Private hive, should i try it?

[Badgerlover 1]

I'm fairly new to the game, i was on my best run and had some good supplies. I was in a church in elektro and turned around to see a bandit. Probably a hacker cause i shot him 7 times in the head with my 1911, then he pulled out an as50 out of nowhere and killed me. I hear there are less hackers on private hive, and i just died so i've got no items. So the question is, should i find a nice private hive server for my new regular server?

Edited October 26, 2012 by Badgerlover

[Parasprite 35]

Yes.

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

YES! If it's the only thing you do, spend time finding a good private hive with active admins. Check the private hive area of the forum's and find one that looks like it has a good community. It'll improve your DayZ experience ten-fold.

[Badgerlover 1]

YES! If it's the only thing you do, spend time finding a good private hive with active admins. Check the private hive area of the forum's and find one that looks like it has a good community. It'll improve your DayZ experience ten-fold.

Thanks, i think i'll do that.

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

Nice one. BTW what country are you in. If you're in Europe I can recommend one for you.

[Badgerlover 1]

US, east coast standard time. Thanks for the offer though.

[selmack 7]

Hi - I almost joined a private - Whitelist - service a moment ago. Then realized there must be many by now. So I thought I would ask - What private service are standing out as the best run services at the moment? Which should I check into which are staffed and controlled well?

Surely, there must be a few which stand out above the rest.

Thank you for your assistance and help in my search. I have been googling for days now and located a few threads here and one service in particular that seems good. I just thought others who are using these services already could tell me which are run best at the moment.

Thanks again!!!!

The service I al learning toward at the moment is Days Gaming. If you have any thought on this service also - please let me know.

[selmack 7]

This is amazing. I just got on this evening to and posted a similar request. I have been googling for a private server all week. Also, the church thing - happens constantly. I stopped using online map do to hacks also.

I am in a similar area. If you find a good - well controlled private service - please post it!!!

Thanks!!!

[Badgerlover 1]

This is amazing. I just got on this evening to and posted a similar request. I have been googling for a private server all week. Also, the church thing - happens constantly. I stopped using online map do to hacks also.

I am in a similar area. If you find a good - well controlled private service - please post it!!!

Thanks!!!

I will, just keep tabs on this thread. Are you fairly new to the game like me?

[HIHBGaming 14]

I find private hives much more pleasurable. If the server has active admins the hackers will virtually be nil and as Fraggle says increase the DayZ fun factor. Welcome to DayZ! :)

[selmack 7]

I will, just keep tabs on this thread. Are you fairly new to the game like me?

I have been playing for about a week and 1/2. I play on low activity servers as there is so much shooting first on others. I play in northern cities and stay out of the 2 main port cities. There are many stores, churches and supplies other places. As I play alone I am very careful. Pretty much a mountain man now. I don't just game map - I use an offline map I downloaded by using ctrl-esc to leave game when I am in a safe place. Every time I use online map to mark a position someone is always waiting for me. And direction finding is not hard if you remember sun rises in east and sets in west and in game clouds always move east and use the city signs.

Last two times I went to a main post city one person shot me in back while I was running past him near a store - then someone just started shooting for no reason. Fortunately, I have learned the map well enough to go into the trees and just keep running to avoid people.

When I do have to respawn I always do it when there is only one or two people on a server so I can at least get off the coast - After that I just hide in the trees in different places and try not to show a pattern of play.

With the hackers and problems on open servers I am hoping a I can locate a well controlled private service with some fun people enjoy game with.

Good luck in your search. Dayz Gaming is the first good private service I have located. I have not joined yet though. I want to explore all the possibilities and good services first.

Have a great weekend!!!

[oliverdesousa@hotmail.com 35]

Nice one. BTW what country are you in. If you're in Europe I can recommend one for you.

