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I for one, believe vehicle maps are completely useless because A:I believe that vehicles spawn in completely random spawn points like crashed helis and B:Most servers have either hackers/trolls who just hide vehicles or clans who horde vehicles.

Honestly, at first it sounds like having a vehicle will be awesome...but... once you realize that > Using a vehicle makes you extremely high profile > You end up worrying about your vehicles safety more than you get to enjoy actually using it > Hackers love to blow up your precious vehicles > Shifty Admins have a nasty habit of kicking you from the server to steal your vehicle > Most vehicles end up being bigger tents, because it's very hard to keep them safe in the field At least, that's what I've come to realize after owning a few

So it started with we got blown away with our tents and vehicles.... And we found an odd marker on the map that said ''yup'' and we decided to go there since it was the only mark on the map. And we found this box with EVERYTHING in it. Soldiers cloths? Is that even legal to have? We looted most things and is it safe to do so? Please answer ^.^ Video:

Grow up. Many servers legitimately have their vehicles essentially removed for weeks at a time because hackers teleported them into the ocean. Also, even though clans earn the right to have all the vehicles if they find them all most do not do so legitimately. You hear a lot of stories about amins locking down servers right after a new patch or restart so they can hoard every vehicle on the map. This is just plain shitty.

Try a consistently lower population server. Hackers don't frequent them as often, as they want to fuck with as many people at once as possible. They're also less likely to have large clans bogarting all the vehicles too. Our current server peaks at about 10 players, today alone we found an off-road pick-up truck, three bicycles, an ATV, and a bright red motorcycle (the only one we actually stole from someone's camp). Obviously it's a lot easier to find more vehicles once you have one of your own, as you can check the spawns much faster and hunt other player's camps more efficiently. Sadly we lost all of those vehicles to a sudden server restart. Although we saved all of them, they disappeared along with our six tents. Not sure if they're ever going to come back. Kind of sad. Also, there are only a few times when vehicles actually appear at their spawns: 1. Someone parked it outside the boundaries of the map and waited more than 24 hours. 2. The vehicle explodes AND someone saves it as a toasted wreck. 3. The vehicle isn't touched for more than 7 days or so. So theoretically if all the vehicles on the server are already taken, you will never ever find them actually at the spawn. Also, most of the spawns for vehicles are still undocumented on most maps so you'll commonly find them where the map doesn't show a spawn. Your best bet if you really want to play on a high population server is to try to find other player's camps. Places to check would be: 1. Anywhere on the northern and western borders of the map. I will warn you, this is boring as shit. Literally all you do is walk through what feels like vast and pointless forest hoping to spot a tent or a car. It really sucks, but the payoff is spectacular when you find a camp with a UAZ and a couple tents filled with goodies. 2. Parts of the map that are not between major loot areas. There's a few small towns that no one ever visits because there's no reason to go there. This is where really crafty players build camps. People know to check the borders for camps, but they rarely bother looking inside a low value log cabin in Shakhovka. 3. Specifically if you want boats, check Krutoy Cap. Most clans will hide PBXs among the rocks for easy loot transportation to Skalitsy island (assuming they don't have the helicopter. Even if they do this is the only useful place to actually have a boat). 4. Anywhere you look on the map and think "Damn why would anyone ever go there?"

When I search online about vehicles it usually gives multiple spawn points on the map for each vehicle, I look at the DayZ-DB map and try to go to some of those vehicle icons but usually I'll find nothing there. Does this mean that those icons only represents places that MIGHT have vehicle there? And if they ARE there when I check, will it be a working vehicle or it could be one that's very broken and needs heavy repairs? Helicopters for example, I know that it only spawns 1 heli per server and i believe Skalisty Island is one of the locations, i swam there but see nothing. If I were to keep changing servers then in theory I'll eventually see one there right? And when I do find one will it work? I play with a friend and we could really use a vehicle because of the VERY annoying glitch where the game spawns you back at the coast even though you didn't die and was somewhere else when you last logged off. Happened to both my friend and I like 3 times each now....

