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Spawning random vehicles and more of them should be great.

A bigger map with much bigger cities, I like the idea if actual borders, maybe make it so your in a small infected pocket of somewhere and if you try to leave the map you run into mines like in cod lol. Bigger cities more islands maybe more vehicles(like normal cars), bridges that are almost fully destroyed to connect islands, much more guns, maybe 1 or 2 bases of just ammo, say an american/NATO/UN camp and a camp with ammo for almost anything else, but no rocket ammo, more zombies, a better rendering system and just a general revise of everything. Oh and the ability to have a group, I hate not knowing who's who.

First off i love DayZ and I understand that this is an Alpha but i bought my own server so my clan would have a chance at vehicles and so far im hearing that any ID over 6000 isnt getting vehicles right now. This info should have been posted HUGE on the DayZ Website to prevent people from buying BROKEN SERVERS!!! We deserve a response from the DayZ team on this because if they aren't going to spawn soon i'm not going to keep dishing out 50 a month for this server. To completely ignore the many posts on this matter is highly unprofessional and only shows you dont care about the community that is helping support your game. People paying money each month to help contribute to this game deserve to know when vehicles will start spawning so we can make a wise choice as to whether to keep paying or not.

So we are a clan and we actually own a server, de xxx, something like 10 days ago, to be more accurate like the day after the chopper was put back into the game again, so the 28th or 29th of july we've seen a helicopter flying and roaming around by atleast 2 players (since one was flying and the other one shooting from the side), after that day we've lost sight of it and until now we've been on his traces with no clue on where it is or if it's actually somewhere broken or saved or whatever. after that day we've registered that players from another specific clan stopped playing, they were a group of 2,3 and they were pretty much active until the day after we spotted the chopper, we guessed they might have crashed the huey and stopped playing on our server. so our hunt began theory 1: the chopper crashed 9-10 days ago, since then we've been looking at every of his new confirmed spawns as of 1.7.2.4 (mind that we're atleast 6 hardcore players by the number of hour we spend on dayz so it's not like we've missed out anything like not looking further at the borders of the maps, nor leaving any possible spot for it to land and be saved, by someone the server restarted multiple times since we have a curious case of high fps and latency for everyone when the server runs for more than 36h, always 2x in order to get back tents and vehicles for anyone inside and with previous warning by global chat we actually own 7 vehicles, 2x atv, GAZ, V3S Civilian, Tractor, Bike & Motorcycle and we even spotted others like an autobus and flipped atvs, we recently heard of the 7 days respawn for chopper who's not influenced by server restarts and even so we took in account that the chopper has disappeared from more than 10 days and still no chopper spawned in the 3 confirmed locations, even though still no trace. theory 2: we've read that if someone crashes while on the chopper it goes wasted or worse, it can go deeply underwater or far far out of the map, if this is the case what should we do? considered we don't use hacks nor even have a clue if there is a server command to make it respawn manually theory 3: the chopper badly landed anywhere and got destroyed in the process, then with every programmed server restarts it respawns in the site of the crash and the cooldown for the 7 days of doom starts over again in order for the server to make it spawn back as the wiki says non-saved vehicles will return to a random spawn of the known ones after 7 days. theory 4: the chopper never spawned on our server and simply got hacked, our admin says the server is up to date and we all are running version 95417 theory 5: you may think someone has the chopper landed & hidden somewhere and sometimes he login in order to save it again, i can say we're almost constantly keeping a list of who's playing on our server day by day and we've found that there almost no players playing on it from more than 4,5 days consecutively (many ragequits after dying too many times ;D) p.s. we once had a hacker on the server and he killed 4 of us by instagib with a command and destroyed our ural :'( is there any chance he stopped the chopper from spawning or have it teleported far in the ocean? the sad story of the ural HERE So what do you guys think? I've read in other threads that many players are in the same situation as i've explained here and so i hope this will help someone more than us and i want you to know that we aren't bad players in the way that when we'll know where the chopper is we'll storm it :) we usually play in groups of 1,2 players and so helicopter isn't our goal, but we would gladly see other players riding it and be it a good prey for our hunting! any ideas or tip? 1) try & search harder for chopper badly landed in random places? (we'll do that even more even if we have already looked everywhere) 2) search more the spawn points? (we're doing it since we knew the new spawn points, like 8 days ago) 3) you say there are new spawn points as of 1.7.2.4? please tell us all here so everyone may get benefits from that and update the wiki aswell sorry for the walltext and grammar errors, hope this will help us, our players, and all of you in the same situation of 0 choppers on your servers from left to right: players, Tau, Svrango Svrango: i'm tired.. it's been almost 2 weeks we're looking for this goddamn chopper... aren't you tired aswell? Tau: ... dead tired

