Haven't played in a while; question about servers.

[SpiritSharD (DayZ) 1]

Hey all,

It's been a while since I last played, and I'm a little confused about servers. When I was playing I was under the impression that all servers connected as a hive to one central database; has this changed? I was playing yersterday and managed to obtain a lot of equipment whilst heading up North; I logged into a server today and was spawned just outside of Electro. I'm guessing there's private servers out there, but how do you know which is official and which is private? It's a shame there isn't a history so I could go back to the one I joined before.

Noob question I know, but I've been out-of-touch with the mod for at 'least two months.

[Sgt.Asshat 607]

Normaly says "private hive" or "villayer.com" or something like that :)

[SpiritSharD (DayZ) 1]

Ah crap; I must have been playing on some random-ass private server. Does ARMA keep a history of previous servers?

[Jex =TE= (DayZ) 218]

no but dayz commander does

[Cpt_Beefheart 1]

It will also clearly show the non-hives with a lil cloud icon with an X in it.

[AlcApwn (DayZ) 28]

maybe search for servernames with "SAVE" or "KEY" - they will most likely belong to a private hive.