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[Peep]

Introduction

We are a US based private hive but our server is located in New York, meaning a best-case scenario for any Europeans attempting to play. I have witnessed EU pings under 100 on my server, but they tend to hang around 120. If ping is a concern to you, it may be worth giving us a try and deciding if you like the ping after some gameplay.

You can find our forums at http://forums.bmrf.me and all you have to do is make an account to be automatically whitelisted!


Server specs:
Intel Xeon E3-1245v2 (Ivy Bridge)
32 GB DDR3-1333 memory
10000GB Bandwidth (1 gigabit port)
500GB Primary HDD
500GB Secondary HDD
64GB SSD

Server Settings & Information

BMRF #1: Veteran, crosshairs, third person, nametags, waypoints are disabled though death messages and third person are not. The time zone is UTC -7 (mountain time)
BMRF #2: Same as #1 except third person is disabled.
BMRF #3: Same as #1
BMRF #4: Namalsk with the same difficulty settings as #1

- We have three servers running on the same HIVE. Two of them are third person, and the other one is first-person only. If you attempt to switch to another server after playing on one of them, you will be automatically kicked and told to wait 10 minutes to switch servers. This prevents ghosting and discourages hopping.

- Speaking of auto-kicks, we have a whitelist which requires you to simply sign up on our forum. No further action is needed from you to get whitelisted. We are, as far as we know, the first and only server with an automated whitelist.

- All servers are automatically restarted every four hours, with plenty of advance warnings so you can log off safely.

- The vehicle cap is at 75, which is a very stable number in terms of gameplay and performance. If you go beyond this number on a private hive server, you will see desync as people start to drive many vehicles at the same time. A lot of servers go over the recommended vehicle limit and suffer as a result. We do not do this.

- In-game rewards such as player skins, maps and a golden pistol are available for donating, but I do not want to go into detail on this much here as it's very much secondary and we don't want to solicit any donations.

- There are around 65 buildings added to the map in balanced places. They mostly serve to populate the starting towns and the amount of military loot added is very minimal to keep a balanced feel to the game.

- Our helicopter crash loot is modified. The L85 and AS50 do not spawn at all on our server. New weapons would include a G36c SD, M40A3 Camo, MG36, LRR and many more! If you get sniped on our server, it was likely to a DMR and not a silent AS50 from miles away.

- Care packages spawn around the map randomly and follow the same random algorithm as the chopper crash sites. They spawn very random loot and can be anything from residential to industrial to high-end military.

- We run a mod called stmovement which you can choose to optionally install. It reduces the collision of your character against the game world so you can more around buildings easier without getting caught up in doorways.

- We also run a very well known sound mod called JSRS which modifies many of the ArmA 2 sounds (specifically guns) to basically be a whole lot better. Like stmovement, it's an optional install.

- The admins are extremely active, and I personally keep the RCON open on a second monitor to view chat and respond to concerns/questions. If someone asks for an admin in chat, they will usually get an answer. If you PM an admin in TS, you'll usually get an instant reply, and forum posts are never ignored.

- We have advanced logging features that other private hives do not use. Specifically snapshots of your character are saved multiple times per minute, and we can roll you back to any point in time if you have any issues with your character. Basically, playing on this server is like holding a quicksave button down constantly.

- Everything is always improving, we are always going forward. We've been around since August and have no plans to stop anytime soon. If you're looking for a stable server to call home, this may be the place for you!

You can sign up on our forums to be automatically whitelisted at http://forums.bmrf.me

BMRF #1 Third Person Server: 108.61.53.50:2302

BMRF #2 First Person Server: 108.61.53.50:2303

BMRF #3 Third Person Server: 108.61.53.50:2340

Thanks for reading the thread and I hope to see you in-game. If you have any further questions feel free to drop them in this thread.

Edited by Peep, 27 October 2012 - 10:03 PM.

[Max Planck]

Let's go to off-topic.

Moved.

[Peep]

Fair enough, I'm just happy you didn't delete it all together.

Thanks!