Well just a little tale i thought i would share with you guys i found kinda amusing... So me and a few buddies had a GAZ and were on a hunt for medical stuff nr Berezhino when we go through Black Lake and find a Pick-Up!! instantly im running for it... i just love them!! Down side is both vehicles now have Red engines so we go along the north looking for spares... We end up at the NW airfield and after a good search we find nothing, nothing in Vybor or down the west coast so we think bugger it, server is quiet, lets head to Cherno/Elektro...... So we power down the west coast to Kamenka, GAZ with 4 guys ahead and men a buddy in the Pick-Up just behind. Then the twisty section arrives just North of Kamenka and all i wanna do is power slide.. it's why i love the pick-up so much, so the first couple of corners go well, getting the tail right out.. then disaster, The GAZ runs wide and slows at the next tight left hander about 15ft ahead of me, im already into the slide in 1st person not realising what was about to happen... As i exit the corner (still sideways) i hear a mighty thump from the right rear side of the truck... The GAZ hadn't got back on the road to gain distance on us, i had swiped them clean off the road... next my teamspeak lights up with cries of "WTF!!!" and "DERPY!! what have you done?" so i look back to see a burning wreckage and one man pulling another away from the blaze, seems i had shunted them clean into a woodland.. in my defence they should have driven better and stayed on the road. We lost quite a few weapons in the car and some lovely things for our camp, and i learned a valuable lesson! When power sliding in a convoy make sure you are in the lead vehicle and that the other drivers are capable of staying on the road. safe to say the pick-up took no damage and we found engine parts in Cherno..... Shame really that 4 guys are now walking :) ^^ me and the pick-up before the events!

This is not screen of you playing the game, but the screenshot of the tool. This tool has flaws: it mixes things up. For it all "characters" (as you can see in RPT logs files) are players. But sometimes it can be some items such spawned vehicles, stash, etc. I am interested in your RPT log file, can you send it to me via PM?

That would be lame as shit. Just an update as to the idea that vehicles should be less rare, in the past week me and my friends have been exploring a server that we call home. We have now raided numerous camps and our own hidden camp now contains a yellow Volkswagon hatchback, a Bus, a tractor, a V35 Military truck, 2 motorcycles and 2 bicycles. This is about one week of exploration. Vehicles do not need to be less rare, people need to be less lazy.

How many vehicles did you have parked near your camp?

Ok so.. me and a couple friends have actively been hunting this clan over the course of the past week. I'm not sure exactly how many members you/they have but man.. you guys need to get your acts together. Just one simple example (by the way me and one other guy have a good 20+ kills on your members in the past week). Last night I was at NE airfield. I log in, and see two people crawling around. I notice not many people are online but a few GSUA people are. So I take out a guy in a hangar after blasting M203 flare after flare to try to blind him I give up. I decide just to use a satchel charge and kill him. Done, ok cool, that was fun, moving on to a new server I suppose... there weren't too many GSUA members on and we honestly do roll this large group of people (ive seen it full of 90% clan members, prob 20 or so, so I know they roll fairly deep). Well.. I decide, no screw that, I've seen how horrible and dumb this clan can be and decide to plant another satchel charge on the body... I wait and sure enough they COME BACK to loot the body.. this time with a truck O.o What are you thinking im wondering... I feel bad because I'm thinking.. aww maaan this people are so dumb, but hell, someone HAS to teach them a lesson, maybe they'll learn something! I blow the hangar up, snipe two guys, I don't even really remember all the details. All I know is that I have 85gb of footage of me and a friend sniping you guys out, blowing you up, and killing your clan in any other number of ways. Looting camps, stealing vehicles, sniping people IN vehicles (one guy got REALLY lucky he didn't die) All I have to say is that you guys need to seriously sit back and analzye what you're doing, where potential threats could be and then proceed with whatever plan you have. I'm almost to the point where I just feel bad destroying these people OVER AND OVER AND OVER again... I mean seriously, they must either be a casual gorup of friends clan, or just really bad. Either way get it together guys...I think I'm going to find another server to play on for a while, then check back on you guys and see if you've upped your game at all. WE NEED SOME COMPETITION. Well I'm done ranting. See you guys in maybe a week or so. Sorry for looting your camps, finding most of them, taking some vehicles and overall just griefing you guys. Just know I want you all to proceed to get better, not just keep making the same mistakes I killed one guy, two minutes later, guy goes up to loot, snipe him too..I can't even count the number of times this has happened. And also? It seems you guys frequent stary? What are you guys thinking? Do that when you can actually CONTROL your attacks and instead of getting rolled daily over and over. Mind boggling how bad this group is...Sorry to offend but know I really do want to see you all improve, so far I've seen no improvement though.

