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yeah same, i can also save vehicles on multiple different servers no problem... but then again I've never had a single artifacting issue either. who knows

With regular server resets it isvery difficult (as you have noticed) to find a vehicle, source all the parts and get it running in the time avalible. If your really keen on getting a vechile up, i suggest the following actions : 1) get a team of like minded people to assit you. 2) Try to hit up servers that have recently restarted to give you the maximum amount of time 3) get to know the likely vehicle locations and check them out 4) if your not afraid of a little exploit cheating you can get yourself into a location close to a regular vehicle spawn point and then server jump until you find a server where the vehicle has appeared. 5) Collect everything you need to fix the vehicle and hold it on your character (and your teammates characters). DO NOT half fix vehicles. As you will no doubt be aware, if you get a sudden restart you will lose all the work you have done. At least by holding onto the parts if you lose the vehicle, you still have your collection of parts. Our group managed to fix a heli in around 30 minutes once as we were all holding most of the parts required in our inventories already. Good luck.

To the people saying I just suck: You're missing the point. This isn't the first time I've spent HOURS fixing up a vehicle only to have it reset to completely damaged state the next time I came back. I have wasted DAYS of my life on these little "fix up a car solo" missions. In fact, I can honestly say that I have NEVER had a car NOT reset on me. I have NEVER had the satisfaction of COMPLETELY fixing a car and driving away in it. Not once. I've been playing for months, and I might as well say that fixing vehicles is basically the entire point of the game to me, for how often I attempt it. I don't understand. What am I doing wrong? How come other people can get vehicles and not me? I know a lot of people are doing it legitimately. I've played with them before. I want to know how I can, too.

We have a White Hilux on our server that we've named the Buddha Truck because it occasionally sticks around after a restart, or some other vehicle we have before a restart morphs into a Hilux after the restart but generally only this one vehicle seems to have any semblance of normality and....it seems to be dealing with a lot of quantum temporal instability in regards to where it shows up, or why...but it generally shows up. Also for more interesting vehicle stuff 3 bikes in a warehouse = motorcycle after a restart Bus almost always = Bike after restart GAZ = ATV after restart But not always in that specific combonation...and, only in the Bus/Bike case, will you find the Bike in the exact position the Bus was in before the restart, the other situations are something akin to alchemy or magic, not sure why they happen, but put the right components together and you transmute them into something else with a server restart.....just they usually end up parked in an entirely different place in the area your original vehicle/vehicles were parked. Weird stuff, funny, but, getting somewhat tiresome too.

i have a group of three singaporean players looking for a server which can save vehicles after server restart. we looking to find more buddies ingame too. importantly we looking for a stable server.

1.7.2.5 still doesnt save.. we had downgraded our server to test the theory and lost a chopper and 2 vehicles 1.7.2.4 same issue

is this server able to save vehicles after server restarted?

Hi there,any clan out there recruiting or anyone wan team up play dayz together?.I trying to establish camp and so far got alot item and motorcycle already.I try to find more vehicles and more weapon to add to camp.anyone that friendly wan join me in this adventure can add me skype:mibusham82 or steam id:skynetad. I playing dayz everyday and spend 7-8 hour playing time.Im using nick Sham in game and lets hope i can find any new survivor to play with :) Here the pic my small camp,i will try to put more tent and and car soon.

I don't actually think, on most servers that are up on 1.7.2.5, that any vehicle actually saves. On few servers save vehicles, most of which don't actually restart [the restart on most servers causes the vehicles to be reset]. If you're looking to get some vehicles on a server that actually saves, go back to 1.7.2.4. That's what I did, and its a lot of fun being able to fly a chopper for a few days.

Dobrry hill above electro. Always someone there with 50cal to kill, all ya need is a lee Enfield. Then head north looking for vehicles and invariably find tent for mk48 or some other assault rifle.

