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I'm with the OP on the this. There should be a higher chance of vehicle spawns and remove the server limit. I'd make it about 55% chance of a vehicle NOT spawning at it's point and a .01% the vehicle is fully functioning. Just raising the rate of broken vehicles will keep it tough for players to use them, but have them more frequent so more players have a better chance of seeing them. I've been spending a lot of time in the game these days, and I've never found a repairable vehicle outside of a few run-ins with hackers spicing up the server I'm on. Considering how competitive players are for resources, players will take care of the scarcity of vehicles. Also, players aren't normally wide-spread enough to ever find all the vehicles the current server limit allows. Might as well give player a better chance to find them and learn to appreciate them. Also, I think bikes should be much more common, especially in cities. To compensate, zombies should still spawn where a bicycle rider goes, but let zombies be able to knock players off bikes. I wouldn't have it do terrible damage (some multiplier based on traveling speed and surface hit), but there is a chance you get knocked unconscious, break a bone, get a sprain, start bleeding, or any combination of the afformentioned (also have the chance based on speed and surface landing on).

I can hook ya up with some good shit if u need some military items. I play by myself and raid others tents and vehicle's. Its actually fun to do when your bored. I currently have every gun in the game right now by doing this tactic. Just pick a server that you know the tents and vehicle are spawning in. Some server restarts erases all of the tents and vehicles till the next server restart. All u need is a map and maybe compass and just head out to the edge of the map and start looking for the tent cities. You'll find them. Trust me. Found 2 vehicle camps last night and one of the best weapon loot tent cities I've ever seen. Im set for life in this game when it comes to looting. Found a ton of hacked guns too. Just have to be prepared to run for hours till u really hit a jackpot

I play on a server, or used to, and now whenever I join, the admins on kick me and tell me to get lost? Is that server report(able)? I dont think it's "Fair" as I've helped the admins make a good % of the vehicles on their server, and all my gear is in a tent at their base.. Could I post a video of this and would something be done or a waste of time?

Actually I recall the reason being the public hive server you had all your vehicles on crashed and wiped everything. I just found it funny that it took you four hours to realize there was an infiltrator in your group, considering he was communicating with you over DayZ and Teamspeak AND killing you simultaneously. L2identifyvoices lul.

