What is the point of hosting Multiplayer?

[Hoegaardener]

Assuming I have no player friends, is there a point in hosting a game? I hosted my Savannah map and all what happened was that some dude bragged he harvested more before leaving the map. As a bonus, I felt that there was slightly more prey on the multiplayer map compared to the single game. Thoughts?

[Geronimo]

It is said that there is definitely more high level animals available in multiplayer servers. Not sure why.

[Torva Messor]

i find that hostin mp servers helps eliminate high pressure zones allowing you to keep farming a certain area of the map to your heart's content-plus i find that the comraderie can be fun....given you dont get the bragging type that join your sessions

[Soltyk]

First of all, there is no inherent advantage. The map is the same as in single-player, you are playing on the hosts single-player map.

If your guest players behave, they will find need zones for you and help distribute hunting pressure. If they don't, they will concentrate hunting pressure and delete need zones.

Some say you get better harvests on multi-player. This is true if you find a low level player that has explored little of their map - your favorite spots will still be pristine. It's basically the same effect as a map reset.

The other reason is you might find a modded server with tons of rares and diamonds and then pretend you didn't notice.

[me and the boys]

I do think the public multiplayer experience is somewhat held afloat by new players who don’t really understand/care what happens to their map. I personally would never host one. The only real benefit I could see for a veteran player is if your map was completely shot down to only low levels. You could essentially use other people to replenish your population with new spawns hoping for new rares and diamonds.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by me and the boys:

I do think the public multiplayer experience is somewhat held afloat by new players who don’t really understand/care what happens to their map. I personally would never host one. The only real benefit I could see for a veteran player is if your map was completely shot down to only low levels. You could essentially use other people to replenish your population with new spawns hoping for new rares and diamonds.

Well, if respawning higher levels is triggered by the killing of a high level, than it's only logical that having multiple players doing that on the same map is going to cause an increase of higher level spawns. Right?!

[me and the boys]

Originally posted by Geronimo:

Originally posted by me and the boys:

I do think the public multiplayer experience is somewhat held afloat by new players who don’t really understand/care what happens to their map. I personally would never host one. The only real benefit I could see for a veteran player is if your map was completely shot down to only low levels. You could essentially use other people to replenish your population with new spawns hoping for new rares and diamonds.

Well, if respawning higher levels is triggered by the killing of a high level, than it's only logical that having multiple players doing that on the same map is going to cause an increase of higher level spawns. Right?!

I mean it’s kinda net neutral… you have more animals respawning because more are being shot. However, there’s no guarantee you’re the one that gets to shoot the high value respawn. You also risk people deleting zones or shooting them down to one animal. I personally much prefer knowing my maps and harvesting only the animals I want respawns on.