Joe_Blow

You may want to save yourself time by saving th @dayZ folder in your ARMA2 root directory to an Hard Drive before wiping your computer clean.

Racist!

I am going with Abandoned

What is being done to retain players? Aug 28th 1,151,018 Unique Players 122,188 Players in last 24 hours (as of this post) 10.6% of the people who have signed up to play Aug 16th 1,083,127 Unique Players 154,123 Players in last 24 hours 14% of the people who have signed up to play Aug 10th 1,033,988 Unique Players 170,378 Players in last 24 hours 16% of the people who have signed up to play Surely this is not all due to Hackers and the announcement of a standalone. Are people just getting bored with running around avoiding Zombies and Bandits, looking for Loot and Vehicles? Is there something more that can be added to the mod to diversify the game play?

I think the school argument is moot. This number has been declining for months now and if the shools starting affected the turn out then we would see an increase on the weekends. However that is not the case over the weekend the umbers were at 134,000 tops.

Don't know the exact number; however this may be the cause of the recent decline. Do you think the people who were unfairly banned would come back to play after this issue is resolved, or will this leave a bad taste in their mouths?

Bumping this as I have updated the information on the first post. Also me and my friends have personally moved on to playing Private Hives and Lingor island as they offer more security and new environments.

Shut down the server and laugh.

I don't remember anyone saying that ALT F4 was blocked. They only said that they would be monitoring the people who ALT F4 and mark it in a database.

Children were meant to be seen and not heard. Your mother is calling you; it’s time for you bath. You better be on your way.

I'm not sure this answers the question about retention. The only creativity I have sen is from the hackers, but that is driving people away not makeing them stick around. And giving free rides to people is not fun if all the thanks you get is a bullett to the brain once they get a hold of a weapon.

Great that's all we need in DayZ - Cults!

You don't it's annoying. >:(

This Community! Welcome to it :huh:

No it does not. I have testing this on my server and it does not work. The reason I tested it was becasue we have been scanning the server for vechicals for weeks now and either most of them are not respawning or they are parked and saved off map. Just another reason for a mass reset of the maps.

Thanks for the reply; however the other, and probably more important, issue is regarding vehicular spawns or re-spawns. I know there are alot of servers admins complaining about this problem and the question remains, is there anything we can do server side to reset the map?

I am having the same problem. I found a post not that long agon that said try the #restart command. I did this and it look like the server was wiped cleanp; however when I resatrted the server everything came back. I think the only solution is for the Devs to clear the database. I could be wrong; however I would like someone with more knowladge to weigh in on this.

Is DayZ is dying? Here are the facts: 1,033,988 Unique Players 170,378 Player in last 24 hours (as of this post) This is only 16% of the people who have signed up to play And the number has not been over 200,000 in a couple of weeks The forums are full of hate messages and hacker reports. Bug Reports = 1,460 topics Cheat Reporting = 3,841 topics Discuss like adults and keep you childish comments to yourself!

If that is truly the case then I welcome it.

It's not about growth it's about retention. And I do enjoy the Mod, when not being hacked to death :o

Great mature answer. Looks like you proved my point.

Good for you, more people shold do this until the Hackers and Leachers go away.

Good for you. Fight the man! However now that you have made it public you should expect an onslaught of hackers, oops sorry, children coming your way. Good Luck

Ban everyone on the server at the time of the hacking!

Get someone to shoot you in the head!