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I went to Green Mountain (for the first time and alone) a few days ago. I spent a good while watching and observing the gate for zombies and other players (though I had no idea there were all of these myths and whatnot). While I was hiding in a pretty decent spot with a good field of view, I heard a solitary gunshot and sort of panicked. I froze, not really wanting to alert the shooter or the zombies to my presence. After a few more minutes of observation, I could see nothing but ~5 zombies. Then I got called away and had to leave. But when I logged into a different server later on, I noticed the mass grave and was instantly quite creeped out - mainly because of the flies which I associate with, y'know, areas of pretty intense danger and implied player violence. Not to mention the fact that mass graves are generally pretty goddamn creepy anyway. I didn't find any significant loot and the vehicles were absent, but I did notice some bizarre zombie behaviour. They had spawned outside the gate and were not aggro'd to me, but when I turned around from the corpse pile and the military loot spawn, every single one of them (by this point I'd estimate about 15 had spawned in) was within the compound. I stayed completely motionless out of fear of a zombie siege battle in the tower. Then I realised that they were all walking in single file out of the compound. This freaked the ever-loving fuck out of me so I decided to just leave. This was all in the daytime. I might go there again at night - just because it might be fun to scare myself shitless. So all in all, some mildly strange things happened and I solidified my status as a DayZ pansy. Oh, but the deer stands had some okay loot.

There are many many servers without vehicles at the moment. Our new server is online since one hour and there is nothing. And we don't even get an official statement from the devs. But well it's okay I can shit money.

hey all my friends discovered lots of items and vehicles spawned in on skalisty island on US256 unfortunatly i dont know who spawned these in. if the server admin of US256 is online, you should probably clean up this mess.

So some friends and I came across a large stash of vehicles (3 atv's, 1 motorcycle, 1 UAZ, and 1 van) all LOADED with high end gear, guns, satchel charges, ghillies, gps etc. So we did what any good survivor would do and removed the loot from its previous owners possesion. Around 45 minutes into hauling our loot away a server admin "Matthew" logged in and we saw the battle eye message. maybe 5 minutes later the server was reset without any notice. Now by this point we had saved all the vehicles we wanted to keep and blown up the others at least 5-10 minutes before the server reset. when the server came back online a few minutes later, the vehicles we were keeping were all still there however their inventories had reverted somewhat (we had spread out jerry cans so each had 3 and nothing else save a couple spare parts). After reset they had some guns and ammo and stuff that they had almost an hour previously (we cleaned out the atvs first). The REALLY odd thing was that the van we had blown up was back in full working order also with its inventory restored but still were we had parked and "saved" it before blasting it. Fast forward to this morning I log in and even though we had spread the vehicles out over about a 2km square around our camp in different hiding places (decentralization almost always works) so if someone found 1 they likely wouldnt find all 4... Well everything was gone. So i got curious and looked up the server logs on dayz monitor website and it appears that the server was reset 3 or more times this morning over, what i assume is a short period of time (less then 3 hours). Also during the restarts dayz monitor shows no changes made to the server (name/version/max players/etc) during any of the restarts. I would love to think that I am wrong in this and i would love to talk to one of the admins also but there is no info on how to contact them that i can find. I also know it says in the sticky that admins can't revert the server to a backup but i have seen admins (on 510) do something to restore a tent that vanished for a friend of mine, so that seems to be, at least in part, untrue. If a US 1515 admin sees this please contact me via PM or leave a post here, or if anyone else has had similar issues on this server please share your experience here i guess.

You complaining about gun quantity is because of poor research. I don't know if you noticed this, but this game is set in Russia. Yes, RUSSIA. That means lots of guns. Another thing is that you complained about PVP. As Rocket has said before, this is not a game. This is a simulator. Its not supposed to be a FUN GAME. I will agree that dying has no consequences but your 1 life per server idea is terrible. Adding NPC's is a terrible idea as well because then it might as well become War Z. Look up that GAME because that is what you are looking for. You essentially want to tear apart DayZ to become some fun RPG. Thats not the point of it. You also said you wanted events with rewards and a bunch of people. That would be called a clan sir. Join a survivor or even a bandit clan and you will be happy. My clan is great. We've done full on raids of NW Airfield (with cars and flares, the whole 9 yards). We've taken over Cherno and Elektro and held them for several hours. You just have to be creative. The idea is kinda like Minecraft where you make your own fun. You make your own goals. Try finding a few vehicles and setting up a camp. That'll keep you busy for a month or so. You just need to realize that this is not a game. Its a mod for a simulator. You want a game, go find it elsewhere but don't wish to ruin DayZ just because you aren't having fun. Good Day sir -Cpt0bv1us

So me and Jason decided to get together before the weekend and go on the hunt for campsites and vehicles. There's gonna be a group of us together tomorrow night so thought we'd do the guys a favour and try and accumulate as much kit as possible. Here's what we've managed to put together. Also what's not in the vid is another Pickup truck full to the brim with weapons. It's got a G36 in it..... is that a hacked weapon? Never seen it before in Dayz? We should be nicely tooled up for this weekend! Lets hope we don't get capped tonight! :-)

Why are you so angry about vehicles being hoarded? If a group of individuals has the capability to locate, repair and maintain vehicles they have every right to hoard them in locations, as long as they're on-map. Power to them. Im pretty sure off map vehicles do respawn...dont quote me though, I just seem to remember a notation of that a 1.7.# patch ago, along with a complete tent and vehicle reset via hive.

