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also low chance of spawning in military vehicles nope he is talking about soldier suits

I highly recommend you all try the Lingor flavour of DayZ. I have played cherno dayz for 3+ months now - 100's of hours. Some boring and some so heart pumping i am sure i have shortened my lifespan (and have played ARMA1/2 OFP for years and years) and while i was tiring (mainly due to the groups i played with drifting away and me getting lonely) I have moved to Lingor and am addicted all over again. Intense PvP, vehicles galore, much less script abusers, crazy map that is smaller but more richly drawn, more challenging player skills (vets?) its awesome.

Then I've found broken spawned vehicles. I don't think that's the case. And yes, you can destroy a bike by driving it over :P

A )The first chopper me and my clan fixed up had red text, in fact still does B )when vehicles are destroyed they have a set time till they respawn, it could be a spawn loaction or a script kiddie could have spawned one on front of everyone (only thing i can think of)

You can still play on your outdated server even if you update your client, just not the other way around. I was able to at least. I've been content with HFB. Nothing too bad but nothing special either. Nice uptime. Their support likes to ignore your questions and they won't add more integrity checks on .pbo files aside from plants because it's 'too resource heavy'. Any HFB server is just begging to get exploited to shit by the popular new douchebag technique of removing buildings to horde vehicles in them or shoot people.

I have seen videos in youtube where people are using L85A2 AWS, and in these videos, all vehicles have a high thermal image and I assume it is because they were just recently driven. Do they always show up hot or will the vehicles cool over time?

Good shout, when my group started in DayZ we chose the Kamenka area for our camps, then headed more northwards when we matured into restoring vehicles (not quite Goba but we've found plenty there too :)

my brother came up with a prett cool idea of having buildings connected via a sewer system. You could access buildings from this area and travel somewhere below the zombies. You would also run into some othe people so it would lead to interesting moments where you see somone elses flashlight and you hide. Another cool things would be more vehicles and have crashed planes in areas. And a big thing more rooms bigger buildings. And mini stories like a crashed truck with some dead soldiers around it and a rifle or 2 with some ammo. That'd be cool to see that before the infection people were living their lives. Finding a shotgun in a country house would make sense or in a farm where loot like that would be common. Also maybe a market or a survivors heaven where you go in unarmed and trade gear for food or medical supplies.

Well i have seen a many it times a hacker connecting a server and he gets "banned" but after a while its seems that he's retrying connection until they succefully connect, something about buffer-overflow? Asuming that they get on server and play for 10-15mins before they get kicked they spawn stuff for their "non-hacking" account vehicles/equipment/anything what you can imagine.. or in worst scenario they use mass-destruction weapons or something other nasty things.' Its a theory.

So we are a clan and we actually own a server, de xxx, something like 10 days ago, to be more accurate like the day after the chopper was put back into the game again, so the 28th or 29th of july we've seen a helicopter flying and roaming around by atleast 2 players (since one was flying and the other one shooting from the side), after that day we've lost sight of it and until now we've been on his traces with no clue on where it is or if it's actually somewhere broken or saved or whatever. after that day we've registered that players from another specific clan stopped playing, they were a group of 2,3 and they were pretty much active until the day after we spotted the chopper, we guessed they might have crashed the huey and stopped playing on our server. so our hunt began theory 1: the chopper crashed 9-10 days ago, since then we've been looking at every of his new confirmed spawns as of 1.7.2.4 (mind that we're atleast 6 hardcore players by the number of hour we spend on dayz so it's not like we've missed out anything like not looking further at the borders of the maps, nor leaving any possible spot for it to land and be saved, by someone the server restarted multiple times since we have a curious case of high fps and latency for everyone when the server runs for more than 36h, always 2x in order to get back tents and vehicles for anyone inside and with previous warning by global chat we actually own 7 vehicles, 2x atv, GAZ, V3S Civilian, Tractor, Bike & Motorcycle and we even spotted others like an autobus and flipped atvs, we recently heard of the 7 days respawn for chopper who's not influenced by server restarts and even so we took in account that the chopper has disappeared from more than 10 days and still no chopper spawned in the 3 confirmed locations, even though still no trace. theory 2: we've read that if someone crashes while on the chopper it goes wasted or worse, it can go deeply underwater or far far out of the map, if this is the case what should we do? considered we don't use hacks nor even have a clue if there is a server command to make it respawn manually theory 3: the chopper badly landed anywhere and got destroyed in the process, then with every programmed server restarts it respawns in the site of the crash and the cooldown for the 7 days of doom starts over again in order for the server to make it spawn back as the wiki says non-saved vehicles will return to a random spawn of the known ones after 7 days. theory 4: the chopper never spawned on our server and simply got hacked, our admin says the server is up to date and we all are running version 95417 theory 5: you may think someone has the chopper landed & hidden somewhere and sometimes he login in order to save it again, i can say we're almost constantly keeping a list of who's playing on our server day by day and we've found that there almost no players playing on it from more than 4,5 days consecutively (many ragequits after dying too many times ;D) p.s. we once had a hacker on the server and he killed 4 of us by instagib with a command and destroyed our ural :'( is there any chance he stopped the chopper from spawning or have it teleported far in the ocean? the sad story of the ural HERE So what do you guys think? I've read in other threads that many players are in the same situation as i've explained here and so i hope this will help someone more than us and i want you to know that we aren't bad players in the way that when we'll know where the chopper is we'll storm it :) we usually play in groups of 1,2 players and so helicopter isn't our goal, but we would gladly see other players riding it and be it a good prey for our hunting! any ideas or tip? 1) try & search harder for chopper badly landed in random places? (we'll do that even more even if we have already looked everywhere) 2) search more the spawn points? (we're doing it since we knew the new spawn points, like 8 days ago) 3) you say there are new spawn points as of 1.7.2.4? please tell us all here so everyone may get benefits from that and update the wiki aswell sorry for the walltext and grammar errors, hope this will help us, our players, and all of you in the same situation of 0 choppers on your servers from left to right: players, Tau, Svrango Svrango: i'm tired.. it's been almost 2 weeks we're looking for this goddamn chopper... aren't you tired aswell? Tau: ... dead tired

