new player confused about server

[SkenteR 6]

greetings from germany,

yesterday i decided to buy arma II & OA to play DayZ. first of all i have to say this game is awesome but i have some questions about server. i watched many youtubevideos how to play. so i started to play on a server. after i switched to a diffrent one i realised my equip was gone..... ohhh no... private hive... so i switched back to the first server and WTF i have to start from the beginning oO.. but the server was tagged as REGULAR oO..

how can i see which server is a normal regular where i can switch and keep my items ?

and what means veteran / recruit server ?

......sry for my poor english

Edited December 6, 2012 by SkenteR

[livbythegun 109]

greetings from germany,

yesterday i decided to buy arma II & OA to play DayZ. first of all i have to say this game is awesome but i have some questions about server. i watched many youtubevideos how to play. so i started to play on a server. after i switched to a diffrent one i realised my equip was gone..... ohhh no... private hive... so i switched back to the first server and WTF i have to start from the beginning oO.. but the server was tagged as REGULAR oO..

how can i see which server is a normal regular where i can switch and keep my items ?

and what means veteran / recruit server ?

......sry for my poor english

Private hives don't share the same information. So say I log onto "Butter and Eggs - Private Hive" and get loot etc. Then later I log onto "Airplane crash - Private Hive" I won't have the same loot as the last server. I would start a new survivor instead.

But some private hives share the same info. But that's usually a whitelist server. My suggestion is to stick to one server.

Edited December 6, 2012 by livbythegun

[SkenteR 6]

Private hives don't share the same information. So say I log onto "Butter and Eggs - Private Hive" and get loot etc. Then later I log onto "Airplane crash - Private Hive" I won't have the same loot as the last server. I would start a new survivor instead.

But some private hives share the same info. But that's usually a whitelist server. My suggestion is to stick to one server.

i thought every server which is a no "PRIVATE HIVE" server shares the items... the problem is iam playing from germany and i play @ night... this means 1-2 player on the server. would be good to find a EN / ger server where i can switch =).

so "whitelisted" private hive server shares items ?

and every regular server shares items ?

Edited December 6, 2012 by SkenteR

[livbythegun 109]

i thought every server which is a no "PRIVATE HIVE" server shares the items... the problem is iam playing from germany and i play @ night... this means 1-2 player on the server. would be good to find a EN / ger server where i can switch =).

so "whitelisted" private hive server shares items ?

and every regular server shares items ?

Regular servers (non private hives) share the same items. Private Hives do not.

It really depends on the servers and whos hosting them. They can have the private hives or whitelist servers they own, can share items or not.

Like right now I play on a whitelist server called "bmrf" They have 3 private hive servers, and they all share the same information/items. Like I said, it depends on the host.

1 tip I wanna give you, don't get attached to your gear, you're already dead in DayZ. It's only a matter of time.

[OrLoK 16182]

Hello there

All regular servers share items,

Some private hives share data most not.

Hope this helps

Rgds

LoK

Edited December 6, 2012 by orlok

[SkenteR 6]

Regular servers (non private hives) share the same items. Private Hives do not.

It really depends on the servers and whos hosting them. They can have the private hives or whitelist servers they own, can share items or not.

Like right now I play on a whitelist server called "bmrf" They have 3 private hive servers, and they all share the same information/items. Like I said, it depends on the host.

1 tip I wanna give you, don't get attached to your gear, you're already dead in DayZ. It's only a matter of time.

thanks.. i checked the bmrf server via gametracker and i added all 3 servers to my dayz commander cause i have a ping by 70-90 not the best but it is playable =) so iam sure u will see me =). maybe you want to play with me =) so send me a ts3 ip =) im not a noob just new @ dayz <=)

[Sula 1205]

Hi SkenteR, welcome to the forums. :thumbsup:

Useful information:

You can use different launcher programmes such as Six Launcher and DayzCommander. I use Dayz Commander, which I find easy and quick to use.

A hive is a group of servers that are linked. So when you play on any of them you keep the same avatar, the same loot and remain in the same place that you last played.

The official hive has lots of servers that are linked, So they all run the Chernarus map and you keep the same avatar and same loot across all of them.

There are lots of Private Hives (that means lots of groups of servers) Servers in the same hive are linked, so you keep the avatar, loot and location. But servers in different private hives are not linked. So you get to start a new life or avatar/character in each hive and only carry that character across servers in that hive.

Private hives usually have those two words in their title. They also have a cloud next to their server name.

The best way is to make a note of each server you join, if you can, :thumbsup:

Edited December 7, 2012 by Sula

[klesh 2423]

greetings from germany,

......sry for my poor english

Greetings and welcome. :beans:

Your English is very good. You should hear my German. ;)