Hello all & thanks for all your replys, also im sorry for not replying sooner but i was watching a film :) regarding private/public hives i only play on the same 5 servers that are in my favourite list and all are public 1st/3rd person, and to another reply about joining to early after restart this was not the case although it has happened to me before :( A lesson was learnt, i was in a full server full with 50 peeps, it timed out or restarted i guess, i then joined a server which had 33/40 init, and once i spawned (Near airfield) i was kicked within 30 seconds id say due to high ping, as i stated in first post i had spawned right on a smoking helli so jumped back in to the same server to see if i could grab some loot, i got to the please wait screen for a good minute and in the bottom left it said "failed to load character save, character reset. Please contact a administrator" Or along thos lines wording may not be 100% there i never got past that please wait screen, so i jumped out and back into a server which had about 17/50 players and i got th dreaded 30 second delay and spawned in cherno :(( Its not the end of the world with the likes of hackers and kos people i no longer grow attached to my gear and hide in a bush at the first shot heard but it kinda sucks at the same time for time spent gathering gear and travelling. But hey we must battle on and survive guys!