Random Spawns and Forecasted Weather Server
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Announcing a new community server that went online on New Year's Day 2019!
The Random Spawns and Forecasted Weather Server will have the following setup and configuration:
SETUP SERVER LOCATION: West Coast of North America (Pacific Time Zone - currently GMT-8) SERVER UP TIMES: Daily PST 4:00am to Midnight (server will be down 4 hours/day for maintenance/backups/patches/updates) CHENARUS GAME TIME: Time in game will match actual server time using the Summer Solstice day as every day of the year for maximum daylight hours SCHEDULED RESTARTS: Every 2 hours (0600, 0800, 1000, 1200, 1400, 1600, 1800, 2000, 2200 and shutdown for 4 hours at 0000) MAJOR MAINTENANCE: The server will be down all day on the last Sunday of each month to perform Windows updates, server log cleanup, etc.)
CONFIGURATION (Updated January 14, 2019) First-person server (1PP) 60 slots (increased from 30) Cross-hair disabled Persistence backups every hour No mods, other than the configuration changes listed below Mostly a Survival server with some PvP periods KOS is acceptable, but discouraged -- more fun to meet new people and have an adventure Different daily random spawn-in points for new spawns depending on the day of the week (see the schedule below) Different weekly random spawn-in points for infected (not all of them spawn in relation to player position -- some of them wander in hoards -- you may even see them between towns) Different weekly random spawn locations for vehicles and heli crashes (they could be anywhere on the map) Vehicles spawn fully assembled (water, oil, gas, field transceiver and spare battery in the trunk!) New spawns arrive with only 2 rags and 1 random piece of loot (could be anything from an apple to a gun) New spawns at night (8pm to Midnight PST GMT-8) also arrive with 2 road flares to help you find your way in the dark Loot on infected has been eliminated for slightly more hardcore survival Loot increased slightly at places like deer stands, police stations and schools Loot re-spawn rate reduced significantly to help eliminate loot cycling Weather for the current period (until next restart) and upcoming period (after next restart) forecasted in the Server Messages Weather will change gracefully over time (i.e. it won't go from clear skies to heavy rain in one restart) ... and finally, saving the best for last ... THAT !#$%@#$ ROOSTER IS EXTINCT ON THIS SERVER!!!! :)
SERVER SCHEDULE Mondays: Mamino/Mogilevka/Msta/Myshkino Mondays (all new spawns are within the vicinity of the selected town - different town selected each Monday) Tuesdays: Western Play (all new spawns could spawn anywhere west of Novy Sobor) Wednesdays: Wide Open Wednesdays (all new spawns could spawn anywhere on the map) Thursdays: Eastern Play (all new spawns could spawn anywhere east of Stary Sobor) Fridays: A to Z Firefights (towns selected in alphabetical order for PvP - players spawn near the selected town with random weapons/ammo in their inventory) Saturdays: Event Day (various events will happen - check out the server's forum at http://rsfw.forumotion.com/ for details) Sundays: Sunday Swim for the Heli of it (all new spawns could spawn anywhere along the southern coast area - Skalisty and/or Prison Islands will spawn helicopter crashes)
NOTES ABOUT PERSISTENCE
There will essentially be periods of persistence (Sunday to Thursday) and non-persistence (Friday and Saturday) on this server. If you wish to build bases, pitch tents, hide loot, etc. you may do so and hourly backups of the world will take place during "normal" play from the start of day on Sunday to the end of day on Thursday. During PvP Day on Friday and Event Day on Saturday, the world will be wiped on these days, but will be restored once completed. This means whatever character and gear you had and whatever items were present in the world on Thursday night will be restored on Sunday morning. In the event of a server crash (which might corrupt the persistence files), the most recent complete persistence backup will be restored and the server restarted which will hopefully minimize persistence loss, but be aware, 100% persistence is not guaranteed. Backups will occur hourly during persistence days (Sunday to Thursday).
SETUP SERVER LOCATION: West Coast of North America (Pacific Time Zone - currently GMT-8) SERVER UP TIMES: Daily PST 4:00am to Midnight (server will be down 4 hours/day for maintenance/backups/patches/updates) CHENARUS GAME TIME: Time in game will match actual server time using the Summer Solstice day as every day of the year for maximum daylight hours SCHEDULED RESTARTS: Every 2 hours (0600, 0800, 1000, 1200, 1400, 1600, 1800, 2000, 2200 and shutdown for 4 hours at 0000) MAJOR MAINTENANCE: The server will be down all day on the last Sunday of each month to perform Windows updates, server log cleanup, etc.)
CONFIGURATION (Updated January 14, 2019) First-person server (1PP) 60 slots (increased from 30) Cross-hair disabled Persistence backups every hour No mods, other than the configuration changes listed below Mostly a Survival server with some PvP periods KOS is acceptable, but discouraged -- more fun to meet new people and have an adventure Different daily random spawn-in points for new spawns depending on the day of the week (see the schedule below) Different weekly random spawn-in points for infected (not all of them spawn in relation to player position -- some of them wander in hoards -- you may even see them between towns) Different weekly random spawn locations for vehicles and heli crashes (they could be anywhere on the map) Vehicles spawn fully assembled (water, oil, gas, field transceiver and spare battery in the trunk!) New spawns arrive with only 2 rags and 1 random piece of loot (could be anything from an apple to a gun) New spawns at night (8pm to Midnight PST GMT-8) also arrive with 2 road flares to help you find your way in the dark Loot on infected has been eliminated for slightly more hardcore survival Loot increased slightly at places like deer stands, police stations and schools Loot re-spawn rate reduced significantly to help eliminate loot cycling Weather for the current period (until next restart) and upcoming period (after next restart) forecasted in the Server Messages Weather will change gracefully over time (i.e. it won't go from clear skies to heavy rain in one restart) ... and finally, saving the best for last ... THAT !#$%@#$ ROOSTER IS EXTINCT ON THIS SERVER!!!! :)
SERVER SCHEDULE Mondays: Mamino/Mogilevka/Msta/Myshkino Mondays (all new spawns are within the vicinity of the selected town - different town selected each Monday) Tuesdays: Western Play (all new spawns could spawn anywhere west of Novy Sobor) Wednesdays: Wide Open Wednesdays (all new spawns could spawn anywhere on the map) Thursdays: Eastern Play (all new spawns could spawn anywhere east of Stary Sobor) Fridays: A to Z Firefights (towns selected in alphabetical order for PvP - players spawn near the selected town with random weapons/ammo in their inventory) Saturdays: Event Day (various events will happen - check out the server's forum at http://rsfw.forumotion.com/ for details) Sundays: Sunday Swim for the Heli of it (all new spawns could spawn anywhere along the southern coast area - Skalisty and/or Prison Islands will spawn helicopter crashes)
NOTES ABOUT PERSISTENCE
There will essentially be periods of persistence (Sunday to Thursday) and non-persistence (Friday and Saturday) on this server. If you wish to build bases, pitch tents, hide loot, etc. you may do so and hourly backups of the world will take place during "normal" play from the start of day on Sunday to the end of day on Thursday. During PvP Day on Friday and Event Day on Saturday, the world will be wiped on these days, but will be restored once completed. This means whatever character and gear you had and whatever items were present in the world on Thursday night will be restored on Sunday morning. In the event of a server crash (which might corrupt the persistence files), the most recent complete persistence backup will be restored and the server restarted which will hopefully minimize persistence loss, but be aware, 100% persistence is not guaranteed. Backups will occur hourly during persistence days (Sunday to Thursday).
