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I rolled back my server from 1.7.2.5 to 1.7.2.4 and it did save my tents fine. Vehicles no, but vehicles weren't saving anyways. The vehicles respawned at their designated spawn locations and have saved correctly ever since. I recommend that everyone just dump 1.7.2.5 for now as I don't see too many devs on the forum lately as they are at Gamescon and I'm sure a lot more attention is being put towards the standalone.

vehicles are not saving right with the current patch.. We are awaiting if it iwll be fixed in next update. The last patch was rolled out 1 week ago today.

If you are playing on a server with the version 1.7.2.5, I wouldn't bother getting a vehicle. This version is currently having severe issues with saving vehicles as well as tents. It could also be attributed to the servers Instance ID being too high. But this is something for the Admin to deal with. To answer your question...vehicles are permanent until destroyed. Once destroyed they 'reset' and spawn over a random duration of about a week. They could respawn the next day or week away. Vehicles that have flipped or fallen on their sides will be set right side up at the next restart. Also, vehicles will return to their last save point after a restart. So, it's very important to save them often.

I use first person while in towns, in firefights, indoors, where I need precise mouse movements (like when an item on the floor is glitching out, or when I need to get in a well hidden tent that can only be accessed by a certain angle, etc) and while driving cars and choppers. I use third person when running in the wilderness, more awareness for camps/crashed choppers/deer stands/vehicles, you name it, and driving every 2 wheel vehicle (also the ATV), I cannot seem to be able to drive any 2 wheel vehicle in first person. I also use 3rd person when in passenger seat of vehicles, to of course have more awareness. [This has maybe already been said in the thread, but I didn't read all of it, it's midnight and I'm tired...] I also read somewhere that 3rd person was in arma because it adds the situational awareness that a FPS cannot reproduce (We have way higher FOV irl than any normal screen can reproduce, and we can also move our eyes around).

I don't know where else I could write this, but I just made a deal with a nice guy called Clingy and a buddy of mine, and actually also with an employee of the freeside trading co. called vulwulf, and besides of the fact that im very very (VERY) happy with the deal we made out, the whole event was truly impressive. They had over 10 guards hanging around there, maybe even over 20, they had guys patrolling the area and killing every zed that dared to spawn, the whole are was secured and somewhat organized with sandbags and barbed wire, they had multiple snipers and motorbikes and atvs and other vehicles which were patroling, they had a chopper scanning the area (and transporting stuff, but oh well), ... the guard who directly guarded the traders (vulwulf) was incredibly kind and looked after us, and even checked the area for someone i spotted and who turned out to be a newly applied guard who changed his primary weapon off the rest of the team. im so amazed that the community developed so far, and im amazed by this team. im currently thinking about applying myself, and i was happy to donate a few coyote backpacks together with my buddy, and a bit of barbed wire. great experience overall!

i dont think the 3 servers i play on ever hit 30 people not even 20 and still alot of hackers join, you know not all hackers just want to join populated servers and teleport around the shore killing noobs. almost everyday some hacker joins and teles to all the vehicles and blows them up.

Yes, on his second week of having a server and after making himself and friends a little camp with vehicles, he became overly emotional when someone came along and ruined his camp by stealing his precious vehicle(s). His friends screamed to him over their voice chat that hackers had invaded their server and specifically their camp. Acting to stop the hackers, he restarted the server. And continued to do so in an attempt to stop hackers from stealing his and his friends' stuff. As he couldn't reenter the game he didn't have much of a choice but to do this. Remember that night BattlEye had some funky script error where a great many players couldn't enter the game for a little while. Dez came to this forum and responded to your complaint in under one hours time. Sadly, he was fired up and still rather emotional, probably because someone he referred to as Brad had betrayed him by revealing his camp to you. Regardless, some of the people on this forum at the time chimed in and we managed to both calm Dez as well as explain to him what he did was wrong. Soon afterward, he started the server up allowing for players to do as they please on his server while he slept off his drunk. I'm not entirely sure why you feel he was being abusive. An abuse claim presupposes Dez acted with intentional malice. He wasn't. He was acting out of emotion and ignorance. Killer777 claimed to have written a complaint about this server. He hasn't. Should he wish to, he could. But his issue and yours are separate ones. Honestly, I don't see the value in pursuing your complaint. Punishing a guy for rageing isn't very fulfilling. I hazard a guess, the DayZ Team is more interested in blacklisting actual abusive Admin.

