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For the patch. Artifacts -> Tents -> Vehicles. The trifecta of what is utterly broken right now. As for other comments, gear expiring is an awful idea. I was killed three times yesterday (artifacts+zombies, twice bandits), twice i got back to the body and nothing was looted. I consider collecting loot from when own dead body fair (forgiving how strange that sounds) when a ghille m4sd player sneaks up on the car i'm fixing and doesn't take a single item from my corpse. The other time my clan picked up my gear because I was playing a specifc role with a specifc item. Someone gave me a toolbox (yeah can't find more than one it seems) to infiltrate the area and clear the wire. IRL if someone goes down with vital gear you'd grab it off the corpse. If someone passes your gear over and you make it back to it good for you. A body that dissapears (without hiding it) makes no sense. And to MurQ, wire, bags, tank traps stay. Get a toolbox. If someone goes the lengths to make a fortress let them. Snip it down in 30 seconds.

I can see your point ont he lack of communication lately, but on the flip side it is a small development team that has been understandably busy in the last month. They announce a standalone and started working on it this month, they attend Gamescon, they are currently at PAX, and they are from a small company. How many times can you hear people complain about tents and vehicles (it sucks sure, but at the same time it is still in development and is not supposed to be a polished product) or graphic glitches before you just hunker down and start working on the fixes. What do you want them to say, "we are working on it" when anyone with common sense knows they are both aware of these problems and working on these problems. I am starting to think Rocket messed up by allowing the alpha to stay open and saying it will receive periodic patches during the lead up to the standalone. If they had pulled the plug or just said this is what you have and handed it over to the community people would have just waited for the standalone, but since they pledged some support they are now burdened with hundreds of whine threads everyday by those who think this mod should be priority number one. Many of us see the potential and many of my friends have come back to the game after a couple week break, while the others are waiting for the standalone. I still find this rough product fun but if you do not take a break and read the reviews when it comes out as a polished product, hackers and bugs will continue to be problem for the mod so if it is too frustrating just hang it up for awhile. Most of the community is mature enough to understand that the developers are focusing most of their attention on the actual game that will be released and we are also hoping for some new features that increase the ways to play this game while not breaking the immersion.

Server hopping is a contentious issue. It's really nice to be able to change servers at will, but it creates all kinds of problems, Ghosting being the primary issue, server hopping for loot farming, vehicles and sniper killing noobs being other issues. I wonder if the cons outweigh the pros on this one and thought it might be interesting to see what everyone else thinks about how it should be handled in the standalone. So vote and discuss.

Hi guys! well i've decided to re-host UK31 again from the lovely guys at VILAYER! Top blokes them and if you looking to rent a server do not hesitate!!! Server details are as follows : UK31 DayZ EU/UK Steam Group - Vilayer Player Slots - 50 UTC -6 Veteran CH/3D - On Name tags - Off Waypoints - On Server has now been reset so any duping tents, barbed wire will not be there from before! Server now has an exclusive security patch that thwarts people spawning in vehicles and weapons, it also prevents people from getting into the admin control panel. On my travels around the server last night vehicles have indeed spawned and should hopefully be still there as i type. Server will only be restarted by myself and that will be manually done with a message in global chat before it happens! Any complaints, criticisms or cheat reporting you can contact me via our Mumble or Steam Group page below! I am always on Steam so getting hold of me shouldn't be a problem!! Steam Group - ARMA 2 DayZ UK (DayZ_UK/EU) Add me on Steam - Aphex@UK31 Any clans or squads wanting to join in the fun are more than welcome and i look forward to the competition!! Have fun and please no cheating, exploiting and no abuse whatsoever! Cheers guys!!!

