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What would the general consensus be on having a type of camo netting or mesh in order to cover up vehicles i.e hide them. Would make sense to be able to hide from choppers passing over then landing and stealing your beans from inside. Just saying

I think he is just asking where the most common places are, and not where YOUR camp is :P The most common places are the big forest going from zelenegorsk and up north from there along the edge of the wilderness debug forest. It used to be way out in the debug forest, but since vehicles despawn there now i think more people place them inside the map.

Popular camp sites include Black Forest and anywhere up North or West from the start of the forest to the black map border. They are "good" locations in the sense that they are so far away from anything that players are unlikely to go there, this also means that the players who do go there, usually do it specifically to look for tents/vehicles, sometimes some of the most obvious locations are the best spots to hide tents and vehicles.

I've been through my fair share of servers that were being hacked and I for one am sick of the bullshit that happens. It seems like all the small kids now have these so easy to find hacks and make DayZ a living hell for those that want to play fairly. Now what really ticks me off are the people that post on these forums about locked servers and how its all against the TOS and crap. YES i do understand it's under TOS to NOT lock your server or kick others, but in all honesty some people just do not want to be hacked. It's stupid as balls when u try to combat hacking (which is against TOS btw) with locking their server (which is also against TOS) but I see more servers getting BLed faster than players getting banned for hacking. On the counter arguement: I fully understand that some clans/people are on their own locked server, grind up all the best gear and vehicles, and then switch to other servers and troll people. While that is wrong and very shitty, not everyone who locks their server wishes to do this. Please don't be naive and think this every time someone wishes to play alone. Some solutions I propose: 1.) For Clan servers have separate files that save TO THE SERVER instead of client side, so gear cannot be carried over to other servers. 2.) Hand in hand with the above, allow for HIVE disconnecting so that players may play on their own server without worrying about hackers and such. (Direct IP connect?) 3.) Get a different Anti-cheat. Battle-eye is terrible from what I've seen =( DayZ is in Alpha and I know Rocket has some plans in the future to combat hackers and such but I am only here to put my 2 cents in. Please comment on how you feel about this.

We hear you, it's a massive issue. They are aware of it and we have to just wait. Gives everyone else a chance to catch up to the point where they need tents and vehicles too.

I travel Chernarus with a clan and tbh we have run into the same problem. We get together, load up on food/water/fuel/ammo, hop in one of our many vehicles and then we say "ok, where to now?" to which someone responds "idk." Lootwise we have everything we ever wanted. Each time on of us dies we can always just pick them up and take them to their body before it despawns so loot loss is basically never an issue except for clothing. I'm starting to think that becoming a Whitelisted medic might be a good idea. At least we would know where to go and what to do.

Nooooo. But there really needs to be atleast twice as many vehicles per server, and most that need nothing to run.

Just make people carrying 50cal rifles: 1) WALK ONLY. No running. So they pretty much have to use vehicles to get to their spots or something, and that is much more easier to spot and much more rewarding to go to war with that guy. 2) Standing or laying only. No crouching.

Me and my friends have been having problems with saving as well. It doesn't seem ANYTHING but the players save into the Hive. Tents, vehicles and barbed wire all reset on server restarts. We've witnessed this on DK1, UK122 (or similar), Norway 39 and FI21 so far.

Yeah, it's unfortunate that admins abuse their power once they lose something rare/precious. 2 nights ago my buddy and I came up on a camp w/ a Ural and decided to take what we needed from it then blow it up. Well, we check the clan forums for that server and the admin was convincing people that the vehicles failed to spawn (when they didn't because we still had our ATVs) after the server upgrade. So randomly the server restarts in 2 minutes. Ural is back where it was. Go figure? Anyway, on topic, The only time I've ran into a heli in game was w/ hackers, still an intense moment hearing the chopper coming from the distance just to circle above you while you're in thick trees. The only time i've seen a REAL crash site was also a hacker lol. My buddies and I were at the northwest airfield when a hacker tried to land his A-10 on the runway. It crashed in a huuuge explosion. We ran over and looted our first ever pair of NVGs, an M4 CCO SD, M9SD, and a few other things. We were killed later at Stary Sober though :(.

Playing since may and cant find vehicles?? lol then sorry but you SUCK at this game (mod). I have now had 7 hueys. 4 I fixed completely solo, 1 with 2 friends, and 1 I found today fully fixed at a camp. I haven't had a "home" server for over 10 days. Every server I set up a camp on either gets repeatedly hacked or doesn't save tents / vehicles. I finally found an admin who has a decent server that saves things (thank god); and Im now setting up camp there. Over the past 10 days however I have gotten camps set up within 24-48 hours on one server after another. All with high end gear, a heli, and at least 1 other vehicle; and all from the server that Im setting up on. If you cant find things, you're looking in the wrong place or on the wrong server. Dont look at spawn points, thats ridiculous. How long has the server been up for? You dont think 1000 other people have gone to look at that spawn? Get away from the coast and look for camps. Maybe think a bit... Go where you would put a camp thats hard to find. Run around with your head on a swivel not just auto running not paying any attention. tl:dr Stop running around cherno looking for cars. Leave the coast and dont waste time on spawn points. And yes, PLEASE stop vehicles from being savable off the map. <_<

