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I don't even understand how it could land itself in the first place in my experience hitting the ground at anything more that 2m/s will severely damage the helicopter. My condolences on your lost helicopter though.

I just concluded a trade with these gentlemen and they were amicable and fair.

Saving a car only saves it's inventory not it's location. Also cars in 1.7.2.5 reset to their original spawn location upon server restarts.

There is no way that 11 vehicles is the limit for a server. My two friends and I at one point had 7 different vehicles at one time before 1.7.2.5 began eating cars.

Also make sure you are playing on servers with a low ping for you.

I believe in humanity just not anonymity over the internet in a computer game. I'm a pragmatist when I first started playing this game many months ago I said I'd never shoot anyone unless it was in self defense and for the most part when I met strangers in the game they didn't shoot they either played with you a little while or you parted ways. However over the life cycle of the mod the action of shooting on sight spread at first mostly due to boredom from earlier players not having a challenge in the game anymore and went on to forever changed the culture of the game. During the many months of playing my friends and I have had to adapt our play styles to the changing conditions. We once were like you but now we are survivors in the game and understand the unwritten rules. For your future in this game you could hold true to what you believe but eventually you'll get fed up with dying to random acts of violence and have to make a choice; perhaps in time you'll turn out like we did, you may yet even become a bandit or the most probable if you stick to completely trusting strangers on the internet is that you'll just give up on the game.

My friends and I only shoot if other players if they are a possible threat to us. If your looting a town we want to loot, then we have to get rid of you sorry :(.However If you are 300m away in the middle of nowhere going in a different direction you are not a threat to us so we leave you be. We've had to adopt this posture of proactive defense because it's too dangerous to trust unknown people. We have been burned by our trusting nature far too much.

I want something predator style so we can string up bandit bodies from trees near our camp as a warning.

Sometimes the option will never come up and you have to get on the ATV and drive it forward a foot to fix it.

You could try rebinding it to another key. Also somehow the in game time could be all wonky and the server thinks it's daytime in which case flashlights don't turn on; try some other night time servers and see if the flashlight still won't work.

Just leave your game on for a while then. You'll die of starvation or dehydration eventually.

My friends and I have got a large camp with multiple vehicles that no one has stumbled across for over 2 months. The beauty of the camp is that you have to be withing 100m to even have a chance of seeing one of the vehicles and since we own the sky we don't have to worry about it being found in that manner.

Yea for bodies it's until the server restarts as for items on the ground I believe I read that it's 15 minutes but in my experience it's until the server restarts as well.

The problem your having with spawning on the coasts is because your joining servers that are running different versions of the current version of the game and or beta patch. If you got dayzcommander and then clicked all the hide options on the left it will only show servers compatible with your current version. Once I did that I haven't spawned in on the coast again.

I've had a camp on a decently populated server for well over a month with multiple vehicles and tents and it's yet to be found. It's still possible that my camp can be found but it is extremely unlikely. Also as a proud owner of a helicopter no one besides us has a camp that is mostly safe on the server we play on. It doesn't take a long time to cover vast distances and tents and vehicles stick out like sore thumbs from 200ft up.