A response to concerns regarding spread-out population and unfair admin advantage.

[teddysmith]

I thought it would be a good idea to make a separate thread where people can post their opinions and vote in a poll.

Guys, you really have to try and see from both perspectives.

Think about other games such as DayZ/Infestation(WarZ). Even those games have privately rented servers.

It's giving people an extra option to do what they want with the game.

Let's take this scenario:
A clan rents a server, starts playing on it consistently and here we have 2 possibilities:
[B]- server becomes popular, more players join
- server doesn't become popular, clan doesn't get much PvP and they decide to go to another one.[/B]

That's what usually happens with games that even though might have a big audience, have a lot of player slots per server. You can even think of Minecraft. You have your average servers with 20-50 players and you have some servers with 100-500 players. Don't believe me, take a look at some of the online server browsers.

People will indeed join servers that they find suitable for their desire. Everybody has different tastes...

I don't see how this game will have problems with population, especially when it hits steam, just wait and see.

I do have some suggestions though:

[B]1) Split the server list in 2[/B]

-[U]Official servers[/U], leave the basic ones in there, say like 10-20 servers(for now) that were previously there, before shared hosting was possible for everyone.
Ex: Central Europe Sleeper/No sleeper, Germany, France, UK, US West/East Coast, PvE servers EU/US etc..

-[U]Private Servers[/U], rented by players.

Why would this work for the best:

- People will have to choose a type of server at first, will basically have 2 options. Go on the off[U]icial servers that will be very populated[/U] or switch to the Private Servers where they'll find a mix of servers.

- Players seem to be also concerned due to the fact that Private Servers, that have a [U]player taking the role of an admin might offer some an unfair advantage[/U]. VALID POINT!

Example: I am the admin, I can do what I want, teleport, god mode, spawn items. [U]Before you jump at my neck, keep in mind I DON't KNOW what exactly an admin CAN or CAN NOT do, but if he's abusing his privileges, it's enough to ruin the game for others, people that are not his friends/not in his clan.[/U]

- [U]Introduce the ability to sort the servers by: Player Count/Ping/Name(alphabetical order)[/U]

[B]What you'll get/ TL:DR[/B]

-Diversity of servers, some highly populated, such as the official servers, some with less population where you can develop in peace.

-A fair game when you play on an official server, without admin influence.

[teddysmith]

Well, I'm sure everyone appreciates votes, but it would be great if you could share with us some of your points of view.

Kind of a bump yeah, but I haven't wrote all this just to wait and see what "doesn't/won't" happen.

This concerns you people, contribute, give your opinion.

[Scipio]

That's why I would like official servers to stick around for a while, so we can avoid admin influence.

[mariusp]

[QUOTE=Scipio;42812623]That's why I would like official servers to stick around for a while, so we can avoid admin influence.[/QUOTE]

This is particularly true.