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on mine and my friends server us 1925, sometimes randomly after server restarts every vehicle and tent on the map despawn, and randomly respawn (up to) days later. this only happened after the new patch and it isnt just the area where the vehicles tents are kept, we've tried so many different locations, and even found other peoples tents doing the same thing. and yes, we save everything... :x also, sometimes vehicles switch with each other. log off one night with two bicycles, log back in and their's two dirtbikes. this has also happened with the bus/v35. the vehicle you had previously just returns to it's spawn it seems? i'd love input, just to see if we're not alone. is there something i can do as an admin to stop this? our server restarts about every 4-5 hours.

Well, I want to know what vehicles hold the most of the following things.. People, items (like food) and weapons. Wiki apparently isn't reliable.

DayZ is basically the only game I play at the moment, but I'm starting to get sick of it. It's boring that the AS50 is so common, combat logging, ghosting, hackers and that almost every single fucking vehicle is stashed off the map and never see any use. At this point it's more or less just a slow-paced deathmatch for me, as some other players have put it. I started fresh on a private hive yesterday. It's been a positive experience so far. Vehicles are actually used in the gameplay, because any off map vehicles are deleted, rare weapons actually seem to be rare and it's fun actually having to gear up again (on the public hive we have the best stuff in the game in duping tents, so it's pointless to gear up there). Have you tried to set video memory to default? That solves the graphic glitches for me and some of my friends at least.

Never had a problem with tents not saving. I have had problems with tents and vehicles being destroyed overnight, pretty much every night Ive had them until I decided not to bother with them anymore.

CA1 on Aug 25 around 2:30 am. First they killed everyone on the server, then if you watch the side chat you'll see people talking about vehicles being teleported, and finally they nuke Cherno and Elektro. Video here:

Yeah I know. Basically I was already at the van when I spotted it, manuevering around the trees with that long bus, much to drunk to drive really. Found the van and didn't think much about it, started taking screenshots to remember the great day that I got two vehicles lol. Then panic and death followed shortly. B) It sucks but it was still a nice experience encountering Dance in the forest, driving a bus for a while and getting punished for not being careful enough. Thats the game.

Hello, So we have a problem with our server since more than a week : at every restarts (scheduled or not), it comes back to a later 'checkpoint' that was made a week ago, so whatever we do new, it will be lost again and again (even if we save new things on vehicles) because the server will rollback a week.. We think this is a bug due to a disconnection from the pilote on a chopper, because it always rollbacks at this moment (without the chopper respawning) We want to reset completely the mission to erase all, and to start again without bugs, is it possible, and how ? Thank you

Fix the tents+vehicles & I wont care if you don't fix anything else till the standalone.. Losing all your items day in day out is ridiculous and makes the game worthless to play.

Yes im sorry mate, but the DB got a major update to fix humanity and vehicles spawns and for some wierd reason the backup didnt work :( it usually does but not this time unfortunatly and as this is dayz, theres not really a reason to be totally exited about gear or vehicles, they will be gone soon anyway hehe. I hope you can live with that :) and for the vehicle, even tho it got lost in the DB update, it could easily have been stolen hehe, we loose vehicles all the time. And as a patch on the wound we could pick you up and hep you get started again mate. Abit more fun maybe :) i hope you come back

But isn't the fight for vehicles in their proper spot an ongoing battle between groups? And wouldn't that then be slightly more fair for the 1,000,000 other people that could potentially frequent your server?

Not just admin vehicles, we have mutiple groups on our server and none of us like losing them every goddamn time we restart. Pretty sure the randoms who I dont speak to hate it too. How about blaming the hackers, the bugs and the general morons and dicks who play this game before blaming the admins? The people who pay THEIR money so YOU can play for free. Sure, some abuse their powers, but thats the same in every game, for the most part I think the admins do their best within a rather limited and completely stupid set of rules.

