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So, we all know about Lingor Island map, and it is pretty popular. Rocket/DayZ dev-team have said they would make other maps for the standalone version. Well, I have a map idea that we all might like. I was thinking something along the lines of Liberty City, from Grand Theft Auto IV. Not exactly the same, but something like that, big towers, crowded streets, many vehicles in good condition, a few parks, and many more buildings to go in. But the whole map would consist of the city, and nothing much else. This would create the feeling of urban combat, which would be really nice. This would also allow for more vertical combat, not just horizontal. We could have air battles, sniper duels between buildings, ambushes in city squares, you name it. I would love to see something like this, sometime within the life of DayZ game/mod. Feedback is welcome, just don't hate in a rude way!

There is a very good reason why there aren't any armed (except Huey, of course) or even armored vehicles - zombies don't stand a chance against any of them (even with civilian vehicles you can just roadkill dozens of them easily). Players with better equipment can succesfully fight against armed vehicles, sure, but for armored vehicles you have only satchel charges (try to destroy moving tank with it) or M136, both very rare.

Look, I'm not sure how ban appeals get sorted here, I'm very new to these forums and the system, but I guess I kinda wanna bump this, as I haven't gotten any help so far. I just want to be unbanned from US 916, the admin can kill me to make sure I'm not hacking, and in fact, he can kill me however often he likes to make sure I'm not lying. I'm just being left behind by my friends because they can play on that server, and I can't. We have a camp, a couple vehicles, and 916 runs like a dream for my ping. Please, I just want back on the server, my ban doesn't even make credible sense, I'm not a hacker and I did nothing wrong.

Hence why a Water Jerry Can mountable with a slot on vehicles is a good idea. You can't find water so often in so many places. It doesn't require a lot of coding to use them, unlike the complex situation you are suggesting. You could leave water bottles the same and refill them 50 times from a Jerry Can. Refill the Jerry once every few days depending on your group size. Infantry trained people and survivalists understand that you do need to take much more water with you if possible especially in hot places for safety. They also understand using Jerry Cans for this purpose. This method would be much more common in an actual SHTF scenario. Future: This could be used by the DEVs as a trading currency in a way. Fuel, Water, and Meat should end up having some value to the greater good in some way or need to be items used in cooperative interest. Jerry Cans of Water could be used to fill a Radiator that is damaged on a car if you wanted to add a new item to vehicles for repair reasons. Water could be needed to clean wounds so they can be bandaged or repaired, such as certain broken bone or pain situations (would require an indicator that you require medical treatment from a nurse). There are a lot of uses for larger amounts of clean water. Also, check out this video of the lifesaver being used It requires pumping for a while and that makes noise. That leaves you vulnerable and takes time. You have a long filling animation I would suppose.

Hey guys I'm recruiting for our new clan [TM] It means 'The; Murderers, Medics, Mechanics and possibly mental'. Our clan is only for casual play, nothing VERY serious but we want to improve our numbers. At the moment there is a specific server we play on, we are rivaling with other people to get vehicles and things of that nature. We need strength in numbers. If you would like to join us there are a few requirements: - Being mature - 1 Month experience - Geared up, we wont gear you since its not a service Want to play? Add me on skype: Lewisandrewz

