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Have had fair enough luck with the update since I installed Monday @ lunch time. before update graphics glitches in all the normal spots(cherno, NW af, berezino, and stary) "flush" was no help, changing various graphic ssettings was but momentary relief. Was actually scared to update due to all the fouled spawn horror stories in this thread, losing this/that. Since the update to 1.7.2.5, have had 1 slight glitch in cherno for less than a cpl of seconds. Have not lost anything in over 15-20 logins. No random spawning anywhere but where I logged out. Have not tried to use a tent or found any veh. since I did update. tents I've found are gone next time I log in, so there's no point in wasting my effort on one, vehicles are to much trouble to fuss with most of the time.( too much to worry about hiding, maintaining). AMD phenom2 944 quad core 3.0 4gb ram HD5770 w/1GB ram latest arma patch 1.7.2.5

Good evening fellow admins, players. I would like to ask a question to the community about what are the pro's and con's of being a server admin. About a 2 weeks ago I had purchased the right to host a dayz server from a rental company (clanforge) to which I am currently paying nearly $100 USD to host per month. Honestly what are the pro's of dishing out money to the companies if the only power I wield to fend of the hackers is to just simply "restart" my server!? I cannot kick/ban, audit my players logs to check for suspicious activity. I can't even ban a hacker who is turning people into animals, teleporting people and executing them for vehicles, and even flying around!!! sans helicopter around supposedly "my" server. I can list a trail a mile long about the cons, but I cannot even bring up a single pro to being a loyal admin of an official server of the dayz mod's who developed this fine game. I still and will refuse to host a private hive server and I wish to still support the dayz mods but humbly request that more work be done on the admin side of the mod itself.

Still a priority issue. Just have to have faith that as jwiechers said, devs are aware and working on it. Hope it's worked out soon though, repairing and owing vehicles is like the only end game at the moment, and even as testers it's frustrating when a game gets less fun.

Damn I thought this thread actually had a workaround from the title, yes tents not saving items properly and vehicles being reset is a known bug with 1.7.2.5 but since most servers have updated it's not really worth rolling back now.

This is just as annoying and serious of an issue as the graphics glitch. Vehicles and tents not saving on my server either.

known bug.. it is voted to the top with glitching and vehicles

What a dick move, sir. I mean I will fight against all of the "I hate PvP/I hate snipers/I hate kill on sight" people to make sure the game remains with mechanics that will allow you to continue to do what you just did. The game shouldn't dictate who/what you can kill. But, still, that was just plain mean to do. Especially with something as high value as a helicopter when all he was trying to do was ferry around some of his servers' players and get them a chance to ride in a chopper :( For example, I admin a server and just got a bus the other night. My first thought was about how it'd be fun to ferry newspawns or anyone else around a bit and just try and get some people to experience vehicles given their rarity. But, I knew I would never do it because someone like you would detonate my bus on sight :P from out in the trees. Like that admin, I wouldn't kick/ban anyone for doing that to my bus or restart the server to try and get it back. The bus' flames would be put out with my tears, though. What happens in the game, happens. And the ability to detonate someones vehicles in game for no reason SHOULD stay possible. It's just a real dick move and a shame that you chose to do it to someone just trying to give people on his server a fun time. This thread makes me sad :(

Vehicle hoarding did not work if all vehicles set back after restart! (read first m8) and i think its ok go get tham all(de 925 not Glitchmobserver de 1508). just a few days and vip hacks and Vehicle hoarding is imposible!. I think its a good mission to get all vehicles just for an photo than you destroy the vehicles. 7 days than all should be back on spown points. @dev team de1508 vehicles buged (vehicles set back after restart or change v3r->bike motorbike->traktor same vehicles turn back to there spownpoants.) -de 925 all vehicles set back after restart ID-8063

Some official comment would be appreciated! 1.7.2.5 is out for "some" days and the tents/vehicles-not-saving-bug renders DayZ unplayable for people with camps / tents / etc. (why should I play when I can't store the crap I find) Even a "we know about that and are working on it" or "we don't give a fuck, because it will get fixed in $Nextupdate" would be nice. ANY piece of information would be nice. Don't let your information-policy become "Blizzard-Like" IF this info already exists... please provide the link :)

Duping is not solely done via tent/vehicle stashes, you know? As I said, it's useless to wipe everything until we get to a point where things can't easily get duped - be it intentional or unintentional - anymore. Also, I do not think that there even is any argument about this. No legit player wants duping to happen. The dev(s) don't want it to happen. It's simply a technical issue. And simply wiping the tents/vehicles just won't do (unless the various other duping methods have been adressed, too). Hopefully, this issue will resolve itself with standalone.