This is pretty much void as performance is also server dependant. My PC isn't great, about 3-4 years old except the graphics card which is about 1-2 years old, and on a server that has just been restarted, I get 30-50 frames with everything on lowest/ off. On a busy server, thats been running for a long time, littered with dead bodies, zombies, loot, vehicles and tents, I can get FPS as low as 10-20 in certain areas.

Someone teleported all around my server marking EVERY camp today... It's kind of funny except for the fact that mine and our other group have all the vehicles (And use them). It's happened EVERY day this month as well, it's one annoying game to play right now...

So my grandpa was watching me play Dayz yesterday when he noticed I couldn't get through a single layer of barbed wire in a firehouse yesterday. So I went over to the church which was also cut off by barbed wire, and I couldn't get through that. This made my grandpa very angry and he started telling me war stories from WW2 and how he and his men would have to crawl in the mud through dozens of layers of barbed wire getting cut here and there, but they made it through the barbed wire. I thought to myself, maybe barbed wire should be passable, but its slow, or you take a bit of damage or something. After all isn't this mod suppost to be about realism. Maybe the game should honor the heroes of our past who let us live these lives we have today by making barbed wire more realistic. Our grandparents passed through barbed wire to kill the Nazis and fight for our freedom, and what do we do?? Make barbed wire impenetrable walls?? If the world was this way with impassable barbed wire and no easy way to cut it, bend it, or just walk through it the Nazis would still be in power. This is when it all came together for me. Rocket is a closet Neo-Nazi fascist. He wants this mod to be what the Nazis wanted the world to be.. Think about it. Impassable barbed wire. Imagine the consequences to the planet if the world was this way. If you aren't convinced yet take a look at this. Dayz is a "social experiment" up to Rocket. Nazi stands for National Socialism. You see, Rocket is a socialist, hence the "social experiment". Now he just needs a nation to have these experiments take place. Chernarus is his nation. You might say "hmm that's a small nation, just 225km ^2". Yes but with the amount of servers Rocket could have UNLIMITED land and UNLIMITED POWER. People of Chernarus we have to come together and rise up. Tell Rocket that we won't accept his Fourth Reich with all sorts of absurd things like impenetrable barbed wire and bikes that are faster than vehicles. Just like the germans were blind to the fact that Hitler was evil, we are blind to the fact that Rocket is evil. The Fourth Reich is imminent people and we're letting it happen because of impenetrable barbed wire. This is a realism mod. Do you want the Fourth Reich to be real?

Actually, to build on that i was pondering the idea of a skill system. Naturally the more you do something, the better you *should* become at it. If you spend a lot of time repairing vehicles, your skill would improve, and you would need less materials to repair a vehicle. Same applies with field medic, rifleman etc. A percentage of skill points could be lost on player death, for added bumfuckery.

