Dune: Awakening Private Server – How your own servers work

 

The developers of Dune: Awakening have been working on the private servers for their survival MMO for a long time. Now they've finally finished them, just in time for release, and they're explaining how they really work.

What have the developers announced? The developers of Dune: Awakening announced private servers shortly before release (via Steam ). You can rent these servers directly to customize your gaming experience.

Several providers offer Dune: Awakening servers for rent. Renting a server also allows you to configure certain settings that aren't available on official servers:

• PvP Control: As a server owner, you can completely disable safe zones, enabling PvP anywhere on the map. This allows you to create PvP-only servers.
• Taxation: Base taxation can be disabled. This prevents your dwellings from decaying. This is especially beneficial for long-lived, private groups.
• Weather Control: You can also enable and disable sandstorms.
• Custom name: You can give your server its own name.
• Still in development: There are no admin commands or character transfers yet; however, the developers plan to add these settings later.

So alone you are on your private server

How do private servers work in an MMO? The developers clarify that even private servers share territory with other servers. Anyone renting a private server for Dune: Awakening is essentially renting a so-called sietch. Sietches are subservers hosting the world of Hagga Basin.

This is where the start of the game and the mid-game primarily take place. The permanent player bases are also located there. This means you can experience the core aspects of the game entirely within the private rules of your sietch, whether with constant PvP or without base decay. When you then head into the endgame in the Deep Desert or to trade at the Harkonnen and Atreides bases, players on the private server will encounter other players again.

So, anyone who dreamed of transforming the PvP-heavy endgame into a safe PvE game with a private server will be disappointed. Endgame content remains server-wide.

However, it will be possible to visit other private servers with your own character. Players can take everything their character is wearing with them, and it will also be possible to claim land that isn't claimable on the official servers.

Here you can see how the private servers work:

What at first sounds like it would provide PvE players with an alternative endgame turns out to be just a light version of a proper private server.