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I vote for tents and vehicles saving. Artefacts can be workarounded for most.

You know what would be amazing. A contestable radio station on every server. If you and/or your group go in and kill the current owners, you get to decide what plays. Then go so far as to able to just play music of your PC. This radio should be able to be heard in vehicles and portable personal radios.

I think it's pretty obvious that the two weapons I noted are legit, but they are, from what it seems, the most commonly scripted in weapons. Not only that, according to the DayZ wiki, they are supposed to be extremely rare. With the influx of scriptors and people that are against hacking but still choose to reap the benefits, there is an extremely high number of these extremely uncommon weapons floating around. I only used them as an example because they are the most commonly spawned, but you can bet your ass that the majority of people you have killed that had an AS50 took it off a body that scripted/duped it into existence. The only way to cycle scripted weapons, weather legit lootable weapons or not, out of the game is to leave them on the corpse and hide the body. The way this effects game balance is there is little to no point in entering a city of any size to gear up your character. Scripters, dupers, and people that hoard scripted/duped weapons found in game have thrown the rarity loot balance completely off, and the most efficient way to play the game now is to spawn, run to the far west coast, and run north until you find tents and vehicles chocked full of spawned weapons. Why spend 20 minutes risking your neck in Cherno or Elektro when EVERY SINGLE SERVER has piles and piles of tents and dead bodies laying around with NVGs, AS50s, M9 SDs, range finders, GPSs, etc. So, to make the same point I made before, people like you are ruining the balance of the game and making it a race to who can find the dupe tent the fastest, as opposed to playing the game. If you want to play with these weapons, look for them, and if they aren't in the game, go play Arma. Loot maps are your friend.

Too bad I'm gonna have to leave it here because of vehicles not saving. Actual point of thread: 10 RGO frag grenades. I consulted the wiki and found very little info. Is there any reason to prefer these grenades over M67 grenades? Also, if anyone needs SVD mags, I now have 10 to share.

Okay so I don't play on Non-hive servers very much but I stumbled acrossed one with a friend and played a while. Found a motorcycle, made camp, and he left. I kept chatting with the other guys and befriended the admin. He took me to his camp with his 3 friends and they have several vehicles. Jeep, car, Bus, bicycle, and Ural. He seems like the kind of guy who would reset, or roll back the server if I ended up stealing his shit with my friends. My question is, since it's a non-hive server is he subject to the regular rules of admin (banning, kicking for severe reasons) if he abuses his admin power, or since it's essentially his own setup can he do whatever the hell he wants with no repercussion? P.S. They have a hacked AS50 TWS at their camp in a tent. He showed me. If I steal their vehicles can he ban/kick/roll or reset server and get away with, or not?

No-one is finding your tents, patch 1.7.2.5 is bugged so that tents will only save once You put up tent (Stage 1) You put gear in tent (Stage 2) You save tent (Stage 3) You put more gear in tent (Stage 4) You save tent (Stage 5) Someone finds your tent, steals everything out of it and saves (Stage 6) Server restarts and tent reverts to Stage 3 After that initial save, no matter what you put in it, or what you take out, after the server restart the tent will revert to it's initial save state. Same goes with vehicles.