As I'm sure you can understand, vehicles are a rare commodity. Are you sure you want one? Because, unless you hide it particularly well, it will be taken. Perhaps it will be taken out from under your dead body. I find them to be a liability. Not only do they alert people to my location from how loud their engines are (unless it's a bicycle but who can feel like a badass sniper riding a bicycle through the forest?) and how easily they are shot into disrepair. It is better to use your legs imho.

What's up guy! :D So glad you could join us. I hopped on the server and immediately I heard a few explosions. I look back and see some fire going off in a friends camp. I scope in to see what's going on and boom headshot. I die. I download the logs to see what was up and I see the following: 18:56:48 BattlEye Server: Player #11 WNxKATIEYAY (72.83.148.15:2304) connected 18:56:48 BattlEye Server: Player #11 WNxKATIEYAY - GUID: f31220a4c36d52be6729b4030f6c78dc (unverified) 18:56:48 BattlEye Server: Verified GUID (f31220a4c36d52be6729b4030f6c78dc) of player #11 WNxKATIEYAY 19:21:30 "UPDATE: [b 1-1-L:1 (WNxKATIEYAY) REMOTE,[["5Rnd_127x99_as50",3],"ItemWaterbottle",["5Rnd_127x99_as50",2],["5Rnd_127x99_as50",3],"5Rnd_127x99_as50","5Rnd_127x99_as50","5Rnd_127x99_as50","ItemSodaCoke","FoodSteakCooked","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD","ItemBandage","ItemBandage"],false]" 19:21:30 "HIVE: WRITE: "CHILD:201:25682063:[55,[7475.01,7575.53,0]]:[["ItemFlashlight","ItemFlashlightRed","ItemGPS","ItemHatchet","ItemKnife","ItemMap","ItemToolbox","ItemWatch","ItemEtool","ItemCompass","ItemMatchbox","Binocular_Vector","NVGoggles","M9SD","BAF_AS50_TWS"],[["5Rnd_127x99_as50",3],"ItemWaterbottle",["5Rnd_127x99_as50",2],["5Rnd_127x99_as50",3],"5Rnd_127x99_as50","5Rnd_127x99_as50","5Rnd_127x99_as50","ItemSodaCoke","FoodSteakCooked","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD","ItemBandage","ItemBandage"]]:["DZ_Backpack_EP1",[["Mk_48_DZ"],[1]],[["PipeBomb","ItemPainkiller","ItemMorphine","ItemBloodbag","100Rnd_762x51_M240"],[1,2,2,1,3]]]:[]:false:false:0:0:0:0:["","",42]:0:0::0:" / 25682063" 19:06:58 BattlEye Server: Player #3 Rip (81.151.150.145:50099) connected 19:06:58 BattlEye Server: Player #3 Rip - GUID: 5af4d86431e382cc44f3c372a03e738d (unverified) 19:06:58 BattlEye Server: Verified GUID (5af4d86431e382cc44f3c372a03e738d) of player #3 Rip 19:32:52 "UPDATE: [b 1-2-E:1 (Rip) REMOTE,["5Rnd_127x99_as50","5Rnd_127x99_as50","5Rnd_127x99_as50","5Rnd_127x99_as50","PipeBomb",["PipeBomb",0],"PipeBomb",["PipeBomb",0],"PipeBomb",["PipeBomb",0],"ItemSodaCoke","FoodSteakCooked","ItemBandage","ItemBandage","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD"],false]" 19:32:52 "HIVE: WRITE: "CHILD:201:26148788:[0,[519.658,8174.25,0.00119019]]:[["ItemFlashlight","ItemWatch","BAF_AS50_scoped","NVGoggles","ItemGPS","ItemToolbox","M9SD","ItemMatchbox","ItemCompass","ItemHatchet","ItemKnife","ItemMap","ItemEtool"],["5Rnd_127x99_as50","5Rnd_127x99_as50","5Rnd_127x99_as50","5Rnd_127x99_as50","PipeBomb",["PipeBomb",0],"PipeBomb",["PipeBomb",0],"PipeBomb",["PipeBomb",0],"ItemSodaCoke","FoodSteakCooked","ItemBandage","ItemBandage","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD","15Rnd_9x19_M9SD"]]:["DZ_Backpack_EP1",[[],[]],[["ItemPainkiller","ItemMorphine","PipeBomb"],[1,1,11]]]:[]:false:false:0:0:12:0:["","amovpercmrunsraswrfldf",42]:0:0::0:" / 26148788" As soon as I see the first thermal as50 I stop the server as I had just seen your message and another person respond saying he wanted to join up. So the server is stopped and I go through this and ban two people. The server comes back up and all is well. I'm still going through the logs and it seems you guys found that camp mighty fast. I wonder what else I'll be finding in these logs. Take care now! :D PS: It's amazing what happens to destroyed vehicles in DayZ once a restart occurs. Must be a shame to waste all of that time.