Story time! :) If anyone finds stories interesting. If not, don't bother reading! My crew and I have been playing DayZ for a few weeks and finally settled down on a server (which will probably be changing soon due to school, work etc.). We aren't really a clan, just a bunch of people who have been gaming together and friends. We found a Ural on this server and spent a few hours repairing it, and because of that Ural we acquired a pretty hefty armoury of AS50s, DMRs, L85s, FN-FALs and the like. We had the Ural for about two weeks and thought "Wow, we've had this thing way longer than we thought we would," and were pretty much just counting down the days until we lost it. And the other day, we did... But it wasn't lost in the middle of the night to some random people stumbling upon it, but only after wiping out an entire clan singlehandedly and forcing them into multiple rage quits and all night searches! Definitely a fine way to lose it, I must say. We hadn't gotten into many scrimmages with legitimate players, usually only getting into battles with people who teleport back to their body immediately after dying, fully geared over and over again or being teleported into a field of bear traps surrounded by snipers (who, if you were wondering, we still killed). We wanted to taste some blood. The Red Sedan We were driving down the road in the Ural, blowing up people's vehicles and running over tents; raiding cities and stocking up on medical supplies. We had heard a chopper overhead a while before, but that's why we had one man carrying an AS50. We are getting bored of the endless driving and decide to head towards camp and call it a night - when not two minutes later a red sedan pulls towards us. We steer into them and they narrowly avoid us, one man ejecting and opening fire on our Ural. While our driver was slowing to turn around I hopped out with my Kobra on semi and plugged a few rounds into the gunman's chest. I took aim at the windows and fired in at the passengers and driver. Blood began to fountain out of the roof and the car came to a halt. A tractor begins pulling up behind the fray and I take fire on them as well. At this point the people in our Ural begin getting out and firing on the tractor. He falls from the tractor, passed out. We thought he was dead - when suddenly, like Bilbo Baggins he disappears. Only one body is left after 5 names appearing in the bottom left and I have only one murder to my name. Laughing and cheering, we loot the bodies and decide to take the other vehicles for a spin. Hell Town But the story doesn't end there. Suddenly, the driver of the red sedan teleports forward due to lag and appears inside a blown up car - catching fire. She hops out and runs, but winds up bloody and broken. Ten zombies appear. Then twenty. Thirty. Suddenly we're surrounded by easily fifty zombies with one girl unconscious and bleeding out. Our sniper bandages her while me and the driver provide cover fire. He drags her body to the Ural and loads her in while I give them both blood transfusions, being covered by our driver. I run up and watch as my kill count has increased by ~80. Our driver hops in the tractor, hoping to bring it out while we drive the Ural out of dodge...... Boom. The tractor explodes. We rush back with even more zombies pouring in around us, our patient still unconscious in the back of the Ural. He throws his backpack into the truck and runs to take all of our driver's gear. We're surrounded again and by this point I've already had to stock up my inventory with ammo from the truck twice. I'm down 23 AK magazines and 11 G17 mags and running back to the truck, down to 5000 blood. We hop in and drive off to safety to rearm and heal. A Long Drive Home We were still about 9km away from our camp. We were down to three while our fourth was off trying to gear up in Cherno and make his way back out to us. We took the main highway and headed north east. I wasn't sure because of how loud the Ural is, but I thought I heard the helicopter again. "... but there's no way. It's only us and them on the server and they all JUST died - unless they've got the chopper down along the coast." *puff puff puff puff puff puff* Dirt all around us starts flying as bullets barrage the ground. A helicopter is overhead. I take a hard right into a field and go under the trees for cover. "LET ME OUT" our sniper yells. I slow down, he jumps out and takes fire on the chopper. I drove across the field, swerving from bullets. We get hit and our fifth (who is quite new and hasn't been largely participating this whole time) gets shot through the Ural and breaks his legs. Contact. The chopper is smoking and spinning out of control, but they manage to safely escape us. We heal up, regroup and make our way uninterrupted back to camp. We find 20-30 tents on the way and destroy them all. We get back, knowing that we're going to lose our Ural tonight. We're being stalked by people with a chopper. We decided to park the Ural pretty far away from camp. It was 9AM. We were tired. A Few Hours Later Well we woke up and tired, our sniper, our third and I log in and to our amazement, our camp is still there - but on the map where our truck was is about 7 markers cursing us out, calling us hackers and saying they found our Ural. THAT made it all so much better :) The butthurt was strong in them. It's pitch black when we logged in and we rearmed. Suddenly, a chopper overhead. They saw us on the map. We took cover and rearmed. I replaced my Kobra with an L85, Rachel her AK with an L85. Our sniper fired a few rounds to get their attention and we heard the engine shut off. It started up again - we suspected there were people on foot. Sure enough, fully automatic shots fired and with a .50 cal fire, they end. A few minutes pass and above us we hear the chopper, very close. After about 20 minutes, *bang bang bang bang* Our sniper takes fire. "_________ was killed" And we never saw that helicopter again. Later that day, we logged on and noticed our camps were gone. Even the pretty far away ones were gone. All In All It was pretty fun. I killed an entire clan single handedly with an AK. I went through 30+ mags while we took out a seemingly endless zombie horde. We destroyed what was probably a duper's camp. We evaded a chopper and almost took it out with a sniper. We almost took out a chopper - again. All with the only casualty being a guy blowing up in a tractor because a car blew up after lagging forward. We lost our camp; We lost our Ural; But in the end we weren't the ones who were raging. Rule #1: Don't get attached to your gear.

Greetings, I would like to share something that I found yesterday whilst playing DayZ. If someone has found this before and discussed it on the forums, apologies for opening a new thread, I did not manage to find any related ones. -------------------------- Last night I joined a random server and as I was just walking around and trying to survive as usual and I came across something very... strange. I saw 2 trucks and 3 cars packed near this pile of crates. After making sure no one else was around, I checked all the vehicles and they were all in working conditions. However, when I checked the crates.... I could see pretty much every weapon in the game, all the ammo, food, drink, skins etc etc... pretty much EVERYTHING x 200. So yeah, I got me a nice looking weapon and some other stuff, grabbed a car a got the hell out of there. I wanted to know what was that ? Is it a hack that the server admin is doing or a random type of drop that happens every now and then or what..... I figured its a hack as later the admin of the server kept kicking everyone from it and these crates later disappeared, but I wanted to check with the community. Anyways, Regards

I have never in my life been actively targeted and killed by hackers just for trying to admin our server. We actually pay money to rent our server and what happens? People hack in vehicles, can teleport, give themselves extra guns or ammo; even ones that aren't in the game. I seem to have no power what so ever to find out who these people are and there seems to be little done about it. Every time I get on global comms to say "Sorry we have a hacker, restart in ..." I get killed. often I just melt into the ground. Im sick of it. there is no point in being an admin in this game as it only gets you killed, in my experience. I absolutly loved this game before we got a server and tried to convince my clan to rent one and now we have to restart every 5 mins because some new cock end has spawned 5 more helicopters. Everyone is getting thoroughly frustrated by the lack of options - all i can do is restart the server and then the nob heads just rejoin. Except lowering the difficultly to see name tags, i see no way of identifying these cunts. As I am writing this 2 members of my clan have told me someone has just teleported next to our tents and killed them. We had a guard on sentry watching the whole place. I know a sneak attack is possible but the amount of times this occurs is frequent and is getting really fucking annoying. Does battle eye actually do anything? To me it seems like punkbuster, a pile of shite. If the game has been out 2 years and battleeye still cant get it right then maybe that just shows how shit battleeye is. Please sort these hackers out, or give me logs to go through so i can determine who has done what. Because at the moment most servers are now administered by hackers now as they have more power than the people who PAY RENT for the server and this is taking the piss.

