Server warnings before restart.

[frozenjaws 69]

Man these freaking server restarts is killing my game experience.

Me and my buddy has been playing for some 4-5 hours today and collectively lost 3 guns to server restarts.

At first we were playing on the multiplaygameservers servers and they will rollback the map a bit when they restart so when the server restarted we were both holding our weapons and logged out after the "no message received", but one of the times, a minute or two before my friend just happened to be taking a drink, and since we both were running with 2 weapons, it had to be on the ground for the duration. Big surprise when we log in... weapon gone, fully kitted mosin, LRS, compensator, bipod... oh well no worries. and ofc we learned from our mistakes and deducted that multiplaygameservers restarts not long after it gets dark, so when it gets dark DONT LEG GO OF YOUR STUFF. thats fine lesson learned. 

Because we then had just recently come pretty close to berezino, and we actually wanted to play at night, just for the experience and added tension, we switched servers.

To a server hosted by fragnet, and we managed to play some 45 minutes in the dark and we fully expected to be playing on that server for at least an hour yet, but disaster struck.. again.

Having just sat down for a quick meal, what happened but another freaking server restart.

Another 2 weapons lost, having just found a replacement mosin, we were both running with 2 weapons again. I lost my fully kitted out mosin and he lost his fully kitted out m4.......

Pretty much just agreed to take a break from the game a couple days..  

I wish they would give a warning, at the appropriate time. Cant be that hard can it? (not a dev, clueless of development) 

[SmashT 10907]

The functionality is available through BEC however access to that is not available currently. Apparantly Vilayer gives server renters access to BEC's schedular file through their control panel from what I have read so you may find it on some of their servers, other hosts I don't believe so, yet. Filtering restart warn gave a couple of servers with it in the title.

[frozenjaws 69]

The functionality is available through BEC however access to that is not available currently. Apparantly Vilayer gives server renters access to BEC's schedular file through their control panel from what I have read so you may find it on some of their servers, other hosts I don't believe so, yet. Filtering restart warn gave a couple of servers with it in the title.

I would ask why access isnt available, but thats really not my place, however i would like to ask if you have any inclination of when it would be possible for all servers to have the warnings by default or at least make the option easier or more common for them to use. Is Vilayer just the only people that has caught on to the availability of the system or are they going out of their way to provide the service?

[frozenjaws 69]

BumP!

[Dawgstyl 51]

Because its still in Alpha, I'm sure it will be coming in the future.

 

 

I would ask why access isnt available

[Katana67 2907]

I would just rather they get to a point where servers don't need to be restarted frequently.

[real meatshield 424]

BEC is not that intensive of a mod. Obviously, if vilayer allows it. 

 

I have an ARMA 3 server on vilayer and BEC is an awesome thing to have. Granted, vilayer has a far more robust and professional backend for server owners...unlike gameservers, where I have my SA server.

 

I would absolutely love to see BEC access for server owners, across the board. Not that I give 2 shits for gear, but more because I would like for my players to know when the server is scheduled to restart- gives them a chance to prepare, and increases the chance they and everyone else on the server rejoins after the restart.

[Irish. 4886]

The functionality is available through BEC however access to that is not available currently. Apparantly Vilayer gives server renters access to BEC's schedular file through their control panel from what I have read so you may find it on some of their servers, other hosts I don't believe so, yet. Filtering restart warn gave a couple of servers with it in the title.

I would highly recommend they push this forward to be worked on.. its a bit more important than time acceleration in my humble opinion, considering the likelihood that your player will get rolled back and anything you've done for the past 3-5 minutes may be null and void. 2 things have happened to me: lost gear, and player stuck in wall.

 

A simple global warning of 5 mins would alleviate all of this frustration. 

[hannibaldaplaya 1095]

I know a server that has warnings, I mainly play on it, though it restarts frequently, but I haven't seen that many other servers with do this.

[real meatshield 424]

My server restarts every 4 hours at 12:40, 4:40 and 8:40. Not sure why gameservers has chosen that odd hour to restart, but several I have in my favorites are also on gameservers (probably the same datacenter as well) and they all disappear at the same time mine does. BEC would allow server owners to change the time that server restarts, and also warn the players when the server is about to restart. It's a fairly simple script for which I see no reason that more GSPs don't allow it.

 

Now, that said- even with the server on a 4-hour restart schedule, I find that my server still has random restarts throughout the cycle, for no apparent reason at all. THAT is a gamebreaker, in a sense. You never know when it's safe to drop anything to make an assault on a building, or to make that run across an open field for cover on the other side- the server could randomly restart, and your gear is gone, or you spawn back into the server in the middle of that open field getting walloped by a zombie that aggroed on you from 500 meters, but you were still looking at a black screen that said "Please Wait" while that zombie opened a can of whoopass on you.