Retriever

I suggest servers have a basic ecological system. The system is based on a concept that in real life certain territory can feed certain amount of living beings (survivors in our case). As we heard, servers will approximately host 150 players and the food (edible loot) balancing will be based on this amount. What I suggest is to make 50 players a starting point for food balancing. Food means not only the lootable food, but hunted animals too, such as deer and fish etc. Medical supplies can also be added to this system. The actual mechanics are as follows. For this illustration we will call any food or edible animals - beans :) Just for simplicity. Let’s say, just for example, we have 1000 cans of beans on the server. Player joins the server and picks up beans. A new can of beans is resupplied in a few hours (subject to balance). So if we have 50 players on the server the food amount is almost enough for them. Of course there is a risk of someone taking more than he needs for storage, but it’s a temporary effect because of loot respawn. In a certain time server replenishes the loot for another day. This system gives following advantages. Servers will not be experiencing high load and will always have slots to join. If some group of players decides to raid the server or organize a market event, they just need to take food with them. Big clans will send their stalkers to collect food for their own servers or home bases, making them a good target for competitors. The disadvantage is that the server capacity won’t be used in full and there must be more of them. P.s. Another idea for fishing. Let’s say we have 100 fishes on the server. 50 of them is in the sea. Big lakes hold 10 fishes each. If someone fished out all 10 fishes in one lake - others must wait for fish to respawn. Same for the sea. 50 fishes are for anyone fishing at sea, not one person. You can attract fish and fasten the respawn by feeding fish.

Мы делали делали и сделали :thumbsup: .