Story time: It was an average day on the coast. I got shot at, chased by zombies, and found myself a bike (while getting shot at). My brother and I were biking along the coast when a bus suddenly sped by. It aimed to ram one of us, but couldn't turn fast enough and kept going toward Elektro instead. Later on, after getting blown to tiny bits by an AK, I spawned in Elektro. Running around, hoping to find something interesting, I happened across a parked bus. Hmmm... Closing in, I noticed the bandit (he had his doo-rag on) working on his bus. Perfect, I thought. I can steal his bus! Mwahaha! Sneaking along the bus, I came around to the driver side where the bandit was working. As I dashed for the door, I yelled, "Hello there!" and hopped in. I go the engine started up and pulled away, running into a sign and fence on my way out. Soon after, the AK he had started riddling the bus. I got no more than 100 feet before the whole bus went up in flames, but it felt so awesome to ruin a bandit's day without firing a single shot. After this incident, the bandit was left without his bus and a huge explosion to give away his position. Oops, watch out where you leave your vehicles! The times I wish I hap Fraps running...

By repairing a vehicle, and driving around tent hunting... End up finding everything, even more vehicles hidden. Servers need to be reset when duping/hacking is fixed. I've found plenty of legit weapons, in tree stands (M107's). I've seen at least 4-5 crashed helis in the 2 weeks I've played and I haven't found an AS50, but I've killed tons of people using them. I've never found rangefinders or entrenching tools, but I've kill people with them. Most of the loot I find is in tents, and I'll grab peoples shit and stick it in my vehicle and disperse between my group and wreck havoc. You shouldn't be able to play for less than an hour and have all this... (this was today btw) http://i.imgur.com/kYq31.jpg

I had everything. Coyote backpack, L85A2, M24, vehicles, NVGs, Rangefinder...everything. So did my group. I was riding on my motorcycle [amazing vehicle, really], picking up a friend and taking new spawns to where they want to go on the coast. Until I was insta-killed. I went back to my body five minutes later and everything was looted. I was really dissapointed. And then the server was shutdown due to hackers. Upon the server coming back up...all of our vehicles were gone. All of our high-end, high value vehicles were gone. We have nothing. One of my group members, DesolateChris, has his stuff still. SVD Camo and M4A3 CCO [i think, might be a different variation]. ATLAAS and myself have nothing. So we decided to head to Cherno and Elektro and gear up like the good old times; gear up how gear should be acquired. ATLAAS helped players and killed murderers. I did the same. We went on ANZ 1/2/3 servers--the max pop servers to do all of this. It was a shittload of fun. Him and myself grouped up near the apartments in Cherno and looted them. A sniper was sitting ontop of the high place sniping him. ATLAAS died, unfortunately, but I did not. I avenged my friends's death and killed his killer. Acquired a DMR and some food, etc. Although, the DMR has no ammo, but that's fine. It's time to group up with the rest of my group and do what we haven't done in a long time. This is where the fun is.

Hackers can locate bases/tents/vehicles using ESP hacks, most likely they have gone to your base and messed it up, i may be wrong though and it may be alright.

I think as others mentioned variety will be the key to success with bases. If I want a basic semi secure hideaway in a temporary home base it should be quick to set up and give me a place I can stash supplies for a short stay in an area. Like if I want to go sluming down to Cherno or Elektro.. I should be able to dig in a quick somewhat hidden place to stash my loots. On other hand if I want a more secure base out in the woods to hold my high end or the bulk of my supplies I should be able to build something like this as well as a solo player or even joint build with a friend or two and have it be very hard to find. Meanwhile if a larger group thinks they can hold down a fortress of some sort inside a town or on top of a mountain ect..ect then they should be-able to build something to their liking as well. The biggest key would be having a reasonable amount of associated risk to go with the location/size. If I had some apartment or building fortress inside a city or a large encampment for vehicles or a heli then it should be at much higher risk of being taken over or destroyed vs something in an out of the way place in the woods. The problem with the current set up with tents in DayZ is they are just too easy for others to find & steal/destroy all your stuff. It's almost like I have to start over every few days because someone found my tent and took everything or stole it.

