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Hey guys , i think starting this thread was important. i fucking love dayz , this game is just intense , i can't remember a game where you had such adrenaline rushes because you can loose it all in just one mistake. i only seen that in 2 others games : diablo 2 hardcore mode , and ultima online. those games are rare. and i just love the feeling they give. i started to play dayz for more than a month now , explored almost every aspects of the game , had a clan, build camps , tried to find all ingame different gear and cars .saw every guns in the game , no hacks everything legit. (i admit i was no life to see all this in a month) i had a lot of fun. after that i wanted to explore more the game and directly enjoy the pvp aspect of the game so i started to go to some airfields and try to find some people to kill. all the time i would die after 5 minutes , because of a guy in my back with an AK . happened all the time at night , and i understood the only way to locate me was hacking as i took uncommon sniping spots to avoid sniper hopers. i knew the game was full of hackers but untill i started pvp i had no matter at all. everytime i would logon wearing a ghillie suit at a sniping spot on any server would let me live only 5 to 10minutes what ever i do , even if stealthy , even if ucommon sniping spot , even if pitch dark night.even if empty server. a guy would login then go in my back and kill me. that happened 10 times in 10 days of trying. i started to read on the forums and saw so many fanboys post telling that hacking is common but that the game is still playable. so i decided to do my own little study. i would study players behavior and servers health !! not like rocket would do with a stupid database that only logs actions. at that time i wanted to monitor ingame encounters and how they happens , what dynamics results of this and how hacking is impacting the "whole" game at a point even rocket can't imagine because he is not monitoring this at all. i also wanted to monitor the real rate of hacking because we have no numbers and if pretty much difficult to tell how many servers is legit or how many games about 10 that you play will not meet hackers. i wanted to answers those question so i started to monitor it. so here is basically what i did i ... hacked... yeah guys i hacked but in a whitehat way , im not gonna explain here what is a whitehat , but lets says i used hacking in a good way to understand how hacking was afecting the game.I did all this whitout killing players or taking any advantage of the game. i just monitored how players where acting. i didnt loot camps , didnt ruined camps , didnt took vehicles or stuff , nor killed players. after few days of coding my software was ready to work and i could locate every players , every tents , every camps , every vehicles , every survivors , every bandits , every snipers on the map. the purpose of this study was not pure cheating so i just added those basics features without aimbots or stupid grieffing tools. i just wanted to see what really happens instead of speculating like fanboys do. so here is what i saw today as my first whitehack hacking days : i just log on the server and see that there is almost no vehicles on the map , and i understand hackers probably destroyed them all previously.(i would say 6 servers on 10 are affected from what i seen today after trying 100 different servers ) i see 3 guys on my locator and one is in the middle of the nw airfield looting stuff in the barracks. i can see another one that is located south of the airfield at a very common sniping spot that is aiming players who are trying to travel to airfield from roads and usually coming from south or aiming at the player going out of the airfield going back to south. seems legit. but .... that guy direction is pointing to the barrack airfield direction and i start to understand the guy probably use a locator too and is waiting for the other guy. sadly the other guy logs out (server hopper) snipers changes instantly direction to my direction then i saw him for like an hour trying to ambush me from 2kilometers aways , again and again. all the time i would take a road he would be waiting at the end of that road. could have kill him but it was not the purpose as im whitehat hacking for this study. for a first login it was interesting. what are the odds of being victim of a semi hacker using only locator smartly ? how could you know that you where victim of hacking in that case ? absolutely no way to tell except if you where also hacking to understand and see it. ok so this was an exemple for my first log in of the day.i tried 100 different servers and i can confirm you guys that healthy servers not victims of hack are super duper rare. so many servers are : empty of vehicles / hacked and all vechicles stashed in middle of a city or south coast (those server get super laggy and i also understood that low fps servers are the servers victim of this) the other problem i noticed and very severe problem is that one server about 2 . wich is very very small odds (same as a coinflip) every time you join a server you have 50% chance of beeing victim of a smart hacker only using wallhack or a locator. i noticed that everytime i would log on a 10 player server instantly one of the player in the zone arround me would try to get me from miles and miles away. i also noticed that every 4 servers about 10 i would log in wearing a ghillie suit near a sniping hot spot i would get killed in the next 15 minutes by a teleport hacker. I know those numbers are still too small to make statistics and its impossible to really check the level of hacking but from what i seen today i would say not wearing a ghillie suit would less attract frustrated hackers. remember that when they see where you are using a hack when you wears a ghillie suit they will see your name followed by "sniper" (like the map normally would on a recruit server) im sorry for all this text but i think this was important for some people to realize at what point hacking is really destroying the game actually .there is actually so many hackers that every time you play a game you have same chance as a coinflip to die because of hacking. here is a recap on about a hundered games on different servers , different location and countries. about 100 games played : -1games about 2 i got instantly followed by guy in my area.(smart maphack) - 6 servers about 10 have no vehicles at all , all vehicles detroyed or none spawned , (empty map cleaned by hackers) only few ones where i can see usual old stashing but they almost not exist at all actually. -100% of the servers affected by the hacking stashing near south coast result in massive fps drop for the whole server. -if i decided to repair a vechicle on a server it will be destroyed the next day to a hacker 1 times about 2 , if i choose a server where i can see the whole map vechiles are healthy it works. i would say it work 2 servers about 10. -if you spawns near an airfield wearing a ghillie suit on any server your life time expectation is 5 to 10minutes to a hacker teleporting in you back. the whole game pretty much corrupted and all the servers seemed fucked up from what i seen whith whole vehicles health status and spawning. my 2 cents but i had to tell this im tired of reading bullshit that this game is still playable. have a nice day. hope you read this rocket.

