What can i do to draw more players into our server?

[afr0n0me 2]

What is the best way to draw players to our server?  shorter restart times?  better name ?  

[0NET] ZeroNetwork.ca | DAY | 2HR RESTART | Vilayer.com  // Address: 216.244.78.242   Port: 2502

 * Edited to show ip/port

Edited May 2, 2014 by afr0n0me

[tommy290 941]

Free boobies and beer.

[weedmasta 784]

2 hour restart seems to be too short tbh.

[LegofanPC 0]

if you could give us the ip of your server me and my friend could try it out ;)

[Elle 562]

Free boobies and beer.

that's funny.... I have my own boobies and right now I am drinkin a beer my gf paid for.  just sayin.

[Irish. 4886]

Shortest restart time possible. Day only. Name it "LOOTING ONLY - NO KILL".

 

You will draw hordes of server hoppers. After a week change the title and settings.

[enforcer1975 1111]

1h restarts for more loot, military starting gear, spawn points around NWAF only, recon drones after 3 kills, dogs/rabid sheep after 6 kills and artillery/attack helo after 7 kills...did i miss something?

[tommy290 941]

that's funny.... I have my own boobies and right now I am drinkin a beer my gf paid for.  just sayin.

 

Then you should be fully prepared to jump on this guy's server and help out the population! :)

 

@OP - as mentioned, if you rename the server to show it's no PVP, you will attract a ton of people looking to PVP. It's part of the Laws of DayZ.

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

I've noticed a large drop in activity as well. Not that my server is maxed out all the time but I was averaging at least 20+ players. Now I'm lucky if I have 5. Meh. I'll wait another month and see if it picks up and if not I'll shut it down.

[afr0n0me 2]

Edited to show server ip/port.

 

Yeah i would imagine making it a 1hr restart would attract more looters/server hoppers for sure.  But would that really help in attracting general population through out the day.

[porange 3]

FAST LEWT - COLD BEER - NO PVP - EXTRA BOOBIES

Yeah I'd say that about covers it.

Side note, I've noticed a humorous trend for hosts to begin their server name with a space, so that it's at the top of the list when sorted by name and therefore easy to find.

Over time people have added more and more spaces to their names in order to compete for top spot, and now it has this silly cascading effect

Edited May 2, 2014 by porange

[makomachine 263]

Stable and advertised here were my recommendations with frequent, scheduled restarts. The first host that figures out a way to broadcast admin warning alerts in advance of restarts - say 10 min warning, 5 min warning, and down to zero - will have me on it regularly. Nothing like dropping your mosin with LRS to eat and getting the red alert!

[pilgrim* 3514]

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HONEST SERVER OPEN

 

and give 3 min. restart warnings

Edited May 2, 2014 by pilgrim

[afr0n0me 2]

Stable and advertised here were my recommendations with frequent, scheduled restarts. The first host that figures out a way to broadcast admin warning alerts in advance of restarts - say 10 min warning, 5 min warning, and down to zero - will have me on it regularly. Nothing like dropping your mosin with LRS to eat and getting the red alert!

Has restart warnings all the way down to 1 minute :D

[n1kko 326]

Name it "LOOTING ONLY - NO KILL".

 

That's against the rules.

[pilgrim* 3514]

1h restarts for more loot, military starting gear, spawn points around NWAF only, recon drones after 3 kills, dogs/rabid sheep after 6 kills and artillery/attack helo after 7 kills...did i miss something?

 

You missed Orbital Strikes

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

Make an official post here http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/forum/125-servers/ and keep your members posting into the thread in order to keep players looking.  2 hrs is off putting IMHO, you might make a quick slate and place it on 24/7 day for a week or so which I am not a fan of but it does tend to populate servers.  From there try to seed it as best you can at one time with your friends so others see a population during primetime and join you. 

 

Best Regards,

 

Steak.

[makomachine 263]

Has restart warnings all the way down to 1 minute :D

Then I'll be checking it out on my next login - thanks!

[Ken Bean 175]

 

What is the best way to draw players to our server?

 

 

From a players view my opinion is having a well performing server running without annoying issues should be your best bet. Server admins that f*ck around with the server, which kick player and abuse their power are not very enjoyable. And those who try to lure with loot are the ones I avoid first.

 

My question in return would be: Why you need a full server? Is that somehow important?

Edited May 2, 2014 by Ken Bean

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

 

My question in return would be: Why you need a full server? Is that somehow important?

At $100/month it'd be in your best interest to having a full server

[kichilron 8550]

Make an official post here http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/forum/125-servers/

 

 

Thread moved there now.

[Ken Bean 175]

At $100/month it'd be in your best interest to having a full server

 

 

Yeah, of cause, but mine would be that I get it the way I like, meaning hard, tough, vanilla dayz unforgiven with rare items.

If some like that and realize by time that the server is reliable, they come back.

 

In return I'd gladly like to block server from my server list, because for example the admin kicked me because we were in the same area that he wanted to loot himself. (Yep, actually happened)

Edited May 2, 2014 by Ken Bean

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

Thread moved there now.

 

Danke.

[afr0n0me 2]

thank you

 

[TLa_Vanguard 52]

Whats worked for us has been having teamspeak and website so non-members are aware of events on the server e.g - clan wars, fight nights, even have a TLa team similar to the Reddit Rescue Force. Just do your best to communicate with your playerbase and keep everything fresh, yes this is even possible in an alpha game.