Do you think you could tell me it? I've been trying to find a good EU private hive

[Colourme 0]

Planet Dayz are a good private hive, admins moniter daily

http://planet-dayz.com/welcome.php

Edited October 27, 2012 by Colourme

[Badgerlover 1]

I have been playing for about a week and 1/2. I play on low activity servers as there is so much shooting first on others. I play in northern cities and stay out of the 2 main port cities. There are many stores, churches and supplies other places. As I play alone I am very careful. Pretty much a mountain man now. I don't just game map - I use an offline map I downloaded by using ctrl-esc to leave game when I am in a safe place. Every time I use online map to mark a position someone is always waiting for me. And direction finding is not hard if you remember sun rises in east and sets in west and in game clouds always move east and use the city signs.

Last two times I went to a main post city one person shot me in back while I was running past him near a store - then someone just started shooting for no reason. Fortunately, I have learned the map well enough to go into the trees and just keep running to avoid people.

When I do have to respawn I always do it when there is only one or two people on a server so I can at least get off the coast - After that I just hide in the trees in different places and try not to show a pattern of play.

With the hackers and problems on open servers I am hoping a I can locate a well controlled private service with some fun people enjoy game with.

Good luck in your search. Dayz Gaming is the first good private service I have located. I have not joined yet though. I want to explore all the possibilities and good services first.

Have a great weekend!!!

Thanks. I usually stay south until i can get a car to head north. Someone saw this thread and sent me a pm with this info for a private whitelist server. It's called balota buddies, i'll probably go for that.

[Badgerlover 1]

Planet Dayz are a good private hive, admins moniter daily

http://planet-dayz.com/welcome.php

I've heard about that one before. I'll look into it. I noticed that they're all veteran, I usually play on regular, is it a whole lot different? Edited October 27, 2012 by Badgerlover

[Sula 1205]

Fraggle's right. Good admins are so important to a fair and open game. Some servers are run by a player for himself and his mates to hunt down innocent players who don't even know that's what's happening - and bad admins will often steal all the good vehicles. Good admins might have one vehicle and leave the rest to the other players. :thumbsup:

[Parasprite 35]

I've heard about that one before. I'll look into it. I noticed that they're all veteran, I usually play on regular, is it a whole lot different?

It's not all that different, but a lot of the "padding" is removed and the zombie AI is a bit more alert. Basically, all your mapping tools are removed - you can't set waypoints and whatnot.

[selmack 7]

Check out this link I located. Appears to rank Dayz servers. I right clicked on the first one to bring up a new window and the page gave a lot of specific information about the server.

Interesting: The number one ranked server is a private server. I think I am going to look at the servers on this page for not just good admins but activity, members, and other specifics before I join any private service.

www.gametracker.com/search/dayz

[ast65 11]

I recommend eu 911 (spear) or 3509,

I think both have additional security (e.g. Gotcha Anti Hack)

[SindreAsus (DayZ) 1]

I recommend the Next Generation Gaming servers. They have two private hives with the same database (incase one is full, you can join #2 and keep your shit) and they also have a third server with a different map. Their forums has roughly 6k active members only catch is that DayZ isn't the primary game, but other than that it's great.

www.ng-gaming.net

[Serious Stan 202]

I only play on private hives..

Look at mydayz.de if you are Euro, they are good.. need whitelisting though.

[selmack 7]

I recommend the Next Generation Gaming servers. They have two private hives with the same database (incase one is full, you can join #2 and keep your shit) and they also have a third server with a different map. Their forums has roughly 6k active members only catch is that DayZ isn't the primary game, but other than that it's great.

www.ng-gaming.net

Regarding the different private services, in my google search of the servers on the pages I posted as well as the others, I have only locate one signup sheet.

http://www.dayzgaming.com/sysmodule/m/5756190

I will continue looking but I would think that a service within the top 10 on the http://www.gametracker.com/search/dayz/?=GO Gametracker page as well as others would have an easy assess signup. There appear to be 11 US servers in the top 20 on this page. Some clearly say private and veteran as I have been playing. I will continue looking but if anyone has a signup page link for a private server, please post it.

Please only post the services with good 24 7 admins. Sula (above) is quite right!!!

Thanks!!!