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tbh I've seen both cars and quads on that island on different servers too.. would be logical to assume all vehicles have the same spawn points..

why didnt all the vehicles reset the first time i stole them after the server restarted?

Vortech, I also need to report a small problem on US 1993. Lately we have switched to this wonderful server, finding vehicles galore having fun! Then, server restarted.. Our pinnacle of the hours was now gone. Finding our vehicles gone respawned and our tents not saved.. What is going on? We have tried this on several occasions for the past week. If you could get back ASAP. Thanks Zach

Don't post IPs on a public forum. Guids are enough. And yes, ban every one of them for creating vehicles.

I would not reccomend anyone play on your server judging by your reaction to people stealing your vehicles legitimately. Your the kind of admin that will give this game a bad name. *Edit* MadHatter did unban as he stated.

Oh, I was there. Got banned because my friend accidently shot me and I quited, which resulted in "Leaving under fire". I used to play on that server way before that though, with my friends. We went through all of the map lots of times and we didn't find ANY vehicles. Lots of people (Me, included) think one of the admins closed the server and hide all vehicles, oh well.

Hi all. I must say that its just getting worse, more kids discover BE bypass and start to use scripts. I'm running IL 4 server and all was fine except path 1.2.7.5 not saving vehicles and etc .. (Already have open ticket and i suppose you know this issue), but yesterday we had like 25 people online and some kids (not just one) started to give away rare stuff to all players, broke legs, teleport all players and transform players into animals, and kill all. At least one of them made a mistake and got banned, but his friends still were able to use scripts and was trying to save his ass by making more script attacks on server. So i was forced to close the server, its now only available to community of players that i know playing clean. Waiting in patience for some anti-cheat, or at least some power to admins to discover script kiddies, for now i have to read logs and pray that some kid made a mistake and discovered himself. The power of admins should be more then just server restart and log reading, we need more tools to protect the dayz game-play and discover+ban kids that trying to cheat. I understand that some admins will use it for their needs or illegal use, but its easiest to discover 1 server with bad admin then searching for 1-2 kids on minimum 40 players server. Regards.