I recall Rocket saying some things about new maps for standalone. Now, I know the idea of a city like map has been said before [so DON'T say "use the search function". I'm talking to you, Mods] but it doesn't matter. I would just like to re enforce it with my opinion of such a thing. Take Cherno for example. One of the biggest cities in the game [if not the biggest]. But when you think about it...it's not that big. Now, how about a much larger map, where there are highways? And much much MUCH larger cities? This is where my idea [or, perhaps it's not my idea] of supercars [yes, you read correctly] comes into play. You have these massive highways. Massive, long stretching highways that are all over the map. Wide highways that allow for multiple vehicles to be on the road. Now, since the map would be massive, speed is a necessity on these long roads. How about having some supercars? Small storage. Therefore, make the rarity of the supercars MUCH more common. Merely awesomely epic transport. And I suppose make things like V3S's, URALs, Buses, etc, more rare, as they are primarily storage vehicles. High speeds [perhaps matching the speeds of the IRL supercars] Customisable supercars, such as the ability to tweak the performance of the cars by finding parts. The ability to customise your own body designs. [i.e. you could get the ID of your car or something that only allows the current owner to customise the car. Once you have the ID, you could externally --perhaps internally if possible-- customise the colours, looks, etc, of the car. Imagine speeding down the highways at high speeds in a car with whatever customisation you wanted!] I would like to thank the forum user Trizzo for this inspiration. Car radios. Perhaps the Devs could implement a radio station with their own music choices [you could perhaps tune into other frequencies --ingame teamspeak, eh?-- of other players. Former bolded text is not my idea, it has been something that is a common idea]. Maybe even they could occasionally [when they feel like it] say something in the radio to the players? On the note of car radios, how about the ability to upload your own music into the radio [i suppose it would go along the way the ID works that I stated in the customising section] and play it in-game? These are just some ideas that I would ABSOLUTELY [*insert every other highly positive word*] LOVE for something like this to become a reality in standalone. I apologise for any grammatical, spelling or any other literacy related mistakes made. Post your thoughts, and perhaps ideas! P.S. I mean, come on. How cool would it be to be able to speed down highways in your own favourite supercar? My favourite is the Audi R8 GT V10. Although, it's not particularly great on speed compared to other cars, but an amazing drive non the less. What is your favourite supercar? EDIT: Here's one word. Races.

Yes DayZ stand alone is coming, yes that will spice it up and be a completely new experience but if the fundamental mechanics are the same (and without any indication of what new mechanics might be) I’m not sure for how much longer the wider dayz community can keep interested. It appears that dissatisfaction with the DayZ experience is at an all-time high. Please dont suggest fix the artifacts/bugs/hacking. Yes they are annoying but they are not fundemtal design flaws of gameplay. The question is...what do you need to make dayz a fresh and exicting experiece and one that you keep coming back for? -Top tier loot that isn't high powered weapons. One of the problems with dayz looting is that most of the high tier finds are weapons or force multipliers, like night vision /rangefinders. The best finds in Dayz are almost univesally things that kill people! Little wonder tons of severs just ressemble COD. If the end goal of DayZ is high powered weapons/gear the only outcome that can arise is a blood bath. Loot that purely helps people, that has utility and reusability needs to be a core part of the loot system. And not just loot that heals people. Vehicles are one thing but outside of a clan or you finding a random car nobody has anything else acheviable to aim for besdies guns. -A mechanism that allows players to find players or facilitating interactions instead of random wandering. The random wandering is an essential part that i don't want to go away, scavaging is the core part of gameplay. Two options for the following: and I am aware that the first has been discussed at great length. # Bases. There is talk about Red Faction style bases but there are concerns about their "progam-ability", or general skeptisimim or dissmissal. For me I think this is the number one priority that would give direction to the game. Centers for trade, doctors, clans, relaxation. I think this is the most important ascpect of the future for DayZ. I would like to hear why you might disagree. #Radios? UAV? Triangulation? Used for finding people that you're not on vent with. I don't think anybody wants carepackages/uav in that sense...but something... -Missons? Before dissmissing this by saying this isnt skyrim think of this. Missons or goals give people looking for PVP conflict a place to find it. A lot of people I know kill because of boredom and justify it by saying "ahh you never can tell their intention". Something prized to comepte over, that isn't just a pile of loot, could draw bored players away from spawns/towns. Raiding a Z heavey center STALKER style where you needed to bring a toolbox, a satchel charge and X tools would be exicting. Throw into the mix the fact its a compeition over a rare item the inclination to KOS would be quite high. Randomly generated quests, hotspots that pop up for people to go raid, items that appear on the map for 15 mintues. Something to give people who are bored the incentive and a place to fight. And then...?

