The mod once was the the most played one of all DayZ Mods, around 2k players once played it on its peaks.
Even in the "low times" of the dayz mods with the release of the DayZ Standalone and various Arma 3 mods it stayed at a few hundred players, at least 6-8 servers were filled each night.
Since the latest updates came out (especially the ones that brought in the skill system) the player numbers are decreasing daily.
Servers like TavianaTactical, ZombieWorld and lately DE 001 Reloaded were full every night, nowadays they hardly get to cap.
The few times a day i look at the origins server list, i see 100, maybe 200 people playing the mod - if the number is even that high.
I really hate to see this mod dying slowly - so i want to find some counter-measures to keep it going!
Some things that came to my mind:
Let people choose their servers features
As far as i know there are only options for the following things on the server admin panel:
- Difficulty
- Fences yes/no
- Trader Settings (on/off, Safezone yes/no)
- Bot-Settings (difficulty, humanity-gain?)
- various small settings (Lock on/off, Turbo on/off etc)
Examples:
- Old / New Clothing System
- Skill-System on/off (and off does not mean 100%)
- House-System (Everything, just until nesteds came out, only old houses...)
- Sector B bot amount / Loot settings
- Spawn-Settings for every custom/importante vehicle
- Spawn-Settings for every mid- to high-tier weapon (remove DMR, lower M240 spawnrate etc for example)
Let people host older versions of the mod
There are many people i know that preferred the "old" DayZ Origins Mod - without the skill-system, the old clothing system. Some even prefer the versions without nested buildings.
So why not let people choose which version should be hosted on their server?
Example: current (skillsystem / clothing system), Pre-overhaul (basically the version before the big changes came) and "classic" (only old houses)
Open modfiles for the the community
Why not finally open the modfiles to the community? The Lagfreeservers-monopoly lately didnt anything good to the mod. Why not sell a license to use and modify the mod on our own servers?
Simply roll back to the more successful version
As said above, it feels like Origins did drop alot of players since the Skill-system update - so why not simply roll back to the old version?
Would love to hear some thoughts/suggestions from other people!