Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26393112-20190101161439

Basically, in large servers (15+), it is a standard procedure of the 2-3 last people and around 2-5 of the first people next round become zombie. Those that are zombie become first in line to become zombie. This does mean that the back end of the zombie list will be, normally, be stuck in an infinite loop of zombie one round and survivor the other. Blame PR's shitty algorithm for this.

In small servers(less than 10), it tends to be regular, last people become zombie, those that are zombie go the start of the queue. Sometimes, rarely, the next zombies will always be the first and last person swapped around.

Now, as you can probably tell, some people will be zombies every other round and some people will almost never be zombie.

'''Now for the clickbait. How do I manipulate my chances of becoming survivor every round?'''

Let's start off with a default server with 25 people in it for simplicity. Around 8-9 people are zombies for regular rounds. Now, since people that join are most of the time, either start of the list for zombies or end of the list of the survivors, they are the people more than likely to become survivor for long periods of time, since i said before, those who are at the start of the list for zombies are almost always placed near the end of the queue for survivor. As more and more people join, they are compressed into the middle block of survivors. THIS IS THE PART YOU WANT TO BE IN. Barring a drastic change in structure, those in this position are almost ALWAYS never a zombie.

So how do I change my probability of becoming a zombie?

'''Just a note, this is NOT a guarantee. For me, this works 70% of the time.'''

If you are near the start of the queue for a 2/2 round, vote Quest. Those that join will therefore be at the back end of the whole server, and this means that they will be zombie after the boss/quest. You will be compressed towards the middle queue and therefore the middle quartile for survivors. Easy win.

If you are in the middle of the queue, the gamemodes you would want to avoid are HARD, maps with survivor restrictions (Blox Harbor Survival etc) and Last Harvest. These maps have majority zombies, and therefore it will ruin your little math game you were playing.

Another easy solution is vote Campaign or Capture the Base. These gamemodes have <6 players most of the times which can lead to those joining becoming zombies every other round, since ALL these players are placed at the start of the survivor queue. And in these gamemodes, only those at the START of the queue get chosen for zombie. This means that survivors near the back of the list are completely immune from this. I say NEARLY. If a zombie leaves, there's a risk that you will fall down to zombie position and be stuck in this infinite loop of survivor/zombie.

'''TL;DR, there is none. This is a complicated mess of algorithms and manipulation. Use math if you do not understand what i just said. Also observe patterns in which players become zombie and you will figure this out.''' 