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yes it's regularly got players on but most nights theres at least 15-20 people on and it does peak beyond that as well as it steadily increasing week by week.

No worries but as i say we get a lot of people tagging along with us who just want to casually run with some of the lads. Thats not a problem if you want to do that theres no obligation to join our clan or in-game factions.

Howdy fella, check us out @ http://www.bsbnetwork.com We're an adult gaming community based in the UK that's been around since 2002 and supported Day Z since launch and will be doing so well into Stand Alone. We have our own Day Z server (ona long lease so it wont be gone within a few weeks), our own Comms servers (mumble/TS3) and our Day Z players are divieded into 3 Factions (Bandits/Heroes/Mercs) that compete against each other in several ongoing events for prizes. That aside we're a friendly bunch who like a laugh and a bit of banter as we play, nothing too serious really. We have no silly rules, requirements or trials - all we ask is for common sense and fair play! If you fancy checking us out, you ar more than welcome to come along and get a few games in with us, no obligation to join. Best jump on the comms server though so you can hear whats going on and get to know some of the lads. If you need help send me a PM mate

I am delighted to announce the return of our popular Bounty HunterZ event on our Day Z server! For those of you who aren't aware, Bounter HunterZ was an event we ran last year successfully for a number of months. The BSB Bounty HunterZ event is a weekly event designed for our Day Z players. The idea of the event is that a weekly "hit" list is posted here for our Faction members, private teams & lone wolves with several "targets" to be killed/captured and/or several other objectives. Participants can claim bounty funds by completing the objectives, or by surviving (when they are the targets!), which are announced each week! Bounty funds can then be used to purchase weapons, ammo, vehicles, tools, building materials, consumables etc. from our Faction Store. Hits are only active when on our server and rewards can only be claimed from action on this server. Anyone is free to volunteer as a "target" but they must be active on our server (we can check!) and they cannot claim a survival reward if they are deemed to be inactive. Full rules apply and can be found at the webste @ http://http://www.bsbnetwork.com/bountyhunterz Server

This is true and my point entirely, they are a double edged sword; on one hand they offered much better control over cheaters and were a means to an end of what seemed like an out of control wave of cheats, trolls and hackers. They also offered a haven for the more main stream gamers who wanted a "softer" Day Z or a more customised game. However it opened the door to more problems such as admin abuse, over softening of the game, hideous customs, watered down content and just making it too easy! Dont get me wrong, we have had public and private hive servers and have opted to stay private hive, so i'm not bashing private hives, i just think Day Z was desigend and runs best on public hive and i'm looming forward to the community going back to it on mass, as well as the improvements that have been put into stand alone after the harsh lessons of last year.

Faction wars action - assault on Devils castle (Scorpions vs Jackals)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dq27Cr1wkp8

A video from Jimmy of last nights faction action - Jackals vs Scorpions assault on Devil's castle http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dq27Cr1wkp8

THE BSB NETWORK "Strength In Unity" Web: www.bsbnetwork.com Mumble Voice Comms: eu2.voice.enjin.com:64278 Who Are BSB Network? We are primarily an open gaming community for mature and fair gamers. We aim to accommodate all types of gamers from those who are looking for social or casual gaming, to more dedicated competitive gamers. Our network aims to provide a stable, and friendly resource for gamers providing a consistent community to participate in online gaming with other decent folk. We have no silly rules or restrictions, all we ask is that players have a bit of common sense and play fair (as in don't use cheats or exploits). Everyone is welcome to get involved with no obligation to even join our own clan (we have 3 Day Z factions). We have been gaming as a community since 2002 and have supported many different games during this time. We have more than 2000 registered members within our community and more than 400 of those are Day Z players! For more information about The BSB Network, including our aims and objectives, what we offer, the games we play and Frequently Asked Questions, please refer to the "Info" section of our website. DayZ Support & Objective We have supported Day Z since it's launch last year and will continue to do so into Stand Alone, where upon we will support the full release aswell as continue to support the mod. Our other recruitment threads can be found here http://dayzmod.com/f...mers/#entry6814 & here; http://dayzmod.com/f...ork-recruiting/ We aim to accommodate all kinds of Day Z players, from newbies and "bambis", to heroes & medics and even more skilled mercenaries or bandits. We divide our players into 3 ongoing rival factions, BSB Ravens (Heroes) and BSB Scorpions (Hostiles/bandits) and Jackals (Mercenaries/traders & inbetweeners!). Those who haven't been selected for a faction yet, or who don't wish to be part of a faction permanently are classed as "Lone Wolves" and are welcome to tag along with any of the faction members as and when they wish - at their own risk! What Can We Offer? Well we primarily aim to offer a good stable resource for decent, mature/adult gamers. Benefits of being a part of our community include; - Dedicated community servers - Well administrated servers - Relaxed and friendly community - Coordinated team work in-game - Strength in numbers (we are already stable and established) - Free public Mumble voice coms server (eu2.voice.enjin.com:64278) - Cool interactive website & forum (http://www.bsbnetwork.com) with an active and friendly community - Friendly Euro (UK) based with English speaking international members from over 36 countries - Organized and structured clans on various games, for those wishing to join - Lots of active members (on at all hours of the day throughout the week) - Multiple game support for when you fancy playing other online games with friends! - Regular tournaments and events - ESL Registered teams (ready for competitive play) - Experienced & stable clan leaders and Senior members having served between 6 - 11 years with BSB - Fair server rules based on common sense - Zero tolerance on hackers, glitchers and cheats - Regular meet-ups for paintball, airsoft, BBQ's and general pi$$-ups! - Clan matches - Membership ranking and awards system - Gaming with integrity How Do You Join? Anyone is free to join in our games and get involved on Day Z & Wasteland. Simply add our servers to your favourites and join them, membership isn’t necessary but for those who are interested in joining us, register at our website and submit the Affilaition form (Join us page under the Community Menu). Website addres is ;http://www.bsbnetwork.com It's best to use our comms server too if you want to get involved with groups already playing! Servers & Resources We offer long term server agreements, so these servers are safe to bookmark and return to, they aren't here today, gone tomorrow servers! Build your bases in confidence! BSB EPOCH Base building, crafting, personal safes, play as infected, AI players, custom buildings and loot spawns, new vehicles and spawn points, basic starting load out - 250+ vehicles, Daylight settings (temp), Veteran difficulty, 3rd Person [on] , 6 hour restart for crash & vehicles respawns, bases and much more still to come!. Mumble Voice coms server: eu2.voice.enjin.com:64278 New thread started for updates