I stole the Russian 4x4 (UAZ) from a campsite, only to have it despawn on restart.... or so I thought. I then found it at the... North East Airfield :/. it still had the gas that we had left in it, and also had a bunch of military equipment in it, including one of every color Smoke grenade, 10 SVD mags, and ~ 10.... RGO Frag grenades? I've never seen those before, are they hacked? I know military vehicles sometimes spawn with gear, and it also had a tent.

Update--- 7th Day and still no cars on my server. Let me tell you a story about a 30 year old kid that wanted to host a dayz server- I was playing dayz and thought to myself what a cool idea. This game is awesome. I would like my own server. After researching for DAYZ :) I found that the servers in my home would not have enough bandwidth so I would have to purchased a managed server. So off I went, I went to a site called VIlayer, They were nothing but rude and could not get my server up after 3 days so I got a full refund. I then went to a site called Defcon servers. They have been okay for now. They seem to respond to tickets rather quickly. Only issue is keeping the server up. Now it was time to have some fun. I had a new server and friends to play on it with me. We started off getting all our supplies and trying to find a vehicle. Never found one. After a couple days we started to get worried and I put a ticket in with Defcon. They explained that there was nothing they could do. Only Dayz staff could help. So I did a little research and found that if I had an ID above 6000 it could take up to 7 days to get vehicles. Man that sucks I thought to myself. So to confirm I put a ticket in with Dayz Staff. Department: Troubleshooting Date: 11/08/2012 18:05 Subject: No Vehicles after 7 Dayz on new server Status: Closed Urgency: High Dustin || 11/08/2012 18:05 I bought a new server and it has been 7 days without any vehicles. We have looked everywhere. I have read that many people are having this issue. I have been whitelisted since day one. I have the server with DefconServers. My member id is US 2114 and my mission id is 8238. IP is 207.210.254.162.3402 I read that if it is above 6000 it could take up to 7 days. I have posted in the forums many times before contacting you. Please help. I really want to be able to get a car like on other servers. Thank you ---------------------------- Jonathan Dalton || Staff 11/08/2012 18:09 Hi Dustin, Your instance ID was submitted on 08.07.12. It was probably approved that day or shortly after. It has not been 7 days. - Jonathan DayZ Community Support Staff ========================================================== Dustin || 11/08/2012 18:23 Thank you for the info Jonathan. I must have been confused cause they had to give me a second ID cause the first one glitched out to say US 405 I think. So you are saying the cars should be on the server on Day 7? Is there anything that can be done to expedite this? Reboot more, Pray to the Dayz gods, Donate? Thank you for any information you have that can help me get the server going. Jonathan Dalton || Staff 11/08/2012 18:23 Hi Dustin, Unfortunately there is nothing that can be done to expedite the service. Vehicles SHOULD be on your server by day 7. - Jonathan DayZ Community Support Staff ========================================================== Dustin || 11/08/2012 18:31 How will I know when to start looking vs when to give up? Does a reboot need to be done once the cars do show up? Or will they just appear in front of me at some point? Is it possible that they could show up today? Or is it 7 days no matter what? Thank you Jonathan Dalton || Staff 11/08/2012 18:33 Hi Dustin, A reboot will be required. As for when/if/etc., I can't comment on that, only that vehicles should be on your server by day 7. - Jonathan DayZ Community Support Staff ========================================================== Dustin || 11/08/2012 18:39 Thank you for your support:) After this ticket I was hopeful. So I got all my stuff together. DMR, Silenced bison, GPS, night vision , etc. Then I saw a helicopter on my server. I though to myself WOO HOO vehicles! Then we all died and lost all our stuff.. Everyone on the server died all at once because of a hacker.. AWESOME!! (Sarcasm) So now I'm back to square one.. No items, no vehicles, No money cause I bought this stupid server. So I awaited day 7 for vehicles and some small amount of hope that I could have fun on this server. STILL NO VEHICLES. So I decided to put a support ticket in with Dayz again and see what was going on. Department: Troubleshooting Date: 13/08/2012 21:50 Subject: No