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from what i know, all servers are pretty much the same in regard to the disappearing of items in tents/vehicles.

I started this because I want to see how many servers are not saving correctly. It used to work. Just throw a replie and server name if you want. Helo wont save a bus will save in a area but not items. a dirt bike I have will save. But not items. The only Items I have that save are pre 1.7.2.5 and pre latest beta patches. We have rolled back and forward and tried different combos of server files but so far no luck. I know its in beta but Jesus it did work. Like I suggested in another Forum post today If it is a high Id Issue. Remove Low level Id`s of junk like cans and Give the Id`s to good t hings like Helos and Vehicles. If it is a My sql data base Issue Id volunteer and sign a NDA . IM familiar with NDA`s IM gov contractor currently On Blackhawks. BLAABLAA I could go on forever. But IM sure we have the ability in this community to help. With out wanting anything in return but a solid game to buy in a few months. Mike

This camp is so tricked out. Ok they always have someone on so be carful its all barb wired but the main entrance this is were they keep all their vehicles. The base is at Devils Castle. Theres usually a guy on the tower and then there is a guy watching the door. Its worth trying to loot.

Got to love how the hackers he just globally banned come here and try to accuse us of the things they just got banned for. the amusing thing is.. WE have the video and sreenshots of them not only using a magnet script to pull vehicles.. backpacks and an assortment of goodies to the island.. we ALSO have screens of thier dead bodies.. names linked to their bodies through the inspect command with thier backpacks showing the G36sd which was clearly a hacked weapon. video of these players teleporting to the island.. oh.. and when you finally got the chopper to lift off.. us sniping the driver and the other 3 dying in the crashing inferno. enjoy your global ban.. the evidence has been submitted and it will stick. and PS.. rocker is NOT SLF.. hes vVv.. one of the server admins. bandits of skill we welcome your challange. Script kiddies.. well lets just say of the 15+ regulars.. 6 of them have recording software.. and all of us LOVE takeing screenshots. come in here hacking.. and get caught.. expect a global hive ban from DayZ. Get caught playing in a group WITH hackers.. expect a local ban.

I never said I don't like this game. I said the tent/vehicle bugs are a problem. Are you disagreeing? do you think tents and vehicles not saving properly was intended or something? Of course people will start PVPing more once they are bored of collecting guns, which would happen much slower if they could actually save them.

My only advice: Tents and vehicles are badly broken right now, for everyone, on any server, at any given time. Sometimes they work, sometimes they simply disappear, sometimes they morph. Wait for Rocket to fix this mess and don't waste any more time on them until then.

I am at my wits end here, I don't know what to do. My server is having serious issues with it's Vehicles. Two days ago, the White Off-Road Truck turned into a Tractor. At first I thought someone was having a laugh. They had found my hiding place, stolen the Truck, then parked a Tractor in it's place. It was funny. Then it happened again but this time with the Motorcycle. The Motorcycle, was originally the white one...after the next restart it turned into the Red Dirt-bike. It stayed as the Red Dirt-bike for several restarts. Today, it became a Tractor. Or, again, maybe someone is having a laugh by finding it and replacing it with the tractor. I would just laugh it off as someone having a good time messing with me and I'd be perfectly okay with this except, there is another vehicle transmorphing and it's reproducible. The UAZ which spawns at Altar consistently transforms into the White Off-Road Truck after a reboot once it's been repaired, moved to a new location, then saved. We've been able to do this twice now. I expect at the next server restart the White Off-Road Truck will despawn as it did last time, then sometime in the future the UAZ will spawn at Altar in disrepair. I'll happily video it this next time around just to show it. But I doubt seeing it will actually help anyone figure this out. I'm going to pour through all my logs and hope to see some script being fired that a script kiddie/hacker is using to move vehicles around. Because this would explain why vehicles disappear to be replaced by tractors. But the UAZ thing...I don't think can be explained this way. Does anyone have any advice? I can do with the help.

This isn't a game, this is a mod. If you don't like it don't play it. Even if tents and vehicles are fixed, then what are you going to do once you have 50 of every different gun saved in a little campsite? Exactly.. You're going to go kill people.

Don't fix vehicles; the save function is broken and all that will happen is the vehicle will go back to it's orignal spawn point since 1.7.2.5 and be broken again. Don't bother wasting your time.