Wow u mad? It took me like 1.5 months to get my first NVG things like that and vehicles are supposed to be RARE!!

The DayZ-DB map shows possible locations for vehicle spawns. Because it is user submission driven, many of the shown spawn points aren't spawn points at all but simply a user having seen a vehicle and submitting it. But the map is a fine resource for information and shouldn't be discarded for use in hunting vehicles. The vehicles may or may not be where the icons represent. Certainly, if a vehicle is spawned at one of the locations you check, it will require repair. No vehicles spawn fully repaired.

I like the idea of a global reset for vehicles and tents every few weeks or so. But many others will disagree with the idea.

Admin just banned me from game for finding their camp, I didn't shoot either. saw camp, came under fire, immediate ban. The mad bomber destroyed: 1 Dirtbike 1 white pickup truck 1 Red Lada 1 UAZ 3 ATV's Your a terrible liar Brett And nice to see you restart your server in the middle of my raid to try to halt it. Bit cheap Nice to see you're duping your items aswell You have quite a few AS50's for a server thats only 2 days old. And wow you found some RGO Frag grenades, those are pretty rare, I know they're ingame but they're only really found inside Urals that have just spawned, bit weird that you had quite a few of those babies. For a server thats 2 days old you've got alot of tents, camps and quite a few vehicles set up. On my way north I was a bit suprised to see like 6 of your members just chilling at the NW airfield just shooting off rockets/grenades and all sorts of nubetubes around randomly, They weren't even fighting as no kills occured at all. Bit strange that your guys would be firing off all those explosives (it was like bonfire night) and not even be trying to kill other guys. It's like you had plenty of explosives to spare, maybe like you were duping them... I think it's time you got blacklisted bro

You cannot be banned for picking up hacked items, equipping hacked equipment, or driving hacked vehicles. Doing so will merely cause Battle Eye to flag you for future watch. Basically, BE will watch and see if you script. You can only be banned if you are the one who hacked the items in.

Can only imagine vehicles.

Vehicles destroyed, deaths etc

It's hard to ask for help in specific servers especially with vehicles... Best of luck!

