Private Hives and admin/game play reviews.

[crockett (DayZ) 41]

Just the same as many of you, myself and two friends have turned to private Hives to get away from the cheaters and low life's that can't play the game with out glitching and so on.

I'm not sure about the rest of you but I somewhat expect private hives to step up and admin their servers banning cheaters, people that alt+f4 & so forth.

We have been bouncing around various private Hives and gearing up and playing for a bit and tend to stay there until we decide to move on. Our focus is PVP and we tend to do a lot of banditry.

I just wanted to give some basic reviews of servers we or myself have played on, so others might get a better idea on where the good servers that are worth playing on. This is by no means a full list of all private Hives just basic reviews of where we have played.

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1) Rinaun.com server(s) 209.222.93.26:2302 (have to register at their forums to get server password)

I've played at their servers mostly as a solo player but I played there for easily 2 weeks exclusively when I was almost ready to quit DayZ thanks to hackers. Probably of any non Hive server(s) I've ever played on their admin's were on the ball most.

In the time I played here, I've only ran into one hacker whom was quickly banned. They also ban people that Alt+F4 and the admins will search through logs to get names & deal with people duping weapons/Alt+F4ing.

These guys tend to be on the ball as far as setting up the servers well and we had tents that saved on this server long before they were fixed with any offical patch.

The server is edited to make things much more interesting when it comes to vehicles as they have reduced car/truck spawns in exchange to adding more motorcycle/ATV & bicycle spawns. This means it's much easier for non clan guys to get access to transportation as it cuts down on vehicle hoarding to just use them as glorified tents.

The only thing I'm not 100% on but it seem interesting is the community is working on adding more building around the map. I like the idea on one hand but I'm uncertain how it will effect the game play but it will still be interesting to see how this progresses. (It's also nice to discover a new building location for the first time again)

Game play wise most players are friendly if you are on the server's TS and you announce yourself but if not you will likely get shot.

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Born to Lose Private Hive 208.167.240.191:2302

I played on this server for a few days with 2 friends and as a group were becoming very active PVPing here. Overall it was an enjoyable experience but they need either more admins or to become much more strict on banning people that routinely alt+F4.

I will say I probably had one of the most intense firefights on this server that I've had in any FPS, At the time it was just two of us playing and my partner was killed just as I made it to his location. I ended up getting pinned down in the Elektro Cafe with only a AK holding 2 clips of ammo a 1911 and 1 frag grenade.

I was pinned down by a guy on the school roof shooting in the windows any time I moved, 1 guy behind the building & one guy inside. I managed getting hits on the guy inside two times and chased him out with my frag grenade just as my partner made it back to town, found a gun & managed to get a few hit on the guy whom was on the school roof.

This fight went on over 20 mins and in the en d we manged to over turn a serious disadvantage, forcing the attackers off. I had 6 rounds left in my AK and nothing else.

We went through several lives on this server and it ended with us finding a Bus & then dying to a hacker as we drove north. We lost our bus and all the gear we had accumulated to a single hacker that was left roaming free on the server for well over an hour.

I personally joined their TS3 and reported the hacker but was told something was not working right with their server and they couldn't ban him. After dying two times to the hacker we logged out and later upgraded to the latest ARMA beta patch and can't rejoin the server at this point.

Overall the server was enjoyable and I'm sure I will play there again, but IMO they need more admins &/or the admins needs to be more on the ball. We also had a few player Alt+F4 during combat on this server and it would be nice to see the admins taking a hard-line on this and start banning them.

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The Asylum - US#01 (216.144.246.139:2302)

We joined this server yesterday after upgrading to the latest beta patch, hoping to fix a few bugs we were getting with the game. This was the only private HIVE that was running all the latest patches and that had a decent ping/player count at the time.

I first joined & spawned in Kamenka & ran north to check the near by tree stands. Right off the bat I find a DMR & a Kobra in the 1st tree stand I checked and knew I was going to be on a good run. I could only take one gun due to still having my starter back pack so I took the DMR and headed toward Zeleno in hopes to find a pack pack & supporting gear.

Along the way I find a bike that appeared to be a new spawn, but everything was red on it and it's wouldn't move. About the time I managed to gear up with the basics, one of my friends logged in so I ran back down to meet him & to help him gear up.

We both geared up with a pretty decent amount of players on the server but we didn't run across any actual contacts expect 1 noob spawn at the start. We heard a few gun shots here & there but overall our gearing up process was pretty quiet.

We ended up back in Cherno having several firefights with other players, my favorite being 3 guys on a roof top, two of which I managed single shot kills to the heads with my DMR, then we killed 2 more insider the apartments that we were in.

We had a few different random fire fights and random encounters as well as a battle of patience with 2 other players near the Cherno Church which resulted in no kills. The PVP was pretty good on this server once we were geared up "BUT" and this is a very big but.. we tallied out with something like 11 murders & 2 or 3 bandit kills but out of those kills easily 50-60% of the players on this server used alt+F4 to chicken out/escape.

(4 of the guys we killed alt+f4'd after they died so we couldn't get their loot the rest were actual combat log outs)

The Admins seriously need to get on the ball and give players a way to report people whom alt+F4 & start banning them. I've played most of my time in DayZ on private Hive servers and so far this server was the worst for having players whom alt+F4.

Getting back to our time on the server we racked up quite a few kills by this time & had not died once. we were running out of Cherno when I randomly find a working bicycle as we ran through an open field. This was like the 3rd bike we had found since we joined the server that day but the 1st that worked.

My friend was low on ammo and we had some gear stashed up north, so I took the bike and headed for the gear while he headed to Balota airfield to look for a new gun or ammo. Along my ride up north I was checking bike spawns in hope of getting us a second.. (I assume there must have been a recent server wipe for us to find so many bikes or the admins have added extras)

I had zero luck finding a 2nd bike and by the time I got back he had zero luck finding any ammo for his AKM, but found a M16 with a single clip in Balota and knew where a 2nd clip was back in Cherno. We both meet back in Cherno (dark out) and with pure dumb luck I run right past another bike that was stashed next to a building.. (yes, after running around half the map looking for a 2nd bike we find the 2nd right back where we started)

Having two bikes we head to Elecktro and see some poor sucker in the firehouse with a glow stick as we ride by.. We killed the poor guy hoping he would have some sort of gun or more ammo for my friend M16. Sadly the poor guy just had basic gear & a crossbow.

We headed north to raid the N/W airfield on our bikes & after a quick run through Stary we headed through the open fields where our fun was quickly ended by running both our bikes straight into a grass filled lake that wasn't more than waist deep water.. As much as we tried we couldn't free our bikes from the depths of this mud pit.

We continued on and were geared up pretty well but entering the south barrack I was shot in the back by a coward whom alt +F4'd right as my partner landed a grenade on him. This was the first death either of us had on this server and sadly it came by the hands of yet another chicken whom was scared to lose his stuff.

Ironically enough my partner still got the kill on him but his body disappeared due to him Alt+F4'n leaving no loot. We managed to secure my gear and logged out. We will continue on for a bit more on this server as it was a pretty active server but as I mentioned prior the admins seriously need to get on the ball here.

Outside of the plague of Alt+F4 retards the server ran very well and finding bikes so easily (much like on Rinaun's server) might of been a fluke due to server wipe, (I dunno) but it made our travels a bit more enjoyable while we had them.

I'm hoping we just had a lot of bad luck with the alt+f4 cowards but only time will tell.

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This turned into a blog mid way through the post.. but I'll try to update with game-play/admin reviews on the private Hive servers we join over the next few weeks.

Edited September 10, 2012 by crockett