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I've been through my fair share of servers that were being hacked and I for one am sick of the bullshit that happens. It seems like all the small kids now have these so easy to find hacks and make DayZ a living hell for those that want to play fairly. Now what really ticks me off are the people that post on these forums about locked servers and how its all against the TOS and crap. YES i do understand it's under TOS to NOT lock your server or kick others, but in all honesty some people just do not want to be hacked. It's stupid as balls when u try to combat hacking (which is against TOS btw) with locking their server (which is also against TOS) but I see more servers getting BLed faster than players getting banned for hacking. On the counter arguement: I fully understand that some clans/people are on their own locked server, grind up all the best gear and vehicles, and then switch to other servers and troll people. While that is wrong and very shitty, not everyone who locks their server wishes to do this. Please don't be naive and think this every time someone wishes to play alone. Some solutions I propose: 1.) For Clan servers have separate files that save TO THE SERVER instead of client side, so gear cannot be carried over to other servers. 2.) Hand in hand with the above, allow for HIVE disconnecting so that players may play on their own server without worrying about hackers and such. (Direct IP connect?) 3.) Get a different Anti-cheat. Battle-eye is terrible from what I've seen =( DayZ is in Alpha and I know Rocket has some plans in the future to combat hackers and such but I am only here to put my 2 cents in. Please comment on how you feel about this.

We have three servers. One hasn't even vehicles and two aren't saving anything anymore. No tents, no vehicles, we repaired the chopper, it was spawned back on Skalisty. That's a shame for the devs and I'm pissed off. We pay about 100 Euro a month for nothing now. Are you fucking serious?? We have no rights on our servers, we only can pay and then we don't even get a bit service or even answers? Usually the dev team should pay for our servers, because we can't use them anymore. The whole mod is fucked up. Instead of fixing problems and bugs, they talk about adding more and more features nobody needs. We need bugfixes and nothing else. FIX THIS ALREADY! But it's okay, I think I'm gonna go take a shit and shit some money I can give some server hosters for crappy software mods. We are forced to dupe weapons and items all the time. We take out a weapon and after a restart everything is back where it was. That ruins the game.

I'm sure you know about the issue with the current build where tents and vehicles revert to their pre patch state after a restart. I know where all the vehicles are now, I can collect the parts and fix them up but only drive them around for the duration of that session. Once the server times out its all gone. I rejoin the game on foot and start the cycle again. Just wondering what you've been doing since being unable to save your progress, did you downgrade to an old version and switch servers or are you not playing until they patch it?

This is also happening with all vehicles. They eat gear and keep returning to old save points (they appear to be relocated to the spots they were saved at pre-patch). I'm talking about 1.7.2.5, btw.

Any fellow medics around tonight who are still able to log onto 1.7.2.4 servers* and could spare me a dose of antibiotics? Despite seeking frequent shelter in buildings, using camp fires and heat packs, I finally managed to catch a cold. It's a nice added difficulty, but my current steak consumption may not prove sustainable, and soon bring on the rage of humane treatment for animals advocates. *Had 1 camp raided, the two tents with antibiotics and weapons looted, both vehicles stolen, another server hit by hackers, another server gone offline, so now down to limited resources, with 4 favourite servers left where I have a tent or more, all of which still running 1.7.2.4., hence my reluctance to upgrade just yet. Will be back in a good hour. Happy to travel, and provide limited transportation in return via ATV.

Camping cities, killing survivors,bandits and others is a great oppurtunity this game provides. I've seen groups roll into towns with vehicles, leave the light on and honk horns while idiots flock to the vehicle crying they are friendly. Next thing you know they get mowed down. That's the fun of the game, open choice, freedom to kill,ransom, outwit and survive. Without these choices you'd get a pretty stale game. Great idea RR force, hopefully others will try this as it creates good content for those.

