Derleth 1357 Posted January 17, 2019 (edited) Devs want to monitor how the performance fixes are working and need experimental DE 1-3 server to be full, I'm working so I can't. Footnote: If you really want players to flock to an experimental server at 11 am (central Europe) on a school/workday I think you'll have to do more than write one tweet. We're not all at the mercy of stress tests any longer, players are spread out over stable official and community servers, where they have bases and communities, so they are less likely than ever to bother downloading the experimental version to hop on a test server. It is probably easier if you push the update to stable so anyone can hop on the server. Edited January 17, 2019 by Beavis3D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IMT 3190 Posted January 17, 2019 47 minutes ago, Beavis3D said: Devs want to monitor how the performance fixes are working and need experimental DE 1-3 server to be full, I'm working so I can't. Footnote: If you really want players to flock to an experimental server at 11 am (central Europe) on a school/workday I think you'll have to do more than write one tweet. We're not all at the mercy of stress tests any longer, players are spread out over stable official and community servers, where they have bases and communities, so they are less likely than ever to bother downloading the experimental version to hop on a test server. It is probably easier if you push the update to stable so anyone can hop on the server. Yeah, I'm not going to do that. It annoys the hell out of me that they use Twitter and sometimes Reddit to communicate stuff like this. They don't even use their own official forums for this, it's ridiculous. Plus I'm not able to join at the moment anyway. 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Derleth 1357 Posted January 17, 2019 1 hour ago, IMT said: Yeah, I'm not going to do that. It annoys the hell out of me that they use Twitter and sometimes Reddit to communicate stuff like this. They don't even use their own official forums for this, it's ridiculous. Plus I'm not able to join at the moment anyway. Yeah, I think they're gonna have to use some sweet bait, like new guns and stuff, to lure players over to experimental at this point... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilgrim* 3514 Posted January 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Beavis3D said: lure players over to experimental at this point seems to me ALL the old time PC players are on Experimental .. Might just be my impression, but it seems like most of them HANG OUT ALL THE TIME there .. they don't need "luring" that I notice. - But tell me - what is this thing "twitter" of which you speak? Does it exist? What is it for? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Derleth 1357 Posted January 17, 2019 3 minutes ago, pilgrim* said: seems to me ALL the old time PC players are on Experimental .. Might just be my impression, but it seems like most of them HANG OUT ALL THE TIME there .. they don't need "luring" that I notice. - But tell me - what is this thing "twitter" of which you speak? Does it exist? What is it for? I can't say, Twitter is kinda like walking down the street talking loudly about shit you do or think, for everyone to hear. Sometimes other lunatics answer (also speaking loudly) and you have loud all-caps conversations and arguments. It's all very screamy, but these days it seems to be the devs' preferred media to make announcements on... As for experimental, I used to hang there most of the time, but since I mostly haunt various community servers these days it is impractical when stable and exp differ. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilgrim* 3514 Posted January 17, 2019 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Beavis3D said: I can't say, Twitter is kinda like walking down the street talking loudly about shit you do or think, for everyone to hear. [off topic] Ah yes..I understand - the twitter as you call it, .. I think it is a benevolent non-profit-making organization to help people communicate free of charge.. right? It's run by Tibetan Monks or an old rich very friendly person with lots of cash, to help the planet - It is TOTALLY SOOoooo wonderful that someone would SELFLESSLY spend so many MILLIONS on all those servers and software and storage WORLDWIDE, just to make people HAPPY. .. [sob] .. I must JOIN one day, maybe.. maybe.. but am I worthy ? Edited January 17, 2019 by pilgrim* 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Private Evans 1303 Posted January 17, 2019 (edited) Yeah, I'm not going to do that. It annoys the hell out of me that they use Twitter and sometimes Reddit to communicate stuff like this. They don't even use their own official forums for this, it's ridiculous. This is the punishment for us being so rude and not celebrating 1.0 properly xD Edited January 17, 2019 by Private Evans Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stinkenator 9 Posted January 18, 2019 To be honest, with that content and tools provided by BI for server admins and the community, DayZ would already be dead again right after that ridiculous Version 1.0. I think this is a good time to say thank you to all the great people that were coding mods, providing (server-) admin tools and many more improvements to this great game! A big thank you also to all the people that report issues to the feedback tracker. Without everyone of us, DayZ would just be another Z's game with 2 assault rifles in their gold release called 1.0. And still I don't know on what castle BI spend all the money that they generated since the beginning of early access. It definately did not go into the development of DayZ. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vitdom 56 Posted January 24, 2019 Was there a server-side experimental update today or did I miss a client update? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Funkdoc 46 Posted January 24, 2019 (edited) a bit offtopic but what about any workarounds for the server persistence issue? i m no C++ guru but there must be a way to detect server crashes and the fluctuating persistence file anyhow!? i m thinking of 1 min backups and routines which check the file for timestemp, size or reading errors and restore the persistence - triggered by server crash or normal restart... i know this can be done manually by server admin.. but imagin how often that occurs.. i dont know if there are already solutions out there but this could be a temporary solution EDIT: On 18.1.2019 at 9:09 AM, Stinkenator said: And still I don't know on what castle BI spend all the money that they generated since the beginning of early access. It definately did not go into the development of DayZ. i think the name of the castle is development!?! example: BI has to pay the employees, lets say on this project was 50 people in average and one had a average wage + taxes of 4,000€ per month. 4,000€ * 50 people * 13 months = 2,600,000€ per year = 13,000,000€ in 5 years (alpha to 1.0) + other costs like server hosting, promotion, steam, ... + costs that will come along the announced product supporting time nevertheless thats not nothing Edited January 24, 2019 by Funkdoc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
-Greenie- 12 Posted January 25, 2019 Still can't seem to get TrackIR going. The best value immersion addon to the ARMA and DayZ series and its not work? I started using in 5 days into the mod, feels like I'm missing a limb. Kind regards Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stinkenator 9 Posted January 25, 2019 14 hours ago, Funkdoc said: i think the name of the castle is development!?! example: BI has to pay the employees, lets say on this project was 50 people in average and one had a average wage + taxes of 4,000€ per month. 4,000€ * 50 people * 13 months = 2,600,000€ per year = 13,000,000€ in 5 years (alpha to 1.0) + other costs like server hosting, promotion, steam, ... + costs that will come along the announced product supporting time nevertheless thats not nothing A year has 12 months. Let's count 3 Million copies sold until 2015 (communicated by BI in early 2015) at an average price per copy of let's say € 18 (taking into account the special offers) = € 54 Mio minus the mentioned fix costs for 5 years of € 13 Mio and generous € 10 Mio for the other mentioned costs (serverhosting is definately sponsored) there are € 31 Mio left for the castle in the area of České Budějovice :) Not taken into account the copies sold from 2015 until today....anyone got any numbers? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stinkenator 9 Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) 15 hours ago, Funkdoc said: a bit offtopic but what about any workarounds for the server persistence issue? i m no C++ guru but there must be a way to detect server crashes and the fluctuating persistence file anyhow!? i m thinking of 1 min backups and routines which check the file for timestemp, size or reading errors and restore the persistence - triggered by server crash or normal restart... i know this can be done manually by server admin.. but imagin how often that occurs.. i dont know if there are already solutions out there but this could be a temporary solution We have a standard server running with regular restarts managed by CFTools. No persistance problem within 5 days. So to me a few mods seem to create some of the server crashes. I also provided a few crash logs to the feedback tracker and got the reply that some crashes are schedules for a fix but other are caused by mods we are running. Unfortunately Geez wasn't able to tell me what mods are causing the crashes that are not coming from DayZ itself. Edited January 25, 2019 by Stinkenator typo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Funkdoc 46 Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) 7 hours ago, Stinkenator said: A year has 12 months. i dont know where u live, but i get 14 months wages per year (yes a year has 12 months, thank u ... i really didnt know that ;) ) do u know what taxes are and how much a state charges a company? guess how much will remain from ur calculated 31mio€ --> less than 50% but yes.. u are right ... there is a big hole, i remember Eugen wrote that 5 mio copies were sold (state November 2018). it is not my intention to know how many money they made with dayz since the steam early acces release. that doesnt make a difference in developement. i mean u can invest more than the duoble and employ 200 more programmers, designers,... in this case the project is overload and get stuck. Edited January 25, 2019 by Funkdoc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BCBasher 2465 Posted February 3, 2019 Are helicopters in yet? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