To answer your question, you can get sick from more than just cold, you can get it from zombies, or other players that are sick. You most likely got it from a Zed if it wasnt raining. If you are infected (coughing) the only cure is anti-biotics, if you dont care about stats its much easier/faster to put up a tent, store your gear and go suicide then get back to your gear ;) I've seen some people say you can cure an infection with heat from a fire, but I think they were confusing it with a cold, according to the wiki. Infection Symptoms Character will cough and splutter, losing 3 blood every second. An infected player loses blood continuously with the rate of blood-loss slowing down once they reach 6,000 blood. Causes Causes of Infection: Random chance when Temperature drops below 36. Spending time near players who are already sick. Very small chance of getting it from zombie bite. Treatment Treatment for Infection: Using Antibiotics will cure the infection, however they spawn rarely. [edit] Cold Symptoms Character will shake from coldness, but not as shaky as Pain. Causes Causes of Cold: Temperature below 33 Treatment Treatments for a Cold: A Fireplace made using a Box of Matches and a Wood Pile. Running/sprinting will prevent your temperature from dropping further. It will also warm you up quicker than walking, as long as you are not in rain/water. Consuming a Heat Pack. Shelter must be found inside Buildings or Vehicles. Either one will work - you do not have to do all to relieve your cold.

Vehicles are server-specific. Although I must admit I'm ignorant on the ways of hackers/scripters/etc so I can't speak on a none legitimate reason for it to disappear. Shit disappears all the time in game though, probably a glitch/bug.

nope. vehicles are bound to the server they spawn on :)

I think someone is hoarding vehicles in the SG #00. Can't find any at all spawn locations. I wonder where they're saving the vehicles... :(

There was a thread around here about a bug with new servers over a certain range taking up to 3 days to spawn vehicles. Do a search and it should come up. my clan has a server with defcon and haven't had any problems at all with it. I read the threads about them before buying and from what I read it was a tech who went nuts and was later fired over it. Thats good enough for me and besides like the OP said EVERY host has problems so you roll the dice. At least with defcon we didn't wait 2 days for the server. my server was up in 1 1/2 hours and runs perfect. I've put in tickets with support too and they were very nice and helpful so for me it was a good decision.

So far pretty much everything in this thread is from me. I don't necessarily claim to be the first person to come up with these ideas but I've reeled all of them off the top of my head. Nothing has been copied from another suggestion thread. So far I've changed the vehicles section in response to feedback as I was getting a bit carried away. Wtfosaurus also mentioned a generator which has been put in, although rocket had already mentioned this in an interview. It's not built for open world I'm afraid. And it also costs $1.2 million to license for commercial use.

I just got two servers, vehicles arent up on either. When i looked it up all i found was some people saying it takes up to 3 days to spawn on the higher server ID's

useually straight away . put a tent down make sure its there on a restart. vehicles should be there sometimes on boot or a restart no tents or vehicles will be there at all

you sir, need to understand that several hard resarts may bring things back as far as an hour. i know this for a fact because we blew up their 3 vehicles, we log back on the server and in their base is those 3 vehicles sitting there

it would be nice if vehicles despawned after someone having it for a week, otherwise people horde them in their forest wonderlands for eternity.

Add some sort of throw over to better hide parked vehicles. My idae is to add a throw over (big camo sheet kind of like a gille suit but a big blanket to go over a car) that will hide your car a little better. 1. It can be found in high priority areas like runway (airfield) 2. Cant be used on a bus or heicopter because they are too big If you like or dont like my idea please feel free to comment and add to my idea.

- loot zombies for more items than tin cans and empty whisky bottles - how about matches, cigarettes, phones, car keys? - more accesible buildings - not neccesairly with wide open dors. we could try to break in through the windows/doors - and while doing so make noise and aggro some zeds about guns and vehicles... i say add buildings - gun store here and there - u could pick up guns and kits to clean or repair them - gas stations - i find it funny that they 99% of the time spawn ONLY tin cans :) add variety to them so u can find more parts for cars (the biggest amusement for me is how one wheel fits all types of cars:) ). - i found it not really realistic - entering the school and looting bunch of guns and ammo... what kind of school is it :) - i find it annoying that 9mm ammo cannot be used in 9mm types of handguns (kinda weird since u can convert 0.45 revolver to 1911 magazine) - malls? or bigger stores than just a grocery (where u can find not only food, but cloths, tools, and other items) - way to cover/camo vehicles, tents - just like camouflage netting or a possibility to hack some branches with a axe/hatchet and throw on top of the car to hide it from unwanted eyes - fishing ? as another way to get food or simply chill with friends by the campfire and tell stupid stories - radios/walkie talkies - to be able to communicate with friends on chosen channels - radios in the cars? its so freaking boring to drive without any music :) but hey, this game is far from realistic so i doubt they will introduce any of those ideas