Starting public hive character

[Dagwood 680]

Decided to try my first shot at a public hive character yesterday (been playing for six months but have alway stuck to private hives.) I have a few question.

Are all public have servers completely vanilla? I would assume so, but I logged in yesterday, hit the military camp south of balota and found an M4A3CCO and then after dying to a glitch trying to grab loot from under the bed I found an M24 in the same spot. Sounds more like a loot intensive server than vanilla but I may have just been lucky.

How often am I going to run into hackers? And what cues can I look for to recognize that a hacker is online other than people making accusations in sidechat?

And lastly, any recommendations on which servers I should favor/avoid? I never play low pop and idk if there is any consistency to which servers remain highly populated.

Thanks for the advice.

Dagwood

[Serious Stan 202]

Its always vanilla yes.

and full of hackers.

[SmashT 10907]

Public hive really isn't any better or worse than private hives in terms of hackers nowadays.

[namco-4 50]

Public hive are no longer always vanilla. i've seen at least two servers that were just packed with custom buildings and cars and stayed on the public hive.

I don't know how they did it, but I'm sure this is getting abused by a lot of players.

[Soupee 57]

Its always vanilla yes.

and full of hackers.

 

False.

 

Public hive really isn't any better or worse than private hives in terms of hackers nowadays.

 

I have been killed/teleported more on private, whitelisted hives than I ever have on public... and I have played probably 90% of my time over the last year+ on public.

[CS14 133]

For recommendations as to which servers to play I suggest 1992, 1993, and 3480.

 

Hardly notice hackers on those three and when I do they are usually taken care of swiftly.

[TG ! Jimmy 216]

For recommendations as to which servers to play I suggest 1992, 1993, and 3480.

 

Hardly notice hackers on those three and when I do they are usually taken care of swiftly.

 

Thanks for the recommendation, US816 and US3480 have a lot of time spent on them in terms of admin.  It's nice to see that it's not unnoticed!  Join us anytime :D

 

Cheers,

Jimmy

[Devon206 (DayZ) 77]

Any public hive that is full I just hop on :P