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From my experience, everyone is now either a complete noob, running around getting sniped on the beaches, or in a group, almost fully geared always getting vehicles and such. And the thing is, that isn't really what I would like out of this experience. I would like to propose a reset of all characters, so we get that fresh out of the box, everyone is at the same stage, gameplay that it seems Rocket is fronting. Thoughts?

looks like a decoy, head north for the vehicles and the real camp.

H3retic, doesn't work like that. Some resets it doesn't respawn, sometimes it respawns randomly. From what I understand rare vehicles like the heli and fastboat that are one per server can take a week to respawn. Persoanally I understand the logic of wanting them to be rare, but I think limiting the "endgame" so strictly is causing the griefing. Better to not make a bad name for your game before release. Put the dogs aside and find ways to make the game easier to insttall, run better on machines and occupy people so they don't grief, or give them motivation to spare people who aren't a threat.

Found an ATV abandoned on that dam. Took a car and pushed it off. Then tried to flip it upright and it flew up in the air and exploded when it hit the ground. After the server restarted it was back fully repaired and upright. I tend to just avoid the dam completely now with vehicles. They don't like it very much. Even the larger ones make crashing noises when crossing it.

u actually can cross the bridge with other kinds of vehicles. its the atv bugging. same happens on other bridges and piers. but theres a way to flip back. just can take a lot of time. youtube has several unflip videos :)

Just hoping to get an opinion if this is a script for finding vehicles or something that arma naturally pumps out. it was in the script log. 23.08.2012 04:07:47: Primeform (XXX.XX.XX.XX:XXXX) 95245633ebe54356aa588c3b43c050d3 - #130 "isDedicated" 23.08.2012 04:11:40: Primeform (XXX.XX.XX.XX:XXXX) 95245633ebe54356aa588c3b43c050d3 - #28 "cterID,0,_body,_playerID,dayz_playerName]; publicVariable "dayzDeath"; if (isServer) then { _id = da" 23.08.2012 04:11:41: Primeform (XXX.XX.XX.XX:XXXX) 95245633ebe54356aa588c3b43c050d3 - #21 "ize = 1;}; _source = "#particlesource" createVehicleLocal _pos; _source setParticleParams [["\c" 23.08.2012 04:11:44: Primeform (XXX.XX.XX.XX:XXXX) 95245633ebe54356aa588c3b43c050d3 - #28 "cterID,0,_body,_playerID,dayz_playerName]; publicVariable "dayzDeath";

if they introduce antitank mines than ppl will not drive very much in their vehicles. Killing 4, fully geared, bandits in a car which hit mine would realy make my day :)

Yep, same experience on my favorite server, all vehicles return to their natural spawn, and existing tents won't save new loot additions. Hopefully it's fast-tracked in the 1.7.3 pipeline.

US 2147. Check out our thread. We have active admins, we're looking for competitive players. Our server is hosted out of Washington DC. Side note, due to Hive 0.7.3 and 1.7.2.5 there are known issues with saving vehicles and tents. So don't plan on building a camp on any server until they release an update.

First off there are alot of reasons for a server restart, several of which you would not be privy to. US 1037 is scheduled to restart every six hours as recommended, HOWEVER that being said sometimes there are more frequent restarts as this game is only alpha and very buggy. We restart the server when there are very long load times as well as when there are hackers on the server teleporting people or spawning in crates. The BEC antihax script catches it and bans but only after it is done. This means that there are still spawned in ammo crates or vehicles on the server so it gets rebooted to remove such items since people can get global banned if they take things from these crates. Another reason for a restart is when the antihax accidentally bans someone and we review the logs and unban them, their bans are not cleared until server restart. So where you think it is being restarted for "items" you could not be more wrong. In most cases we issue a 5 minute warning and ask players to logout not to lose their items. IF it is dropped without a warning it is do hacking and just because YOU yourself are not aware of it or a victim of it does not mean it is not happening. We watch our server logs very carefully and are trying to run a hacker free server where it is fun to play. If we banned everyone who killed us we would have no players as we die a million times a day just like everyone else. So instead of complaining about frequent restarts that are done to benefit you (the players) be supportive of the fact that are we doing our best to run a hacker free server in a very exploitable mod. Disturbed-gamers is against hacking and always have been. Our server was so full of hackers at one point that it was unplayable. Why play a game or pay for a server that you cannot even play on. There are alot of things that go on behind the scenes that players are unaware of and it is unfair for you to post threads based on assumption. We are doing everything possible to make our server a fun place to play without hackers so instead of crying over it and calling us cheaters maybe you should put yourself in our shoes! I have never seen so many grown adults whine over a game before and try to get servers shutdown for no good reason. We pay for our server and without people like us who spend out hard earned money on servers, people like you would have no place to play this great game.

