flamingtank

I mainly seem to encounter hackers on HIVE servers, and yer that why some of the private hive's are whitelisted so hackers cant get in. I was tempted to get into one of the whitelisted servers but the no. of players on them always seems really tiny.

I had been playing the game for a couple of weeks before i discovered private server's and now i have im not sure i could go back to hive server's. The reasons being: Side Chat: To me this is #1 primarily because there is a significantly less bandits as their douche baggery can be broad cast to eveyone on the server alerting other people not to trust you. You can actualy organize trades with other people. You can make yourself known on the server as being someone that can be trusted. On every nonhive server i play on I am always able to find someone to help me fix a car or team up with where as on hive servers this almost never happens. Vehicals: There simply are not enough vehicals on hive servers in the 50+ hours i played on hive servers not ONCE did i find a broken car and NEVER did i see a heli in any condition. On most private hives the vehical cap is around double making for much less of that painful walking and more doing actual fun things. Not to mention being able to get into actual car chases Server hopping: To me having a different character on each server seem's more true to the game than being able to server hop for equiptment and to out flank your opponents. Some of the things i miss about the hive servers Admins: The biggest problem i have had with private servers have been the admin. I have been banned from 3 servers for just killing them. The other problem is how ,after dying they will teleport themselves, or spawn them selves new gear, and sometimes even backdate the server. Sidechat: People speaking a mic over side side chat can get really annoying on servers that dont penalise it. Random restarts: These can be especialy annoying when flying helicopters as you not only lose your welicopter but often find yourself in the middle of nowhere. The current server i am playing on is `West Coast` and does not have the admin problems as the owner is very rarely actualy on. I have found the number of vehicals to be perfect in my opinion and their 'Event system` to be a great idea.. So i am wondering what other people think of my ideas and what ideas you guys have on Private Servers.and if Rocket should imbrace some of the ideas in private hives a bit more and allow server owners a bit more choice over the server settings.

Which server was this i would love to come play on it!???

Thanks I will keep that in mind :) and i dont think 20 vehicles is that many when u consider the scale of the map/ the number of hoarders there seem to be.

Totally down with that! im so tired of having to walk to the NW airfield!! such a boring walk maybe they should make bicycles way more common as I dont see how they could be abused and would have a great form of transportation! and Ait how did you know what road to place the tank traps on? Love the idea! I could see it becoming way more common if they increased the no. of vehicles :P

This feels so wrong Like In the 30hours of my own personal game time and the maybe 50 servers i have played on I have never even seen someone else driving one. So maybe they should respawn within 2 or 3 days of not being used rather than 7? the ratio of broken vehicals to parts also seems extreamly dispraportionate. I will go way up north and have a look tomorrow though any popular hiding places for them?

So me and a few have my friends bought OA around a week ago and have collectivly logged around 100hours playing this mod and have yet to find a SINGLE vehicle!!! We have activly tried to find them and have literaly visited every known spawn location for ever car, helicopter and truck on the map with no success (while doing this on newly created servers). The only exception to this was that we found another players vehicle hidden in a forest which we promptly flipped within 5min of finding it just to discove they couldnt be reflipped without another vehicle >:(. So i am not sure if we are doing somthing wrong or if vehicles in this game just need a WAY higher spawn rate? This has become insanly frustraiting for us so any tips would be hugly apriciated. Thanks :)