I was a radio repair specialist for the Air Force for many years working on tactical ground and ground-to-air radio systems and I completely agree that DayZ needs radios, but I would want them to be very simplified for a few reasons. 1) Radio Frequency propagation theory is incredibly complex and I wouldn't want the game engine trying to figure out if and/or how far you could transmit a radio signal. 2) Radios can operate an a nearly infinite number of frequencies, so finding someone else on a channel would be very unlikely unless you knew the emergency channels and they were using them. 3) Not all radios can talk to one another - they use different types of modulation, different bands, and some even use repeaters, computers, or satellites to extend their range. My suggestion for introducing radios to DayZ would be very, very simple. When you pick up a radio, it would enable a new text and voice chat channel called "Radio channel" that would allow you to talk to anyone else on the map, no matter how far they are, as long as they have a radio also. This would build on the existing "direct chat" function, and could eliminate the need for people to run teamspeak, ventrilo, or some other voice chat program in conjunction with this game. If the server can handle additional voice channels it would be nice to have several voice channels available such as 'Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta' so people can avoid talking over one another. This would even add a new element to PvP since bandits could listen in on the radios and find out what people are doing from their radio chatter. I guess if the devs wanted to get really in depth, they could add an 'encryption' option so several people could encrypt their radios and only talk to one another with no worries of being listened to. Radios should have a good chance of spawning on the air fields, in/near broken military vehicles, and in the hospitals. They could also have a small chance to spawn in other locations, but these are where I figured they were most likely to show up (at least the type you could carry on you).

Well I think I'm done with DayZ. I was excited when I heard it was going stand-alone so I could buy the game and have hours of fun with it but n ow thats all changed. I ran into a hacker who was right behind me when I logged in...He laughed and killed me. The end. I really liked this game but to know people can rampantly just teleport around with god-mode has turned me away from the game. Since the initial incidient I've been being almost hunted by this hacker consistantly after I tried to plea to him for my gear back. He follows me into every server I'm on to destroy all the vehicles and tents now. Fuck this game. Sincerely, an Enthusiastic Gamer TLDR; Hacker made me quit the game and changed my mind about buying DayZ once it comes out.

DE 1790 No Vehicle Spawning. Good Luck Dev Team! DayZ without Vehicles is not DayZ :,(

DE110 is a great stable server, has a small clan war going on between the Iron Warriors [iW] versus [RPD], aswell as loads of vehicles that have been "liberated" by my clan from hidden stashes, we've destroyed them and put them back into the spawn tables. Great server for you guys to start on or switch over too. We're looking for another honest clan to fight against us! Hope to see you ingame lads. Lt Kidd [iW] Clan leader of the Iron Warriors

Hmm Same for me my vehicles disappear and all the tents in the area are flattened!

"admin abuse allover the place. spawned vehicles, godmode." I local banned your so called admins [sx|G]N0cif and Thomas, and send the log to BE for global banlist. As "admin" that's about what I can do. / Zman - Admin of SE 53.

Server Name: UK242 Slots: 50 Difficulty: Veteran DayZ Version:1.7.2.5 Arma2 Beta Version:Latest Location: UK Time Zone: UTC -6 (Fixed - Will Not Change) Rules: Typical DayZ rules apply. Admin Contact: Myself Current players are getting a ping of between 20ms-70ms Server reboots are performed with 15 minutes notice Any further info required, don't hesitate to ask. Server has been running for over a month and has an instance ID lower than 8000 meaning YES vehicles are heli's are confirmed on this server.

Why not have vehicles continue to spawn in their location every 24h or something (except the Huey). I seriously can't see any problem in vehicles being more common. Most will just get crashed or destroyed by other players anyway.

Yes, absolutely. Once the issue has been fixed and vehicles are spawning you should definitely see an announcement from a DayZ dev.

I've talked about this with my friends a lot, as there are issues with DayZ that we think could be easily solved by going to a WW2 setting. Most of them are obvious, such as L85A2 Thermal spotting being an instant-win in a lot of fire fights, taking away from the spirit of the game and anti-materiel rifles being used against people that result in 1-shot kills anywhere on the body. By going to a WW2 scenario, not only would it explain why there are weapons everywhere, but you could even include tanks and other military vehicles without it seeming strange. Weapon spawns would make sense, as there is a war going on and sniper rifles, whilst still being very good, wouldn't be the PvP instant-win as almost all would be bolt-action and have relatively poor optics. To me, setting DayZ during WW2 1944 makes a lot of sense. You get rid of the powerful, and possibly unbalanced, non-sense and it comes back down to tactics, awareness and movement. It opens the game up for more possibilities and "cool stuff" like an incredibly rare luger drop or possibly even bayonets for when you run out of bullets. Hell, even flame throwers were used in WW2. Badass.

Tents are not saving and disappear after server restart, vehicles are not spawning. Our Server ID is above 8k. Will keep posting to the server forum to update, its day 2 without vehicles for us. Fifteen + community members are monitoring the server for vehicle spawns.

The fact that you are not making any money on this makes me a Sad Panda. You should put a donate button up. I can only speak for myself but if I saw a "raise money to get vehicles on your server campaign" I would put some money on it:) Good luck finding the issue. If there is anything the community can do to help let us know. Can we confirm that there will be a announcement when the issues is resolved? That way we can stop looking for the vehicles.

allan, calm down. i almost quit myself (practically did for a few days) this hacker problem has stolen countless item from me... including our teams 7 vehicles and every piece of equipment we had :( (they spawned tractors to destroy the tents) but i started again, and ironically was told it was fixed and as i read that got killed by random sniper shots killing me... while inside a windowless building it will get better i can assure you

If you originally had vehicles and they are no longer spawning, then that is a separate issue. Are you sure people aren't just hoarding them? I am no way trying to sound sarcastic or pretentious, just genuine, but me make ZERO money off of server hosts. We do not get a cut from anyone. At this time we have no ETA. I understand this is quite frustrating, but our dev team is doing the best job they can at the moment.