Servers restarts too often?

[97ADU Doug 103]

Hey guys, I notice that servers seem to restart alot. Most servers seem to have a 4 hour cycle, but does anyone find that a server is rarely up for more than an hour? Perhaps iv just been unlucky?

 

Cheers :)

[ChainReactor 922]

They don't restart on schedule, they crash or get a forced restart. It's a known issue with the current build and it's being worked on.

[General Zod 1118]

I don't mind, more loot. 

[Robert Neville 59]

I don't mind, more loot. 

 

In fact, I suspect most often it's the server admins which restart the servers.

[General Zod 1118]

Correct

I was once on server that was being restarted every 10 - 15 minutes, seems like they had a gear up session. Well so did I  B)

Edited November 3, 2014 by General Zod

[pilgrim* 3514]

I've been on servers that kept restarting in about exactly the time it takes someone to check the loot locations in one barracks.

 

The personality and attitude of the admin is the most important, and explains server resets more than anything else. And quite a lot of server admins do different things and have different attitudes, at different times of day... most often the reset frequency depends on time of day (it goes up later in the evening) or if it's the weekend (starting Friday noon through to late sunday night) The admins on each server are predictable, they have habits you can get to know.

 

I've heard there is also a real server 'loot ' glitch and the admin sometimes has to reset to clear it. But I think 90% of the "know issue" causing frequent restarts is the person running the server.

 

These servers I'm talking about are stated in the server description (written by the admin himself)  to be "open" or "friendly" servers. I don't log in to "clan" servers or any "we kick you" servers..I only log to places where it looks as though you are welcome, or at least permitted to stay. But still sometimes on login you get kicked, or sometimes you must join the server TS channel (or else you are kicked), or the server restarts after a short while - and it seems like it wants to get rid of you and the other handful of outsiders who have  just turned up.

Then, when you find a server where you can stay and play, you notice e.g. a normal "4 hours" server will go into a quick series of restarts, nearly always when there are only a few players around.

 

If you play in the middle evening - after say 8 or 9 pm, and - specially - totally - if you play Weekend late evening - expect anything

 

-My best advice is :

1 ) either search around and try out the servers, to find one or two that look like "really" friendly servers. (I mean 'friendly" to strange players, not necessarily 'peace and love' -  friendly servers can be total KoS-everyone PvP festivals). There are some survival-style servers that are non-persistent and only restart in 24 hours. They are usually quite serious about restarts - but the barracks are empty, natch - it depends what game you want to play. I personally like some of those servers.

 

2 ) or go to one of the 30-30 or 40-40 almost-full-player-list servers.

 

Normally those 2 kinds of server don't restart except when advertised. For instance, one that gives you a restart warning is probably "player-friendly". And even an admin who has gone to the trouble to write "this server will restart without warning" is giving a sign of friendliness, because if he warns you, it can mean the admin doesn't expect only local or clan people to play. So he's not offended by strangers on his server, .. probably..

 

3) the third possibility is to only play the servers put up by the server-providers themselves - the servers that are not hired out to a paying admin. You will find no admin control at all and probably no loot at all, and 150 people who go through in 7 minutes at every restart, and plenty of squeaky-voice kids (no insult intended kids, I'm a 9-year old.myself; near enough), but there's no 'clan' bias or 'my server' bias, and the restarts are regular..

 

I could give you a short list of servers that are (at the moment) open and pretty fair to the player public and don't mess you around.. but mine are French, English, German, - don't know if that would be helpful?

Plus there really is the "glitch" loot-problem too on persistent servers (or a couple of different loot problems?), but don't worry about that -  maybe take advantage of it - unless you want to keep a tent. And that should only cause a reset from time to time, not several in a short time.

Mainly a lot of restarts just means the admin wants them, it's that simple.

And 2 out of 3 "we are friendly" servers, are not in fact keen to have strange players around. So you have to search a bit, try them out, or ask around.

 

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Does anyone want to propose any server IPs where outsider players are given "reasonably fair" treatment (including 'fair' restarts most of the time) as long as they don't act bad? I like to visit these places, to see what they are like?  Any suggestions? Or are players looking for servers with plenty of restarts, but they don't shut out strangers or kick you, so you can gear up faster?

 

xx pilgrim

Edited November 4, 2014 by pilgrim

[Bonappetit 117]

Don't forget to favorite server you liked. I remember spending a lot of time searching for a server where I wouldn't just get instantly kicked from an admin that wants to gear up.

[General Zod 1118]

I use history for that.