Darth_Rogue Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 Good idea. Rolled my Altis server over for now. :D If I get a bunch of regulars out of this I'll buy you a case of beer, SkyDogs! :wub: (provided you're over age of course, lol!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyDogs Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 I'm 43 next month. I have an Epoch home, but I still wish to practice building. If you'll have me temporarily & occasionally thereafter, I'd be delighted to log in. Maybe have the advanced flight thing so nooblets like me can practice on that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Rogue Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 Yeah hop on in! My TS is open as well. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyDogs Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 Yeah hop on in! My TS is open as well. :) Hopefully get on tomorrow, as I'm working tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SadBoy1981 Posted April 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 GTA 5 take away all my players!!!! From 20 online now 2 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Solem Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 There is a lot of pride involved with hosting a server, for example, I take pride in the fact that I was involved to some extent in the ZOMBIES.NU-community. I take pride in that we ran a pretty successful ARMA2 Epoch-server. I also take pride in the fact that me and Yarwood started up an entirely new brand and made it mean something to the very loyal (albeit small) player base we do have. But pride is what keeps people like me from merging/amalgating with others, because they are like we are; they built a brand and a set of ideas and don't want to lose them. Also the countless hours you spend on tweaking, fixing, testing, reporting, and so on is tied into it all, and it would "feel" like starting over. So stubbornly we stick to it. That's my reason. And like anybody know who have done this, the many issues in ARMA, missed semicolons or commas in arrays, or BattlEye-filters, or pesky glitchers, that having more people doing the same thing, helping each other is probably a big factor in what would make it more fun for all. I have a vision of what I want Epoch to be, Yarwood is on the same level, and so we stick to it. Perhaps our idea is what keeps the player base away, that what we want isn't what they/you want. But stubborn pride prevents us from (for example) make things easier. Well, prevents me, to be honest. Tywin and KiloSwiss 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Soanes Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 To get new players on your server you need something unique, to keep those new players on your server you need to be dynamic and periodically give them new things, everyone likes new things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartan Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 I don't know why people stress out about player populations I run my server for myself and friends so we can play together if anyone else comes in then that is fine but as far as I am concerned I put the money and time into maintaining it so it is there for my benefit. If you happen to somehow accrue more players it inevitably makes more work for you and there is no financial gain so what is the point, gamers have a myriad of choices to choose from so players will always be transient whatever the game and it is unlikely that player bases will ever be high so if you except this then you won't be dissapointed. Just my 2 cents. ZENITHOVMAN and Oddy-B 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Man Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 I run my server the way I enjoy it, I'm there to play and help when I need to, best part my players understand this. I recently had another server operator jump on steal my mission file and have the balls to jump on my TS and ask for help with it even asking for my deploy server side which I declined but I tried to help him out best I could. They now run a successful server but still wrong the way they went about it. I agree to do it for yourself and if more come and join that's always good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Solem Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 I don't know why people stress out about player populationsSome of us do because we like the action/conflicts coming from a lot of players/clans fighting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knights†emplar Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 too many server owners too many choices, when I am bored and want to play any arma mod i just search for high populated servers, but I play very very limited now, all my group that I played A2 with left to play other games, I too find myself either messing on my test server or playing KOTH. For some reason and this is bizarre every players on epoch that I know, knows there are not enough players so they don't bother joining small populated servers, or just play other more fast paced A3 mods; however this is not hitting home with new server owners for some reason, the honest truth is that there are far less enough players than there was in A2 ! that might change with future releases, but what I noticed there are not even interested in trying it out when new release is out! I caught up with members of two clans that played regularly on my A2 server back in the day and they told me they wont play epoch because there are no zombies in it; they are mostly waiting on Dayz SA or play other mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Horn Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 too many server owners too many choices, when I am