What's up with all the private hives?

[steepledclock 2]

I recently came back from a long break from the game. I now notice it seems like almost every server is a private hive. I am literally just browsing the sever list and thinking "Private hive, private hive, private hive... Oh! A public hive. Ouch. Dat ping."

[[email protected] 49]

Public hive is at end of life, everyone is moving away from it

[steepledclock 2]

So how exactly do they work? Is it just between however many servers the owner owns, or is it just localized to one server, or is it across everything that it used to be like with public hive?

[[email protected] 49]

Your gear is only good on that hive, for instance I have 3 servers that run on my hive. So you can play on any of my 3 and the gear transfers.

[steepledclock 2]

Ok, thanks for answering my questions. :)

[[email protected] 49]

Feel free to join if you want, we got a forum and all are welcomed.

[euphoria^ 8]

Private hive admistrations have more access aswell. They can edit vehicle spawns and loot tables and tweek the Day-Z experince. Sadly this can be taken advantage of at times. But I haven't ran into that issue often.