vehicles on server after 7 days Status: Answered Urgency: High Dustin cody || 13/08/2012 21:50 Hello, I bought a new server and it has been 7 days without any vehicles. We have looked everywhere. I have read that many people are having this issue. I have been whitelisted since day one. I have the server with DefconServers. My member id is US 2114 and my mission id is ****. IP is 207.210.254.162.3402 I read that if it is above 6000 it could take up to 7 days. I have posted in the forums many times before contacting you. Please help. I really want to be able to get a car like on other servers. There has been no vehicle spawns on my server since I ordered it. (aside from hackers spawning heli's and jets) I was wondering why there are no vehicles for the poor guys that want to play fair? What needs to be done to get the game working correctly? Thank you Mason Henrickson || Staff 14/08/2012 00:25 As was told to you in your other ticket "Unfortunately there is nothing that can be done to expedite the service. Vehicles SHOULD be on your server by day 7." You will get your vehicles as soon as possible, more tickets will not help. ~Mason Henrickson DayZ Staff ========================================================== Dustin cody || 14/08/2012 01:06 Let me start by saying I have been nothing but nice to you guys. This is the second ticket I have put in on an issue that has lasted 7 days. I was not trying to annoy you but just solve a problem. You say I will get my vehicles as soon as possible. I am curious why a hacker can put cars and heli's on my server but you are unable to? Can you expand on SHOULD? Are you saying cars may never show up? If that is the case what is the point? can you at least act like you care even a little bit? I find your customer service skills to be upsetting. Again my only goal is to be able to play Dayz on my server with cars included. I am not asking for anything out of the ordinary. Jonathan Dalton || Staff 14/08/2012 01:20 Hi Dustin, At this time we are encountering some problems with vehicles spawning on new servers. We are working diligently to correct this problem and your patience is appreciated. I understand not having vehicles on your server is extremely frustrating but please know we are aware of this issue and are working on a solution. - Jonathan DayZ Community Support Staff After this I was a little upset. I could not believe after all this that the Dayz staff I was bending over backward to be nice to was going to be rude to me because they have an issue with the game. So now here I am, Sitting waiting for Defcon server to get my server back up so I can go to the quarry and be sad cause there are no vehicles on the server. That is the sad story of a 30 year old kid and his very own Dayz server.

I found one right next to the huey spawn, the heli was gone though. The ATV had fn fal, m14 aim, m16acog, and a slew of other weapons and equipment. The only way to get an ATV on the island would be to hack it in right? I mean there isn't a vehicle in the game that can transport other vehicles. That ATV isn't an amphibious vehicle (to my knowledge). So hacking has to be the only explanation, but why store a bunch of weapons in it if you could just hack them in?

So my server is about 2 weeks old and we have went from 3rd person to 1st person only server, veteran, with waypoints enabled. Players have completely stopped coming. Is 3rd person that big of a deal on a FPS game? I have admins on just about 24/7 to help keep watch over the server, we don't reset when we lose a vehicle or get our tents raided. Most vehicles are still laying around the place waiting to be taken. So I ask you all, what makes you want to come to a server and stay on it? I need to find a way to keep some players or just quit paying for the server all together.

Duping isn't random, but a LOT of it is accidental. Try moving stuff between campsites right now, half the time it dupes on server restart and the other half it respawns in its previous location. Vehicles have a nasty tendency of doing that too, or just getting gobbled up by the server randomly. Have I taken a Ghillie from a tent, saved the tent, and found it back again after restart? Yes. I've saved and then run over my old tents to try and destroy the crap items from falling into someone else's hands/ prevent the items from respawning there, and its no use. I've never intentionally duped, but it still happens. Every time I find a hacked weapon I destroy it one way or another. I like to think that I'm trying to play the game correctly, but the game gives me the big middle finger quite a bit.

