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I can only speak from the side of a hardware guru and not specifically to the requirements of this game but here is what you need to know. I don't want to get technical so what's important to know is games like this use many small resource files which spinning drives take anywhere from 5 to 50 times as long to pull as an ssd does. You want an ssd. As for the CPU, I run 2x16-core 2.1ghz amd's at work running many hundreds of simultaneous vm's on them, you are running a 50 player game server, if you gave me the exact model of cpu you had in mind I could give you a yes/no but in general for what you're doing the 4 core is plenty fine. If it's a hyper threaded 4 core, all the better. If you're building a server, build a server, it may seem fine to use something like an i5 2500K intel cpu and 16 gig of fancy heat sinked ram, but that would be incredibly stupid. Pay extra, get the lower clocked xeon, on a server motherboard, with buffered dimms, and a 256gig enterprise level ssd, and you can run 10 servers on it.

To be fair Mystic does have a good point though, if this game was a simple deathmatch game we don't even need the zombies. I'm new to this game but I've been reading forum posts from only weeks to a month ago and it sounds like they're describing a completely different game. They describe teamwork and tact none of which I've seen yet. I've been killed by players more than zombies, and even players who shoot me while I'm killing the zombies actually attacking them, usually causing me to die right as they succumb to the zombies. Lets talk about 'realism' here, if that's in any way a stated goal of this project, imagine a group of zombies bearing down on you, a helpful stranger begins expending his ammo and resources to save your life, and you recklessly ignore the zombies chewing on you to kill the stranger. That is the game we have right now. I wouldn't even bring it up if it was an isolated incident, but apparently the argument here is either when zombie apocalypse breaks out the first thing everyone does is get into an old western style gunfight until only 1 man is left standing, or there's a broken mechanic somewhere in the game. I'm inclined to lean towards Mystic's solution, or one equally as interesting but more agreeable.

It's probably fair to say few if any women will read that, as they are all currently making sandwiches.