[Legacy]

... The title alone interests me. Expect us.

[Sofa_K1ng]

This sounds pretty cool, I would love to join.  I have been looking for other players to get to know anyway....I'll sign up right after work.

[HuggeTheDruggie]

Hey peep, glad to see you on the dayz forums.

Heres a video of us in your server.




PS. I kill you in the end :3

[Max Planck]

HuggeTheDruggie, on 29 August 2012 - 06:36 PM, said:

Hey peep, glad to see you on the dayz forums.

Heres a video of us in your server.

PS. I kill you in the end :3

Nice. I notice it is crosshair free...

Hugge, how's your ping from Sweden?

And Peep, if you add server settings and server location to your description I'm sure more people will be interested. I know I am.

[HuggeTheDruggie]

Max Planck, on 29 August 2012 - 06:47 PM, said:

Nice. I notice it is crosshair free...

Hugge, how's your ping from Sweden?

And Peep, if you add server settings and server location to your description I'm sure more people will be interested. I know I am.

Ping is 150-170, which is pretty high. But I am surprised how it doesent effect my gameplay.

[Inu]

Ping hardly matters in ArmA.

[leepfrog]

From what I can see your whitelisting system is based on the player ID. Are you aware of the fact that the player ID can be spoofed easily compared to the GUID?

Edited by leepfrog, 30 August 2012 - 09:00 PM.

[Enrico]

I play on this server all the time, and it's a good one. Thanks for the good work guys. I'm definitely excited about using ST_movement, so annoying getting hung up on stuff.

[Peep]

leepfrog, on 30 August 2012 - 08:59 PM, said:

From what I can see your whitelisting system is based on the player ID. Are you aware of the fact that the player ID can be spoofed easily compared to the GUID?

It's not entirely based on that alone, and I don't want to give away exactly how it works.

Edited by Peep, 01 September 2012 - 04:45 PM.

[Legacy]

I applaud the efforts done to this server, I may have found a new home server to hang around.

[Peep]

Legacy, on 01 September 2012 - 06:06 PM, said:

I applaud the efforts done to this server, I may have found a new home server to hang around.

<3


Also as of now the rare bug where sometimes you login and get put in the debug plains with no gear should be fixed.

HuggeTheDruggie, on 29 August 2012 - 06:36 PM, said:

Hey peep, glad to see you on the dayz forums.

Heres a video of us in your server.




PS. I kill you in the end :3

And I'm glad to see you pop into the thread! I haven't seen your group on in awhile, are you still playing DayZ?

Edited by Peep, 01 September 2012 - 07:21 PM.

[Max Planck]

Legacy, on 01 September 2012 - 06:06 PM, said:

I applaud the efforts done to this server, I may have found a new home server to hang around.

I've been there the last three days, I can recommend it. The time setting is a bit off for me, but it does keep me from playing all night when I shouldn't.

Peep, on 01 September 2012 - 07:05 PM, said:

Also as of now the rare bug where sometimes you login and get put in the debug plains with no gear should be fixed.

Hi, thanks for having us.
Do you have by any chance have plans on doing automatic server restarts?

[trav]

Do the admins play on this server?

[Peep]

Max Planck, on 01 September 2012 - 07:12 PM, said:

Hi, thanks for having us.
Do you have by any chance have plans on doing automatic server restarts?

It's in the works, but we're running some scripts and programs that need to be ran along with DayZ. Some need to be started before the server starts, and some after it's able to be logged into, so simply using BEC's restart function for example isn't an option.

trav, on 01 September 2012 - 07:35 PM, said:

Do the admins play on this server?

They do, but only two of them have any real powers outside of kick/ban (one of them being me). You'll have to trust the admins and hope that they do what's best for the server. We hope we never give you a reason to think otherwise.

Edited by Peep, 01 September 2012 - 07:48 PM.

[TheDesigner]

This server looks great and I love the settings, hoping to play this sometime soon.

[Legacy]

Official Theme

[Peep]

Server now has automatic restarts every four hours.