Server restart

[jdz (DayZ) 238]

So today I was playing with a friend, he was a fresh spawn and ran north straight away and didn't manage to find a new pack on the way so I met up with him and decided to help him out in finding a new pack.

We were around the Stary area so decided to do a quick loot of the tents and as we were leaving, the server restarted.

We rejoined as soon as we could but then I noticed there were at least 8-10 more people in the server than what was before.

Has anyone ever come across this?

It seemed really dodgy, it was pitch black so beforehand there must've been around 5-10 people on, it fluxuated a little, and after the restart there must've been at least 15.

I get the feeling that an admin restarted it just to spawn fresh loot for him/and/or the people he was playing with.

[HalloweeNGT 23]

Welcome to DayZ, people waits for servers to be restarted (you can check wich are being restarteds with the Arma2 default server scanner) just to grab the loot and jump into another fresh server.

Edited July 19, 2012 by HalloweeNGT

[jdz (DayZ) 238]

Ahhh, even though I've been playing for around 2.5 months now, I didn't know that!

Thanks for clearing that up