Server naming convention - why?

[theirongiant 200]

I'm prompted to ask because of eugenharton's post about item persistence: "Official servers from Bohemia, that are under naming convention get persistence."

 

I'm not sure why official Bohemia servers wouldn't be under naming convention but it made me think that at some point Bohemia intend to punish anyone whose server isn't under naming convention, either by denying them persistence or making sure they are the last to receive it or in some other manner. Now I may have the wrong end of the stick but I have to ask what is the deal with the official rules for naming servers, why is it even a thing?

 

According to the rules this is the format all servers should be displayed in.

 

"DayZ - Location ID (version/beta buildnr) [difficulty][timezone] dayzmod.com - hosted by Customtext."

 

1) DayZ - why is this needed, is anyone expecting to find anything other that DayZ servers in the DayZ server browser?

2) Location ID - Who decides what this is, how do you find out what yours is meant to be?

3) (version/beta buildnr) - Even the official servers don't bother with this

4) [difficulty] - It's already listed in another column, why clog up the server name with it

5) [timezone] - Again time is show in another column, official servers seem to ignore this as well.

6) Hosted by Customtext - finally we get to the one section where we can advertise, although chances are this won't fit in the name column so good luck with that. They even enforce adding a superfluous 'Hosted by ' to make quite sure that no-one ever sees it.

 

Is there a reason why BI are so rigid with server naming conventions or even a reason why they should care (obvious racism/swearing issues aside)?

Edited August 13, 2014 by theirongiant74

[killerpixel 49]

That's is the naming convention for the mod....

[boneboys 7988]

The answer is in the Topic that you failed to link.

I can only class this as a poor attempt to Flame/Troll.