and move to other servers just to kill people.) And going above 40 has too much of a performance hit, so we're waiting for better server-side software to improve that.

[𒀀𒂵𒉡𒆠.n0 m3rCy☣☠]

Private servers = Host @ your home or Private as in ability to password protect online servers and/or both? lol. And to clearify, getting forced to pay per slot and then having it forced to 40 players as "minimum" is what I refered to as slotlocking. Why not have 10/16/20 ? And when me and my friends play we're bothered by having full servers or "not working" ones from time to time on the public list (unless I want 400 ms but who wants that? ;P) does renting one give me access to a whitelist or "reserved slots" to ensure we actually get to play on the same server??

[Nina]

Originally posted by .n0 m3rCy:

Private servers = Host @ your home or Private as in ability to password protect online servers and/or both? lol. And to clearify, getting forced to pay per slot and then having it forced to 40 players as "minimum" is what I refered to as slotlocking. Why not have 10/16/20 ? And when me and my friends play we're bothered by having full servers or "not working" ones from time to time on the public list (unless I want 400 ms but who wants that? ;P) does renting one give me access to a whitelist or "reserved slots" to ensure we actually get to play on the same server??

30 is the minimum. 40 is the maximum. Like I already explained, smaller amounts are probably abusable and it's simply not enough players for the massive map we have. (Over 200km^2) They are aiming to have 100-150 players per server.

As for private servers; We assume it's going to be exactly like it is for the DayZ mod, meaning both of the things you asked. You can do literally anything you want with your server, host it at home and have 2 slots for all we care. But the progress that you make in your server is going to be unique to your server, specificly. Unless you host more than one server in the same place. (Creating a private hive, much like the current public one.)

[𒀀𒂵𒉡𒆠.n0 m3rCy☣☠]

Thank you for your answers. :) I'm not looking to exploit anything :P Just have a -cheap- server me and my friends can play with (having reserved slots to ensure we actually get to play on the same server and together =P) without having to lag about like and idiot hosting from my crappy ISP hehe :P And having enforced massive slots with payperslot makes it kinda ... well.. stupid =P Cost of server + slots = Tons of money.