I know some may find this suggestion does not fill Dayz hardcore survival theme however I think if done well, trusting Rocket it will be, could be awesome. Chererous is great don’t get me wrong but I think with the opportunity of standalone why not bring out a sweet map celebrating zombie culture whilst also providing great variety. I will try and produce some sort of rough map later at a later date but here’s a rough idea of my concept. Attractions: Theme park: (Zombieland) Out from the cities lies a sweet theme park , the rides don’t have to work but the atmosphere could be great. If some really fortify mechanics come into play could be a great place to set up camp with loads of vantage points from all the rides. Loot would include much food, sweet run around carts and a few cars in the gated car park and maybe a heli spawn (Non-military of course) Hospital: (Grindhouse) A big hospital in one of three major cities, complete with medical helicopter on roof, another great base to dominate. Get the generator powered and get all the CCTV up. Loot here will be food and much needed supplies, rare ones that can save you from ravaging disease. It’s also the only place where you can pull off a single person blood transfusion however it’s the only place. Mall (Dawn of the dead) A nice sized mall located in one of the major cities (Different from hospital). Perfect for fortifying, it’s got a hardware store where tools have a high chance of spawning and a gunshop. It’s derelict but sturdy, with the generator running you could get some night lights going. This will be a hot spot, so multiple entries required. Pub (Sawn of the dead) Area 52 (Someone can think of a better name) Its decent sized but offers up some unique rare loot and vehicles spawns. The rare loot, as well as good weapons, could be useful tech like thermal/night vision goggles that don’t emit glow (make the standard ones glow) or Quadcopter with camera (maybe a gun) which requires fuel to run. Maybe even a rare digital camo-suit. This would be super rare spawns would defiantly make it a popular place A quint British brand pub found in some of the towns, A great little place to build a shelter with a basement and decent loot of food and occasionally a weapon behind the bar. Cities: 3 major cities, while not huge in size would offer a different vibe. London inspired (hospital) (28 days later) – A tight city with a big wheel and a large clock, in no way a complete copy but with a few London touches. There could be a great black cab spawn here as well. Midwest USA inspired (Mall) (Dawn of the dead)- A midwest typical American city with the mall in the centre, got some decent suburbs for fortification. Has a good museum as well. Industrial Town (No reference) Got the mills, got the power plant. It’s a city built around its work. It’s not the best looking and kind of run down but it’s got fortification in its few factors as well as strong vehicles with much space. Now the different themes and hard to pull on together on one map well, the best way to handle it would be to set on central theme and then with each city add hints of its features. Layout: Military bases would be sporadic over the map. However there is one big one with decent vehicles. Finally there are the villages/small towns in between. Have a small unique place for a few of the small towns. One has a shooting range, decent loot spawns. One has a decent sized police station with decent spawns and a small jail area (hostage holding fun) One is just off from a small military base The villages just consist of barns and fields, good fortification, not too many zombies but not so much supplies. This is probably too ambitious, but Rocket is pretty damn good.

First name: Jacob Age: 14, I am very mature though TimeZone: GMT +8:00 I can be on anytime we are planning something though. Why you want to join: I love playing with groups of people, and scavenging and raiding and it gets boring on your own, and this group seems really to my style of gameplay, and after looking at a couple of other applications I also see that this is a very good community of people who love playing DayZ, and I want to be a part of it all. Teamwork on a scale 1 to 10 as 10 being the highest: Definitly a 9 Do you have Teamspeak: Yes I do Do you have Skype(Only put Yes or No): Yes How long have you played DayZ(Dont Lie) About a month, I am pretty skilled though, I have found a few vehicles and fought many bandits and zombies, my record is 203 zombies killed. Thought I can make some competition if I get in, to get everyone on and trying their hardest to achieve their goal, and you goal.

You're right. I love this mod. That's the problem. I want to play it bug free but I know it's alpha. I know I didn't pay for this mod. The problem is, that bugs are fixed like the tents not saving but those graphical glitches and this spawn bug is actually a no go and I don't understand why wirefence and dead bodies are not going to be removed. At least until the devs found the reason for those glitches. All those exploits don't bother me. I play the mod without exploiting. All the bugs like items disappear in backpacks and so on don't bother me but those two bugs make the game almost unplayable. We lost 2 cars because of the spawn bug. And another thing is, we have 3 servers, 2 have vehicles from the first start but the third does not have any vehicles since 3 days now. I think that's not okay. Maybe they spawn the next 4 days but at the moment we have a server we pay for and it can't be used like it should. I can't promote it because there are no vehicles. We don't want to invite everyone if there are no vehicles. And all those things make me angry because at least for the servers we pay much money.

Well, afaik all you did is destroy the vehicles. The tents will respawn (most probably with gear) after the next server restart. So...yeah...nice explosion (and yes, did remind me of the Megaton explosion), but if those where my tents I wouldn't be too pissed.

So what would you call all facebook games and free to play MMO's or just free to play games in general...to say money shouldn't allow some advantage is just idiotic in this day and age...just saying they pay so you can play...and spend time on maintenance....and they should be viewed as equal...just saying...i know damn well the majority of people would feel entitled to some kind of advantage...or privilege, ya they can customize the setting (crosshairs, etc) but i heard that admins are actually pretty restricted settings wise...just saying...in every other game ive ever played admins have always used their power to kick,ban,or exploit, whenever they could...or just customize the server settings to what they want...but since customization sounds like its pretty limited for dayz servers...i kind of get why they find other ways to take advantage of being an admin (kicking, and viewing locations of vehicles and tents on logs [some one said the logs show vehicle spawns and saves not sure if thats true but if it is....that would explain why i never see any]

