Finding a home server, is it worth it?

[nayrilac 3]

I've got a pretty solid group of people that I've been playing DayZ with almost nightly.

We have been tossing around the idea of finding a "home server" but don't know how to choose, and if it's even worth it.

With the tent/vehicle bugs would it even matter if we had a home server? I love the idea of setting up camp and having our own hidden space that we generally hang out at and drop our loot from the day but if it's bugged then the whole "Don't get too attached to your gear" rule takes over.

Just looking for thoughts, opinions, and other players' experience with finding a server to call home.

[hYsoka 20]

As of now, I'm going to have to say no.

I mean me and my friends play on pretty much the same servers (We have vehicles, and know campsites to loot there, etc.) But we never set up our own camp even though we tried.

We play it as kind of "Use your ammunition, food and medical supplies to get to spot x, fill up used resources then go to spot y, rinse and repeat" with the occasional joking around along the way, but setting up a permanent camp is something we haven't done yet.

[SP45M 240]

I play on all the Australian servers and have never really called any of them home. I set up tents on many of them but due to game mechanics they just started duping gear every time the servers reset and it became too easy to gear up and more than a little boring. Then I found a private hive one day and it had side chat, people cooperating, no ghosting, 99% less hackers, voice disabled so less lag and still plenty of pvp. Until the main hive is standalone and game mechanics are fixed I think I will call this place home.

[nayrilac 3]

I love the idea of having a camp...even if people tried to loot it. Gives me something to defend, and to call mine. We've spent numerous hours repairing vehicles too and had them disappear. However, my thought on that is that it's fun while you have it so take advantage while you can haha.

[nayrilac 3]

Then I found a private hive one day and it had side chat, people cooperating, no ghosting, 99% less hackers, voice disabled so less lag and still plenty of pvp. Until the main hive is standalone and game mechanics are fixed I think I will call this place home.

I'd be all for it if voice wasnt disabled. I like being able to take to people I run up on, that way I have a slight chance of not getting killed on sight =P.

[SP45M 240]

I'd be all for it if voice wasnt disabled. I like being able to take to people I run up on, that way I have a slight chance of not getting killed on sight =P.

I run a teamspeak server for anybody who wants to join, if they are not in it they are targets if they are armed. If I was more of a friendly type then I would miss direct voice but helping randoms has never worked out well for me :)

[nayrilac 3]

I run a teamspeak server for anybody who wants to join, if they are not in it they are targets if they are armed. If I was more of a friendly type then I would miss direct voice but helping randoms has never worked out well for me :)

That's actually a pretty good idea for dealing with it. I was thinking maybe once our group gets bigger we can all start paying for our own server. Invite anyone who wants to come teamspeak/mumble/whatever but that way we can also deal with server restart problems on our own.