PC The War Z (Zombie-MMO)

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Kyoshiron schrieb:

boah diese dummen Leute die nichts zu tun haben, da lootet man schön, und die kommen her und knallen einen ab um einen dann lang und breit auszulachen, es muss doch nachteile geben für leute die andere spieler töten, es gibt ja atm nur vorteile alles abzuknallen -.-, gibt deren gegenstände und fertig. man verliert nichts dabei, ausser da steht iwann bandit wow...

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Die Frage ist aber halt auch, was würden die meisten Menschen in real machen?

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Argon schrieb:

in 1 monat kommt eh die dayz standalone.
in dayz sind nur 10% der tode durch mord.

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Hello all,

I've heard your pleas, and am here this afternoon to clear up some questions regarding server rentals.

Starting December 1st (12/1/12) we'll allow folks to rent both Gameworld servers and Stronghold servers. These servers can be public or private.

Gameworld Servers
Access to the entire Colorado map
Rental periods are one month at a time
Owners can rent servers with varied numbers of slots. 15, 30, 50, 70, 100
Owners can set a password/friendly fire option (for PvE servers)
Owners will have a variety of options like displaying name tags, a mandatory crosshair, and more (exact list TBD)
Pricing varies depending on features desired



Stronghold Servers
By the end of the year we hope to have between 6-8 smaller maps to choose from
Item collection on these maps will be more focused on sustainability.
Server owners can see all players spawn points, and the players around you. When targeted, nameplates are displayed (ONLY for server owner)
Strongholds can be rented for different intervals of time, which affects the price



Please post further questions in the comments and I'll do my best to get to them ASAP!

Thanks, and I'll see you in game!

EDIT: Yay for updates!

- Server owners can change passwords more than once
- Server owners can kick players from their servers. We're still discussing the ability to bestow admin rights to others, so they can kick as well.
- Technically players cannot pool time to pay for server rentals right now. We're working on an idea where clans can use GC to rent servers - so players could contribute to the clan's GC pool to rent server time. However, players cannot pool accrued time through preorders for server rental
- Whats the min/max cost of renting a server? Its still TBD, but it'll be competitive with Battlefield, etc
- Pricing will be based around number of slots and rent duration. Players won't be paying extra for features such as crosshairs, PvE, and what have you
- We'll provide server expiration notification way before the server expires.

Also, LOOT

- Private gameworld servers will have reduced rare loot drops as well as reduced military drops. The exact variance is still in discussion/balancing stages, so I cannot give you more info than that. We know itd be an issue (what's to stop people renting a server and farming it to death?) etc, so its definitely one of our major considerations.

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Good news, everyone!

In the spirit of continued communication, I wanted to update everyone on whats going on over here at Hammerpoint Interactive.

Clans are kickin' in the pipeline now, and moving along at a pretty good clip. We're planning on a sizable patch for Thanksgiving, including a rather large content update (official announcement later this week).

Also, some other tidbits I figured you'd be pleased to note:

We're more than aware of the server debate. While I can't say specifically what we're deciding to do in terms of private vs. public servers, we won't be locking players to private servers with separate Global Inventories. Additionally, the idea we're moving with now is that for testing purposes there is no change in loot from private to public, just so we can see the ramifications. If we do reduce loot at the start it would just be reducing military spawns, which ultimately won't matter as we're adding
More civilian weapons!
.22 caliber rifles, etc - I brought this up in our meeting today and Sergey gave us the thumbs up, and art is already discussing the best to include.
Also, brace yourselves, TPS crosshairs are coming...
as are fists for melee....
and a fix for the duping item issue!
All in all we're looking at some very positive changes in the near future.

Other items I brought up for discussion: Regular vs. Hardcore mode. The plan right now is that Hardcore means your character dies forever - you can hang on to him/her for trophy purposes/leaderboards, but otherwise
once dead is always dead.

Also, the foul language filter for chat option is coming, along with the name filter.

Oh, and we're also discussing a proper trade system to help stimulate the economy. As soon as I've got some more info there I'll pass it along!

So, stay tuned for an announcement this week regarding next weeks patch, and I'll see you in game!

EDIT: I forgot to mention another female character was just completed and added in, so she'll go out with the next patch.

Also, for those of you flaming us for lying, all we're doing here is being as transparent as is reasonable with the game. Its a balance
between getting peoples hopes up vs. not giving them anything to hope for. When I say 'clans are coming on X day' that's because its the current plan. When things change, or the task becomes suddenly more difficult than we'd previously estimated, deadlines get moved. It happens in every major developer - I'm simply striving to shed some light on our process, rather than remain silent.

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Eventer schrieb:

Öh das steht doch da schon alles^^

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This weekend we're going to retire all early purchase options - i.e. you won't be able to purchase Survivor, Pioneer or Legend packages.

There'll be new purchase options for new users, but they will not provide early players recognition status (i.e. forum badges, character unlocks, etc.).

The reason we're doing this is simple - we want to make sure that people who supported us in the beginning will always standout from the crowd. We're modifying our Leaderboards UI to include your account badge - so naturally only people who bought the Survivor, Pioneer or Legend package will have that icon displayed there. New accounts will not have special badges.

We're going to give something special to our existing players as well. On wipe we'll give you $5 to $10 (depending on your package type) worth of GC (as well as resetting the GC that came with your pioneer or legend package), and we'll unlock all characters that are available in the game at launch.

We're discussing right now other ways to reward our early players. So - more good stuff will be coming your way at wipe/release.

Stay tuned.

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