Private vs. Main hive - Your opinion (And hi Inception)

[Muncywolverine 236]

When i first started playing DayZ it was all main hive. Infact i think private hives were illegal - There were only a couple you could find and it was a topic rarely discussed/looked down upon. However, as DayZ evolved (And hackers became a major problem) the rules were relaxed and the community began to support itself via private hives.

Private hives have many advantages - Strict admin control cuts down on hackers (Although there not that big of a problem anymore), and the game can be modded (More vehicles/military loot).

Private hives also have many disadvantages. Namely you cannot transfer your character to other servers... something we've gotten used to in Vanilla DayZ. Also the metric ton of vehicles and military loot some private hives have gets old.

Personally, I'm not a fan of private hives. I like the ability to transfer my characters... i usually have camps on the lower-pop servers and go onto higher-pop servers to interact with other players. One thing i did like about private hives was side chat - But many public servers have that now too.

What do you guys prefer? Private or public?

And damnit inception, you changed your avatar again.

[Derpy_Hooves (DayZ) 4521]

Private, i have way more control of the content in my server as well as more control over what happens in game.

[GOD™ 2795]

Incep has a fan.

[declan223@gmail.com 271]

Public, the only other servers I can get are '(Hardcore) 999 Choppers, 999Vehicles, Spawn with ICBM' Which pisses me off enourmously

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

Private the way things are with the mod and the issues it has in terms of security etc. Public for the SA as long as those issues have been addressed.

[Death_Dealer 3155]

Kind of a dilemma when it comes to picking public or private hive.

If you pick public, it's usually plain vanilla DayZ, but it's riddled with hackers. If you pick private, you usually get 500+ cars and 100+ choppers, but little to no hackers.

Of course some people like/dislike the extra vehicle stuff though.

[OrLoK 16185]

Private the way things are with the mod and the issues it has in terms of security etc. Public for the SA as long as those issues have been addressed.

Yup.

[supermarco 64]

its depend of which server you are playing in private hive...

There is more and more private hive server who actually get the spirit of the vanilla Dayz server.

Also the good part is the different mod that you can install on your server that make the server more attractive and fun to play. (Like AI patrols, animated crashsite, base building etc..)

Stop thinking that private hive = 500vehicle & 100 choppers... :huh:

[Derpy_Hooves (DayZ) 4521]

Public, the only other servers I can get are '(Hardcore) 999 Choppers, 999Vehicles, Spawn with ICBM' Which pisses me off enourmously

You havn't visited mine yet then :P

[trichome (DayZ) 198]

Private all the way. Pub servers are a joke and just a script kiddie fest and even in the SA anybody that thinks there wont be any cheating going on is living in dreamland, cheaters are in all games and will continue to plague them so I will always prefer private servers that we have full control over.

[Sem4ever 3]

Private hive, I actually like that you can't transfer your character on them so I play seriously on one server and just go around with a hatchet in Cherno on the other one.

[spiry3_ 50]

I would love to get back into public :) but for now I'll stick to private until the SA comes out...

Also public FTW !

[colekern 1364]

Private all the way. Pub servers are a joke and just a script kiddie fest and even in the SA anybody that thinks there wont be any cheating going on is living in dreamland, cheaters are in all games and will continue to plague them so I will always prefer private servers that we have full control over.

From what we've seen, there won't be because of the new architecture. So for me, private on the mod and public in SA.

[dgeesio 1034]

Private the way things are with the mod and the issues it has in terms of security etc. Public for the SA as long as those issues have been addressed.

this !

public was screwed in the mod because of scripters and privates are screwed becuase of cheating admins with there server tools and how th game is.

so my vote would be for this mod as now private only to stop most cheats

standlone public so we dont have to deal with the high percentage of cheating server admins who hide beihnd being private so cant be touched. all the stuff is locked down. yay honest gaming what a nice idea that is.

[creature 1189]

this !

public was screwed in the mod because of scripters and privates are screwed becuase of cheating admins with there server tools and how th game is.

so my vote would be for this mod as now private only to stop most cheats

standlone public so we dont have to deal with the high percentage of cheating server admins who hide beihnd being private so cant be touched. all the stuff is locked down. yay honest gaming what a nice idea that is.

What's funny about that is if people left the servers where admin abuse is happening, it wouldn't be as bad as it is.

[Tek (DayZ) 95]

Private all the way.

The problem I have with public is that it is the Chernarus map. That map bores me to to the point of me wanting to fall asleep on my keyboard. If there were public hives that ran Lingor or Panthera, I would go public. But Chernarus is so plain as to make me not even want to attempt to join a public.

The other maps promote interaction, whether good or bad, due to the make up of the landscape. I want that excitement that comes from encountering another individual/group. Vehicles for land/air are just there. I don't care if I get one or not, even though it can be fun to fly.

[simfreek@hotmail.com 48]

I do private hive. When I admined one. we had a large community of normal players. We didn't do the extra vehicle thing, and the only thing changed for starter gear was the addition of a road flare. We had a few scripts enabled like the tow other vehicle. Sling load for the helicopters, a script that made it that every time you moved, it counted as firing your weapon so you had to wait 30 seconds before you could log out (this prevented ppl from logging out and then back iin to make the zombies despawn). Combat loggers were banned. Better anticheat scripts were run as well.

So much more order and control on a Private hive then on public. You are paying for a server but you can't do any thing to keep it clean on public.

[HMS 115]

I have running games on both. Several private hives + the main. It all depends on what I feel like doing and who is available to play with me.

[Sutinen 635]

Private, more of a community (You see the same players on the server all the time), no serverhopping and less hackers (None for me).

I did like the public one when I started, I could join any server and start where I left. But there were no other good points about it.

[r4z0r49 4761]

Private. Using the official conditions. :-)

[FreshmeatDK 22]

For me whitelisting makes the difference. Since the roster is limited and the douches get sorted out, you have a far better knowledge of what to expect, and not getting telefragged by a cheater.

[narwaljunior 18]

Just get on the one run by Tenacity Gaming. Pretty sure there is a community Dev who runs the server and keeps the hackers down.

[s4pphire 45]

Due to scripting I stopped playing on official servers almost a year ago now, I consider them to be unplayable.

In a perfect world I'd prefer official servers on the same hive, however.

[ryanhop2 2]

This is a tricky one though.

Sometime last year there was hardly and private hives which means that i played on main hives a lot.

Pros about Main Hives:

Gear travels across other servers which are connected to the hive

Able to be on empty servers and loot for good gear

Cons:

Ghosting (server hopping whilst in a fight to flank round and kill)

Sometimes not very good admins

Not able to rollback

Pros about Private hives:

Able to rollback if mass server hack

Able to change server setting which main hives can't

No Ghosting (If one server)

Cons:

Can't join different servers with gear

Admins can do whatever they like with the server

Imo i like both they both offer differences maybe a year ago i would stick with the main hives but now im drifting towards private hives..