Hope I'm not that only one that just tries to have fun playing a zombie-apocalypse simulator. All this talk about organ damage and applying pressure to teammates' wounds. Hot damn this may be a simulator but now people are talking like this is meant to TRAIN people for the REAL zombie apocalypse. Anyway solution is simple: Make AS50/M107 unstoreable in tents/vehicles (in fact I think tents and vehicle storage should be removed altogether but that's another discussion) Make AS50/M107 take up backpack slot And possibly make carrying the these weapons cause slower speeds/ADS/reaction time.

Our tents seem to work fine, sometimes we notice 1 or 2 things missing. But we always lose vehicles, we've lost 2 bikes, 2 quads, a GAZ, a Ural, a Bus and another car. They all just vanish when the server restarts. Really annoying.

I understand that this is a common thing along with tents not saving in 1.7.2.5 Lucky for me I play alone and don't have a use for vehicles and can get by without using tents.

I like the idea of bases and barracading, but I think this should be a huge focus. We should have multiple options to customize our bases by using items we find and such. Maybe we can weld a door shut if we find something to weld with, and use ladders to climb in and out of windows instead. If we don't want bandits entering our home, fortify the whole building and use rope ladders that we only lower for our own people to enter. If they try to break throught the walls, set of a siren and/or send up fireworks to signal other groups and/or zombies to our fortified base to keep the bandits hands full while we try to pick them off. Maybe even give us the ability to dig trenches and set of fences and such. But we should have to find the materials to do these things over time. This would be the benefit of larger groups. Also, we should be able to stock vehicles with extra supplies. Large trucks could store more large materials than a small car.

It seems to me that every time a friend and I acquire a vehicle. its lost when the server restarts. Now the servers I play on restart every 6 hours or so. And its getting so frustrating because we spend 4 hours finding parts, fixing it up and then driving it to a spot to set up a camp just to have it disappear the moment the server restarts 2 hours later. And this happens with most servers I play on. Its getting so depressing, fixing up a vehicle, the glee of driving one and then logging in after the server restarts to have my heart sink when I see its simply gone, or its turned into something else which is completely useless and broken (Also occurs) Is this what everyone experiences, or should it not do that. Its getting very annoying.

This happened to me yesterday I had like 12 tents setup with friends and after an hour or so I log back in all our tents where gone and I have yet to find a server where I have a vehicle that stays on a server reset or a sudden server lose of connect. Then that same day I started remaking my camp again on another server same thing happened but I was there this time server went unresponsive and 2 minutes later I was able to log back in and my tents where still their but the content where gone and my PBX turned into a ATV. P.S. Yes I save my tents regularly after adding items and with vehicles.

I saw the title and came in expecting a love letter/marriage proposal. I have to say I left disappointed. On-topic: OP got a 24 hour suspension of his posting rights for, amongst other things, calling the DayZ community 'sycophantic cocksuckers'. Over here: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/77284-suggestions-no-new-content-fix-broken-vehicles/page__p__732888#entry732888 Next time anyone would like to discuss mine, or other moderator's, efforts to keep back the tide, I suggest you contact Griff. He is the moderator of the moderators, so to speak. Have a nice day, all. -Max

Np, I wouldn't post it if it was still there :) We've actually lost both motorcycles, Russian 4x4, and both trucks to various bugs/ponds/ raids already. It was from a while ago. Most of those we found in spawn locations, others from we acquired from campsites or random road encounters. Hoarding is a semi-issue, depending on how bad the hoarding is. For giggles, I stuck the bus in the Cherno fire station and stuck a tank trap behind it... 24 hours later it hadn't made it past the train tracks. EDIT: Bottom line is, vehicles aren't that rare when you know where to look. ATVs are commonly found at Solinichy bridges, campsites are fairly easy to predict, and you may happen on vehicles on the northern dirt roads looking for choppers. Bring an AS50 and shoot the car; note where its at, and come back after server restart. Voila.