Our server has an instance ID above 8000, vehicles spawn, but on every server reset they all respawn back at their original points unrepaired. Also tents are not saving their inventories accurately either. Its not making the server very fun for our players.

For the record, 'douchebags' don't gather all the loot and hide it from everyone else. You seem to have a very odd idea of how the game mechanics work. Loot respawns. They can't possibly 'hide it from everyone else' unless they're on a certain server 24 hours a day, continiously emptying entire cities. The only thing they can hide is vehicles.

My friends server, US 280, does not have any vehicles spawning. This is a new server and just started running about 16 hours ago. Any ideas as to why no vehicles are spawning?

Yes the group I run with has had several vehicles on US 9 and US 10; however those same vehicles tend to disappear or move around a bit on server restarts.

Okay so I had this idea a while back, and never really got to try it out so I was wondering if anyone thinks this is a good idea/wants to help out. I have probably 10 people already willing to help with this. We have a certain spot that you can only enter from one way (wont give any more info on location yet) and we want to fortify it, and guard it. We want to have a sort of trading post out of it, along with a safe haven for survivors in need. We could provide security and food, trade for things we may need or if someone else needs them. This wouldn't be like the other trading post, on for a few hours a day or whatever. If we didn't have anymore friendlies at the colony we could simply move the vehicles to a off-site location that wouldn't be advertised like the location of the colony itself would be if this idea even works. Near this location we have a few high-traffic towns along with great water/food sources all within 1K/m Have dedicated in-house medical staff with everything you could need to fix yourself up. Can also trade for medical supplies. We may have 'colony' events where we do something fun in a insanely large group. Example: Say we only had 20 people, 10 / 2 = 2 parties of 5 looting nearby towns/gathering water and food 5 long range security (snipers) 5 CQ security/traders We could also set some procedures to get the post up and running. We could have a TeamSpeak for it, or maybe just channels on my already running TS (512 slots) I have a 64 slot server we can do this on that runs extremely well. (DayZ server) Post here if your interested, or if you have some suggestions as this idea isn't that well thought out. But it could be quite cool.

tents and vehicles saved before the patch right? So how would they know about the issue before we tell them? Something broke wow, they'll fix it. It's in alpha, this shit will happen man.

So? Best time to loot the air fields/find vehicles.

Its far to easy to get some of the best gear in the game simply by running arround the northern edge of the map where all the tents seem to be. Whats the point of having loot spawn when you can just raid peoples camps? I've tried destroying all the tents and vehicles that I find but there are far to many. How is it a survival game when all the best stuff can be found in one spot?

Yeah, I appreciate that they plopped this onto six updater now basically forcing all the servers I play on to update to this broken patch. Running at night with a glowstick, switches from bandit to survivor, lose the light, can't pick up another until I relog. Upon doing that, my body is duped and I can loot a copy of every thing, so that's cool that the game is exploiting for me. Also, this shitty hotfix was supposed to fix like 4 things, and it fucked up every single one; Ammo still refreshes on logout, artifacts are generally worse rather than fucking GONE, and the humanity thing is obviously broken. On top of everything, tents and vehicles don't save. Good thing I had plenty set up before the servers updated, now not only do they STILL DUPE MY GEAR when I run into cherno solo and die, but with 1.7.2.5 I don't even need to worry that someone will empty them and save them, cause the save is broken.

Awesome, but how about fixing the fact the tents and vehicles dont save. That would be a great start because if the game doesn't work properly I'm not sure how many people will buy it.

yes to improvised vehicles.

There is a growing problem of people looking for vehicles but never being able to find them. I have played for 2 months now and I have not encounter a single one as much as I would like to. My solution, if you haven't guessed my the title, would be improvised bikes. You will be able to make these bikes by collecting 4 scrap metal into your inventory. You can then right click on them to combine them into a rusty motorbike chassis and continue building the bike as normal. (engine parts, fueltank, scrap metal, 2 wheels) These bikes wont look like the current bike though, they will look more "bare-bones" To not make these bikes OP, they will have a relatively slow speed (40k/m?), easier to break, store limited space, and will only able to hold 20liters of fuel. These bikes will be great for those who want to travel from elecktro to cherno and back to meet up with others. If you just started in kamenka as usual, you can quickly build this bike to get out of there faster than walking. It can also be great if you decide to make a little biker gang. That's my take of this anyway. If you had ideas or critiques then feel free to add them.

Basically as far as i can tell hacker can’t become invincible only increase their health so they are killable. which is great if i die and respawn i find a hacker and kill him to get a drm of as50. Then i just camp sniper spots or hunt for vehicles. Me and my friends got a as50 with thermal scope from some awesome hacker. Once we got them they could not kills or even touch us.