Yeah, I'll second that, you're doing a great job of running the server, and it seems like things are pretty calm, theres not too many people in there, its fairly quiet so you can do your own thing as long as you dont agro others you should be fine, and when you do see ppl its not been a problem. We had someone swim out to our sharky while we were taming it and having a look at it. They hung around for ages, said nothing. After about 15min one of our ppl flew over, picked him up, flew him around a little and dropped him in the ocean a few meters away. Its been fun.
After 74hrs ive not had someone else attack me, other than teammates
I joined up with a couple of people on our 2nd day, was already playing with someone else on here but the other 3 had been playing since day1 and were much more active and also spend a lot of the day in there, its not long that im playing without someone else being there too, even if they're doing their own thing.
Its been really good, and its also made things a lot more accessible as theres teamwork and just someone to keep you company on our teamspeak.
In fact, when they came up to us outside our little 3x3x2 house they asked if we were friendly and wanted to join, while we were chatting a carno came from nowhere and attacked us, and in the chaos of killing the carno each others pets got hit, causing agro there too. I think we had 2 dilo's and something else, and despite 2 of them being killed in the process, and we'd got away fine (i think the 2 dilo's died, i saw 1 got sent flying by the carno, before i'd seen a carno), and they were all cool about it.
One of our members was flying across the map on our 'devil bird' (the vulture/eagle) making saddles for people for nothing (just the materials needed).
If you want a fairly quiet life on a nicely populated server, the ability to get started without being messed with by ppl on high end stuff cos you're easy prey, then horrorwoods server has been really good. Never had any issues with it, although i havent tried any other either to compare. I just know its been rock solid and the ppl on there have been fine, which is all you can ask for really.
Apparently, a little. Not really sure ive seen any gains though tbh. The biggest gains were supposed to be for lower hardware, and a 290x isnt low, so it was optimisation which didnt really help high-end hardware. That said, im playing on medium, the game looks really nice, and while 25-35fps isnt something i'd say it acceptable, for me personally i can honestly say it hasnt been an issue. It hasnt made it harder to play, and i dont get headaches or w/e issues ppl get, fortunately for me.
The rate at which updates are coming is extremely positive though. constant small updates (fixes, balancing tweaks etc) and new content on bigger updates (like Friday & Sat's mini-update had).
I've been very pleased, and i wish more companies did things like this. Similar story with pCARS (even though im not overly bothered about it, despite being a full backer), if small (10-40ppl) development teams at least keep a constant stream of updates and improvements coming, and then when its complete, they release a full polished title just like they would if it was publisher funded - i'd be quite fine with that, and im sure many would. Still a long way, obviously. But the early signs are positive, and im loving what we've got at the moment.
