Lue and I had a chance to discuss the status of our server, and we both agree that it's not seeing enough traffic to be worth the cost anymore.

First off, we haven't been receiving donations for it, and I am not in a position to pay for it out of pocket again. Frankly, I'm a poor college student.

Second, standalone is approaching. If it's not out by the end of the year, then I would expect to see it by mid January. Our server runs out January 12th, and I would prefer to not renew it only to have everyone transition to a new system.

Third, nobody plays anymore. Lue, Zodiac, and I are the only ones who have somewhat regularly made an appearance on the server over the past month. Maybe some people pop on here and there when we aren't around, but driving around an empty server loses it's appeal eventually.

DayZ is losing people at a significant rate right now, and yet there are still hundreds of unpopulated servers on the lists. Until those servers start to dissipate we can't expect that everyone will spontaneously decide to join ours.

This is open to discussion, so if you have feedback then leave it here. We have yet to formulate a plan on what we are doing when standalone actually comes out. If it looks like we can get a following again, then we will entertain the idea of a server at that time. Until then, we have Dayz2017 which everyone seems to be enjoying.

Yeah, real life got in the way for me lately, but I'm finally seeing some free time again. The Taviana map is pretty awesome, but I've seen all of like two people on the server at any given time, and the map is so huge it needs a high population to keep in interesting, because I've ran into exactly noone in the few hours I've played it. Not even evidence of other players save a single empty tent I found.

Playing 2017 now. Finally had someone shoot at me! It was great. With how few servers there are, I'll probably see you guys around.

The only problem being that all the 2017 servers are private hives (as far as I know). We may need to find a server and stick with it. The one Lue and I are on seems to have a pretty good population during the day, but that could change as people come and go from the mod.

Pretty much what RPG has said- I'm guilty of not donating to the server as I have no extra funds to do so... especially now with being recently married and inheriting a crap ton of responsibility that I did not previously have. 2017 is likely where i'll be for the rest of the Day Z mod life-span until standalone comes out.. simply because regular day z for me has become rather stale and im sick of it being too easy for me. Namalsk really shined for me as being good because of its lack of food compared to other maps... I had always hoped the military loot would cease and equipment being rare. 2017 feels (to me) the way day z should be. If we could host our own 2017 server, it may be worth it to see where it goes- but as RPG has also said... theres plenty of other servers floating around that are ghost servers... long dead but still there.

The few servers I have bookmarked for 2017, i've been monitoring the past few days... They all seem to rotate for population spikes... I will list them below with the results ive seen so far.

2017 servers:

184.22.66.202:2315 - US.PR3 DayZ 2017 Hosted by {PR} Gaming

This server has been fluctuating between anywhere from 2-20 some odd players throughout the day, but currently at 4:18pm pacific I see it at 0 players. It has 40 slots and has a good ping (about 40) for west coasters like me. This is the server RPG and I are currently playing on, but I really don't mind starting other characters on servers, as I figure its only a matter of time im gonna die on any given server anyway. This server has 3DP ON and CH on, which im willing to give up for a server with better settings and population.

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98.113.195.58:2308 : US.NYC2 DayZ 2017 24/7 DAYLIGHT [MORE VEHICLES]

Have not actually played on this server but it seems to always have right around 10-20+ players. At the current time it has 22/50 players. This server has 3DP on and CH ON and tags OFF.. death messages are ON. They claim a optimized sidechat... whatever that even means.

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46.4.36.84:2302 : DayZ2017 Hosted by survival-network.eu

Has 3DP on and CH off and tags Off. Looks as though its a EU server and ping is around 180. 0/40 slots currently. have not played on this server.

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108.61.53.50:2404 - BMRF DayZ 2017 - bmrf.me - Hosted by Billy Mays Remembrance Foundation.

This server is expert difficulty and has 3DP OFF and uses a whitelist. 0/50 slots at this time, have seen it decently populated from time to time but usually less than the others (im willing to bet because of expert difficulty... surprise).



So theres the server options I have found so far... I do believe Zodiac and Ret play on the BMRF server. Not positive.

Thats right Lue it is the BMRF server. I think I will join you guys on the server ya'll are playing on. Kinda sucks that we will be losing our home server but I guess it makes sense seeing as how of the three of us (Lue,RPG, and myself) I play solo the most. When I do play on the home server it is completely dead. I do wish Vilayer would open up the servers to other arma 2 mods. Hosting one of the more prominent mods (wasteland,2017, or any of the Life maps)would make the server worth keeping.

I've been playing on shinkickers. 3DP:ON CH:OFF NTs:OFF Haven't seen it empty all day. Found quite a few dead bodies, and had a cat and mouse game in Solnichniy. Some guy started shooting at me with a Winchester, he ended up getting blasted by some other dude with an Enfield, and I took of into the woods.

Most fun I've had in DayZ in a long time.

Tried joining the server you and rpg are playing on Lue but for some reason it keeps telling me I have a bad version. Also are you guys going through the arma 2 multiplayer server browser or are you using DayZcommander to launch it?

figured out what I was doing wrong. I am currently just south of Berizeno.

whats the server IP?

66.150.161.164:2302 shinkickers server. Pretty sure he's the guy that made the DayZ2017 mod.