Technically, Arma allows you bind an Xbox controller to use in-game. You can do it easily already from within the key bindings menu. It makes vehicles better to drive but for general gameplay I wouldn't recommend it unless you want to get shot in the face more so than now.

Vehicle hoarding? Nice. I don't like the rules the dev team want's us to stick to but vehicle hoarding isn't okay. Also you won't get many people playing on your server, when they have no vehicles.

Still no vehicles on our server DE 1662 with an ID over 8000.

If it's a proof of concept, fine and dandy.. otherwise who the fuck hunts with an Alsatian? give me a wee Jack Russell or a Terrier for rabbits / boars & to maybe alert you of the direction of someone who is close by... Ps... I hope you can drive round with them in Vehicles and they hang their heads out the window!!

De 1508 Server restart did not set back vehicles after restart the server. On de 925 the vehicles are not hacked the take a hole day 8 persons to get most of the hole vehicle, restart, and it is gone... hope the bug is fix sonn becouse this bug sucks.

Admins cannot see vehicles. Unless they use a program called DayZ Radar which is heavily frowned upon by most honest admins, myself included. I refuse to use that shit. It's basically a hack. I'm pretty sure the DayZ staff are blacklisting this, if they haven't already. Edit: Looks like this program no longer functions which is good news. The downside is that the program makes it very easy to spot teleporters or other hackers. If you don't have it though, you cannot see anything as an admin, unless of course someone yaps out some coordinates in direct chat and I happen to be monitoring my rcon, aka I'm not in game. An admin can see all direct communication (text only) that happens throughout the game. We cannot spawn in items. We cannot see tents. We cannot see vehicles. We can kick. We can ban. Both someone who is in the server, and someone who isn't. We can read log files of events that took place on the server. Some hosts, like Vilayer, allow us to change the time schedule / day-night cycle. We can restart the server. We can stop the server. We can change the difficulty level, and edit the config to allow certain "perks" to be allowed even if that difficulty level turns them off by default. An example of this would be crosshairs on veteran difficulty. We can see everyones GUID and IP as well as country(depending on the tool you use) We can change the message of the day. As said, I can monitor direct chat for any malicious threats/racism or potential hacker(who is also an idiot) (This can be abused by power-hungry admins to spy on others, as such I don't recommend TYPING in direct. Just use your mic.) We can update the server. We can roll back the server. We can set up automated restarts. I'm sure I've missed some, but those are the majority. I hope this answers your question about admins, as well as anyone elses who sit there claiming "ADMINS SPAWNED IN STUFFZ". Yes, admins can spawn in things. If they happen to be a hacker.

I'm not playing regularly anymore. I haven't lost any love for the mod. I still watch youtube vids, livestreams, and visit the forums everyday, and log in on occasion, but there are a few things that have gotten to me. I died a few times to script kiddies. Then I changed and started alt+f4ing whenever there was a cheater spotted on the server, the moment I was teleported or thunderdomed, the moment a hacked vehicle was found on the server. My character got to over 45 days old with only one murder which was in self defence. I was eventually killed a few days ago, to a server hopper who logged in directly behind/on top of me while I was in a corner with only one approach, trying to guard a vehicle, while a friend was out looking for parts. Server hopping broke the game as much as the script kiddies did. I also witnessed a group of players, the same night, log in around vehicle spawns from another server, check what the vehicles needed, log back off to server hop, and reappear a few minutes later with the parts needed to repair them, they then took most of the vehicles and stored them off-map, this also broke the immersion for me. I'll be back. But definitely not as often as I was playing before. The experiment has already been a success as far as I'm concerned, and I'm looking forward to the standalone.

For most of the time i was playing on this server, i made my own camp and pretty much everything. But the problem is, yesterday all my vehicles were token, today i was trying to find new one and i got on this camp @ 066010, west side of the map near myshkino. Lots of spawned urals, ammo dropboxes and everything. Took a heli from camp to take a friend, then guy with nick Necropedophile comes on server, saw us near his camp and started shooting with rocket launcher, blew up his own camp, sure i quit. Is there any way to contact admin of the server, so maybe he could provide logs, Necropedophile was several times was kicked due script restrictions.