Divvy, I think that political factor is what will make it interesting. Kills/defending kills wont be black and white. They will use the ask first rule Im guessing and weigh the facts. If they dont have enough to punish the person on scene, they will treat it like any case with minimal to no evidence. Plus if Im not mistaken, and you can see someone soon enough, cant you scroll your mouse wheel over a body to see how it died? not sure what details it gives though, some just say 'killed by....' and nothing after. But I personally think what they're doing with the Coalition is a brilliant idea! it puts a lot of fun into a game that is such a sandbox world. I mean hell, they could have mechanic crews that constantly gather and horde parts, let people bring their vehicles to them and trade for fixing up a vehicle. or offer to 'sell' a vehicle for A LOT of weaponry or medical supplies or something. the options are endless when you only have your imagination as the limit. I like the idea of being more of a lone wolf with good relations with others, and being able to help if needed, sort of like what Im doing with the TMW right now. Ive been saved twice, but have been running around with them to offer my gun and help find vehicle parts. Its hard to do as a solo 'treasure hunter', but Ill figure it out. its all part of the game!

Vehicles reset each restart and tents don't save items on 1.7.2.5, most of the time. Did it just respawn on the island or did you actually move it somewhere and it's location has saved just damaged?

dev could probably do it, but then you'd probably beg for more :/ atleast most people would, you'd lose the survivor taste. As for the 7 day grace period for vehicles spawn. Im pretty sure it works like this. (not 100% since i don't own a server, but it makes sense as to why your vehicles haven't spawned yet) Say vehicles spawn on friday night. You buy a server monday, instead of adding you to the list now, it's automatically added EXACTLY after 7 days. so it'd be added after the respawn vehicle date. so you'd have to wait till the following friday to get the vehicles. just my 2 cents, just might be a lack of communication, they say 7 days, but really its a bit longer then that depending on when you bought your server and when the vehicle spawn time/date is if there is even a set one lol. edit: before you ask why they couldnt just tell you the date they spawned. You'd just camp all the vehicle spawns on any server, even if you didn't own one and it'd get out to the public eventually. Also how do you know they haven't spawned yet and you weren't sleeping or something? Don't think the server keeps track of vehicle spawn but im not quite sure.

Do no vehicles survive a single server restart with 1.7.2.5 ? :o

You can't put tents/vehicles outside the map boundaries any more, they wipe on server restart. It's been that way for a while now, just to be clear the map boundary is the black line, where all grass, trees, shrubs stop, past that line are the debug plains I dont mind your ideas about a wall etc though, could add to the narrative, alternatively they could just have more ocean/beaches up that way

If the server is bugged (1.7.2.5) and all the vehicles on it are resetting each restart, yes.

On 1.7.2.5 the vehicles seem to respawn at their default locations and saving one will cause it to get replaced by something else in the saved location while the original is respawned at the actual spawn point. V3S converted into a tractor for me, PBX into an ATV. The 'cloned' vehicles don't survive the next restart though, from what I saw. In essence, ignore vehicles until it's fixed.

You sir are an idiot, use the weapons all you want, you didn't hack them in, this game is pretty much unplayable due to hackers anyway, i have stopped playing because of them, the amount of ammo crates i have found is uncountable for starters, then you have the hacked in choppers and all the other vehicles. Watched a hacker kill me yesterday, shot him twice with an AS50 he then goes invisible, so i run to the chopper, he reappears at the same place he went invisible and says hey fucker over direct comms then the chopper blows up and he starts laughing over direct comms and then a guy spawns behind my mate who was also running to the chopper and shoots him. This is completely right, you found it, feel free to use it, don't let some gimp over the internet tell you what to do.

I saw your PM, but dont know if you saw my reply, I was not hacking vehicles, we found the ATV, was rolling around and got to a bridge, when got to the bridge the ATV flipped on the bridge, we tried ti right it back up by doing the reverse with wheel turned, it worked minutes earlier when i took a hill to fast, aparently doing it on a bridge might have been what crashed the server. I went to log back in and Battle eye kicked me for something related to a vehicle. It was because i was still ON the vehicle when the server crashed, tried it twice, and when i logged back in i was under the bridge swimming in the water, my friend ended up loosing his ammo because of it. Had to go to a diffrent server to log in again and get out without loosing everything. When i came back to your server the ATV was sitting next to a building, so we got back on and took it back to where we hid it. I was not hacking your server, the Risk of Banning is not worth a quick jaunt on a vehicle, if i want to play with the vehicles i can just load up the ARMA 2 Armory

I WOULDN't get attached to vehicles or leave anything in the trunk for that matter until they fix that stupid bug