Until they fix the tents/vehicles not saving, there is NOTHING to do except PVP. after you get a couple decent primaries there is no reason to look for more loot (can't be saved), and now that it's pointless to fix up vehicles or start a camp, there is nothing to do after finding a weapon/supplies except for PVP. Tents/vehicles are an important part of the game, it's retarded that it hasn't been fixed yet. DayZ is just a big game of TDM to most people without tents/vehicles. Edit: I don't have a problem with PVP at all, but I don't want DayZ to be a big team deathmatch, which is exactly what is going to happen if they don't fix this broken game. Since the last patch its the only thing to do.

I can only confirm that I have had the same thing. Across many servers in the last two weeks have fixed an ATV, a van, and a bus, all of which disappeared on a server restart. The ATV we confirmed was back where it spawned, needing repair again. The bus and van we didn't bother. This was on different servers, and were only vehicles we fixed from spawn - not a the few other vehicles we found and fixed that we can't be sure were legit because they had been driven before. Not sure if its *every* restart, or if there are multiple ways of re-initializing/patching the server that may cause it, just know what we've experienced. it's a shame, because having to fix and maintain the vehicle was adding a totally new level of fun in the game.

Maybe this is one of the "undocumented features" they talked about when releasing 1.7.2.5, vehicles that evolve just like in Pokemon?

Yes, we hosted 1896 and when we upgraded to 1.7.2.5 none of the tents or vehicles was saving. So we renamed it to a more suitable name and reverted back to 1.7.2.4 so vehicles and tents save now. Whenever we hit 1.7.2.5 all our tents and vehicles disappeared on us, every other server restart some of the vehicles would appear and some wouldn't, then the next restart they would all appear again. Was a weird bug so it forced us to downgrade back to 1.7.2.4 and now everything works like normal. It appears when we upgraded then downgraded DayZ versions all vehicles went back to their original spawn points. So all the vehicles are in the world again.

yeah but playing on a 2 month old server then claiming vehicles dont existsee the problem with this?

Inventory. In OP post it shows how player is having two primary weapons (one already holding and other one in backpack). I don't like that idea. This might be an accident where OP was just showing and didn't care about being same but still, not a great idea. I don't want a bandit which has a sniper and a full auto gun which gives him ultimate power of defending himself. But as OP showed, the guns that you hold in your arms and sidearm are not in your inventory which i find a lot more realistic and useful. This way it allows players to store more supplies that they need. The OP inventory is much more user friendly and it gives it a really nice and simple look but i don't like the grid type of inventory. With this grid type you will end up playing tetris inventory where you would adjust your things inside to make space for something else etc. It should keep spaces like it has now, 1 space = 1 can of food/water/bandage etc. I noticed how on OP picture there isn't a part where you should see items that you loot. Maybe it's the item list on side. If so then it should only list items that appear in loot not in your inventory. Also pockets in your torso and pants should be combined. Health. Lets be healthy, drink a lot of water, watch what you eat and go to gym LOL. Health system as it is posted here seems too much. If it would have all that it would become frustrating, too realistic and just unplayable. I do like how there would be some diseases like a cold or fever, but that's as far as i would go. Having some life threatening diseases would need you to either team up with someone who could get you necessary stuff or you could just die from it because you are in no shape to get your supplies. And seriously this whole energy thing is load of crap. It would complicate things too much and honestly, you are in a period of apocalypse, if you're hungry you don't have time to watch what will give you more energy or whatever. Also the whole organs thing is also too much. Its like saying don't drink the most found drink in the game (sodas) because your liver will fail after some time. Wounds system seems good but as you said it it makes it too complicate. It would be nice to see it ingame but you should be able to heal your wounds on some easier way and shouldn't be like you could lose your limb (game over). Bruise is useless because if you have a bruise on lets say your leg because somehow you were clumsy ingame and you bumped yourself somewhere (oh god imagine that), even if you have one the pain wont last more than some 5-10 minutes, unless you were so unlucky ingame that your whole leg is blue because you are one big clumsy idiot. You basically made 90% of your inventory only medical supplies because you never know if you gonna bump yourself somewhere or catch a cold or lose a limb.... Health system should be separated from blood but blood amount should depend on your health. For example, 12000 blood = 100% health, if your blood level drops real bad to lets say 4000 or less, your health starts to decrease slowly and you need to find some way to get your blood back to normal level. Zombies and their behavior. I like the idea of zombie herds. The idea of a herd of 50 zombies just appears at your place and attacks you is just mind blowing. As it seems like a good idea still, they shouldn't go through woods. I really like that woods are like a safe zone from zombies, i can then take my time to see if i need something, make a fire, rest a bit from madness that is out there. I also like the idea of different types of zombies with an exception that the "infected" ones which are fast and aggressive still shouldn't be faster than you. Trading. Barely useless because you can have some bandit who wants to trade and he can just shoot you and you lose all your stuff in end. Map. Definitely a bigger map. Leave the map as it is now but add more. Cherarus+ as some people say. Add some modern cities with supermarkets and police stations. Maybe some islands. Underground parts like caves, bases old overrun quarantines. Also there should be like wrecked ambulance vehicles where you can find medical supplies. Weather and seasons. I saw that there is a section about clothing and it would be really good if there would be seasons. If you would be able to change clothes it would be good if you pick up a coat or some warmer clothes because winter is nearing. On winter time players and zombies should be much slower because of snow and it would force players to start making a fireplace in the woods near city and go from time to time for required supplies like food and water. This might sound boring but if you have warm clothes then you can still go around but your body temperature will drop slowly. Looking forward to a standalone DayZ, so far game is amazing and fun even tho its in alpha and has a lot of bugs. TL;DR Most of the OP stuff is good but health is too complicated.