I'm sure this thread has been done a million times over but I'm new to the forums. I've been playing DayZ for about 2 months now. I do love the game even though it has many annoyances. Here is my funniest DayZ moment: I was running to Stary Sobor and I happened to find a random motorbike in the middle of the woods a kilometer from Elektro. I rode it all the way to the NW Airfield before I started to run out of gas, so I headed back towards some other town. I couldn't find a jerrycan for the life of me (Go figure when you need one you can't find one, and when you don't need one it's all you ever find). I ended up finding a red CAR sitting in this middle of some town. I was so surprised. It was the first time I found vehicles since I started playing the mod. I head back to NW Airfield. I get out of the car to loot the tower and I hear gunshots in the distance. I immediately run back into my car and drive towards the gunshots. I see a lone survivor running from 3 zombies right down the middle of the runway. I chase him down in my little red car and run him over. He didn't die but he passed out and I watched as the 3 zombies killed him. I got out and killed the zombies and looted him. He only had a revolver with no bullets left, scrap metal, and some bandages. I sometimes feel badly about it mainly because he had no items and I suspect he may have been a noob. Either way I laughed for like 30 minutes straight. Anyway share your stories!

Alright, so my little story starts with coming to this great server having loads of fun with vehicles. Day 1 we fixed up a bus and it's been with us until now. we had a suv (gone) and still have a uaz (as far as this morning) so we had those both hidden and I aborted right next to them to come back later on. I come on (this was like an hour ago) spawned outside of the damn map with absolutely NOTHING. Not even icons for my inventory! Never had this happen but I was furious, and while I was asking several questions on global chat (typing) no one even acknowledged the fact I was having a problem. I mean I can't respawn, or break my leg running on small hills so i'm screwed. Well, finally this guy Gabriel said my name and all he had to say was stop talking over global chat. Well oops I must of hit caps lock and everyone was hearing my typing so I understood that and stopped, well as I was still trying to get help from people I once again tapped caps lock and my voice thing went on and off real fast and he said "Stop talking on global chat" again. Thats when I said "dude fu** your sh**" just because the fact you heard my typing accidently ONE MORE TIME it was so beyond the point I was having a real problem to were my game was unplayable. Then he said "Ok, np" and thats when I figured out I said that to an admin (still laughin) So basically, I was banned and when I tried to come back in it said "Battleye banned "dude fu** your sh**" Alright, so basically this whole time I was trying to find help there WAS an admin on completely ignoring my presence, but god forbid he heard my typing and thats what got him to speak up. So i'm banned not for talking on global, but for profanity. (Atleast thats what it said on login) which I don't recall seeing a no profanity rule when I logged in? Correct me if i'm wrong any of you admins from ca1 cause if so, this will just be an apology and I just want to come back to the server again. If not i'm here against