At least for public servers, I think the lack of available loot would be a problem.
You've Stripped the Soul Out of 7 Days to Die
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binf_shinana
Refugee
To be explicit, this is multiplayer "on an open server."
This is because a problem that often occurred in older versions, where someone would steal all the treasure chests at POIs around town, has recurred. This still occurs in the current version, but the person who starts the quest has a guaranteed chance to obtain it (unless someone else joins in).
This problem could be solved by shortening the time it takes for placed items to respawn, but then it would be no different to having a quest in place.
Riamus
Hunter
If the servers are resetting chunks regularly, it should be fine. But I also don't use servers as I find it is more enjoyable to play with someone I know.
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That is the cost of playing on a server like that. If I wanted to play on a public server, I would try it and see how the other players were. If they did that, I would find another. If they are all like that, I wouldn't use a public server.
I've spent not a second playing mulitplayer. But unless you're resetting chunks every hour or two, I'd think you'd have instances where someone new would join and find everything near spawn looted, and would likely end up instantly quitting.
Riamus
Hunter
If you are playing on a server that sticks to the player count that the game supports (8 players max at once), that shouldn't be a problem as long as you have spawn points spread out. After all, I've played 7 or 8 players on P2P with all of us in one place and there wasn't an issue with loot being wiped out even when we were just scavenging and not doing quests. If you're playing on a server that doesn't stick to the supported player count, well, then you need to use mods if you want to balance things because TFP isn't going to balance things for more than 8 players.
JaxTeller718
Survivor
Sylen, I love you and have always respected you and your work here and for this community and game and i by no means post this with intentions of disrespect, but I had to come out of retirement from interacting here to say this reason is complete bollocks.
There has been nothing but fancy art and upgrades added to this game that made it almost unplayable at times, not to mention the stuttering backpack opening etc. That only now seems to be in motion of getting controlled.
You already HAVE alienated a large part of the player base, years ago and now it seems even more. The new players are mostly casual, which is fine, everyone should enjoy this amazing game that was built, but its obvious this alpha even those are trailing off now to other games in this genre that explore new mechanics and innovations. Smell was fine, and cause no slowdowns pre 16. Its everything thrown at this game, 90 percent of it art and assets, that are weighing down the game.
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I personally would love if there was an in game mod menu, where you add 100 mods, then select with a checkmark what you do and dont want to add in each play. this would include modders adding options to each of their modlets, for example my plant timer mod has 360 minute. you could select the timer yourself in the menu.
Working with modders to achieve this would be ideal but definitely not in the cards. Understandable they have bigger fish to fry.