GeneShark

I've heard different things from different people, so to get a clarification here would be great. I understand that locking mission time is a big nono, causes issues with the database server and messes up spawns, right? How about changing your servers timezone regularly? Whether to keep it night or day or whatever, is this against the server hosting rules? It doesn't modify any DayZ files, and doesn't seem to go against any of the rules as far as I can tell.

The server hosting rules? Yeah, we want to be able to set our timezone regularly to stay in the light. I'm confused what your objection is. Let me reiterate that we're not the UK11 guys who got blacklisted for locking the mission time, we were just changing our servertime regularly.

I'm part of the community that runs the EU4 server' date=' we don't have the freedom to play on a sunny server because we're not allowed to keep the server sunny by the current rules of hosting a server. We don't want to have to spam connections to a high-ping across the world server to play when we have a perfectly good (Albeit empty because it's night) server right there that we pay for. [As a side note, server hopping to the light is not an option if you have a camp built up']

By this logic during usual working hours servers would be empty too' date=' but.. they're not. Also.. I hate to stereotype, but people playing a realistic zombie survival sandbox might not be the people with the most usual of sleeping habits, just sayin'. This does not seem to be the case on our usual server, which as I said, clears out at night. I'm not sure how straining my eyes jacking up my gamma and running into zombies I can't see is safer. 'Nor getting sniped by NVG-equipped bandits is safer. But k. Unless you can't see anything, and aren't having any fun. I'm still unsure why night-liking people are super-opposed to people who like playing in the daytime. We're not asking to eliminate night, we just want the freedom to play in a nice and sunny server. If anything these sorts of servers would help reduce the load on the main database (and server player-counts), when people see it's night, leave and proceed to spam connections to full day servers.

Everyone seems to be posting as if daytime servers would lead to night being impossible to find, and as if people liking night is the majority view. Perhaps here on the boards where more hardcore players come, but have you seen the server lists lately? Pick a timezone: Is it day there? Full servers. Night? Few if any people. My regular hangout (EU4) is at a constant 50/50 during the day, and takes 5 minutes to fill straight back up after any required restart. When it hits proper nighttime, it's lucky to see one person. I can only assume people are leaving to play on a server in a different timezone, leading to.. more issues with players getting into the server they want to play on, and an unutilised EU4 sat on it's ass doing nothing. Our admin changed the time to morning after each required restart when he first ran the server and it was constantly full, but after being reprimanded for that (Seems that's a nono after the UK#11 'permaday' fiasco) it's sat in.. I think UTC-6 and will stay dormant half the time. It sucks. I'd say give the server hosts the option to run servers that keep the timezone where the light is. There'll never be a shortage of servers which run the night normally anyway, so what's the problem?

Also feeling this, thought I had something running in the background or something but nope. Hope it gets fixed, making it hard to play right now.

I have been having a lot of fun here, lots of nice people about.