So it's one of these days where it seems that almost everything that could possibly go wrong does so. 1. All tents on my server are gone - not only mine but EVERY tent I know the location of is gone. Not just empty, GONE. This happend once before and after a server restart they reappeared. I can cope with that. 2. Last time I was online I went raiding the NW airfield, therefor I left my watter bottles in my camp - no use for them when you'll find sodas there anyways. So my character starts getting thirsty now. I can cope with that as it's mainly my own fault. 3. So I head to the nearest loot spawn from my position, a deer stand - as usual with this deer stand it's empty on my server (not looted, just empty). I can cope with that. Water bottle started blinking a minute or so ago. So what now? Well, I decide to do something I wouldn't do if this wasn't an emergency: server hopping. As this deer stand is for sure one of the least visited I put my moral qualms aside and join another server. 4. I'm dead on joining and spawn in the debug forrest. Ok, that happened to me before, just relog - that usually does the trick. I can cope with that. 5. I spawn at the coast. Complete other side I used to be. I can cope with that. 6. Wait...why don't I have a weapon in my hand? Did I really die this time? I could cope with that, even if it's hard. But no, it's just all my gear that's suddenly gone. Oh and I start bleeding out on thirst. And NOW I reached my limit of things I can cope with. I see the reason why some people turn this game into a 08/15 deathmatch FPS. I see the reason behind duping - why should I have myself fucked by bugged tents over and over again? Fuck tents and dupe your shit - I understand that. I see the reason behind SOME hacking, namely spawning items & vehicles that already are in the game. It's Alpha, so fuck morality and bugs and have some fun. I DO NOT see the reason behind ruining other peoples days and fun in and with the game by teleporting, server killing, etc.. I know it's an Alpha, I know how things are done in this business as I'm a developer myself (yeah, I know the flames are coming now - some retards just can't live with the fact that some people actually really know how shit's done). BUT I'm more and more convinced that all this is done (or not fixed) on purpose. Why support and fix a free to play mod when you want to sell your standalone version? This is something I can't and will never cope with. Every tiny indy game developer does a better job on fixing his shit, so Rocket is either completely incapable and/or overextended as a developer OR he is following the agenda of leaving this mod in an unplayable state so everyone who fell for a great idea will buy a standalone edition. Interesting fact: most private hives don't have those issues. Guess why? Yes, I'm fucking pissed/mad right now. Yes, I could do it better myself. But I won't. Why? Because I already have a job. Yes, I QQ a lot (and I don't give a single fuck about you retards pointing that shit out to me - so go fuck yourselfs). Private hives I'm coming - just need a beer first...cheers!

I am from south america and normally get 200ms ping on US servers. I'm jelly you have (or had) so many vehicles ¬¬

Group of 3 atm (2 dutch 1 UK) looking for 2 more friendly fellow survivors. Our goal is raiding high value spots & gathering vehicles. We use Skype and are also active on lots other stuff! Contact me for some info : Skype Ryusaid

Player grabbing and such: sure, I think that's realistic, but hell there better be away to get out of it for the "grabbie". Melee: Yep, gonna be more in Standalone. Jumping: Eh, COD kids would have a field day with that. Nope. Rappeling: Maybe a rare loot tool in military places or sporting type areas. Would be hard in the engine they are using. tracking: Totally, I mean, You can already track vehicles that knock over fences or bushes or even trees. But yeah I like it. Mutations: Nope, this isn't LFD man.

Quick update: I found a couple vehicles and found out theres more than one admin on this server! Nice to see you have more than one pair of eyes on it.

I have an even better one. PVE servers only have pistols no vehicles and no tools. (hatchet, nvg, binoculars, compass, map, etc...)

http://www.dayzwiki.com/wiki/Vehicles I was reading a DayZ Wiki article in the link above and I saw that there is only 1 UAZ per Server? This would explain alot to me as to why I can never find one. But I was wondering how correct this information on the Dayz Wiki is. And if this is true why only one? Is this a game engine limitation? Was just wondering.