I have had three ideas about vehicles that i think would be really good to add; Locking vehicles: Locking your car etc. would be extremely cool, so people cannot just find your car etc. and be off with it, you can lock it with keys you find in the gear, these keys would be specific to that vehicle, plus the keys would be needed to start the car. (Probably alot of you are going to be moaning about how it would be unfair not to take someone's vehicle, so for those people read down more), the keys, if stored in the inventory would take up one tool-belt slot. Stealing vehicles: Ok so if the keys are implemented there has to be a way to take a vehicle without them (obviously you could just kill the driver and loot the keys off him/her), Ok so basically you would have the option to smash the window of the vehicle so that you can open the door from the inside (this would also make you loose blood, say 200-300 due to you using your fist/elbow to smash the window, also you would have to use new piece glass to repair the window), once inside you would have to hotwire the car to make it start (maybe have a chance that you will fail to hotwire the car and you will have to start again) the process would take some time to do, so this would also be a minus, but this would balance out the fact that you don't have the keys and would make the keys more precious, I.e. being quicker and doesn't make you loose blood. Closing doors on aircraft: Ok so say the huey is in the stand alone or something like it with the guns hanging out the side and doors, well i think that the pilot should have the ability to close them so that passengers in the back are less likely to be shot, this would obviously take away the ability for gunners and with the huey, if the doors were to close you could not fit anyone in the gap that remains, so it would decrease the amount of players it can hold (if it was like the Chinook for example closing the door would do noting to the carrying capacity unless the Chinook has a MG on the back which would become obsolete due to the door being closed). EDIT:The doors would only be able to be closed when no-one is sitting in the gunner positions I would like to know thoughts on my ideas, any more features suggested i can add to this making the post more tidy :3

Please check into server US 422 the admins have been banning people with out reason and hacking items into the game. The admin names are Jared / Deraj, Sledge, Crazy. They are constantly bringing choppers into the game and setting up camps with duplication tents and self repairing vehicles.

I understand Rocket's vision with a persistent character between worlds, but I don't think it works with the small amount of people on one server. If he had servers (or shards) where you could have 1000s of players at once then I think it would work a lot better to have a character that is locked to that server/shard. Because of how crappy the server code is - having to be continually reset the server, tents/vehicles not appearing, small amount of players, servers going down for hours/days, etc. you can't have characters locked to a server. That means you have to be able to server hop in some form. I personally think, and I've recommended this before, that you should be able to server hop as often as you want, unless you are within X meters of another player/zombie or have the shock icon (looted something recently as well?) - throw in logout timers or something then. If you're off by yourself in the middle of the forest, who really cares if you server hop.

right now every player has every possible resource available to them. if there was some currency (beans, coins, or whatever) you could sell your skills / unique inventory. right now there is so much PKing because the players themselves are worthless - the gear is the currency. Maybe this stems from the ARMA soldier just having all the skills right away. but a regular 'survivor' would not know how to maintain automatic weapons nor skin animals, fix a broken limb, fix vehicles, etc. getting paid to taxi people around, to heal them, to trade goods & services, would rock. Only the truly dedicated survivor could live completely on their own and they have to help dozens of people to be able to get to that level.

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.

PLEASE FIX THE ARTIFACTS FROM SOILDER CORPSES - 7 weeks now this shit has been going on Tents either need to be removed or fixed properly as they are currently duping factories that will not die, I would also suggest a tent wipe as some servers are covered in them. I'm willing to bet that there are more tents now then active players and on some servers there are more zombie tents than zombies If vehicle saving is fixed removing tents will make vehicles more valuable which is good also to fix a vehicle you should need a toolbox Either remove or fix barbedwire/tanktraps/sandbags as they are useless and just a tool for griefing and also cause artifacts, until they have a real role just remove the fuckin things

ask yourself this. would you send $90 tomorrow is the stand alone game was released with all the little bug fixed and the game was kept the way it is now? I wouldn't, I don't have a problem with the bugs at the moment i mean i don't care about vehicles anymore because i have been there and done that. don't the party but I have done everything there is to do. Are you happy to still run around with all of your kit fully geared and once you have it after 14 days alive and 1000 zombie kills with the occasional murder or bandit kill. i mean sure you could just sit in chern and kill people but why not play COD that's what COD is all about. the game has no substance, purpose its like playing command and conquer with a level that jas constant waves of enemy to kill and they will never ever end. once you fill the map up with a base and units what then?

I agree side chat should be enabled. Wish I could run the current patch we had plenty of people playing until I had to downgrade to fix vehicles.