[Disclaimer: This is a rant, not a troll thread, simply a rant. You can reply if you like, I honestly won't be bothered to reply to directed comments telling me how awful I am and how I made a bad call. I'm not looking for your input, i'm not looking for your slaps on the back. This post was simply to voice my frustration to this forum and give some insight into how the life of a server admin goes.If you feel you are a special snowflake and that this may in any way be directed at you then I strongly urge you to close this thread and go on about your day. Fair warning, continue to read at your own risk.] I honestly see this becoming a multi-part rant simply because there is so much happening in the world of my server right now. I want to reach out and choke some of the people who play on my it and give their 'input' on how it should be run when you can tell on a glance that they've clearly never hosted a server / community before in their life. You people have some nerve to stand up in a chat group we specifically made for this server and tell us how shitty of admins we are because we do such things like restart the server when it's slow and restart it when tents / vehicles / deployable wire and such don't come up on start. Really brilliant genius. I mean we spend our collective money on a place for you to come in and play and the only thing you can do is bitch about how it runs? Granted, there are those who like and appreciate the fact that we are doing this and they say so in the chat, but some of you cocksuckers have a lot of nerve. I've seen everything from people ESP hacking finding our camp and then for days on end logging in to mark it over and over for days on end until we literally gave up and completely moved camp. We haven't been hacked quite as bad as everyone else and I consider this a bout of luck, but we've got our share of dumbass's that's for sure. When will people figure out that just short of admins using hacks themselves that we can't spawn vehicles, weapons, gear of any kind. We are normal players on the server with the ability to restart it now and then to make it go smoother. We can't see you on the map, we can't teleport to you and kill you with a button. We can't see your camp, we can't see your truck, we can't see anything except what every other Tom, Dick, and Harry can see. And we make mistakes. God forbid. Couple of days ago we had a duo from Brazil come on our server and were server hopping till they found a chopper. We frown on server hopping but it's not a ban offense for us. We had just updated to 1.7.2.5 and little did we know all vehicles that were destroyed on the map reset when the server is updated. So our chopper had crashed a few days prior and we had been checking almost every hour at both spawns to see if it had come back. We updated the server and these two hopped in and boom, free chopper. They fix it up and fly it to the NW airfield. I get to NW airfield and see it hovering there and shoot the hell out of it with a DMR, after two clips the pilot says "Shit i'm being shot!" and flies off. We figure, shit, choppers up already? Must be spawned in. So we say to the people online "If you're flying the chopper please come to chat." We then tell them how to get to the chat room and give them 15 minutes to get there. We update this every 5 minutes and at 15 minutes on the dot we shut the server down. After the server shut down of course the two people come into the chat channel and start complaining. We ask where they got the chopper and they dick dance around actually telling us where they got it, they said - Oh you don't know where it spawns so we won't tell you. What kind of brain dead moron thinks he gets asked to come to a chat channel only so we can ask you where the chopper spawns? Dude have you ever heard of Google? Do they not have this in Brazil? We're giving you a chance to explain where the shit came from. How hard is it to say "Oh we found it on the island spawn.". Done, thanks, continue on, your chopper is probably back on the island because you didn't save it. Shit, we would have even LOCKED THE SERVER so you could go get it back and therefore be A-O.K. after that, but nope they nerd rage about how they've lost the chopper now because we brought it down. They then start being racist saying how fucking Americans and Canadians are useless and how this is a shit community and oops, now your ass got banned. Admins get a shit rap sometimes, we really do. We get our good and we get our cheese dick majority who seem to think we're a bunch of useless fucks with nothing better to do then ruin your free time on a free server that you connect to and don't even OFFER to fork a fucking penny over. Not that i'm asking for it, but it would be thoughtful for someone to say "Hey man if I wanted to donate, how would I do that?" Shit man I wouldn't take the money but you know damn good and well I would appreciate the offer. I know there are some people who could give two damns about a server and how it is running. I know there are people who could care less if hackers are ruining your game or not. I know there are admins who spawn cheat weapons and shit and use them on players. News flash. We're not one of them. We ban for barracks hopping. We ban for combat logging, combat dodging, Alt F4'ing out of combat. We ban for racism and racist names. We ban for hacking, scripting, duping gear. Our ping limit is set to 150 and will kick anyone above that. We try to run a very tight ship because we want our server to run smoothly. I'm not asking for your sympathy, i'm asking for you to not lump every admin you encounter in with the rest of these retards. |------------------------------------------------| TL;DR : Get off the balls of the admins. Thanks.

Alright suckas, I am trying to organize a DayZ marathon. I am going to need some volunteers to help me organize the race and of course I am going to need runners! So some basic info: The race will start on the outskirts of Kamenka and will end in a soon to be set end point at Otmel. The race will be run along the coastal highway, runners will be expected to run along the highway the entire time even through towns. Running off the road but not too far from, like on the grass next to it is okay but straying off into the mountains will not be permitted. The marathon is basically a death race in the sense that if a player is killed by a zombie or other hazard then they are disqualified. Players cannot kill each other and aren't allowed to use weapons during the race. Its you and your feet. Food and water will be permitted. One runner killing another runner will result in the disqualification of the murderer. The date of the race will most likely be either the 22nd or 23rd of August at around 10pm EST. The date/time will be decided by monday. The first player to cross the finish line will be the champion of the first ever DayZ marathon. Myself and some others will be documenting the race on film by following the racers on bikes and other vehicles. We want to film the race so everyone can see. Volunteers: I am going to need the help of close to ten volunteers. I am going to need the help of players to help get some vehicles running for the race. A car or two and some bicycles are necessary. These will be used by trusted volunteers to monitor the race so we can catch any cheaters. I am going to need a server with a shit load of slots. Anyone willing to volunteer their server PLEASE MESSAGE ME. I want to select a server with good connection and that will be in daylight hours during the race. I want to keep the server unknown to everyone except the runners and volunteers, just to prevent people joining just to be trolls. I realize other people will be on the server that could interfere with the race. Shit happens. IF YOU WANT TO VOLUNTEER PLEASE POST YOUR AVAILABILITY AND I WILL CONTACT YOU VIA MESSAGE ON THE FORUMS IF I WANT YOUR HELP. Runners: If you would like to run in the race PLEASE POST WITH YOUR AVAILABILITY. PLEASE LIST THE HOURS OF THE DAY YOU WILL BE AVAILABLE (EST PLEASE) ON THE 23RD AND 24TH OF AUGUST. If you win the race, you will be crowned champion of the universe. For running in DayZ at least. There will be 20 spots for runners! So act fast! There will be 15 spots for backup runners! You will need to be available before the race in case one of the main runners is absent. If a main runner is absent you will be called upon to fill his spot! If you miss out then we just keep asking all the backup runners until we get someone. If we only have 18 runners to start the race then so be it! If the race is a success I plan on doing more. DEADLINE FOR ALL RUNNER AND VOLUNTEER APPLICANTS IS TUESDAY AT MIDNIGHT EST.