I will give my apologies to you. Still investigating the entire situation, but it seems that one of the players on our mumble server was crying hacks and claimed that entire cities were being blown up. This particular player complains about everything, and I personally never listen to anything he says. However, I guess he convinced red_404 the server was under attack so he went ahead and restarted the server. Pending further investigation, basically me talking to red_404 directly to get his side of things, the particular player that cried hacks is going to get a 3 day ban from our server, and red_404 is going to be temporarily suspended admin rights for not verifying logs and for not giving an emergency restart warning to the server prior to shutdown. On top of that, I'd like to find a way to make it up to you and your buddies for the mishap. Perhaps we can repair the chopper up for you and drop it off somewhere for you to pickup? Or we can drop some gear in a tent for you somewhere neutral? Or if you're interested in joining our mumble server we could share loot vehicles. You already know where our campsite is anyways lol. And I'm assuming you're talking about a player named Marc. It's actually kind of funny, I didn't know he was playing with other people on the server. I just seen a new spawn player running down the road with zombies chasing him. So I leveled the huey above the road and tried to get him to get in. When he ran around the chopper, I got out and shot him. It was an ass thing to do but he wouldn't get in the chopper lol. That's when I sent the global saying join our mumble. Glad you've enjoyed playing on our server, and I hope you continue to. You were just merely another target of my rant. I hate more than anything to see an acquisition of admin abuse on my server without proof or without the OP contacting us first. The admins of this server, myself especially, bust our asses off trying to keep this server as playable as possible. The anti-cheat system is terrible, which basically means the admins are the anti-cheat system. We use DayZ Anti-Hax which helps a lot, but doesn't catch things like teleporting and some other events. Last night before I logged off and went to bed we had two script kiddies on, Bill and Damdor. Multiple players on our server ran into them, shot them, killed them. A few moments later they teleported back and killed the player. We found them in the logs, verified the activities, and banned them. That also required us to do a shutdown for a brief minute or two to keep them from killing anyone else while we investigated the logs. I'll admit my rant that was directed at you was immature but hopefully you understand that your reply just added fuel to my fire. At some point I hope anyone reading this thread takes time to look at our official thread. We do a lot to keep a solid server running, including paying for a SSD drive on our server to increase the performance. The game (ARMA II) is not all that stable of a game, and to host a server to run this mod requires a lot of work and maintenance. We get $0 donations from anyone else to help us fund and run our server. So when you are spending your own money, time, and dealing with the frustration of script kiddies all the time, it's easy to get set off by a claim of admin abuse.

I have a different server host but same problem with vehicles. They transform or go back to their spawn completely broken, however every tent I have placed "saves" what I put in it. Fixing vehicles has become pointless lol. Unless of course you don't ever restart your server, but I wouldn't count on that working out long..

yes the artifacting is insane and no fix is expected. you can look around google for ways to config ur graphics card or try flushing, but word on the street is there will be no more patches or updates for dayzmod. so, have fun with the artifacting and jacked tents and vehicles, as the hive is broken too, The only thing to do now is wait for the standalone, which will probly be LOL just like this game.

-Group UI/Clan system: It would be nice to have a clan identification system so that we can tell if they are our own guys or not. Like only clan members have nameplates. Friendly fire is currently an issue for some people. -Map: it would be nice to set up more than one way point. This way when driving around the map we don't have to stop to figure where to go or which road to take. Also share plot points with your buddies and stratagize an atttack plan. So you know where to attack, and where your buddies will be infiltrating. -Camo netting to help conceal your vehicles and tents from being spotted. It is currently WAAY to easy to find camp sites. Especially for those that have a helicopter. -Vehicles: 1. I think there should be more vehicles. Let's face it, vehicles are hardly seen driving around and more so being used by people as tents. So while people are stuck running around, others are just hiding Urals/v3s/off-road trucks and not actually driving them. 2. No more brightly colored vehicles. They are too easy to spot. I think I would be lathuring my truck up in mud just to keep it an earth tone. 3. Enable us to shoot from the vehicle, we are defensless driving in a metal coffin! -Ammo distribution: We should be allowed to take a mag to fill up all of our half empty mags. This way we don't have to run around with a bunch of clips with only 7 bullets in each one. -Sprays: Similar to Counter-Strike, sprays would be a GREAT idea. To those complaining about "penis sprays" don't be immature, it was hardly a problem in CS. -Wildlife/Hunting: 1. More wildlife including predatory animals. 2. Allow us to find a portable fishing pole to take up a toolbelt slot so we may fish for food. -Foxholes: Dig Foxholes with entrenching tool to set up fighting positions. -Tents: When inspecting a tent, there should be a nametag so we can tell who's tent it is. At the very least within your own clan. -Clothes/Apperal: Find individual articles of clothing to replace in their own slots. Hats, shirts, coats, pants, shoes/boots etc...

Bandit skin = kos See another survivor, watch them to determine if they are a threat or not. Defending gear, camp, vehicles = kos Kill because they have better gear .... never (unless they are bandit)

Good question. I don't have the answer but I'm going to go ahead and warn you that tents and vehicles are currently really really broken. avoid testing for the time being :)

If you want to team up, sure. My squad is consistent of anywhere from 3-7 daily players. We group up into a small band of resistance to the undead wasteland and stand and fight ! We use Skype and its honestly very casual. Still in the building basics (have vehicles, camp) and looking to expand in 'useful' players who wish to learn, create, and inevitably destroy those who threaten our peace and way of lulz and scavengery.