AA launchers If there will be more helis (civilian Mi-17) or planes (An-2), there could exist some real threat to them. The missile itself (Strela-2 or Igla) isn't strong enough to destroy them in one shot (except the An-2 I think), but can destroy the main or tail rotor (not mentioning the other parts) on helis, so - depending on the situation - their crew can either try to land and fix the heli, or jump out. The AA launchers would of course be very rare, the missile itself has also a very limited maneuverability. The 'disadvantage' is that the missile can be locked onto land vehicles as well and of course you can't have a backpack. Now about the mortars As for obvious reasons there are no static or vehicle mounted weapons (with the exception of UH-1), it shouldn't count for indirect fire weapons - mortars (there are two types in ArmA 2 - eastern 2B14 Podnos and western M252). Range from 100-3500 m, HE, smoke and illuminating rounds, they can be disassembled (only versions from Arrowhead, those from vanilla game not) into two backpacks, moved and then put together. They could be used with great effect against infected or other players (especially snipers if you have a hunch where they are shooting from) by either taking them out or making smoke screen. Of course they would be very rare, but the problem is that the ammunition comes with the weapon itself and cannot be found, so you won't be able to reload it. Well let's hear your opinions. PS: I'm lone wolf so I don't have real use for the AA launchers or mortars, but I think this could be useful for the game itself, especially on some TDM or highly populated servers.

So just because Dez says he is sorry means that everything is all okay? It's not that he did it once, he restarted the server multiple times so I could not steal one of their vehicles. The server has also been down ever since. This whole thread is just showing every dayz server admin that if you shut down the server multiple times and get caught and reported if you say sorry, you aren't in any trouble. There was also another poster in here, Killer777s, who reported them for restarting the server after he killed one of them. It isn't just a one time thing, server admins need to show self control and responsibility which Dez obviously has not acquired yet. There's a difference between whining about an admin, and actually having concrete proof of abusive admins.

Looks like a hacked vehicle to me... Nobody stores those smoke grenades! EDIT Not saying that you hacked it btw, probably the guys you stole it from... would explain the exact same truck crossing your path a few seconds after you got yours. In any case, do not feel bad, hacked-in vehicles don't respawn after server restarts, so nothing truly lost.

ZdB, While that was a blunt statement, my intentions are meant to be good. I am all for standalone. But like any game in its infancy, people lose interest, the game loses content from lack of large scale feedback, and overall the game will suffer. Over the many weeks, I have seen numerous players quit the game, the number of servers dropping, the interest in the game itself is dropping due to bugs/lack of new content/and hackers. For almost a month now, a mixture of graphics glitches/tents and vehicles not saving/scripters, people just are giving up and moving on(temporarily or permanent). Like Banicks said, the mod version still can be used for the brainstorming ideas, regardless if they are working on a standalone to push out a alpha game to start cashing in on their idea, which they do deserve, but one thing people always forget, we are the consumers and that in the end decides a success of the game. Its a popularity contest and if you don't keep up with it, you'll fall behind. I saw it happen in the last game I followed, Path of Exile.

I currently play in a group of 5~6. Each night we do a variety of stuff which includes supply runs, human/suvivor hunting, heli-crash hunting, and vehicle salvaging. my arsenal includes as50, m4a1SD, smoke grenades, and fortification items. i currently play as a scouter/spotter/scavenger. the other players in our small squad play as Yos- Sniper / spotter. as50, L85 Mike- Sniper / Scouter m16 acog, DMR ( squad leader ) chad- Scouter / Commando m16a2 m203, flare rounds, m4a1SD astrum - commando / medic / scouter - m4a1SD, M104 ( shotty ) smoke grenades, ( currently MIA) dav - sniper / coverfire - support . AS50, DMR, m9 sd we are a cautious scavenging/ /salvaging group. we mainly travel during the darkness. We tend to avoid driving any vehicles as it attracts too much attention player base.

The food chain on this game: 1. Skiddies 2. Baddies that remove plants, buildings, etc. to see players, vehicles and tents 3. Baddies that need a TWS to get kills 4. Dupers (usually part of 2 and 3) 5. Legit players <-------- Lol, just kill yourself at this point

Our server has been having this issue since it came online. At first no vehicles would spawn on the server which was apparently a known issue with newly onlined servers. The Dev team finally got that fixed a few days ago but now none of the vehicles will save at all. We spent 2 days repairing vehicles and each day during our daily server restart the vehicles respawn in their original spawn location with no repairs or gear saved in them. The issue with tents not saving has been oddly hit or miss. Some clan mates haven't had any trouble with their tents saving gear after a restart but mine and others always have their tents come back empty. Not sure what might be causing this other than 1.7.2.5 because prior we had no problems. Probably going to revert until there's a Dev response and a fix inbound.