interesting convo folks. does anyone know of a ...say example list of common cheats and what they look like n which log? i have seen several different examples but it would be nice for people newer to arma or hosting dayz to have a sticky thats updated to compare our logs with... is there one? as if i knew exactly what im supposed to be looking for, i would spend less tiem online searching if such and such was cheating, and more time banning cheaters. im 90% positive my server is being used by a group... i found 5 of them in a church backyard all face to the wall and i filled heads with leaqd, i chopped knees until my arms hurt, then i shot them pointblank in the side of the head, chopped with htchet too many times to count. looted em and put it all on a dead zed, hid the zed kept the nvgs and range finder, all those pretty rifles and all that nato ammo. all those morphines and epi pens and the 5 anti biotics i kept 2. i even took the toolbelt stuff and buried it with the dead zombie. then i grabbed uids and kick banned. but they come back. again and again. finally i just stop the server and goto bed.. next day i finally manage to get these new scripts and files onto my server and they hac=vent come back, id be pissed to come back from afk to find my self weapon and gearless in the middle of cherno along with my 4 buddies. well now im sure that the birds they follow me. the zombies one hit and knock out and break bones. the ones in the blue overcoats seems the others are faster then me too as they keep hitting me in the back when im running, but the birds,they swoop and squawk and keepo circling above me where ever i go. also i cant find anything in known vehicle spawns excpet blown up vehicles, no cars trucks helos etc. just boats. havent seen a bike or a atv or a car or truck in a long time. sigh if there is anyone "pro style" admin that would like to take questions or look at my logs or tell me specifically what to do and where to write a line to exclude these pukes from jumping on my server, i got serial killer skin and audio files i cant even delete from my server cfg....lol anyone please help?

Lately, me and my friends have found a few choppers and had the server eat them every single time. First was NE airfield, spawned all red and my buddy was driving back to it with the last windshield when the server restarted, and ate it. We had saved it numerous times. The next day, we began looking for it again, and I found it at Skalsity, and it was all green, and out of gas. After sticking 7 gas cans in it we were able to fly it to a gas station, refuel, and enjoy it for a few hours before it was eaten again. Again i found it at Skalsity, with the gas cans we had put in it still inside. Refueled and enjoyed it again for a little while. Yet AGAIN i found it at Skalsity, this time with no gas cans. After refueling, My buddy was flying drunk, and crashed it. Upon server restart it was back in the crashed spot, green and ready to go. Upon the next restart it was eaten again, and I haven't seen it since. Tents and other vehicles are extremely buggy too, when moving campsites almost anything we take out is either put back in its original tent, or duped accidentally. Saving and running over the tents doesn't help. Last night i had the Russian 4x4 (the most ANNOYING vehicle in game) despawn after we had raided another campsite and spawn at the.... NE Airfield. We also stole the red car from them, stashed it, and later were going back to retrieve it when someone else had found it and was driving away. A few SVD and L85 mags later, the car was blown up after hitting a tree, then disappeared. It respawned in the same place after server restart. As of right now, almost every item/vehicle is bugged to some extent. From auto-repairing 4x4s, Buses, bikes, and motorcycles to respawning on the coast, DayZ is full of bugs and you just gotta learn to deal with it. Can't wait for the standalone game!

Ouch, exploding vehicles are no fun either. One day i just started a new life, and within 15 minutes there's some guy in a pick up driving on the road towards me, i hide in the bushes and it drives past, then it turns around and glitches and slides and i have no idea whats going on. I assume he's trying to run me over so i take a shot with my double barreled shotgun, which only had one round. Somehow this killed the guy but 2 guys fall out of the truck. I inspect the bodies and they are both the same person, and had the same loot, no idea how or why but aslong as it works in my advantage.. I get in the truck but its in pretty bad condition, so i drive it to the woods nearby and hide it there, in order to find some parts in Cherno nearby, this happend at Mogilevka by the way. As soon as i exit the woods at some random point i get shot down, no idea from where or by who. But i start again, spawn at Cherno and manage to find the parts i needed. I run back towards the vehicle and find my unlooted corpse on the way, so i pick up whatever i need and proceed to fix the car. Well this worked out pretty well '' i thought, had some decent gear, a truck in good condition and im ready to go. So i get in my truck, drive about 50 meters when the car flips over for no reason, and explodes. When i return there is no corpse, no loot, no nothing.. and im back at having nothing.

