Well I just wrapped up a 26 hour DayZ marathon finding and placing tents. I found and placed 8 military tents across a variety of servers before I took a break to go murder some players. 6 Kills later I visited all 8 tents and only one was there. Two of the servers reset off schedule within 20 min of my tent being placed, and when they came back online the configuration was all fucked up. Before I placed the tent these servers where H 1st person, now they are 1st & 3rd, but still load up in 1st only. One other server crashed two hours after setting my tent and is yet to come back online. Five tents evaporated, probably found by another player, so im left with one. Ill post a detailed event log after I get some goddamn sleep and do Christmas with the family. Merry Christmas people. -SERGEANT

Plan on placing 3 to 4 mil tents tonight depending on how long it takes to find them. Ill put one on two popular community servers, one on a less popular one and one on a private hive server ive been fooling around in. Ill put some basic gear in each along with containers, vests and clothing all separate and some stored within itself. Ill write an in game note and post a screen shot of it with each tent that includes the server IP, date and time the tent was placed. Then we just wait and see how long they last. Im pretty sure nobody will find them (unless they use some hack I suppose) as I usually set up my tents way past the edge of the map, usually within 100 yards of the dead drop zone. The rolling landscape makes it almost impossible to spot a mil tent unless you take a path directly too it. On the last one, I found a fully geared player who died less than fifty yards from my sanctuary. Im guessing he had a hack that shows him where loot is or something, but without knowing the exact rout he starved to death before he found it. Sucks to be him, I had a blue tent beside my mil tent packed full of food, and another blue tent full of nothing but water. Anyhow, ill be monitoring these tents closely to see if I loose one to a reset or if a server crashes. Hopefully this will provide some useful data we can use to increase our chances of placing and keeping our tents. On a side note, I do have a life. This is just what happens when I get injured at work and have to sit at home for a year so all you haters can go f**k your mothers and jump off a bridge. Everyone else feel free to share your thoughts and stand bye for the results, might learn something useful. Or all my tents will evaporate like a fart in the wind five minutes after I place the last tent. But whatever, It wouldn't be the first time I watched a full nights worth of work swirl down the toilet.

Ive got balls for days son, just ask your mom and shell tell you how big and hairy they are. As for tents, I put one down on several very popular servers to see if any where more reliable. Now stop bothering the grown ups and go play with your legos.

Been playing DayZ like its my f**king job for the past year but have stuck mainly to the Steam community. Figured it would be a good time to join the actual DayZ forum as I'm youv to be around a while, looking at another year of surgeries before going back to work. I've spent the past 1,600 hours in game stalking and cheerfully slaughtering every geared player I find while exploring every inch of Chernarus. I got screen shots of ky 300+ kills posted on my steam profile if you are interested. Looking forward to getting to know all of you.

It's possible. Perhaps its more of an issue with HC servers. Ill keep testing different HC servers with mop tents and report what happens.

Thats possible, yet I always connect to my tent servers using the IP address through remote connect. Why would the server no longer appear when connecting this way? after placing a tent the server list is empty when I enter its IP. I honestly dont give a flying fuck about people finding my tents, it just seems strange that the server would vanish from the list right after I put a tent down.

Yeah I dont know. All I know is the server vanished from the server list when I tried to remote connect through its IP, like all the others did.

Yeah its a gamble, which is why im testing different servers with tents. Most successful test was on a DayZ WA server. I had two mil tents and two blue tents set up far west beyond the edge of the map. Lasted six days before the server crashed, so at least there is hope.

Not sure, ive only been using military tents as they seem easier to find.

I have been testing military tent persistence on different HC stable servers lately in hopes of finding a safe place to store some gear. In the past five days I have set up five military tents on different official servers. The first four servers crashed within 24 hours of my tent being placed (after being online and stable for months). The fifth went off line this morning only minutes after placing my tent, then returned under a different name and configuration about an hour ago (changed to 1st/3rd person from HC). These where all official HC servers that had been on my favorites list for several months. They where always online, always had a great ping and never changed. Yet the second I set up a mil tent on them they evaporate like a fart in the wind. Not sure whats going on here but im starting to think im cursed or something.

Every time I place a military tent, the server I place it on crashes. I have been testing military tent persistence on different HC stable servers lately in hopes of finding a safe place to store some gear. In the past five days I have set up five military tents on different official servers. The first four servers crashed within 24 hours of my tent being placed. The fifth went off line this morning only minutes after placing my tent, then returned under a differ name and configuration about an hour ago (changed to 1st/3rd person from HC) These where all official HC servers that had been on my favorites list for several months. They where always online, always had a great ping and never changed. Yet the second I set up a mil tent on them they evaporate like a fart in the wind after months of running fine. Not sure whats going on here.