you about the fact i'm banned for something all players do all that time in that server. I honestly just want to be unbanned to enjoy the server again, there's a lot more vehicles and I love that, plus the community's generally nice besides for admins that aren't there to be admins but only to ban you for whatever reason they find. In the end i'm aware of what I did and it won't happen again, but Gabriel if you stumble upon this I do think we could become friends sometime I don't doubt you're a cool guy. But you're a useless admin none the less. Ingame name: Jarrett Oh and I have to add any RGB Clan that I seen step foot in CA1 was a hacker, not ruining my day by killing the server but they blatantly hack and will cause chaos if they know your around.

i like it good ideas here are my editor ideas,i was thinking that we should be able to create our own custom map with everything spawnable including, -doors with turn cranks -bared windows -seatable chairs -turrets -searchlights -road maker -vehicles -fences -walls -destroyed cars -weapons crates -customizable weapons -more melee weapons -placeable trees -openable gates -zombie spawns -animal spawns -player spawns -spawnable vehicle parts for repair or build with spawnable disabled vehicles -NO MORE ZOMBIES OPENING DOORS AND PHASING THROUGH STUFF!!!!! -these vehicles added HMMWV [uS], HMMWV Utility [uS], HMMWV (Ambulance) [uS], HMMWV Terminal [uS], HMMWV SOV [uS], HMMWV GPK (M2) [uS], HMMWV CROWS (M2) [uS], Military Offroad (M2) [Takistan Army], MTVR (Ammo) [uS], MTVR (Repair) [uS], Supply Truck [uS] , MTVR (Fuel) [uS], Stryker ICV (M2) [uS], Military Offroad (M2) [Takistan Militia] Offroad (DShKM) [Takistan Local], Pickup (PK) [Takistan Locals], UH-60M [uS], UH-60M MEV [uS], MH-6J [uS], An-2 [Takistan Army], Merlin HC3 [bAF], AH-6X [uS], M270 MLRS [uS], M113 Ambulance [Takistan Army], Stryker MEV [uS], AH-64D [uS], Ka-60 (M32) [PMC], UAZ (DShKM) [Takistan Army] this is alot but its an editor mode so you must have alot of options and tools

i personaly cant wait for dayz to go standalone but im hoping that they add this stuff its a big list of stuff but yeah pick what you like point out what you dont i really dont care here are my ideas i was thinking that we should be able to create our own custom map with everything spawnable including, -doors with turn cranks -bared windows -seatable chairs -turrets -searchlights -road maker -vehicles -fences -walls -destroyed cars -weapons crates -customizable weapons -more melee weapons -placeable trees -zombie spawns -animal spawns -player spawns -spawnable vehicle parts for repair or build with spawnable disabled vehicles -NO MORE ZOMBIES OPENING DOORS AND PHASING THROUGH STUFF!!!!! -these vehicles added HMMWV [uS], HMMWV Utility [uS], HMMWV (Ambulance) [uS], HMMWV Terminal [uS], HMMWV SOV [uS], HMMWV GPK (M2) [uS], HMMWV CROWS (M2) [uS], Military Offroad (M2) [Takistan Army], MTVR (Ammo) [uS], MTVR (Repair) [uS], Supply Truck [uS] , MTVR (Fuel) [uS], Stryker ICV (M2) [uS], Military Offroad (M2) [Takistan Militia] Offroad (DShKM) [Takistan Local], Pickup (PK) [Takistan Locals], UH-60M [uS], UH-60M MEV [uS], MH-6J [uS], An-2 [Takistan Army], Merlin HC3 [bAF], AH-6X [uS], M270 MLRS [uS], M113 Ambulance [Takistan Army], Stryker MEV [uS], AH-64D [uS], Ka-60 (M32) [PMC], UAZ (DShKM) [Takistan Army] this is alot but its an editor mode so you must have alot of options and tools

