Worth making a private server with whitelist?

[suggett 8]

My question is pretty much the title, is it worth doing this over just making a server public? My friend is bothered by the hackers at the moment and thinks that making a private server with a white list would be better because it would create a sense of community. I'm just worried it would get little attention, as when i usually play dayz i load it up and just jump in a random server rather than worrying about any that have passwords on them.

 

 

[airfell 179]

IMO it just depends on if you want to spend the money, and how aggressive you want to be with your whitelist.

 

If you whitelist anyone yes, you probably will get hackers, but if you're too aggressive with the whitelist you won't have anyone to play with. Its all about the approval process you're willing to undertake.

 

To add a personal anicdote: During the MOD my little group of survivors (4 of us at the time including myself) got into a whitelist server that was co-hosted by two BIG clans. The two clans used it as a post apoc milsim competition between the two groups, while my group was the guerilla factor. It was honestly the most fun I've ever had in DayZ for an extended period of time.

[suggett 8]

IMO it just depends on if you want to spend the money, and how aggressive you want to be with your whitelist.

 

If you whitelist anyone yes, you probably will get hackers, but if you're too aggressive with the whitelist you won't have anyone to play with. Its all about the approval process you're willing to undertake.

 

To add a personal anicdote: During the MOD my little group of survivors (4 of us at the time including myself) got into a whitelist server that was co-hosted by two BIG clans. The two clans used it as a post apoc milsim competition between the two groups, while my group was the guerilla factor. It was honestly the most fun I've ever had in DayZ for an extended period of time.

I get where you are coming from and that sounds awesome, but what i mean is (and my friend already has the server) would it get people wanting to join though, would it be worht it for the amount of people asking to get in?

[airfell 179]

I get where you are coming from and that sounds awesome, but what i mean is (and my friend already has the server) would it get people wanting to join though, would it be worht it for the amount of people asking to get in?

 

I got ya. Still a lot of variables there though- in that situation it really depends on how well you admin the server as well as the server settings. I think if you guys announced it in the forums and did a good job of keeping up the whitelist requests so there are people in it it should do fine.

 

I guess a part I didn't think about is what you guys want out of it. Are you wanting a full PvP server, a medium population server for regular play- get some loot, possibly meet people, chance of pvp, or a quiet PvE server?

[suggett 8]

I got ya. Still a lot of variables there though- in that situation it really depends on how well you admin the server as well as the server settings. I think if you guys announced it in the forums and did a good job of keeping up the whitelist requests so there are people in it it should do fine.

 

I guess a part I didn't think about is what you guys want out of it. Are you wanting a full PvP server, a medium population server for regular play- get some loot, possibly meet people, chance of pvp, or a quiet PvE server?

 

Honestly with the way things are right now and how hard it is to manage a server because of not knowing what people are doing due to no global chat, i would probably say just let people go on and do what they want, but i think we would encourage RP if we could.

[[Outcasts]Massacre 121]

I'd deffo be intrested in a whitelisted RP server and the community that probably will be created around it.

[suggett 8]

I'd deffo be intrested in a whitelisted RP server and the community that probably will be created around it.

 

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/214725-euuk-private-whitelist-rp-server-ts-and-forums-included/ there you go then.