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I genuinely never found it a problem finding busy, vanilla or near vanilla servers.

And you have every right to play on a server that caters to your needs along with all the other players that are looking for and appreciate that style of play. Why shouldn't everyone have that right?

I don't agree, the mod thrived on it's diversity, I think one of the great successes of the mod was it's pliability. It allowed server owners to target niches, obviously there was the ridiculous servers (and they were kinda fun to blow off steam on occasionally) but there were a tons server where there were small changes than improved the game (proper airchrashes for one). Allowing server owners to tailor the experience for their player base meant that there were tons of servers available to choose from. If you lockdown server options so there is no difference between servers there is very little motivation to run a server and it'll be impossible to build any sort of server community cos there is nothing to distinguish your server from everybody elses. Less servers, mean less choice and is ultimately bad for the game as a whole. The mod did brilliantly with highly configurable servers, if they want to repeat that success with SA that shouldn't change

I'm going to play devils advocate here and say that people should be allowed to run private servers as they see fit. This thread smacks of why-doesn't-everyone-play-it-my-way-ism. I played vanilla 90% of the time and I never once had an issue finding good servers and I don't believe for a second that anyone else couldn't either. If people want to play with loads of vehicles and loads of weapons then surely they are exactly the kind of people that you don't in a vanilla game.

Yeah, it defaults to using the windows user name. I haven't had any yet but I'd strongly consider kicking players with names like owner or admin. If it's allowed unchecked then at some point it's going to cause an issue down the line. May as well nip it in the bud early.

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Well, this subject hasn't been done to death a million times. I'd like to throw a point into the mix here, if regular is easier than hardcore because you can see other people without them ever having the chance to see you then by definition it is more hardcore than hardcore during the times that another player has the drop on you. So the most hardcore moments in DayZ are found on 3PP servers. I thank you Good night

I wouldn't mind global text rather than voice. Seem to remember there was a bug in early alpha where randomly one persons mike would be broadcasting to the whole server, was kind of funny as they never had a clue it was happening.

Anyone confirm/deny, I really miss having global chat from both a server owner point of view and as a player

Thank you, that reddit link has been stored for future reference.

I've a quick question, is there anyway of knowing when the experimental stuff will be pushed to live. Is it scheduled somewhere, is there a pre-announce thread or does it just happen when it's ready?

I found my first one ever in the barracks at Balota

I'll chip in a vote for multiplay, been impressed with their service so far.

Multiplay have Battleeye RCON as an addon option now as well

Given that it's far, far from a twitch shooter I wonder if that reduces the gap between controller vs mouse & keyboard

I can't find long range scopes for love nor money at the moment.

Rented a server on the 16th and been told that it will take time for it to appear in the in-game server browser. Can anyone advise roughly how long it is likely to take. It'll show up under the remote tab if I enter the ip/port but even after playing on it it doesn't show in my history either. If anyone can throw me a bone I'd be grateful Cheers

Got the server moved to a new ip and it's showing up fine now, cheers for the advice everyone.

It was available to play on pretty quickly, just not in the browser.

Might well be the port, i'll give it another couple of days and see if it appears. Cheers for checking, much appreciated.

Got mine through Multiplay, the name of it is 'ZombieSkelper.com', ip/port is 85.236.100.114:2802. When I enter the ip/port in the remote tab it comes up as DayZ 1-109. Just doesn't appear in the browser, Multiplay say it takes a while but 4-5 days seems excessive. The strange thing is it's been quite busy for a new unadvertised server, had 7 players on it the other day, not sure how they found it though.

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Good stuff, the more the merrier.

Noticed a few tents lately where they have been pitched inside the little huts that are dotted about outside houses. Seen some really nicely placed ones where very little is visible, raided some nice loot out them too :)