We've been having the same issue on my server as well... though, I don't think it started with 1.7.2.5... it seems like I started noticing items in vehicles and tents stopped saving after the new BattlEye enhancements (remoteexec.txt and createvehicle.txt). I may remove these for a couple days and see if things improve (if no one else already has).

As you guys probably find annoying that every vehicle on a server is take hidden and in other words practically none exsistant. And really the only way to find these vehicles unless you are lucky is with a helicopter. I've been playing day z for a while now about 2 months and i just found my first car. So i believe that all the hidden vehicles and fortifications ie razor wire and sandbags need to be removed every once in a while for a fresh start. So what i suggest (A logical reason) is that every month or so (or whenever the server feels like it) there is a server reset Ie everything player placed/ hidden is removed. And it can be justified by a nuke. Ie just a really bright light Now of course there will be a warning over the radio 5 mins prior so there is plenty of time to log out. Just for all those people going on about all your stuff disappearing is just unrealistic etc etc. Sometimes starting fresh is more fun. Unless servers already do that. Which to my knowledge they do not

I think this mechanic would add to the game, it's been suggested before and I don't see the problem with it. More dynamics, more secure vehicles, win win.

What do you mean you're not suppose to keep a vehicle for ever? of course you are.The only reason they aren't is because server resets are constant, it extremely hard to repair a car since everything is broken all they time, and people steal them. This is a realistic feature and solution to the Dayz vehicle system. Plus I think vehicles would be a much more common in a first world country, Ethiopia has more damn vehicles than Chernarus.

It would be nice to see fuel tanks that eventually did run completely out of fuel (for a limited amount of time mind you, It wouldn't be fun to have all the fuel tanks completely run out and vehicles be useless). Perhaps Rocket will throw something like this in standalone, but don't have high hopes about seeing anything like this in Alpha/Beta.

Best advice was already given, buy a new CD key. Secondary advice, don't pick up or even go near supply crates that are spawned (that goes for vehicles as well).

At the moment the only way I'm aware of is murdering a survivor. I'm a bandit but not an indiscriminate psychopath, by that I mean I don't just murder anything that moves (that's not the definition of bandit), but I'm gonna have the best gear in a 'legit' way and if that means killing well equipped players or raiding camps then I'm on it. At the moment gaining humanity is pretty easy, even as a bandit you are going to give other bandits transfusions and humanity goes up by itself quite quickly. This means to stay a bandit (keep from 'yoyo morphing') you have to kill often, which is psycho behavior, not criminal. I'm an outlaw like Salvatore Giuliano, not Dexter the monster. -- So do you have any suggestions for more ways to gain negative humanity? I understand the majority of ideas will be beyond the scope of the mod currently, but may with the stand alone become possible. Here's a few to start with. Theft - This could range from 'pick pocketing' to tent raids. Not so easy to implement yet but definitely seems plausible in the future. Vandalism - Destroying vehicles, buildings, camps. Shooting someone - Harming someone lowers your humanity, if you've ever had to shoot or stab someone it doesn't matter how noble your reason, you know it lowered your humanity ("The quality or condition of being human; human nature.") for a while. Would also account for when you 'train' someone, shoot them in the leg and leave them to be eaten, and other acts of leg breaking trollery. Lack of interaction - With the the addition of dogs it would be interesting to consider the possibility of needing companionship, can you stay a compassionate human being by just totally avoiding any and everything, or would that actually grind away at your humanity rather than nurture it. Could be you need to be around other players or at least have a dog so as not to lose your humanity rather than gain it (just throwing suggestions out there).

I have similar problems with my server. The vehicles wont save locations + they loss items on server restart. I had to shut down my servers so the players of my server would stop complaining about losing everything on mandatory server restarts.