We just tested this on our server - had the blue van at Soli and the 2 boats nearby. Put gear in them, save all 3 3 times and restarted the server. On restart, all have respawned back to their places and all damaged so need fixing again. So this patch just made tents and vehicles broken, didn't fix the graphical glitch so what was the point of it?

as of 1.7.2.5 all vehicles respawn on a server restart

The group claiming hackers was based off of a hearsay that was said over vent (which could have never even have happened) without clear evidence (both visually or the logs; they just found the camp through metagaming and not hacking.) The group claiming blacklist has visual and logical evidence from multiple sources and separate claims (OP's claim being the strongest.) Whilst you see an e-peen war, I see a valid argument favoring the blacklist side. I'm still for blacklisting the server, though. I'm glad he apologized, but what he did is inexcusable. He clearly violated the rules and thought he was in the right. Just because he said sorry doesn't mean he should be let off the hook. Repeatedly restarting the server to save his camp from getting looted isn't fair and given this situation isn't moral. He was restarting the server based on hearsay over vent that it was a hacker raiding his camp without checking the logs. Again, I am glad he said sorry and supposedly admits he will never do this again, but I still think he should suffer the consequences. This will snowball to other admins blatantly abusing only to say sorry and have free reign as they horde items and vehicles, free reign of shutting down/restarting servers when things don't go in their favor, and free reign to ruin people's fun/effort when they want to legitimately raid a camp. An admin should never restart or shut down the server unless they validate that it is a hacker or the server is being thunderdomed. I've been thunderdomed many times (and won the deathmatch a couple times; ALPHA MALE!) and afterwards I would find a way to kill myself and start over again. I've also been turned into a cow and lost all my stuff. Point is, I am not attached to my loot. As a server admin you should be doing your best to identify the hacker and report him/her, not protect your own stuff/loot. If your server was more populated, dez, then you would have been more disruptive to the others innocently playing than the "hacker" raiding your base. Also, after you actually checked the logs and found out that he wasn't hacking, instead of posting this, you posted this. A very shameful display. I hope everyone is happy now, and we can all enjoy ourselves. Good day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

65% of vehicles are actually within 300m of towns. They are just hidden in plain sight. Yes, there are camps on the outskirts of the map with cars, however, its not as many ON MOST SERVERS as you think (some servers do seriously have 60% of the cars in one camp.)

cause theyve been fixed up by other people and hidden? duh? if vehicles constantly spawned there would be 50 things driving around per server. if you dont suck at DayZ it takes all of 1 night to find a vehicle. if you reallllly want one, go to a spawn point and server hop. other than that, search the western/northern forests. takes all of 3-4 hours to do a full clear of the west side and youre guaranteed to find some and atleast 1 tent city per server

Because when the host starts up their server, they will spend hours getting all the vehicles in the game and hording them. It is sad, but it's their server (which they are paying for).

That would be a good idea if you only play DayZ. What about the people that play games like Takistani life or those other mods which you people probably never heard of. They have custom vehicles and decals which are edited and added into core game files. Thus if you make that a ban system anyone with just even a simple mod other than DayZ will get banned

we got some people banned for teleporting and spawning vehicles. But I am pretty sure there are more people on the server who are playing dirty (still people with forbidden weapons), Are there other ways to look for it?

If you are running 1.7.2.5 vehicles WILL NOT save properly. Revert back to 1.7.2.4 and tents and vehicles will save right. I have had 0 problems since we reverted back. All of our tents and vehicles save just fine now.

So does all of our vehicles and all of our tents.