That's why servers need the ability to be more custom. Let the server hosts pick the percentages of spawning, and even locations. (Like the editor.) Maybe even keep the spawn percentages, but allow them to change the percentage of the already set percentage, thus not changing it to much, and not allowing hosts to put a set max limit of certain items. This could allow some server to set how far along the outbreak has been going. Like how many vehicles are around, ammo, food, guns, ect. I know that I trust Rocket to know what's best, so servers can stick to the regular version of DayZ if players really want that, but give us a little more variety of gameplay as it really couldn't hurt...

So i'm looking to join a group with a few player like me. I'm 17 years old and i've been playing Dayz for around a 1month and a half. I'm good at any class, sniper, spotter or assault. I don't want a group with little kids 15 or 14 who get so exciting over a rabbit, and people who scream down the mic and never shut up. Its annoying and stop good for communication. I have built bases before, and vehicles and i just want a group to raid towns kill some bandits etc... I'm not your average player on Dayz, like yesterday. Two buses drove past me ( i was a motorbike ) so i trail them. They stop to see if they can see me. So i get my FAL out. Shot both of the buses wheels. And I ended killing 3bandits and 2 murders. All on my own. :) I have raid call and TS3 but i could download others if needed. Msg me on the forums please. Thanks and good hunting !

Self centered much? I have many regulars on my server, who own there own camps and vehicles. So no, its not only for my own motorcycle. I wish to keep the regulars in my server, because it's fun to have ongoing battles between groups.

The two sides I'm seeing is: Admin wants to keep his/her vehicles VS. the server running up at optimal. Did you read the part about admins ruining the game?

I am the owner of a server. There are two sides to this. I often restart the server, but since 1.7.2.5 i am often reluctant because all the vehicles will move to there previous position. Very annoying..

Usually Server restarts are done regularly to restart the scripts that run the game making it run smoother and work correctly. They also cause destroyed vehicles to respawn such as the helicopter or say a car that was shot up and exploded. These vehicles still require fixing most times but they are now fixable as opposed to being totally messed up and non repairable. Its not supposed to affect tents but at times you may loose items or actually gain items in your tent due to server restart.

Well I don't want that, however I do find that we lack vehicles which aren't a death trap when you drive them through a town.

You find 3 vehicles in one night and consecutively trash them all because you're a retard? First I found an ATV, repaired it's two wheels, engine, fuel tank, the usual. Then I do with it what ATV's do best (no, not flip) go offroads, I go on a search of the Northern forrests for vehicles. Well I hit the jackpot mofo because about 30 minutes in I come across a frikkin chopper and a bus. They're both all green, the chopper has no fuel, the bus half a tank and I have 3 full jerry cans on me. So it's dilemma time, I want that chopper, am I going to make fuel runs in the ATV to fill it up or will 3 jerry cans worth be enough to get the chopper to the nearest available refuel point. ...three jerry cans was not sufficient. The chopper downed in the far North of the NWAF seconds away from a refueling point. I then went back to my ATV with all 2K of blood, passing out many times along the way. About 30 seconds after getting on I flip it. So I run to the bus and after driving through the slow ass dirt tracks of the north finally reach Vybor. Due to the dark and my unfamiliarity with the town I presume I can just roll this big bus right on through their stopping at the supermarket on the way. 30 MINUTES LATER I'M STILL FUCKING IN THERE TRAPPED BETWEEN CARS AND ROADBLOCKS. Finally I get out and say 'fuck it I'll walk' at which point a zombie knocks me out cold and chews me to death. It was never supposed to end like this....