As it is now vehicle parts are by far the most common things in all the industrial locations of Chernarus. Increasing the rarity of these would make vehicles not only a little bit more of a hassle to fix up, but just make the game that much more realistic. Some might say that making vehicle parts more rare would just increase the value of the vehicles that much more, but I like to think that it would change the mentality of hoarders to think, "Do I really want to go through all this hassle just to fix up one vehicle and stow it away?" Making jerry cans more rare is a given. You can find them anywhere and everywhere. Fuel is the same idea. By making fueling vehicles that much harder, and then decreasing the storage, the line between tents and vehicles becomes much more broad.

We've all had our fair share of problems with vehicles, and this is by no means a comprehensive list of all the fixes required. This is simply a possible solution to the hoarding problem everybody hates so much. In my mind, this could definitely be implemented in the standalone and would be very beneficial to everybody overall. My idea is to have not necessarily more vehicles, but to have more vehicle spawn locations. In fact, I'm thinking of maybe 5x the number of spawn locations as in the current version of DayZ. However, with these locations comes another factor. Either each location could have a 1/5 chance to spawn a vehicle, resulting in some variety across servers; or the server, when being created, could randomly select 1/5 of those locations to spawn vehicles. This would make hoarders explore the map more rather than just heading for all the known vehicle spawn locations to stockpile them and hide them like buried treasure. All other factors aside just to keep this as a simple idea, I would also like to mention other ideas come up by many people across the forums. 1. Make fuel and jerry cans rare. The fight over vehicles is boring and monotonous. While some people find joy in finding one of the many camps on the north and west sides of the map, I find myself wanting to just go back to Cherno and find somebody with an AS50 I can steal. This problem can be solved by making literally every single gas station a war zone. Mind you, there will be vehicles at the edge of the map for people who like that kind of thing (just not huge stockpiles), but for people who actually like to find and use their vehicles, every time they want to fuel up they may be taking a huge risk. Basically just resulting in more excitement all around. 2. Make vehicles parts rare. Currently finding vehicles parts can be done very easily by simply entering an industrial location. I would like to see vehicle parts become much less common in industrial areas, but I would also like to see scavenging parts from the wreckage of other vehicles. You know, like the 95% of all the cars you see on the road. The success rate of this would be low. However, sometimes after inspecting a destroyed car maybe one could come up with a spare tire. 3. Make vehicles have less storage. While this conflicts with my earlier idea about vehicles still being on the edge of the map, the concept is simple. HIDE tents, USE vehicles. Currently vehicles are just mobile storage. I would like to see that similarity between the tent and the vehicle smashed to bits. It's the cause of many problems. 4. This is an idea of my own, and I'd like to see your thoughts on it. Make military vehicles more durable but require more fuel to use. This would be a feature that would revolutionize the game in my opinion. Having this be implemented would result in certain players having a more military oriented game, in which they are heavily armored but have to consume a TON of resources to stay that way. Other players might choose the other route, in which they pick a civilian vehicle and survive using as few resources as possible. Let me know what you guys think, and I may add your suggestions. Heck, maybe if this gets popular enough I'll put it in the suggestions category. ;)

I don't know what's worse... artifacting or not being able to save stuff in tents or vehicles with the current hive issue.