Regarding the first report: Hello HarlReddit, Sorry you had a bad experience on our server. Let me explain what has happened in the last two hours. The server is brand new... 4-5 hours I believe. I haven't been on for most of the day and I was notified by a few players that there was a hacker in the server. I sent multiple global messages saying that I was going to shutdown the server because I need to go through the logs to figure out what's up. Let me explain that I have never run a DayZ server before and I did not know what would and would not show up in the logs so it took me a bit of googling. During this process I locked the server and shortly after realized this was not allowed. My reaction was to kick everyone in the server and send global messages letting them know I was going through the logs and the server would be playable again in a few. I now realize that I should have stopped the server and then read the logs but I wanted to give players a fair amount of warning. The issue with this is that everyone kept rejoining. This led to a bad practice of 'pausing' the server and I've learned from it and it will not happen again. Just to clear up a few things the only admin is myself 'Brett'. The other two players left at multiple times but kept rejoining just like you. The next time I have a situation like this I will give a 5 minute warning and then stop the server instead of doing what I did today. I do however have a slight issue with you flooding the server with connection requests with your name changed and taunting us with a server report. The server is brand new and to see a player like yourself go off on me when this is just an issue of not much server experience was concerning. We welcome everyone on the server and we are sorry for this issue. Thanks - Brett === Regarding the second report: Another member vouched for you and it was a mistake that I didn't ban you. I just set down core rules to the server that include things like banning hackers and hoarders. While our server is not perfect it is 2 days old and things are changing. Once again I take full responsibility for not banning you from the beginning. You can rest assured that anyone coming on the server with hacked items will be banned as soon as I am made aware of it. I did not say I would ban someone if they touched a vehicle. The server was also not restarted 3 times because we were worried someone was in our camp. 1 - was a scheduled restart and the 2nd was because vehicles weren't showing up after the restart. Take care! ===== At this point the user was banned and so was his entourage since they were now harassing members in teamspeak. Users from his makeship group of griefers used new accounts(new guid) to bypass the bans and were able to play on the server without me knowing. They think they had a right to be there because it was a new account and I had no right to ban them because they had done nothing wrong on those accounts. I was only made aware of the fact that they were on my server when one of them killed me and start berating me about it in teamspeak. I banned them all again - not for killing me but for bypassing the ban. They were removed from my server for a reason and they had no right to come back. Ban bypassing be it GUID spoofing or new accounts should be a global ban issue imo. At this point I banned all of their IP addresses. Regarding me posting one member's IP Address let me first state that you have no expectation of privacy when you join a privately paid for server. Your IP Address was posted on TeamSpeak and Pastebin and will be available publically through the server's ban list. If the information isn't allowed on this forum then I will edit it from my previous posts and I apologize but I certainly do not apologize posting this guy's information so other server admins don't have to deal with his griefer group. Both members who have reported the server are in said group and they will continue to do what they can to get back at me. The conversation before he left was 'ban me and i'll report you' which I'm sure many admins are receiving these days. Good day!

Yeah, the server became self aware. It was putting all of its energy into spawning its children, the vehicles. Here you come, abusing them, getting them stuck, CRASHING THEM INTO EACH OTHER! Server couldn't stand it anymore, teleported you and shot you. Servers do that sometimes.

He has joined the server again and kept spawning vehicles and other shit. Unfortunately I don't have video evidence but these logs are now enough for me to now give him a permanent ban from the server. Can't have a lunetic ruin everybody's gaming experience.

So, most people here seem to agree about one concept: Right now, death is too cheap. All you loose is loot, and even then, with persistant vehicles, tents, etc... it's not that big of a deal. I, myself, when low on blood and faced with a long and difficult recovery, but plenty of loot, have been known to treck down to the coast and kill myself, so that when I respawn I can just run back and pickup my loot. Likewise, when encountering others, there isn't enough real incentive not to just kill them. These are all serious problems facing the mod, and I think I've discovered the perfect solution. 'nuff said. personally, I think this is absolutely inline with Rocket's stated goals for this project. I can't wait :D