Yes this is a nice server, you can gain very much profit on it ! You can come to our secret place: The NorthWest Airfield! Almost nobody on DayZ is aware of this little secret place. There we will shoot the shit out of you can trade, so both of us can gain Profit in form of Beans, Guns, Ammo, bullets in your head, Medical Supplies and Vehicles. We have built a little fort in the middle of the Airfield with Wires and Tank Traps so you cannot escape from us we can have a nice trade without Zombie Interruption !

OK.. I like sniping and have had fun with the .50 cals.. however I think the OP has a point. I sat here thinking about how much different the game would be if they were gone.. and the other sniper rifles as well. I believe the game would change dramatically! The suspense would increase as more people would enter the cities because of less fear of getting sniped. You'd see far more up close encounters, which I think would be fun as hell.. .50s needed for taking out vehicles? That's laughable! You mean the vehicles that are hoarded and parked off map? The vehicles I NEVER see?? Lol I think it would be a good experiment.. to take them out for a while and see what happens.

And the same shit again. Restarted yesterday ^^. Server synchron to systemtime. Because of restart vehicles lost in space. Logged in today and it is night on daytime, again!!!! I'am really the only one, who got this problem? I can't believe this.

Really no initiative to play when you have maxed out your loot except waiting to die, because you cant expand your camp. Can someone confirm that putting down a new tent will make it save once? Because then I can just save my gear once and atleast start dying. Hoping that Rocket will prioritize making the loot systems like gear/tents/vehicles solid soon.

Nope I am admin on my server and i can't see shit, but we know there is a bug that returns vehicles to spawn locations on server restart so we just get vehicles to barely running so at restart it's no great loss, tents on my server appear to be saving correctly (for the time being)

I suspected that might be the case with disappearing vehicles (I noticed it on 7999 and below instance ID servers with vehicles before the 8000+ instance id thing was noticed/fixed). This is also why I haven't restarted my server since. It's actually kind of neat in a roundabout way in getting "around" the 7-day respawn time temporarily and letting more people play with cars ;P I gather the devs are already aware and workin' on it, though. It seems it spurred through with the 1.7.2.5 update. On a somewhat related derail of the topic, may I ask why everyone has these constant scheduled restarts going on? I operate my server with absolutely no scheduled/routine restarts. The only time it's restarted is for maintenance/updates (needing to tweak the .cfg or update the Dedicated Server beta files/DayZ mod files themselves). Perhaps ARMA2 servers are different, but with my history in IT it's generally considered a sign of an overloaded box/inexperienced admin/etc if a service/daemon requires or benefits from regularly scheduled server restarts. Is this not true with ARMA2 servers? Feel free to correct me if I am wrong, as Windows Server sysadmin is brand new to me. I come from the world of Linux where daemon restarts outside of those required to release locks on files you want to update, re-read configs, etc. are otherwise considered a red flag of a poor quality sysadmin/overloaded box/etc. Understandably, from that point of view, I am shocked when I see servers with messages about rolling restarts every 4 hours. I guess if the goal of said server admins is to clear/refresh DayZ loot piles to makes the game easier I can see that. But, any technical reason? The best reason I've seen so far in this thread has been implied by the fact that, once the 8000+ id issue was fixed, the only way to get vehicles to spawn was in fact to restart your DayZ server. But yeah, if anyone can itemize why I should be constantly restarting my DayZ server every X hours, I'd appreciate it. It just goes against the grain of everything I know about sysadmin to do that. haha. But, if it's required to ensure my players can experience DayZ properly (like the cars not spawning unless the DayZ server were to be restarted) then I shall have to do so.

Another QQ thread by the troll Cristelle, shocker! For the 3rd time and now in yet another thread I will quote the reason why you and your group will never be welcome on our server. Moonchild, on 08 August 2012 - 09:09 AM, said: Those stats are completely wrong, first of all. Mr12Inches hops servers to find clan camps, like yours and calls the rest of us there. not myself. Me and highwinds have been playing the longest, the other 4 just started. Not sure where you found those stats but thats hilarious. We have never used any other names, You're garbage clan is butthurt. The dev team can look at your logs and all they will see is 1 of us killing 3 of you, and 1 of you killing me. Nbd I hate to break it to ya but jumping to servers to raid a camp is a bannable offense regardless if you or another of your group members jumps servers to find the camp. You just admitted to server hopping. You don't have to log in to 100 servers a day to be a server hopper. So, your buddy was server hopping and logged in on the hill our camp was on. Saw it was there. Called all of you onto our server. You took all the vehicles and probably drove them back to your camp location which is on a different server. Changed servers taking the gear from the vehicles with you and then blew up the vehicles seein as you don't need them anymore? Quoted from http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/62340-mega-camp-location-us-1555/