While I would never complaint to someone who's donating his money in order for me to play, but you made it look like server owners cant realy do anything, and dont. Locking/reseting/changing the settings to show vehicles and so on, not to mention that some owners hack too. I wont say most of them do that, but a big part of them have it on their normal day agenda. Just yesterday I found a tent city, with almost all of the vehicles of the server, the tents looked legit so I figuered its the owner's and left it as it is (give or take) not 15 minutes later the server kicked everyone but the owner's clanmates and of course how not, locked.

First you accuse me of justifying for simply having it, and now you jump to me justifying using it? Make up your mind. Did I say everyone should script? Did I tell everyone to be like me and use scripted or duped guns if they find them? It's partly my fault for wording my point wrongly but you're twisting the meaning behind it. I happened to find a gun, that's usefull, but unfair. But the WHOLE game at this point is unfair. I do not need an unfair advantage to make me feel better, but I won't go out of my way or change my opinions or principles just to cater to other people who have their own opinions and principles. At this point we're just arguing semantics. Edit; Still wording it wrongly. I say the whole game is unfair at this point and that sounds wrong. I mean that shit happens and that you should take things in stride and make up your own mind on what to do in unfair situations, like finding duped/scripted weapons or vehicles.

Yeah well, hackers may be ruining this game, but honestly, using a scripted chopper (knowing it is scripted in) you are honestly asking for it, and is not much better than the scripters.. Whining about being killed by a scripter whose chopper you just used... Meh I personally find it a bit pathetic.. I do not support the scripters, but nor do i support the persons using scripted items/vehicles.. Earlier in the footage which is not in this part of the cutout you guys saw the chopper selfrepair and were all aware of it being scripted in so...

we restarted the server because we have had issues with all the vehicles and tents despawning after a scheduled restart and respawning after a unscheduled restart and the i know about the l85 but the weapon that person looked liked a m4 with mods i hadnt seen in dayz and more so to the point the l85s laser wouldn't have been visible in daylight

Hey! Recently my friends and I purchased Arma 2: CO, and therefore installed DayZ. We are looking to team up with 2-3 mature people (16+, with exceptions) to create a nice small squad on a server of our choice. Currently, there is myself and two other friends that are attempting to play together. (Although failing most of the time ^.^ ) Our aims are to : - Gear up to a sufficient standard to where we can survive for a long time in 2's or 3's. - Make our way all 3 airfields with succession. - Find and repair a couple of vehicles. - Create a small camp to store our goodies and vehicles out in the wilderness somewhere. We will mainly be using Skype, or even the Steam Chat to communicate until we can sort out better methods (ie. A TeamSpeak server). Add me on Steam to ask any queries. Steam: Olliecus - Ollie Edit: We now are using a Mumble server for those that are accepted into the "squad" type thing.

Happened to us yesterday on US267, all tents + vehicles totally gone! Hive issues I'm sure... Surprised? I think not :)

i was thinking that you should be able to start up chernarus but with the zombie spawns added with the in game stuff in it so you could create your own map with spawn locations, turrets, all vehicles, weapons crates, watch towers, all that good stuff what do you guys think personally i think it would be cool and fun playing with your friends on your own custom built server map

You forgot to mention the hours upon hours of not playing and scrolling through logs trying to find the little turds teleporting and thunderdoming players. You also forgot to mention the butthurt teenagers that lose a vehicle and then blame the admins, and who then post that the server admins are cheating on 4chan and Reddit, causing the server to receive ddos attacks and floods of cheaters "looking for revenge." Then there are the players who do receive bans posting locations of all the camps and vehicles on the server, regardless of who owned them or not, just to get revenge against the admins. Bloody difficult to admin a server and a thankless task at that. Looking forward to the standalone.