Server is Back online!! We are having a official launch.. !! All Vehicles are respawned! -- Join now!! Have allot of fun :)

Server is Back online!! We are having a official launch.. !! All Vehicles are respawned! -- Join now!! Have allot of fun :)

Server is Back online!! We are having a official launch.. !! All Vehicles are respawned! -- Join now!! Have allot of fun :)

Server is Back online!! We are having a official launch.. !! All Vehicles are respawned! -- Join now!! Have allot of fun :)

Most vehicles drive ~100. For off road in enemy territory the bicycle is nice, but not for travelling on streets. Greets

It's getting rampant. We pretty much employed a scorched earth tactic to keep them from getting all of our vehicles. We have had Cherno and Electro engulfed for days now. When it gets to the point where you can't even play it's pretty bad. I've been on break for about a week now. We don't want to ban everyone that isn't us because PvP is great when everyone plays by the rules. If it wasn't this it would be ghosting or duping. It will get better I am sure.

Yes, it is. I can speak from experience since I have kept a truck off the map for 2-3 weeks. If you have a spare account, it's easy to have your login point next to the vehicles and save them once per day, which takes maybe 5 minutes at most.

Server is Back online!! We are having a official launch.. !! All Vehicles are respawned! -- Join now!! Have allot of fun :)

It should be back up any second now! Freshly reset (no tents from before and all new vehicles) !

having the same problems, just got a server yesterday, been waiting forever trying multiple restarts and shutdowns.. No vehicles.. not even bicycles. This is really frustrating, pay for a service and can't even get transportation. Ugh

its arguably amusing how some kids think adding zeds, loot, vehicles, animals would not have an affect on how the game runs... for future, think about what your posting before you actually do.... and hey here's an idea... take 2 minutes to look around the forums... they can be quite helpful ;)

Id rather know the vehicles are there, but are rare. Even if I was never able to find a vehicle (I haven't yet) id rather look for one and never find one, over finding one in 5 mins. Now if we were able to in vehicles to play our own mp3's, that would be awesome. Have some mp3's in x directory on your computer, mouse wheel down and 'turn on radio' and you and your friends can jam to music in the car. How awesome would it be going through the forest and a car drives by and you hear rap music coming out. You'd think drive by and hit the deck.

Vehicles parked off the map should be destroyed and respawned on server restarts

I think that is ridiculous. We pay for those servers and don't get what we expected. We pay about 100 Euro a month for three servers. It can't be, there are no vehicles anymore.

Still I don't see a valid reason to increase the number of vehicles. Maybe a bit but not too much, otherwise the sense of desperation would decrease. Whenever I see a car or a truck, I should feel surprised, relieved and lucky because of the survival nature of the game. If the number of vehicles increase, these feelings won't be anymore (and in a game like this would be a big loss). Also, the game would be plenty of players who use vehicles to run over zombies (like Carmageddon) and this is not good. And again, in movies and videogames about post-apocalyptic worlds there are not so much vehicles, especially when we are in a 225 km2 open world state only. Seriously, if the developers implement all the suggestion given by casual gamers, this game would turn into a mix of GTA and COD Black Ops and would lose its meaning. It takes years to make a masterpiece, but it takes a second to destroy it.

I'm looking for m4a1 SD > nvg > m9 SD + ammo > gps I don't have anything you are requesting, however hopefuly soon my server resets and I'll have access to all my tents/vehicles again. At that time ill have 6 fences 4 tank traps 1 tent m24 dmr (9-12 mags in dmr form) m107 4 mags bison no ammo fn fal 3 mags 3 scrap metal 10 svd mags anti biotics handful of NGO grenades or w/e they are If any of this interests you for what I'm trying to get ahold of I will consider anything that seems reasonable *edit: oh, I might, and i mean i just MIGHT give my atv depending on how sweet the deal is. spent 5 hours last night getting one up and running when no one in my group was available to help ride along and scavange/drive a vehicle back so i had to hike it GRRR! In the atvs should start respawning soon and ive had pretty good control of their spawns. Too bad my group's control @ driving them wasnt as good as finding them >.> We also have a UAZ but I would need to discuss with my group first after seeing what you'd offer*

I think it would be awesome if the spawn mechanics and locations were changed up a little. This applies more to the Arma 3/standalone DayZ game than the current mod. It would be awesome and add a lot of depth to the game if you could choose where you wanted to spawn, or were spawned randomly, into different locations such as cities, rural towns, highways, etc. Perhaps you could pick a "back story" you want your character to have, that determines where and what you spawn with. Ex.: Truck driver: you were fleeing the cities when the virus struck, and were speeding down the highway. You hear a gunshot in your immediate vicinity, and, momentarily distracted, looked for the source of the sound. The next you thing you remember is waking up in your totaled truck, with abandoned vehicles all around you. Ex: Banker: You barricaded yourself in your apartment in a large city when the infection started. 2 weeks in, you're running out of food, and need to leave to scavenge. The point of this is to provide more depth to the game, and more re-playability when you die. Your decision will affect your fate. For instance, spawning in a city will give you more options for scavenging, food, weapons, etc, but you'll have to deal with more players and zeds. Spawning in a farming community gives you access to hunting gear, but less players and zeds, etc etc. The whole apocalypse simulation part loses a little bit of credibility when you just spawn on the coast. I think it would add to the realism if you had to deal with your situation accordingly, without many options on what to do (since you can go anywhere from the coast...leaving a crowded city would be harder). Just some food for thought.

So I was driving down the street last night and I saw a 90's Dodge Caravan with HIDS. Naturally I laughed and then thought how awesome would it be to have xenon lights on a tractor or other vehicles in dayz. Seeing at night time is key!