Man, I would kill for a helicopter. Not really, since I'm a medic. But you know what I mean. The only vehicles I've ever seen or driven in game are my old bike and a tractor I had for half an hour once. It's been my dream since early May to get a helicopter, all I find are these useless rotors and nothing to attach them to :( Glad to hear of your rescue Lynx. My first experience with medics in DayZ was somewhat similar, where I hurtled aforementioned tractor into a rock at the insane speed of 10 KM/hr and exploded, managing to crawl away (had to bandage twice, kept bleeding) with a mere 97 blood. Posted here and got help quickly, though I was hard to find since I was almost constantly unconscious in some brush. Days like this are so slow and devoid of patients that it drives me mad, sitting here at Cherno, waiting. Gotta go do some RL stuff but I'll be back in a little bit if anyone needs help!

That bug has been there for a long time throughout 1.7.2.4 And by what you said, i assume it hasn't been fixed this patch either. Let's Hope 1.7.3 will do something about server savings (tents such as vehicles not saving on server restart).

We have 2 AS50 thermal sights...How? Our server has been completely taken over by hackers and yes we picked 2 of them up and put them in our tents. Rocket said it was allowed so we did it. I find it hilarious that people complain about us having these guns, but then create an admin abuse thread (US 561) when our admin starts banning suspicious people when there is clearly a hacker teleporting everyone around the map and spawning weapon crates and vehicles because our server has been unplayable for the past 2 weeks do to the amount of hackers and them killing everyone. So yeah we took their AS50's as consolation prizes for putting up with all the bullshit. Again we did nothing against the rules because we didn't touched hacked weapons until rocket said it was ok.

At this stage of DayZ, it's a brilliant idea to join a clan and start playing on a dedicated clan server. Adds more security plus most clan servers are rolling back to 1.7.2.4 which allows vehicles to actually save.

1st, initial game purchase no problem. I wouldn't mind a subscription per monthly basis if there will be worthwhile future content (new weapons, vehicles, and equipment - different tools to survive, such as fishing for coastal survivors etc...) and for the upkeep and security of the servers. 2nd, studio development (kickstarter if needed) with opportunities for community driven content (please note tf2 and dota 2 models with steam workshop). 3rd, server models shouldn't be community based, unless they become private hives or unless characters become tied to a server. 4th, I don't understand why microtransactions automatically equate to pay to win. again, look at tf2 and dota 2. aesthetic items to cosmetically enhance the uniqueness of your character, created by a community which recieves a portion of cash back for each item sold, and are items that can be found or bought, and traded within the community. that's a win win for everyone!

There should be different ways to hide/store items, besides giant light-colored tents or vehicles that cannot be hidden well. Perhaps a new kind of "Ghillie Tent" that is much better camouflaged. Or, maybe we could create an in-ground, discreet supply cache using the entrenching tool. It is currently a little bit ridiculous that people can get the one helicopter on the server and just fly around mapping out every single tent and vehicle in an area. The stuff is extremely easy to see from the air due to the restrictions on placement and the lack of good hiding spots with thick foliage and canopy to protect from air detection.

I'm not sure how the mod works exactly but as someone who has made many arma missions I know what those commands do. I don't see any reason those should be being run by the client, ever. The server spawns all vehicles and weapons in the game. The mod may be running the weapon one to move it to the backpack. Not sure on that one. Good work! Glad you're putting in the effort.

woooow yes if u put a new tent down it never saves ur items and will delete them.... u guys havent figured this out yet? u need to place the tent and leave it empty for 1-3 server resets before it will save stuff, currently with 2.5 there is a hive issue that when the server resets its reseting to the day of the patch not the last reset so ur vehicles and items will be like it was when the patch came out

For the 4th straight day since the 1.7.2.5 and 1.62.95885 updates for DayZ and Arma2 I have died at login and been sent to debug land with none of my equipment. Additionally tents, items put in tents and vehicles are not saving. At this point the game is virtually worthless unless your happy just killing zombies or the random player you might run into. Anything beyond that is a waste of time. This is happening across multiple servers so I know its not a single server issue. The latest patches created more problems than they solved. That said we did know it was an alpha release.... Until the game is fixed it going to remain a messed up mix of bugs, glitches, exploits and hack attacks.

