TheEmgee

Is it worth owning or renting a Dayz standalone server yet?? Or should I wait till "reserved slots" are implemented and the SA server rules are fairly rewritten, not only for players, but for server owners? Those of you currently own or rent a DayZ server, what are your thoughts?

Agree. A reserved slot system would be very useful. Having this feature built into the game for all servers will become part of the DayZ status quo and be easily accepted by players. Admins will no longer have to kick; the server will automate the kick randomly.

The new rule simply states, "You can NOT kick players on joining, to loot farm or to prevent other players from joining." This still implies you can kick players in your full server for your fellow clanmates to join. The only difference is you can't kick recent joins but you may kick a random player who's been playing in your server longer. My post only advocates kicking for clanmates to free slots when their server is full. I am against kicking all players to free loot by clans or admins. This is admin abuse and should be reported to the proper channels.

This sounds a lot like the locked thread: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/167125-server-admins-kicking-people-or-locking-servers-for-friends-only/ Frankly, there is nothing wrong with kicking a few people to allow clan mates to enter their server while the remaining slots are filled up with pubbers. It is their cummulative donations that pays and maintains their server; thus, they have a right to play on their server. If and when reserve slots are implemented in DayZ SA, it will essentially do the same thing. This type of kicking isn't admin abuse. However if a server admin kicks everyone that enters their server and only their clanmates and friends are the only players playing, I call that admin abuse since its essentially the same as locking the server. Do not group all server admins the same. And to answer the thread question, "Is kicking players instantly from servers allowed?" I will say "yes" since the DayZ Standalone server rules does not forbid it. Read SA server rules here: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/158966-dayz-standalone-server-hosting-rules-server-reporting/