About a week ago, I was banned from server US 1799. I was playing on the server for a few days prior and found a couple atvs so I had already made that server my home. I have always played as "Midiouss" but on the day I was banned, I had changed my name to ".:MAD:. Midiouss". I was playing with three other friends tha had the ".:MAD:." in front of their name and our reason for doing so was because it was their minecraft clan and we wanted a way to instantly recognize enemy from foe if we aimed at one another. After playing together for hours, the admin sent a global message that said "You MAD boys looking for trouble?" We explained our reason for the clan tag and about 30 mins later, the server goes offline for about 20 mins. We kept checking to see if the server was online and when it finally was, we entered it. In the game, there were only about 3 others so we assumed one was the admin. Also, one of those 3 had a tag at the end of their name which was "LLTS". About 2 minutes later, we checked the player menu and there was 9 other LLTS members. Soon after noticing this, my squad was kicked from the game. Whenever we reconnect, we get the message "Battle Eye: Banned (MAD denying -3)" We honestly did nothing to deserve this. We put so much time into that server and had a really good camp along with 3 vehicles. Its unfair how people can do something like this just because they are "Admin" and have the power to do so. I will start picking my servers a lot more carefully.

yeah on our server vehicles are not saving and neither are tents hope they fix this soon cause there is really no reason to play if we cant save anything

It's a bug, and it has nothing to do with his server, but the hive itself and DayZ. It happens randomly no matter the server. Just got unlucky. As far as tents disappearing, there are only two reasons I can think of as to why this would happen. Well, 3 actually but that would just come down to being a bug.. 1: They somehow got destroyed and the hive saved the incident, but this is somewhat unlikely since the hive in it's current state isn't saving things properly. 2: They obtained a new mission ID for their server, in which case the slate would be wiped clean. No tents. Vehicles reset to spawn positions. Etc. 3. A bug.

Fixing vehicles works fine, you should only repair the parts that show up yellow/red in the context menu. If you want basic vehicles i suggest you fix up a few ATVs. They are small (aka easy to hide), fast both on- and off-road, have the same amount of storage space as larger vehicles like the UAZ or Bus and easy to find. There are spawnpoints on a mountain between cherno and elektro, west of khelm, and near a house north of NEAF, all of which can spawn up to 2 ATVs. Checking these spawnpoints should net you one pretty fast. The only downside is that they sometimes flip over and it takes some practice to get them back up again, but theres plenty of how-to videos on youtube. Also never ever drive into harbors or over bridges with an ATV...

Ladies and Gentlemen, We found a car some days ago, that cool little s1203 Van but we damaged it and now can't repair it. We have put wheels on every wheel point and then some but when we sit in it, the wheel icon is yellow and the thing is undrivable so we've ditched it (We also had a bus that some prick decided to just blow up in the middle of berezino and then disconnect. We weren't even near it at the time and he was the only other player on the server and just happened to be where we were...) - are the vehicles bugged for fixing them? For a couple of days now our small group has been trying to find some vehicles and we have been scouring the map looking for them. We are using an online map that shows locations though I think now this is slightly out of date. Either way we basically are just going to the area around where they are marked and looking for them but so far have found nothing and we've covered quite a lot of ground. - Do vehicles respawn on a server restart even if someone has already taken and saved that vehicle someplace else? (so affectively it makes another one of those vehicles) - Do all vehicles spawn on the map or is there just a chance of them spawning? I've read of people hording vehicles so I understand they may have already been taken which sucks but little we can do about that. Any other tips for finding vehicles or fixing them would be appreciated.

Aren't most vehicles off-map?