Absolutely agreed (DE 277). Items don't saving in tents and vehicles for about a week, but all items stored befor that reappear after every server restart!

After several days of this continuously losing tent items and vehicles upon restart, we can confirm, for our server at least, that this is correct.

I feel your pain. I found the heli, spent the better part of 3 hours collecting the parts and fixing the damn thing, only to have it revert when the server I was on restarted. This has also happened with an ATV, Motorcycle and Pick-Up Truck. The only benefit I see from this, we now know where to find the Vehicles when it gets fixed. Until then I think I'll just run.

My friend and I been working on a broken Heli for about 3 hours. finally got everything repaired and fuel up. Then we flew to the NE airstrip and along north edge of the map searching for tent city and hidden vehicles. A hours later we see a server message "SERVER WILL RESTART IN 5 MINUTES" so we land our heli at the top NE part of the map just outside of the forest edge. and hit "SAVE HELI" like 5 times just to make sure it will saved. after server restart, we spawn back in the same spot. but the heli is gone. After 2 hours of running we got back to skaz island and the heli is there again but its broken. ok, we decided to find parts and repair it again. 2 hour later, its ready for take off again. We flew it to the NE airfield and fuel it up. i think the server restarts automaticly every 4 hours. we saw the server mesage again "Server will restart in 5 minutes" this time we decided to park the heli within the mainland of the map. (which our GPS icon shows in GPS screen.) last time we park the heli so far away, the GPS blue icon was missing. After server restart, the heli is gone again!!! and one of us respawn on the beach. Is this a server setting or its 1.7.2.5 bug ? We can seem to keep the heli at the same location after server restarts.

the server i play on rolled back to 1.7.2.4 as well as it was causing issues like players getting stuck at loading screen and also the tents/vehicles issue too. and i would advise people to do the same

2012-07-03 * Various improvement and changes at backend in preparation of 1.7.2. * Cleanup of objects: - Removed legacy wire fences, tank traps and sandbags that are older than time itself (before we started tracking their age). In the future we'll start cleaning up unused wire fence, tank traps and sandbags that arent "maintained" in a certain period of time. - Removed empty tents that are older than 7 days. In the future tents will start decaying more quickly (depends on factors such as if the placing character is still alive, if someone has used the tent in X amount of days - this is still subject to change). - Destroyed vehicles respawned using the simple method (will appear on next server restart). More advanced method will be used later (dynamic locations, inventory, vehicle types etc).

I think he is just asking where the most common places are, and not where YOUR camp is :P The most common places are the big forest going from zelenegorsk and up north from there along the edge of the wilderness debug forest. It used to be way out in the debug forest, but since vehicles despawn there now i think more people place them inside the map.

Popular camp sites include Black Forest and anywhere up North or West from the start of the forest to the black map border. They are "good" locations in the sense that they are so far away from anything that players are unlikely to go there, this also means that the players who do go there, usually do it specifically to look for tents/vehicles, sometimes some of the most obvious locations are the best spots to hide tents and vehicles.

We hear you, it's a massive issue. They are aware of it and we have to just wait. Gives everyone else a chance to catch up to the point where they need tents and vehicles too.

I travel Chernarus with a clan and tbh we have run into the same problem. We get together, load up on food/water/fuel/ammo, hop in one of our many vehicles and then we say "ok, where to now?" to which someone responds "idk." Lootwise we have everything we ever wanted. Each time on of us dies we can always just pick them up and take them to their body before it despawns so loot loss is basically never an issue except for clothing. I'm starting to think that becoming a Whitelisted medic might be a good idea. At least we would know where to go and what to do.