nah, we've got an entire team of them. I personally think it's a phase most players go through...

Private hives introduced more problems than they resolved in my opinion. That's not to say all private hives are saturated with over powered customsas thres a good number out there that are really well balanced but I do look forward to returning to public hives in SA I must admit.

Nice picture. Good luck with your quest.

Then tell me about the games before Day Z that managed to merge sandbox horror survival, massive PvP survival elements, no enforced or encouraged methods of play, on large scale maps, with dynamic weatehr and daylight settings, large nubers of players and intergrated sustainance & survival systems, all pacakged in a user friendly, realtively straight forward and attractive package. I'm not arguing the toss of if it's technically the game that introduced all, any or even each of these elements or features , but I dont think it can't be really argued that it delivered all of these things, and more, really well and more importantly succesfully (1.6million players cannot be argued with and is not just opinion), therefore it is truly original as it's the first game that has succesfully done this. You conceed it's a jack of all trades, master of none - but you say it like that's something bad and not something to be celebrated. That IS it's defining feature and what makes it unique and original in it's own right. Not a lot in gaming is truly original, arguing over which is the first to do this and whats the best to do that is silly. Day Z will be rememebred as the pioneering title of the genre, that being a mashup of sandbox-survival-horror-RPG as it it's a game that adds all the elements together, in the right amount and does it well. That makes it original.

Agree completely. The wave of hipsters and darlings of the internet have gone now and we are left witha decent community (on the whole) who all share at least the commonality of enjoying this title for exactly what it is. I've been playing Day Z well over a year now and I'm still enjoying it just as much today as I was back then and it's only getting better. It's a fantastict game and as I've said since I started playing it, the reality is it's target audience isnt actually all that large and certainly not mainstream. I think some of the elements appealed to many, especailly when brought to the "internets peoples " attention by the streamers and all the media who hopped on the bandwaggon, but the core elements of it being a harsh anti-game are ineed aimed at true fans of the genre. Don't get me wrong, in many respects i'm pleased about focus this mod got which has helped define Day Z as effectively being the mod/game that defined a new genre of gaming. I'm sure that's certainly how it will be remembered anyway. This, in my opinion, has meant that we; the people who do apprecaite this game for what it is and aims to achive will; hopefully have some fantastic gaming titles still to come for a few years yet now that gaming companies know we're here! Not least this will start by what i'm sure will be a fantastic stand alone release, worth the wait.

Now we've all gone home.... :(

Welcome to chuckwho joined us yesterday. Always spaces available for genuine fair players with a bit of common sense. Adults tend to get on much better with our group.

Great shooting Jimmy, I seen it, very impressive!

People on mass are idiots, it's true.

That's not the community, that's casual and individual players that chose not to be a part of the "community". A community is a collective of individuals that have a collective goal or achievement, in this case the development and improvement of the title. So "the community" does want this, whether or not this is the MAJORITY of players is a different matter.