Me and a friend was banned from this server as well. We were scouting the woods to the west looking for vehicles after a fresh spawn and being killed by a teleporting hacker (whom you banned), came across a few tents and a vehicle. Were looting some weapons and ammo from the tents, saw a chopper fly above us, held ground, then all of a sudden we see two people eject from the chopper right above us, so we figured hostile and shot them down, killed both, while running to loot the spoils, we get banned for "HACKING", not sure if that was your camp or not, but we surely weren't hacking. Our names were ">>> Gazoo" and ">>> Tyrant"

I hit a tree stump with my tractor. Unfortunately, my windshield and wheels were already broken... So I blew up. But seriously, this is funny. Vehicles need damage detection.

Also downgraded my server to 1.7.2.4 today. Vehicles are not saving and it's a mess. Works fine in 1.7.2.4.

NOPE! Gear does spawn with the vehicles.

Items do not spawn inside vehicles I believe. So either someone wrecked that car a left. Leaving the items there. Someone found it, tossed them in. OR the vehicle bugged. As in, it spawned in with items that it had before being reset.

Vehicles finally spawned on my server, it took 7 days. So you can update me in the first post if you'd like.

Clumping tents and/or vehicles = bad Not placing tents and/or vehicles in pine trees = bad If you were building it for a screenshot then it looks great. If you were building it to serve as a reliable location to save your gear I'm afraid you'll soon be saying FFFFUUUUUUUUUUU...

Idea is: On a Truck you can transport smaller vehicles like atv, bikes, etc. (Not like a Truck in an helicopter) And a rope to pull vehicles by Players And by Cars

Don't put tents/vehicles at the border of the map....just...don't A walk along the map border is a safe way to find someones camp, simply because everyone does it Pick a nice forest in the middle of the map that is not located near hotspots like NWAF, Stary Sobor, Devils Castle, etc Find a group of trees that have thick leaves and are standing closely together, they conceal quite effectively Try to cover atleast 3 angles from which your vehicle can be seen Tents are easier because you only need 2 trees very close to eachother, put tent in the middle, success Don't mix well camouflaged vehicles like the V3S with obvious vehicles like the Ural Split your camp into two if needed We had our camp up for atleast 2 months It became quite large with 3 ATVs, 2 UAZs, 1 Ural, 1 V3S, 1 Motorbike, 5 tents Yet it remained unlooted....until the server admin decided to take the server down for good All our logistics gone with the push of a button Bottom line, always be prepared to loose your stuff

I think characters are but not tents or vehicles. That's why the vehicles had to be added to servers individually and why the state of tents and vehicles saving is based on the version the server is running. Could be wrong, but I remember seeing a discussion on this before

You guys can't ban me for my username. I will return and I will stalk you and I will kill you. I will blow up the vehicles your ESP using members find and hoard. I will run over your tents. I will wreck you. And either you can face this reality, or be blacklisted and not have a server.

Try to hide it better. Some servers fail to maintain vehicles and tents through restarts, so you can wait the next restart to be 100% sure.