My only addition to what JB has already done is. Use the admin contact. I list my personal email address on the server whenever you connect to play, it's also on the first post of this thread. If you feel you've been wronged, send me an email explaining what happened. I'll look through the logs, identify what happened and if your request matches my findings we'll unban you. I can honestly say we don't: Ban for killing us Ban for stealing a vehicles Ban for raiding a camp ( we actually don't make camps) We don't restart the server when one of us dies. We do ban for: Spawning vehicles Spawning weapon crates teleporting crashing helicopters all around the map. God mode Anything else that's suspect. Our server is not set to auto kick anyone with a 150+ ping. If the server is close to an unplayable state we will restart it. For instance about a week ago a hacker had flown like 15 helicopters into the ground, the entire map was a fire ball. This is not a pure enviroment and we don't want that shit on our server. We notify our users 10 minutes before a restart so they can get to a safe place. With that being said here's another funny clip from last night.. Cheers, Diaonic

Arguing with you is literally depressing me because of your inability to admit you brought up something and then want to ride my ass for what you did. Hoarding vehicles doesn't cause them to blow up. Crashing, bullets and rockets do.

Hi all, FYI - Having not seen a thread about the custom squad info and icons on the forum, I wanted to highlight this fun little option in ArmA II which works in DayZ. After having seen some icons and custom squad information in the player menu (press 'P') on various servers, I got curious. Thankfully, I got the ArmA II player profile enhancement working in DayZ. Thanks to the helpful guide on the link below, my mates and I can now roll like a proper squad. Also, I understand vehicles will have the logo emblazened on the side, but will need a tester to help me try that out. (Will post results) Perhaps they don't work in DayZ, but a custom logo on a jeep or chopper would be neat (Rocket permitting, of course). For more details, see: http://community.bis.../wiki/squad.xml Related images from the tutorial: Example squad logo on helicopter: Example squad logo on jeep: You will need someone to host the .jpg or .paa image file and to keep the .xml file in the same location to make this work. I got ours working in just 30 mins. Example: http://www.spidergam.../dayz/squad.xml Cheers!

Are you in my territory without permission? Are you helping my enemies? Do you have something I need? Did I see you acquire that equipment within my territory without permission? Were you part of a group who blew up/stole my vehicles? Were you part of a group who blew up/raided my camp? Were you the one who blew up my hospital and grocery stores? Do I just plain not like you? Did you make an aggressive move? If the answer is yes to any of these questions then yes I will and not even think twice about doing it. If the answer to all of the above is no? Then probably not, or I will at least give you a warning shot for you to clear out.

I just looked in the logs didnt find you. Reinstatment of ur guid and ip as i type this. Armand, SoS Nathan, Excelsior deemed our server worthy of grenade firestorms at the time. Somehow ur guid got all mixed up with theres. I apologise for you losing the hacked in truck you had stolen. But believe me when I say that script children dont like to share there toys. We might have saved you from a most gruesome demise. In no way would any admin want a leg up on any legitimate player on this server. We desire fair play. The reason for server going down and the truck with all the weapons in the game would be because of script children. Admins have no power over vehicles and hacked in weapons. Sorry 4 mix up and confusion. - One of the several ever vigilante admins of 2147.

I don't really bother to hide my tents. I just stick them where I know other people will have camps too. That way I can loot their stuff and serverhop over to where my tents are and put it with my stuff. If I find a vehicle, that will change, but finding vehicles without a vehicle is just a pain.