There are military weapons in Dayz, there are humvee wrecks all over the place. And now it's odd that I want more (drive able)military-like/stronger vehicles? :S

I know the development of the end game content is very far away for the dayz development team but I thought this idea would fit in very well. After playing dayz for a long time I always wondered why would you spawn on the coastline and only the coastline? So I thought maybe u came from a huge ship / ocean liner that did experiments on people maybe to develop a cure maybe not, who knows, but you some how got thrown off the ship and you float to the coast. There could be a lot of reasons why there is a ship out at sea chucking people onto the coast so I would like to hear everyone’s ideas / reasons or back stories for this idea. Ocean liner as end game content: To take on such a huge ocean liner you would need to gather up a huge amount supplies with your teammates. You will need to gather very rare guns and equipment e.g. you will need a helicopter and a few boats for your team to gain access to the ship, huge amounts of ammo to kill what is on the ship and a few explosives or other weapons to destroy or get through certain rooms with in the ocean liner. My opinion is they should make it insanely hard and almost impossible to mount an attack on this military ocean liner making it so you would need to take a huge group of survivors to be successful and really plan out the attack and strategize, making it very hard to successfully take the ocean liner will really give high level players something to strive for instead of just killing other players. After their first couple of failed attempts and losing all their gear on the attack they will think twice before they attack it again. Now I know how much rocket doesn’t want NPCs army soldiers etc. to be implemented into the game, but this idea just fits so well with the current non existent story line of dayz and it will gives those big squads and teams of survivors something to work towards. To take on a huge military ocean liner that put you in this hell whole to begin with and to get the best possible weapons/vehicles in the game. I would like to hear ideas of what loot could be on the ship or even possible vehicles. The ocean liner could be filled with rooms of infected or hostile NPC army soldiers or rooms where you can see scientists doing experiments. (It’s really up to the development team and rocket to what will be on the ship but here are some possible things to see on this ocean liner) 1: zombies have taking over the entire ship and there are no survivors. (Though if there are just zombies it will be a lot easier to take the ship) 2: there are NPC soldiers / scientists on the ship. (and only a few infected) 3: there are both zombies and soldiers and the soldiers are trying to contain the zombies. 4: you could go onto the ship secretly and release the virus to turn every on the ship into the infected there fore making it easier to take over. So even if rocket doesn’t want NPC soldiers on this ocean liner (though I think it would be a lot harder and more challenging to take the ship if there are NPC soldiers) you could still implement this into the new stand-alone game and give dayz a small back story / endgame content which will be much needed for the high level players of dayz! It also gives you an idea of the back-story without reveling much of what is going on, people can then speculate to why that ocean liner is there and if we really did come from the ocean liner. What will we discover when we take the oceanliner? It really draws people to it tempting them to attack it to find out what is in it and why it is there etc. This post is in general discussion and in suggestions figured it should be in both. So please tell me what you think about this idea for the back story of dayz and end game content, I would love to hear your story lines to the oceanliner and why it is there and throwing people onto the coast any other ideas for the end game content such as what gear you would see on it and vehicles and how hard it should be etc. I hope you read this rocket! And my other idea on the sleep mechanic/logout timer, thanks for reading guys poor beans all over my face!