Ha ha protect gear? you can't even save it :thumbsup: don't worry no one can take your gear from your tent, not even you :P I found out that tent can save only another tent in it. Oh and there is a bug some times after server restart tents and vehicles not spawn at all, wait for next server restart.

was this recently? because vehicles aren't saving properly at the moment

Nice inititive to start this thread, I was about to start one myself :) First of all, thank you shadder for that you like the server, thats the whole point in running it apart from my own and my friends pleasure, everyone should be able to enjoy it. About passwording. The idea is good and I have been thinking of something in the same line. But... The server hosting rules clearly states that I am not allowed to do so, so I will not password the server and only let invited/approved players onto the server, even though that would sort out the bad apples. Regarding that the server been pretty much empty the last two days when it's usually pretty much full 24/7 the only things I know of is I still run 1.7.2.4 and I upgraded to a new beta patch, presumably the regular user uses sixlauncher and will not get the beta version without going to arma2.com and fixing it themselfs. Which many people might not know, I might downgrade the beta patch so it fills up again. Also I accidentally did something so the server halted the restart script at scheduled restart so the server was down some time. And I also noticed the server had not spawned tents/vehicles properly. This combination could account for the lack of players. Also, the hackers is really destroying this game and there is not much I can do about it I'm afraid. I pretty much stopped battling them for a while when I used some 10 hours time chasing hackers without success. The tools to catch hackers is real poor and the arma 2 engines problem that it's "hacker-friendly" is simply too bad. Best regards Karg

So having a look back at what rocket had previously mentioned in one of his posts on how he plans to implement certain zombies being old and weak and wondered if the same approach could be done with our characters. So initially we all start out nice and pulp but then we go rotten after a few days and the only way to prolong our healthy state would be to use some sort of preservative. Here's what I had in mind: Factors that affects us over time: 1. Sight - This would be in form of random blurring as well as affecting your visibility of far of objects. Possible cure would be find a pair of glasses or some sort of med. 2. Fatigue - You would become encumbered with much larger backpacks and would have to rely on much lighter packs. Alternatively you could use vehicles, horses or dogs to carry more goods. 3. Stamina - You stamina gradually decreases and you would require to properly manages your reserves as you tend to require more frequent meals and liquids throughout the day to replenish your stamina. 4. General Weakness - Recoil on weapons then become more pronounced when using high caliber weapons with a chance to drop your weapon on the ground. 5. Tolerance - You develop a tolerance for certain meds such as painkillers requiring you to intake higher doses to give you the necessary effect on your body. 6. Infection - You have a higher chance of catching an infection either be from a zombie bite/attack or from weather elements. Your body starts to feel the effects of the elements more rapidly than a day 1 spawn. 7. Panic - A much higher chance of getting panicked when encountering zombies causing shock and the shakes. Feel free to discuss and add your suggestions.

Wipe all the vehicles and tents, but keep players' inv intact. Then, watch the storm of dupers running to their tents to get their precious m4a1 cco sds and as50s.

Vehicles are not currently saving with the lastest dayz patch being bugged. We have server restarts every 8 hours, so it may very well have been then, we are working on a warning system 2 minuites before restarts. If you were banned, please send me your name and GUID and I'll look into it for you, this may have been an accident on our end as we do have an experimental automatic banning system in place.

Absolutely not. Hacked in items get wiped on server restart. Wipe the hive and all tents/vehicles/other hive things that are actually legitimate would be gone. Bad idea punishing legit players due to hackers. That being said I've noticed a huge decline in hackers since the latest Battleye update.

Alright, I'm not sure if the server is losing my vehicles or someone is stealing them, but here is my dilema. Couple of days ago I fixed and stored a bus in the forest, next time I logged it was gone (I did save the vehicle). Last night I stored an ATV & V3S Civilian in a forest a little better than the bus and when I logged to check on the vehicles, gone. So I'm not doing anything wrong right? I'm saving the vehicles which saves the gear and the server saves the vehicles, right? Lol so who stole my vehicles? That V3S had a lot of good stuff in it! :)