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the gamedev's general professionalism.

The development team posts weekly updates, keep a public list of the features in development, and follows up with large content patches with lengthy patch notes. Examples of all three:

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/2018/06/zedlights/

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/2017/02/buildstatus/

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/23982-released-39675/

They feel professional to me.

Also zomboid is what I play when I want to play cataclysm with graphics people

:-)

I don’t like Hydrocraft - too much bloat.

Bay12 is welcome to use this server:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pzservers/comments/8qfm2b/247_evolution_beta_zombies_evolve_every_week_ends/

One of my goals for the 4 week game cycle is to create an endgame. It gives people something to work towards. So far it’s working, 2 groups have joined up and created a huge defensive wall around their neighboring homes.

The zombies just evolved for the first time. They are starting to spread out into the farms and wilderness.

Arise! Fitting, given the subject matter. :-)

Project Zomboid released a huge new update a few weeks ago which added vehicles. This led to a resurgence in popularity that hit 3,500 players in one day, which is the most its seen in the 4+ years its been on Steam. Info on the update is here:

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/2018/05/build-39-vehicles-released/

I have been playing for 2 hours per day since the vehicles patch came out. I had a 2 year break from Zomboid but glad to be back. :-)

I am running a public server with a bit of a twist. I call it “Zomboid Evolution”. It runs for 4 real weeks, and every real week the zombies evolve to increase the challenge for the survivors. For example, in 48 real hours (at the end of real week one) the zombies start to “roam” and get longer memories and expand outside of the towns. A real week later and their senses improve, and finally a real week after that their intelligence increases and for example some random zombies will be able to open doors.

I had 30 players join in the first 3 days. This first cycle is the beta and ends on 06 July. Beta means I have been tweaking some things (zombie population increase, firearm spawn rates, etc) as I get data on player behavior. The first “real” session runs all of August (after I am off for a bit in July).

Join if you are curious:

IP: 108.61.235.122
Port: 56261
(No password)
West Coast, US
32 players

More info about the game type:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pzservers/comments/8qfm2b/247_evolution_beta_zombies_evolve_every_week_ends/

Reading all this makes me really want to get this game. Room for one more on the bay12 server?

Yes.

Hello all,

Here is an update on the public Fleetwood server that QT3 and Bay12 visit.

We have been up for 25 days, and in that time 64 players have visited and spent a total of 1,863 hours playing. 34 of those players have spent more than 10 hours on the server, and 21 players have spent more than 30 hours on the server.

Groups have independently created at least 3 public maps rooms that I am aware of. There is one by the far east Jungle Obelisk, one in the upper Highlands just across from the Snowy Bridge obelisk, and a third in the dark steppes across from the Mounds of the Dead. Are there more?

There are three public taverns open, located in the Desert under the Tower of the Bats, in the Highlands at the Godsclaw passage, and in the Jungle along the river north of Dagon's Eye.

The Purge is advertised in the server banner as "x2" and in the last week the settings have finally stabilized. We are seeing one purge per large clan every 3 days, and they do twice as much building damage. I have noticed a few Thralls were killed, or a few small blocks broken, but I don't know of any massive damage from a Purge.

The three clans from the core Fleetwood, QT3 and Bay12 clans have been the most active. Fleetwood had a clan event last night to raid the northwest barrows and 7 people attended, see the pic. 11 of our 12 members (across two clans) have played in the last day.



I have a personal "no spoiler" policy, I like to find things out in the game. I am still surprised by the things I see in the game world, or built by players, and I am scared to find out what this does!



Its natural for people to come and go, or drop off as they move away from Conan or away from this server. I plan to play for a while longer, I want to hit 60 and conquer the north. Let me know if I can make the server any better or more fun for you or your friends. :-)

(RP-PvP) Fleetwood - Bldg Dmg Off, x2 Purge, 4am EST Reboot
Address: 108.61.124.68:24000
40 Players, US West Coast
https://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/conanexiles/2269865

Here are some stats about running a public Conan Exiles server for the week from 21 May to 28 May. The server has been up for two weeks.



We have had 38 unique players come through and play for at least 1 hour (up from 22 last week). 25 players have spent more than 10 hours on the server (up from 14 last week). In total, players have spent 1,030 hours on the server (up from 350 hours last week). On average, each player has spent 21 hours on the server (up from 15 1/2 last week).

On average we had 23 unique players per day visit the server this week, including around 5 new players each day. They played an average of 87 hours of accumulated total time per day, over this week. That means each person played an average of 3.8 hours per day, over this week.

The server goes down for a daily reboot. Two times this week it also went down due to issues at the server host. These outages last for about 5 minutes. I also slept through a patch which meant the server was not available for another 6 hours. That is a total of 400 minutes of downtime this week, which would be a monthly uptime of 96%. Without the patch interruption the normal uptime would be 99.99%.

The server is ranked #897 of 21,531 total Conan servers, which is in the top 4% of all Conan servers. I can't figure out how that is ranked versus the Official servers. Its higher than some, lower than others.

I changed two Purge settings this week. I removed the time restrictions on Purges, so they can happen at any time. I also doubled the Purge value increase, from 15 to 30, which means we should see twice as many purges. I am in a clan of 10 people, which is max, and we saw one purge per week so far, with these changes we should see two per week. To see the exact settings check in game Settings / Server / Purge.

You can check out some stats here:

https://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/conanexiles/2269865