I know the development of the end game content is very far away for the dayz development team but I thought this idea would fit in very well. After playing dayz for a long time I always wondered why would you spawn on the coastline and only the coastline? So I thought maybe u came from a huge ship / ocean liner that did experiments on people maybe to develop a cure maybe not, who knows, but you some how got thrown off the ship and you float to the coast. There could be a lot of reasons why there is a ship out at sea chucking people onto the coast so I would like to hear everyone’s ideas / reasons or back stories for this idea. Ocean liner as end game content: To take on such a huge ocean liner you would need to gather up a huge amount supplies with your teammates. You will need to gather very rare guns and equipment e.g. you will need a helicopter and a few boats for your team to gain access to the ship, huge amounts of ammo to kill what is on the ship and a few explosives or other weapons to destroy or get through certain rooms with in the ocean liner. My opinion is they should make it insanely hard and almost impossible to mount an attack on this military ocean liner making it so you would need to take a huge group of survivors to be successful and really plan out the attack and strategize, making it very hard to successfully take the ocean liner will really give high level players something to strive for instead of just killing other players. After their first couple of failed attempts and losing all their gear on the attack they will think twice before they attack it again. Now I know how much rocket doesn’t want NPCs army soldiers etc. to be implemented into the game, but this idea just fits so well with the current non existent story line of dayz and it will gives those big squads and teams of survivors something to work towards. To take on a huge military ocean liner that put you in this hell whole to begin with and to get the best possible weapons/vehicles in the game. I would like to hear ideas of what loot could be on the ship or even possible vehicles. The ocean liner could be filled with rooms of infected or hostile NPC army soldiers or rooms where you can see scientists doing experiments. (It’s really up to the development team and rocket to what will be on the ship but here are some possible things to see on this ocean liner) 1: zombies have taking over the entire ship and there are no survivors. (Though if there are just zombies it will be a lot easier to take the ship) 2: there are NPC soldiers / scientists on the ship. (and only a few infected) 3: there are both zombies and soldiers and the soldiers are trying to contain the zombies. 4: you could go onto the ship secretly and release the virus to turn every on the ship into the infected there fore making it easier to take over. So even if rocket doesn’t want NPC soldiers on this ocean liner (though I think it would be a lot harder and more challenging to take the ship if there are NPC soldiers) you could still implement this into the new stand-alone game and give dayz a small back story / endgame content which will be much needed for the high level players of dayz! It also gives you an idea of the back-story without reveling much of what is going on, people can then speculate to why that ocean liner is there and if we really did come from the ocean liner. What will we discover when we take the oceanliner? It really draws people to it tempting them to attack it to find out what is in it and why it is there etc. This post is in general discussion and in suggestions figured it should be in both. So please tell me what you think about this idea for the back story of dayz and end game content, I would love to hear your story lines to the oceanliner and why it is there and throwing people onto the coast any other ideas for the end game content such as what gear you would see on it and vehicles and how hard it should be etc. I hope you read this rocket! And my other idea on the sleep mechanic/logout timer, thanks for reading guys poor beans all over my face!

Didn't I watch a video EXACTLY like this encounter today? An unarmed man in a ghillie suit who can drive vehicles and phase in and out of existence? Although the video I was watching was in Kameka, not Mountain That Must Not Be Named. He appears to be the Slenderman of Chernarus!

Keep an eye out for spam in your scripts.log this weekend, we had a visit from a cheater on one of our servers. There were reports of mass deaths and all vehicles be teleported to a remote location in the ocean. All players had the following scripts remotely executed for them resulting in the following logs for ALL players: 24.08.2012 10:27:18: USERNAME (IP) GUID - #121 " _whatIsThis = compile fap_fnExec; call _whatIsThis; " 24.08.2012 10:27:18: USERNAME (IP) GUID - #122 " _whatIsThis = compile fap_fnExec; call _whatIsThis; " 24.08.2012 10:27:18: USERNAME (IP) GUID - #97 "if (isnil ("bInvisibleOn")) then {reyalPyMtcejbo hideObject true;};" In our case the invisibility was later replace with this createVehicle: 24.08.2012 10:31:15: USERNAME (IP) GUID - #20 " if (isServer) then { _dsasadsa = createVehicle ['M1030', [554.713, 3819.73, 0], [], 0, 'CAN_COLLIDE']; _dsasadsa setVariable" Both createvehicle and remoteexec were clear of any entries during this time so there must be functional bypasses working going into the weekend. Prepare for a long one and think twice before you ban for the executions above as they may be falsified.

It depends on what gear everyone has and what not. If everyone has room for 1-2 morphine, some bandages, and a blood bag for themselves, you should get along ok. Now if everyone needs space for extra primaries and ammo and such, it is nice to have a guy with a bag full of meds. Just make sure he doesn't go down right away, and even if you have a dedicated medic, still carry a couple bandages and a morphine yourself, just incase. As for mechanic, I play in small groups and haven't had much luck with vehicles anyways, but I don't see the need. Store parts at your camp and when you go vehicle hunting, load up and move out. Jerry Cans can just be stored in the vehicle once you find it.