Howdy mate, check us out @ The BSB Network - http://www.bsbnetwork.com we don't mind casuals who come and go as they need to as we're a social gaming group. We have been around since 2002 (so very stable) and supported Day Z since launch and will continue to do so well into stand alone. We're mostly adult gamers but we dont have any silly rules , trials or requirements other than fair play and common sense. We have our own populated server (see my signature) and Mumble server and our Day Z players are divided between 3 different Factions according to their style of play ; Ravens (Heroes), Scorpions (Bandits) and Jackals (Mercenaries/Traders/Inbetweeners!). We have regular Faction Wars seasons (8-12 weekly gaming events for the factions to compete against each other for points) as well as other cool regular events such as Bounty HunterZ and fun skirmishes. Lots to keep any Day Z player entertained. Why bother with new or untested clans that are likely to be here today and gone tomorrow? If you are interested just visist our website (http://www.bsbnetwork.com) and apply to join (Community menu), or alternatively just join our server and get a few games with us to see how we roll - no obligation to join. Best to join Mumble too though as it makes things easier! Hope to see you in game with us soon!

Howdy mate, check us out @ The BSB Network - http://www.bsbnetwork.com We have been around since 2002 (so very stable) and supported Day Z since launch and will continue to do so well into stand alone. We're mostly adult gamers but we dont have any silly rules , trials or requirements other than fair play and common sense. We have our own populated server (see my signature) and Mumble server and our Day Z players are divided between 3 different Factions according to their style of play ; Ravens (Heroes), Scorpions (Bandits) and Jackals (Mercenaries/Traders/Inbetweeners!). We have regular Faction Wars seasons (8-12 weekly gaming events for the factions to compete against each other for points) as well as other cool regular events such as Bounty HunterZ and fun skirmishes. Lots to keep any Day Z player entertained. Why bother with new or untested clans that are likely to be here today and gone tomorrow? If you are interested just visist our website (http://www.bsbnetwork.com) and apply to join (Community menu), or alternatively just join our server and get a few games with us to see how we roll - no obligation to join. Best to join Mumble too though as it makes things easier! Hope to see you in game with us soon!

Howdy mate, check us out @ The BSB Network - http://www.bsbnetwork.com We have been around since 2002 (so very stable) and supported Day Z since launch and will continue to do so well into stand alone. We're mostly adult gamers but we dont have any silly rules , trials or requirements other than fair play and common sense. We have our own populated server (see my signature) and Mumble server and our Day Z players are divided between 3 different Factions according to their style of play ; Ravens (Heroes), Scorpions (Bandits) and Jackals (Mercenaries/Traders/Inbetweeners!). We have regular Faction Wars seasons (8-12 weekly gaming events for the factions to compete against each other for points) as well as other cool regular events such as Bounty HunterZ and fun skirmishes. Lots to keep any Day Z player entertained. Why bother with new or untested clans that are likely to be here today and gone tomorrow? If you are interested just visist our website (http://www.bsbnetwork.com) and apply to join (Community menu), or alternatively just join our server and get a few games with us to see how we roll - no obligation to join. Best to join Mumble too though as it makes things easier! Hope to see you in game with us soon!

Howdy mate, check us out @ The BSB Network - http://www.bsbnetwork.com We have been around since 2002 (so very stable) and supported Day Z since launch and will continue to do so well into stand alone. We're mostly adult gamers but we dont have any silly rules , trials or requirements other than fair play and common sense. We have our own populated server (see my signature) and Mumble server and our Day Z players are divided between 3 different Factions according to their style of play ; Ravens (Heroes), Scorpions (Bandits) and Jackals (Mercenaries/Traders/Inbetweeners!). We have regular Faction Wars seasons (8-12 weekly gaming events for the factions to compete against each other for points) as well as other cool regular events such as Bounty HunterZ and fun skirmishes. Lots to keep any Day Z player entertained. Why bother with new or untested clans that are likely to be here today and gone tomorrow? If you are interested just visist our website (http://www.bsbnetwork.com) and apply to join (Community menu), or alternatively just join our server and get a few games with us to see how we roll - no obligation to join. Best to join Mumble too though as it makes things easier! Hope to see you in game with us soon!

We are a clan dude - check the website http://www.bsbnetwork.com

Howdy mate, check us out @ The BSB Network - http://www.bsbnetwork.com We have been around since 2002 (so very stable) and supported Day Z since launch and will continue to do so well into stand alone. We're mostly adult gamers but we dont have any silly rules , trials or requirements other than fair play and common sense. We have our own populated server (see my signature) and Mumble server and our Day Z players are divided between 3 different Factions according to their style of play ; Ravens (Heroes), Scorpions (Bandits) and Jackals (Mercenaries/Traders/Inbetweeners!). We have regular Faction Wars seasons (8-12 weekly gaming events for the factions to compete against each other for points) as well as other cool regular events such as Bounty HunterZ and fun skirmishes. Lots to keep any Day Z player entertained. Why bother with new or untested clans that are likely to be here today and gone tomorrow? If you are interested just visist our website (http://www.bsbnetwork.com) and apply to join (Community menu), or alternatively just join our server and get a few games with us to see how we roll - no obligation to join. Best to join Mumble too though as it makes things easier! Hope to see you in game with us soon!