bored and want to play any arma mod i just search for high populated servers, but I play very very limited now, all my group that I played A2 with left to play other games, I too find myself either messing on my test server or playing KOTH. For some reason and this is bizarre every players on epoch that I know, knows there are not enough players so they don't bother joining small populated servers, or just play other more fast paced A3 mods; however this is not hitting home with new server owners for some reason, the honest truth is that there are far less enough players than there was in A2 ! that might change with future releases, but what I noticed there are not even interested in trying it out when new release is out! I caught up with members of two clans that played regularly on my A2 server back in the day and they told me they wont play epoch because there are no zombies in it; they are mostly waiting on Dayz SA or play other mods. I see so many comparisons in the forums between A2 Epoch and A3 Epoch . A2 Epoch is a mod of a successful mod that already had antagonists and was proven- Dayz A3 Epoch is the mod - it needs it's own fan base , It doesn't have it yet , simple ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unerground2 Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 what about official servers only? Remove private servers? Admin abuse anyway -.- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Hagler Posted May 1, 2015 Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 My 2 cents , having a server wipe for 3.0 isn't bad in my opinion , It may help some servers , People don't like leaving a server they have grown tired of , whatever the reason , they have too much "time" invested . With a wipe they can find a new home with nothing to lose . Being part of a gaming community with a lot of players doesn't hurt either :P True I left a server I played a lot on. The wipe gave me a reason to leave as I didn't like the admins or how they acted when they finally got a player base. If Darth or the other fella made a taviana or namalsk server... Especially darth I bet it would be a top 100 server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Rogue Posted May 1, 2015 Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 True I left a server I played a lot on. The wipe gave me a reason to leave as I didn't like the admins or how they acted when they finally got a player base. If Darth or the other fella made a taviana or namalsk server... Especially darth I bet it would be a top 100 server. Thanks for the vote of confidence! lol! Our Bornholm server is movin' on up like Georgia Wheezy! :D Got even more exciting things coming soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Hagler Posted May 1, 2015 Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 Good you deserve it for all the help you give here! Sadly I don't like Bornholm so I'll hold out hope you tackle Namalsk :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFranek Posted May 1, 2015 Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 Yeah Darths is awesome I really hope to see your server do well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panduhh Posted May 2, 2015 Report Share Posted May 2, 2015 I don't know what the problem is with getting people on a server. We just have good admins who don't abuse their privileges. We've tweaked some of the basic settings and added a few extra scripts to make things a bit more interesting. The one thing I keep hearing from the new people who come to our server is how much better our admins are than the ones they came from. Admins should not be creating safe zones around their player bases and admin killing anyone who dares to come near. (For example) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Man Posted May 2, 2015 Report Share Posted May 2, 2015 I agree but if they choose to run their server that way it's their choice but think of it this way thats more players leaving servers like that to find better ones. So please continue to abuse your admin powers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viper179 Posted May 2, 2015 Report Share Posted May 2, 2015 hey dont be mad atleast you are not getting ddos out the ass like me ha ha server will be back up soon with even higher ddos protection some people just have no life but i will keep on trucking because who ever is doing this will not win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Man Posted May 2, 2015 Report Share Posted May 2, 2015 That sucks your provider doesn't offer it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viper179 Posted May 2, 2015 Report Share Posted May 2, 2015 yeh but at a low level hey one man if you dont mind me asking who are you with as a dedicated server compay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Man Posted May 2, 2015 Report Share Posted May 2, 2015 I use OVH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knights†emplar Posted May 2, 2015 Report Share Posted May 2, 2015 Good you deserve it for all the help you give here! Sadly I don't like Bornholm so I'll hold out hope you tackle Namalsk :D I would love to get namalsk going, well i can.. i just need someone with terrain experience to help fix it... or i might just do it another way, the other way is to hide objects but there are objects that need replacing ! ,,, patch it up way! which i am avoiding so far.... anyone who can remove/ replace map objects please get in touch :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SadBoy1981 Posted May 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2015 ok, some players are back after they finish GTA 5 missions. Lets wait for others... =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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