Nice to read something from you in person Rocket! I'm sure your life has changed dramatically, at least the professional one. But yes, you deserve all the attention you get, after all your idea has been nothing less than game industry changing. At least for the mmo survival horror/zombies games, but i suspect it goes further than that. What we missed was the sense of close community we had b4. Meaning you being on the forums at least once a week to tell us what your vision for the future was or even venting to us how hard your coding job was to implement what you had in mind. We are a though crowd, but no doubt but we still respect you and what you are trying to do. And we support you too by keep on loving to play a mod that, I'm afraid to say, has probably reached the end of the line. You can't say that and i understand completely why. But let's face it, arma2 is a very community/modding friendly game that is appropriate for a small community. Since this mod has gone berserk the game has been ruined by cheaters and hacker and there is nothing atm that can be done anymore. More and more people are posting cheats like dayznavigator and such that can be compiled in less than 30 minutes to have all sort of advantages. Tbh I'm still playing the mod but i don't care about updates anymore. I want a very closed up stand alone game now. What the fuck is about the memory readings not being encrypted for example?? A friend of mine made his own exe with which he knows were all vehicles and players are on the map at any given moment. He has to alt tab to check those things, because they don't appear on the ingame map but still, no way to detect him cause he's not injecting or altering anything. He just reads. A few times i played with him, we notice the number of players teleporting themselves or spawning vehicles or weapons was about 35% of any given server. Make the standalone super closed, encrypt memory and fuck the modding chaps if this is the only way to survive. Right now is out of control. I'm sure you know all this already but i still felt the urge to write it down.

[PTD] Prepare to die, hosting a semi-new server located in Dallas. Come join US, or against us. Looking for more people to join the fun. Most of us are military personel and 21+. Contact Emmure for recruitment. US2431: Veteran Consistent admin support 2 server restarts a day. CST. Ventrilo/organized groups. Tents/Vehicles SAVE. IP: 208.115.205.2:2332 See you online. ADD US TO YOUR FAVORITES.

Come join my 70 players server tonight and let's fill it with fun! I have confirmed that vehicles and tents are saving after restarts. That means camps and hoarding for all! The next scheduled restart is in 68 minutes from this post.

i build vehicles across servers and then leave them in populated coastal areas for new players. Heroes forever! :)

My two friends and myself have been playing DayZ nearly everyday since May when we first started the game. We made camp on a server and stuck to it for months, and in all that time we came across maybe 1 vehicle every 3 weeks or longer. We were discouraged of the thought of ever obtaining vehicles of our own, so resorted to simply running across the map everywhere. Over the past month, however, we decided to try different servers after discovering the clan who ran the server had hackers among them. We also discovered that they were hoarding a good deal of the vehicles on the map which explained the abscence despite our best efforts of finding one. We hated the fact that they had accumluated so many vehicles, leaving the rest of us to suffer running for kilometers on end. We swore we would never become what they were. Now we've made camp on a new server, and through pretty much non stop playing the last couple days, have obtained the following: A bus motorcycle UAZ Military UAZ Civilian Ural Hatchback Huey A few hours ago we found a helicopter spawned next to the hospital in Cherno between the apartment complex. With just one of my friends, over the next hour and a half approximately we gathered the necessary supplies to repair it to flying condition, and made it back to camp. Looking down on all that we have accomplished, I realized that we have now become the capitalists that we hated from our previous home server, and I don't feel bad one damn bit. We worked hard, playing for hours on end, earning each vehicle that came our way, and we're not giving them up without a fight....or unless we get bored :P Has anyone else felt similar?

There's so much fail in this thread. 99% of people with vehicles are NOT hackers, and the theory that only a handful are on the server is ridiculous. Theres usually 2 Motorcycles, 2 4x4 pickups, One UAZ (car), UAZ (Russian 4x4), GAZ, hatchback, URAL, V3s, 5-6 bikes(maybe more), 1 PBX (5-6 crap boats too) and aprroximately 6-8 ATVs. Plus a chopper. I'm forgetting some I'm sure, but thats the majority of them. The other day a hacker teleported all vehicles (and people that were inside vehicles) to one spot... needless to say, Chaos ensued. Vehicle owners/hoarders are NOT USUALLY hackers. If you still believe they are you need to reevaluate your DayZ skills, as you probably suck. Why? Hackers don't need vehicles, and most of them either are there to create stupid scenarios for their amusement (Thunderdome, weapon crates, Ghost hauntings/Green mountain hauntings) be it *good* or bad. They can easily teleport around and are usually invincible. I'm sure I'll take some heat for this, but people need to stop crying about their suckiness, or find a new server. P.S 2-3 tractors, and 2-3 buses as well on top of all the other vehicles spawn. Just remembered.