dogact, I was one of the people there on the island when you were there. For the record, I had a blast. You did not kill me, you killed two people, and almost killed a third. If you were in the ghillie, I had you in my sights, then saw your buddy, decided not to fire(I wasn't sure I could take you both), and followed you both for a while until you disappeared(Now I know you DC'd). A couple things I would like to note: 1. The camps on that island were placed there with painstaking trips from that stupid slow boat. It's very annoying. They are all legit. 2. The server reset during it's normal scheduled reset. This happened at 4pm EST. Before the server reset, the two members you killed made their way back to the island. They made their way to their bodies, but then when the server reset, they were missing their items, which was another adventure. We got gear, patched up our 3rd buddy you almost killed, and headed to the chopper spawn. We repaired the chopper from the stuff we had in the tents, and took off. Our leak in our gas tank was rough, so we went to go gas up in Three vallies. We started taking fire, but our gas tank was low, so I told our pilot we had about 30 seconds to land the bird. He hung in the air too long, and about 40 feet from the ground, we ran out of gas, and crashed the chopper. I survived with 47 blood after I finished bandaging. So, for for the record, we did not cheat or anything along those lines. We had an amazing time on the island, it was full of intensity that I rarely get anymore in the game. We lost that chopper fair and square, and I logged off shortly thereafter, to deal with some stuff IRL. What took place after we left: HFB servers have sent out a letter indicating they were re-adding some features they had taken out some time ago due to server instability. About an hour after I left, the server connection was at yellow for more than 20 minutes, and no one could access tents, items, or vehicles. One of our admins reset the server and reverted the version to avoid this from happening again. Our server(And others? I don't know) has a bug right now where nothing saves. Vehicles return back to where they were after every reset, tents wont save items in them unless a brand new tent is placed down. Anything destroyed before a reset returns to its original spot after reset. So it's pretty frustrating right now. This certainly isn't something we've done by design; I think it's plaguing the entire community. If that makes you feel any better, cool. I had a great time stalking you yesterday. If it doesn't make you feel any better or you're suspect, I'm sorry. It's the truth of the matter, and there isn't much more I can say. As for ww THE TODD ww: You have been logged ghosting on our server. This is unacceptable behavior, and against the spirit of the game. You may accuse us of resetting our servers blah blah, but you don't see the messages from HFB or the problems the server has in general. Attack us, kill us, steal our shit; all of that is well and good. Cheat when you do it, and it's lame. As soon as a server admin comes on, you will likely be banned. We gave you a chance after we suspected you of cheating, and you decided to do so again.

Buckett, check out Billy May's Chicago Private Server. You have to goto BMRF.ME to register on their website, and provide them with your player ID. This is how you get whitelisted and allowed into the server. If you don't go through this process, the server will auto-kick you every time. Pretty neat feature. I believe the settings are 3D:ON CH: OFF. No waypoints. Veteran server. It's always high pop, and there's always an admin present. It's the only private hive I'll play on. They do add extra vehicles, I believe. Almost double, but generally it's not like you see them all over the place(breaking immersion). It's still very well run. You'll have to deal with side chat antics, but thats the case with all private servers.

Server restarts occur at 5AM. And along with that it's performance restarts which will be announced 10-30minutes before the restarts(In global chat). Server is set at [GMT-8] Vehicles works just fine and about the tents, sure you can place them but the contains inside can still be quite glitchy due to the dayz patch. Not server config. I got my tent to work and all the items inside but maybe i was lucky

Get a group of friends (3-4), get the Russian 4x4, and drive around Stary/Vybor/Dirt roads looking for Heli spawns. It really helps if you can have a home server, make friends with the admins, that kind of thing. ATVs are common, check the bridges around Solinichy, as they flip on them. Check vehicle spawns repeatedly using the DayZDB map. Run around the northern and western boundaries looking for tent cities Tents are borderline permanent right now, whats in them doesn't ever disappear, taking stuff out and flattening them doesn't do anything. We currently have a boatload (5-7) AS 50s, 107s, a few SVDs, 1 L85, 240, 249, NVGs, DMRs and M4 Holos. We do not intentionally dupe anything, all of the AS50s were accumulated from helis or survivors. When moving campsites, we've taken all of our stuff out, moved it, only to have it eaten/respawn in old tents on restarts. We are not exploiting the game. The last campsite we raided was east of Stary. Were just running and found the red UAZ in a tree and campsite nearby. As we were looting it, 4 guys in a Russian 4x4 rolled up, and met their deaths by an SVD and L85, and we got both of their vehicles. Gearing up is easy, you just have to know where to look, and AS50/NVG/107 people are NOT hackers, they're probably just better than you.

I am not a server owner, but back in 1.7.2.4 this happened to us on DE 376. Each time the server restarted, all inventories of vehicles and tents were emptied.