How to get the own server full?

[Mediarty 9]

Hello,

I rent a server with 30 Slots. The server was full every evening, so 30/30. Because of it i decided to upgrate to 40 Slots.

Now the Server is almost empty everytime. I just have round about 5 to 20 active players.

Why it changes?

Does someone know some Tricks to get the server full?

[shiennar 0]

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[Mediarty 9]

What I see now is that if I reload the serverlist which all that servers. I have to wait more than 30 second until our server is shown. What can I do that our server will display faster? Sometimes my server is in the list but late and sometimes my server isnt in the serverlist. There are Servers which are shown everytime in a few seconds with a higher ping as my server :(

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

Put 10,000 vehicles, 24/7 daylight, free machine guns in the server name.

[Mediarty 9]

kind of ironical, right?

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

kind of ironical, right?

 

Absolutely, brings in a different crowd but it works.

[boneboys 7988]

Make an interesting Topic here in this Forum section.

 

*3hr restarts (seems to be a good compromise /loot/performance).

*All welcome.

*A server name that will entice players to join (German Community Server) may be off putting for some and gives the impression that it is aimed at German players).

*Admin messages, if possible with Vilayer  tools (restart times + hackers beware) but not too frequent.

 

There may have been a performance drop (for players) when moving from 30 -40 slots.

 

I will jump on later and see how the server performs.

 

Good luck.

[Mediarty 9]

Thank you for that.

I can see you online now.

I tested again to see my server in the serverlist. Today the server is displayed, but you have to wait about 20 seconds. My server is shown after hundreds of other servers are shown.

I dont know if I can do something that my server will be shown earlier.

[Zer0HD2 (DayZ) 40]

As Boneboys said, it's mainly in the server title, and the lag may be due to switching player count.

 

The group I'm part of (UGA) runs three servers, two 1-hour restarts and one 2-hour restart. They both attract different types of people, the 1 hours are pretty much deathmatch servers where you have to constantly spam it to join, and the 2 hour restart attracts more slow-paced players who actually want some form of interaction. We host with GamingDeluxe, as they offer good performance and BEC (Battleye Extended Controls), which allows admin messages, such as restart warnings (I believe our servers were actually among the first to implement this).

 

TL;DR: Make an interesting title, decide what sort of players you want on, and speak to your host about stuff like performance and messages.

[Mediarty 9]

I tried to put things like high loot - 24/7 DayLight - 2h restarts in the server title yesterday, but it was not very successful.

Now the name is "[GER] DayZ Germany Community Server | dayz-germany.de "

Our server is hosted at vilayer.com and with BEC too.

Our server sends restartwarnings 2 minutes before restart, too.

What I am wondering about is that the server every evening was full when I had 30 Slots. Now i upgrated because of it to 40 and now it is very very rarely to have more than 20 on my server. I am asking myself why i pay now for 10 unused slots and how it could be that an upgrate to 40 changes that active player frequency.

it iss real pity. All I wanted to bring a favour to our players with that upgrate and now it feels like I degrated this server for 13 bucks more monthly...

[Zer0HD2 (DayZ) 40]

It's probably due to the way most players browse the servers. They just sort by player count/time, scroll down until they see a title they like, and join it. They don't wait for more servers to load. If I were you, I'd talk to Vilayer about sorting the load time out.