Have no idea what will make vehicles work. As I haven't found any(I play on a clan server big surprise), although I have seen a post on another sites bug listing for DayZ. In that post there were admins talking about a server side code that could potentially save vehicle's locations and inventories properly. Upon testing this code it half worked. The Ural they used stayed at its spot but lost its gear. Next restart the Ural was in its saved spot but a bus had spawned on top if it with the original inventory of the Ural. I think we're going to have to wait till rocket gets these things working.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/78540-the-chronicals-of-buffjesuss-last-dayz-character/#entry742885 really hard dont suck at dayz and vehicles are common as hell

So I hear quite a bit about how the bandit skin and hero skins are useful or not useful. To me, neither one is useful because they don't give you any benefit regardless of your humanity. Like a model citizen, I thought about it and came up with an idea. I haven't see anything in the forums like it (and this time I actually did a search!) Instead of having humanity, let's just change the thing to experience. You get experience by killing zombies, killing players, killing animals, giving transfusions, using epi pens, bandaging a wound, eating food, drinking soda, putting up fences, fixing up vehicles, and whatever else is activated by the mouse wheel in default controls (except for opening and closing doors, of course). As you gain more experience playing with that character, the character will actually start to look more and more badass. For example, replace that god awful baseball cap with a beanie or skull cap. Maybe put some gloves on. How about a bandoleer to replace those thigh packs. All of these things just stack on top of each other to slowly make one bad ass mother fucker. None of this would change inventory or add any sort of bonus to your character. It would just make him look like he's actually knows what he is doing. If you like the idea, I request that you put down some ideas for clothing and gear that can be worn on your characters civilian clothing to make them look more awesome. PS Put some damn gloves on the gillie suit while you're at it. It's kind of stupid looking to see a bush running around with hands that are more visible than the face :P

From my experiences is that the vehicles are bugged on some servers whilst others seem to get away with it.

I have a bus, an ATV and a UAZ. The issue at the moment in 1.7.2.5 is that many vehicles do not save properly and can actuall dissapear into thin air for no apparent reason, even if the server does not restart. I have had this happen with the V3S recently, sometimes vehicles can despawn from their spawn location only a few minutes after partially repairing them. This is, of course, incredibly frustrating. It seems that some vehicles are more prone to vanishing or not saving after log out and server restart than others. The ATV will usually reliably save, I have so far found the UAZ saves for me as well, the helicopter and V3S will nearly always disappear and not save location. My suggestion is, find an ATV (one spawns next to a rock at black lake), these only require a fuel tank, engine and two wheels to full repair, you will also need at least one jerry can. That will take up 27 slots, if you have an Alice pack or Coyote Backpack you can carry all of this at once without making any trips back and forth. Once you find it though, be very careful not to flip it (I have a guide on my YT channel linked below on how to unflip these if you don't know how). The ATV is also very easy to hide because of its colour and size, and goes pretty fast off road and on. Hopefully the next update will fix the issue with vehicles (and tents) not saving properly.

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.

So the past few days I have been dealing with the most annoying bug I have come across since playing this game. After about a minute of play time after joining a server my Debug Monitor disappears. This prevents me from being able to eat, drink, combine ammo, put on clothing, picking up vehicle parts, performing any medical actions, and sometimes prevent me from accessing vehicles. I've seen only a few threads about this issue and none of them have had much attention, nor has anyone figured out a fix. I've verified cache, reinstalled, updated everything, and still nothing. It just came out of nowhere a few days ago and the only brief fix is to relog which sometimes on high pop servers is painful to wait for and it only fixes it for a minute so I have to do it near whatever I need to access and do it quickly before my debug monitor disappears again. Does anyone else have this problem and could it please be looked in to? Having to relog every 20 or so minutes and waiting 5+ minutes to get back in to the game is rough.

I cant imagine the frustration of trying to fix a vehicle alone. We always do it in teams of 4 at least, and it can still be frustrating finding that last peice. The additional fact that vehicles dont seem to save properly, and that hackers can clearly find any vehicle on the map means it only a short term gain even if you do fix one up.

As a lone wolf I have fixed a few vehicles, but find many more to steal. The best vehicle for me right now is the motorcycle, and most of them "self repair". I often find motorcycles in one particular spawn location, which is a mislabelled location for a different vehicle on the Wiki....