Similar thing happened to me when I first started playing at the NWAF with a hacker giving me gear. AKM turned into an AS50 + everything else minus some things. Then just yesterday I log onto a new server as our old one doesn't operate anymore. My group was losing two vehicles, dirtbike, a lot of gear ghillies etc all found legitimately. The new server I was checking out has zero players on it from first glance. And our camp is in the north, and it is where I log on, so I decide to check the NWAF. Hit the E Barracks, then Firehouse, then into the Hangers. I get to the last hanger and there is a tent in it. I find NVGs, GPS, and a M240. I was holding a CCO with AS50 in my pack, ghillie, NVG, Range, GPS, everything basically. I turn to exit and notice a tractor flying down the run way, but quickly escaping my view. I only have time to shoot with the CCO and go through a clip on it. It veers around the other side of the Hangers. I slink quickly into the woods. Check P and see one other guy is on. Seconds later he spawns on me and kills me. Oh well back to the coast. This clearly isn't our new server =(

A few minutes ago, a little before six o' clock (UTC -3), a hacker got in the server US Atlanta 501, killed everybody and destroyed my group's vehicles...

Mysterious vehicles disappearing... happens alot, and you wonder... was it stolen? why did they take the gaz when the van and offroad truck is here fully loaded with better stuff? Gets annoying but w/e you lose stuff, you get more stuff. I think the people that accept this enjoy the game more. I'm not saying it doesn't suck for your or that your a whiner, but it happens and there is nothing we can do. Good luck on your next vehicle !!!

I put the final wheel on a white pick-up to complete an all-day solo repair job. The little "jump" the vehicles do when you put the wheels on caused it to start to jiggle, then slide; and it slowly slid downhill pinning me against a wall and breaking my leg. Then it caught fire and exploded.

In this video my team and I coordinate an attack on a friendly colony, US 1040, who have taken up base camp at the factory. Surrounded by snipers with thermal scopes and patrols inside and outside of the facility we figure that a friendly approach is the best way in... I guess they never thought that someone could bring satchel charges in on their main inventory! Normally we wouldn't do this however these guys are fascist azzhats who reset their server whenever it best interests them and swing their ban hammer at anyone who they feel is a threat. Near the end you will notice that they didn't ban me but some random person who didn't do anything wrong! lol wow Our team logged into their server far away from the factory. Our plan was to peacefully infiltrate their colony to test if we had followed the rules correctly, leave and retrieve the charges, then return and blow up the place! I had 4 satchel charges on me and was waiting in the woods under a bunch of trees in Black Forest far off from the factory. I had no backpack, no main or secondary weapon, and was in civilian cloths equipped with a flashlight. After a few minutes of waiting, and entering their teamspeak, I hear in game chat of someone talking to me WTF!? Someone had found me somehow but it wasn't hard to convince them that I had lost my backpack while swimming and that I was friendly. The person who found me was the server admin Hunter in a hero skin, hero skin looks pretty cool, and he asked if I was going to the colony and so I had my ticket inside! He gave me a set of NV, GPS, a 1911, and on the way to colony we found a winchester I picked up in a barn. Once inside the colony I waited for 45 to 60 minutes for my friends to arrive and eventually got bored and decided to carry out the plan myself. I placed 3 satchel charges inside and while the helicopter was landing I placed one near their vehicles outside. There are no death messages on this server unfortunately so I have no idea how many people I killed but it sure was fun. It's too bad that they reset the server and banned that other random person lol. If it wasn't for that I would feel bad about doing this... too bad they didn't take it like a man. To avoid suspicion I committed suicide by zombie since I had a bandit skin on. TLDR: My team and I had a plan to blow up colony. I got in early, I got bored, so I blew up the colony before my friends got there. They then reset the server and banned some random person. Protip: The helicopter respawns on the island each time they reset the server, have fun!

You can't save spawned in vehicles. I had some hackers spawn in 2 heli's on my server, I took one and saved it to test if it would stay on the server. After a restart it was gone.

Really. I'm the tard? You think this stuff has just started happening? It's been that way for a long time. You and your little ATV oh noes, what did you lose a couple AK's and an Enfield? What about the other people that this has been happening to for a while now where they just lose all of their vehicles and all of their high tier shit?