Earlier today i was playing on US 2362 with a friend, we had been playing on the server for a few days and had accumulated some good gear, and had set up a small camp, with 2 vehicles we had found and repaired. I had used up all the ammo on my primary and we where heading to NW airfield in the hope to find some more ammo for it, as we approached the airfield we began to notice other players on the server where getting admin banned, next thing i know my friend has been banned shortly after that im banned. I seen a total of 4 players get admin banned from this server before i was (one of them being my friend). We had never raided any other camps on the server, we hadn't even directly encountered another player on the server, and the ban was completely unprovoked. Looking at other posts about this server it appears as though the admin to the server bans anyone he see's on the server. Peace

None of the current bugs are game breaking.. Just really really annoying. The fact that I cant horde new items is annoying.. But since I can constantly keep taking items from older tents knowing that the items will reappear has made this less of an issue. Artifacting is annoying as well. hate that fact that I cant snipe nubs in cherno since the artifacting makes it near impossible to see anything. Vehicles. Also very annoying that half the vehicles I save end up back at there spawns after server restart.. But on a side note. If you crash a vehicle and it blows up. once the server has restarted that destroyed vehicle will appear back at the spot you lost it at fully repaired! None of these are game breaking.. just becoming more and more of a pain in the ass/inconvenience as time goes by.

I have yet to run into any game-breaking bugs, I've lost tons of vehicles and gear to bugs but nothing I can't get back. As for you not wanting to buy the standalone, that's great news for the community and the development team not having to worry about another idiot who doesn't understand this is in alpha stage.

Pyro_Marine, I'm asking that you only include what is relevant. I'll wait for you to repost your arguments without fallacies :) I'll link you to the fallacies that you've used... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignoratio_elenchi (also known as a Red Herring: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man Remember to only include things that are directly relevent to the topic at hand. If you've forgotten the topic at hand... 1. The OP took a huge loss in losing his vehicles (otherwise he wouldn't have posted here) because he hoarded them 2. If the OP wasn't hoarding any vehicles then he wouldn't have lost so much 3. Your assumption that I am jealous of the OP is wrong

19 days since an update. As for 'game breaking' bug, what have you encountered? Have you reported it? Yes, there's artifacting, but you can still play the game. Tents and vehicles don't save contents after server restart and some vehicles disappear as well, but you can still play. Annoying bugs? Absolutely. 'Game breaking'? Definitely not. Again, if you have run into a real game-breaking bug, please tell us about it so we can join in testing it and make a detailed bug report.

US 1846 This clan has been reported in the past, and everything that was said about it regardless of flamers is absolutely true. The clan continues to dupe and use every exploit to their advantage. They'll ban u if u kill them and they restart a minimum of 10 times a day ( being generous ) to recover vehicles that are blown up/stolen or cause the server is lagging from all thier dupes. The server goes down almost every night when one of the clan leaders goes to bed. Cause if he cant play and have fun then why should you? Anyways, locations below.. Oldest Camp Coords = 119 , 039 Along western tree line. ^^^ This camp is filled with tons of guns of all kinds. Clan uses the tent dupe trick and everything is double upon every restart, which is literally a minimum of 10 times a day. 2nd Camp Coords : 054 , 020 ^^^ This camp was compromised multiple times, and thats when all the bans started. ( Note: theres no logs or proof that the players who invaded were hackers ). But they were banned upon killing a few of the [11th] members. 3rd Camp - Newest Camp : ^^^ Didnt bother to look up the coords, easy enough. This base is on SKYRIM MOUTAIN ( slang. not the actual name) between cherno and elektro on the giant hill covered with rocks. On the Very top facing the ocean, u can literally see the water from it. DERP I would also like to note that there are about 10 other camps on the map with 1-4 tents, because no member of this clan can trust eachother. BE WARNED --- IF U ARE THE ONLY PERSON ON BESIDES THIER MEMBERS AND ONE OF THEM DIES THERES A VERY LIKELY CHANCE U WILL BE BANNED WHETHER U DID IT OR NOT --- Will continue to post coords as bases are established. Side Note - They have at least 1 person who spawns vehicles and newest likely place is on skalisky island. HAPPY HUNTING BANDITS!!! Sincerely, Your Pal Hellacious!

IMO if you want to find vehicles you need to try different servers. Some servers will have groups playing on them and they will burn through and or hide most vehicles but a lot of servers won't have large groups coordinating and hoarding vehicles. Example on the main server I play on its difficult to find vehicles but 2 days ago I was playing on a different server and I found a V3S, UAZ, 4 ATV's, 1 motorbike, 1 Hippy van, 2 cars and 3 bikes all in their original spawnpoints