I do understand the frustration of having a vehicle stolen. However what's stopping me from breaking the window's and just hot wiring the vehicle to start without keys? In a time where vehicles are a precious resource, nobody's going to simply abide by the rules and leave a 'locked' car alone, they're going to do whatever it takes to leave with it.

basically this.. also don't wear ghillie suits and don't use vehicles (if you can find them) they seem to attract hackers and always be prepared to alt-f4/disconnect when thunderdomed or if lots of players start dying my char has been alive for 14 days now (about 1-5 hours each day) hanging around NE airfield and Krasnostav everything you need up there (including some potiential heli crash spawns) and you still get action from tent dupers and lone wolves heading west

Hey there, Im searching a Clan so, maybe somebody of you is interrested... About me Im Actually 16 Years old and I play DayZ now for over 200 Hours, I spend a lot of time to get my Equip. I have a good Headset, skype and TS2+3, I also play: CoD, Battlefield, LoL, Starcraft etc. I Love Teamplay and im really no Egoist, just a little bit Paranoid... What im Exactly searching for A Clan, (German would be awesome) which have his own Server, a good Structur and nice members. Im also searching for a Group where I can hide my loot and I can PvP with. I hate it to run around alone, searching for vehicles which are all already gone and than run from Crash site to Crash site... I don't think im such a real good player so I think the best Role for me is Medic/Sniper Spotter My Equip: http://i.imgur.com/2OmGz.jpg http://i.imgur.com/96Xpr.jpg

On the whole vehicle side to things, I've only ever found a bicycle. All together I've found 3 bikes now, all in different servers and I've been playing for 4+ months now. (Not 100% sure how long) It all depends on the server and who plays in it. It's not always hackers that get all of the vehicles, but the server owners clan/group. Again, it all depends on so much. Also my group seems to always find vehicles and helis. I've never been with then when they have, but that was mainly because I couldn't join the same servers as them. Now I am able to so I will see!

I have come to the conclusion that the vehicles return to the last location they were saved at or spawned to before the update. I found 4 locations on 1 map where the vehicles keep resetting to reliably. Of course the only one worth running to is the motorcycle because of another bug, "auto-fix".... So take note of where you FIRST find a vehicle and MAYBE when the reset takes place it will be where you found it.

I have a to of supplies to trade, parts for vehicles and supplies, and ammo, and guns, just name it I will probably have it. I really need these two weapons because I have 10 mags for each, get back to me if you would like to trade message me on here or add me on skype saying you wanna trade Skype name is : Shawn.Moore25 Thanks.

No, not doing something wrong, there are reports of the same thing happening to vehicles. etc

Hrm, that could be another reason, people hoarding them. Also, i did state "Legit" vehicles.

So I got global banned the other day for hacking. I'm sad because I don't like wasting money and now my ArmaII is $30 out the door like a fine. I'm not sad because the server I was on before I got global banned I actually used some scripting powers to help fellow noobs out. I'm a veteran player up to 3 months and finally just gave up. The server was hacked to death anyway and I figured I'd see what all the fuss was about. I was tired of running up to cherno and electro for 10-15mins a time to get loot. All I wanted was a crossbow because I've had everything in the game from 10 man squads in helicopters and urals to sniper and ground teams raping cherno and electro. I figured out the crossbow sights with a piece of tape on my screen with dots and wanted to test it on players and get good with it. I spawned a crossbow with all tools and m9sd. I used esp and teleported to a player. I tried shooting at him and missed, he said friendly and had no guns. I then talked to him and it turned out he was a noob then I decided to show him the ropes of dayz. He had a buddy, we found tents and heli crashes and just had a good time. I taught them how to find camps and vehicles and what guns do what damage and how to avoid zombies. I actually played it normal after I met those guys because I just wanted to have a good time again. My crew never plays anymore as they're tired of the hackers. Now I'm global banned and I can't even play normal Arma II which I actually had fun with. I used to stay up to about 6 am and didn't sleep most days because of arma II. It's for the better. At least I know I was helping people and not hurting them in the end.