So some more specific ideas for the skill books (might spill over to other needed changes) Repair manual - needed to do engine work on vehicles (the other repairs shouldn't require advanced knowledge) Flight manual - needed to fly the helicopter (driving other vehicles is a fairly common skill set in RL) Herbalism guide - allows the collection of wild edibles & wild medicines (alternative to antibiotics) Cook Book - perhaps have a way to combine ingredients into a "meal" that heals lots of blood (800-1000), and lower the amount cooked meat heals you now. Perhaps (1) wild edible + (1) cooked meat + (1) canned food = (1) meal. Would also require a new tool item - "cookware"... and give you more to do at the campfire... also, you should get full so you can't just binge to max out blood. Medical Books - Obvisouly the medical system right now is fairly basic, and anything you can do now shouldn't require special knowledge. That being said, Rocket has mentioned adding complexity to the wound system, so this could work with it. My idea is to have morphine be a temporary solution to broken bones & trauma, with a doctor being required to fully cure you of certain afflictions like a broken bone. Perhaps having a blood transfusion be a temporary solution to surgery is another option. - New tool item - "doctor's bag" - new medical (consumable) item "splint" Engineering blue prints - Everything in the game that you can build right now wouldn't take special knowledge, but if advanced base building comes in, then this could work with that feature in similar ways to the above ideas.

The server restarts can be really random. Sometimes after a reset only my Ural is at base with a bicycle. Other times all 6 of my vehicles are at base. Other times half are at base and the rest spawn on the roads that we previously were driving on..

Chernarus Transportation Service The Transport Service will be restarted when vehicles come out for standalone, follow this thread for more details! -IceCaps97 Description: There has been a bug going around where you spawn at the coast every time you log in to a different server. I want to help those people by giving them rides in my vehicles from the coast wherever they need to go. Note: This bug has hence been fixed, but I will still continue Procedure: When I am On Duty I will be going around the coast on my route (red line), picking people up at bus stops (green circles). Once I have somebody I will take them where they want to go. If you need a blood transfusion or any aid from lack of food, water, or blood, then I will be happy to escort you to the nearest grocery store or hospital. Once I have dropped you off I will return to patrol the coast. When I am Requested Pickup Only I will only pick people up if they reply to this thread (to keep my sanity after driving along the coast for 5 hours). When I am Off Duty I will not be accepting pickups, even if I see someone at a bus stop. Please note: I cannot guarantee your safety. Public servers often have hackers in them, and legitimate players like myself and every other sane person who plays Dayz are completely vulnerable to them. Staff: IceCaps97 - CEO & Main Staff Afitz - Security The rest are disclosed for their safety Server: I will tell you in a PM Bus Route: Payment: We currently offer these services for free, but if you are willing to donate (looking for tents ATM), we won't turn you down . If you do donate, then I will make your safety my #1 priority. If you die, you are obligated to a full refund and I all your stuff back after I get it off your dead corpse. Security Rules: I will only pick you up if you have not drawn your weapon (press left ctrl twice to lower your weapon). If you draw a weapon my bodyguards and escorts will be happy to blow your face off and feed it to a sheep. Emergency Stops: We will try to only stop when we are dangerously low on fuel, when we are under attack, or when I need to clear something off the road. Satisfied Passengers: 3 Dissatisfied Passengers: 0 Passengers KIA: 0 Failed Raid Attempts: 2 Check my signature for my current status regarding the Chernarus Transportation Service. More info will be posted as it becomes available. I wish you safe travels!

Hi Just downgraded my server to 1.7.4 and got my promblem with vehicles working. . ...

prob one of the most interesting threads in this forum...this is a great community! plus i meet the guys that have saved me twice, and hang out and travel with them. learn the land a little and will easily/gladly help them any time! btw, if you've been saved by this med team (or any whitelist medic), i would suggest helping by gathering vehicle parts and helping arm them with vehicles. your next save could be 10x faster via ATV or Van vs waiting on foot for someone to be 'close' by. btw....sya, you still alive?

Whenever we are able to save items in tents and vehicles, we may try out .5 and see if it works.

Ok, so i could really use some feedback cause this game is trolling us like never before... I had a fully stashed ATV on one server for weeks now, and I've been using it a lot since 2.5 and a tent close by. Earlier today i checked everything out, used the ATV to raid for vehicle parts in Berezino and parked it again in its orignal spot after i was done. Now after a server restart the tent had reset to the status it had WEEKS ago (one pile of wood instead of everything that was actually in it) and the ATVs DUPLICATED and its stash was reset to a fresh spawned ATV (1 tent, 5 heat packs and 2 cans of beans). Now a few hours later i was picking up my friend in Solnichny with another ATV i fixed up today on another server and after we arrived North the server restarted shortly after i parked and saved the ATV, and AGAIN its contents were reset to one tent, 5 heat packs and 2 cans of beans... We lost a huge amount of items to bugs neither of us has ever experienced before (and we have been playing 1.7.2.5 since Saturday) so we're not sure if its worth playing if tents and vehicles just randomly reset now. Would really appreciate it if someone has some info on what is going on...

Sometimes when my vehicles blow up they respawn at that place where it blew up, so I would check that field again after the restart, it may spawn there.