warioman91

My issue is with server hopping(and I made a suggestion on it not too long ago), but if you respawn at your tent....well what's to keep you from using it as an insta-teleporter. (Run half way across the map, find some loot, logout, teleport back to your tent) What I had suggested was that if you logged onto a new server, the game would not put you in your last location, but in one of those random starter spots to prevent people from hot-looting things like the airfield, barracks etc.

Suggestion: Server info tied to player character database to negate server hopping and create more server community persistence. I know a lot of players and clans and such that simply server hop around when they are looting specific things like military barracks and just keep switching servers until the loot is found. Additionally, empty servers are often used for storage space with tents and other such things. In all, I feel this removes from the game and the actual challenge of it....and the persistence and I'll explain why. Ok, in the real world and I'll just use the 1800s wild west example where there were actual robbers, killers and such that were well known and thus had a bounty on their heads. Additionally there were the people who had the wealth transporting it or doing whatever wealthy people do with their newfound wealth and were getting robbed. All of these people could not simply disappear or that kind of thing....I don't think u should be able to just hide your loot by putting it on an empty server where the people on the server you "normally" play on have no chance of hunting it down or finding it. What I would like to see is a bit more of a community being created on servers and where people really do sorta stick to one server or another because that in it self creates persistence. Because well...in the real world it's not like u literally meet a billion new people everyday, you tend to see the same faces over and over. And yes you can move...it's just not that often. ----------------------------------------------------------------- So, what I would perhaps like to see is along the lines of the server you last played on is placed into the character database. I'm just assuming this can be done... Why would you want that data in the player database, well you could use it to stop server hopping: The unreasonable method is that the game literally prevents you from joining other servers perhaps for some extended time. I think some MMOs do something like this. The problem with this is well the game is still Alpha and servers are unreliable(and other things). ******************* The more feasible method, is that simply if you join a "new" that is not the last server you were on, the game spawns you as if you starting from square one in one of the random spawn points(along the south coast or whatever). Perhaps this wouldnt prevent server hopping(I think players would do it less though) but it would at least slow down the rapid looting that I see rampant. ******************* Additionally, and this is sorta separate in itself, but you should not be able to instantly disconnect.....if you get swarmed by zombies or need to escape from a chasing bandit, etc. Challenge? Perhaps some of you will think these ideas would make the game TOO hard...but I mean really putting tents on other servers just to hide your loot is bullshit. Sure I've been able to track people down using the server browser(viewing current players on a server)...but still, blegh. I guess my intent on this was to create a slightly more realistic as well as perhaps helping this social aspect of this game.