ZehMatt

"Offline" zombies are basically all the agents that are currently not a real in-game zombie. Once they are put back at the border they will roam the map until the player activates them to become "online" again. EDIT: Zombie respawns look something like this: NOTE: I used "walkersim reset" which advances the simulation for N ticks during the initial startup, but thats pretty much what it would look like if you killed off all zombies at once with a nuke and speed up the simulation.

What is this? This plugin replaces the zombie spawning model with an offline simulation. Players on the server will be assigned a visibility zone that decides which zombies will be active and which ones will be offline. If the zombie was killed it will respawn at the map border as an offline version and roams the map, if the zombie is still alive but leaves the player visibility it will become offline but keeping attributes such as health and class. For more information please visit https://github.com/ZehMatt/7dtd-WalkerSim You can find the latest release here: https://github.com/ZehMatt/7dtd-WalkerSim/releases Update 1/24/2021, Version: 0.3.0 - A19.3 support. - Fixed potentially locking up the server. - Fixed initial population not using 'POITravellerChance'. - Added option to make sound distance configurable. - Added sound event vizualization support to the viewer. - Added option 'PauseDuringBloodmoon'. - Added option 'ReservedSpawnSlots'. - Added option 'WalkSpeedScale'. - Improved offline walking behavior. - Improved zombie spawning to avoid lag. - Improved despawn when backtracking, they have a minimum lifetime of 1 in-game minute. - Reduced network bandwidth for viewer. - Reduced default server update rate from 60 to 40 Hz. - Reduced 'PopulationDensity' from 120 to 60. - Increased 'POITravellerChance' from 0.25 to 0.65. Download: https://github.com/ZehMatt/7dtd-WalkerSim/releases/tag/0.3.0 Update 8/27/2020, Version: 0.2.1 - DMT support, you can now play this mod without a dedicated server. Download: https://github.com/ZehMatt/7dtd-WalkerSim/releases/tag/0.2.1 Update 8/25/2020, Version: 0.2 - A19 support. - Fixed visibility zone not being calculated correctly. - Fixed exceptions being thrown when new players join. - Removed the need to disable enemy spawning via serverconfiguration.xml. - Removed sleepers from the simulation, uses the builtin system instead now. - Added audio events, offline zombies will be attracted towards gunshot sounds. Download: https://github.com/ZehMatt/7dtd-WalkerSim/releases/tag/0.2

What about lobbies that can be created by players so they can invite other friends or wait for people to join, once everyone is ready in the lobby it will pick the best server available or allows the lobby creator to host the game with all the settings. Also all players who have been in the lobby should spawn close to each other or even have different groups that spawn somewhere else. I think this would make finding other players and servers a lot easier in general.