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Hey guys, An update to our adventure - Jason managed to find a really good campsite with a Ural, V3S and a couple of tents. We raided the tents and loaded the trucks. However it didn't end well. We jumped in the vehicles and started to head north through the trees. We go 750m - 1 click away from the raided base and a sniper with an AS50 picked Jason off from distance. I slung a hard right and bailed to try and lay down some fire with my thermal LA82 but eventually got picked off myself. We did find satchel charges in the truck, is it possible a hacker may have spawned these in? I've never seen them in the game before? We did find it a bit suspicious that a guy was in the middle of no where on the edge of the map. Maybe he realised we were stealing their loot and spawned there? Who knows.... Here's a quick clip of what we found in the base! Please subscribe to my You Tube channel to follow our progress :-) I'll be posting regular videos on how we're getting on.

I suggest the construction of a wall at the border of the map, where the vegetation ends and a huge area with empty hills and plains is starting. I have read that despite of the last patches, there is still the possibility to save vehicles outside the border for several days. So maybe know you think that I am too lazy to go looking for them in the mentioned area and am just frustrated by not finding those vehicles. Well that’s not true, I already had a lot of fun with them and my friends and me are still finding them even inside the map, but what I want to achieve with this suggestion is, that all the stuff that is supposed to enrich the action and gameplay keeps available in this “normal” area. When I am thinking of such a wall, it could possible look like this from the movie doomsday: The wall should be high and solid enough, that you can’t climb over it or even destroy it with satchel charges. It could be explained by an attempt to contain the infection. This could also add some claustrophobic aspects. To prevent helicopters and boats of leaving the “zone”, there could be a warning to return in several seconds or being killed by some kind of anti air/boat weapon. So what do you think about this? I have to admit that English is not my mother language and have used the search function but didn’t find something relevant. I came to this idea by this thread: http://dayzmod.com/f...es/#entry616356

Thats a lot of restart and Sooooo soon after we found the vehicles, like within 5 mins, no warning just saw some messages on the screen and then it was closed. Plus others have complained. Besides for it to be down long usually would mean they shut it down rather than the system.

That's the bug i mentioned then, it's not supposed to set the whole horizon on fire, it can happen with other vehicles too. With a heli crash you can always hear very clear secondary explosions for a while afterwards.

I have Used vehicles to destroy tents, and parked them up afterwards where I have found them.

I was there. Besides something is up when you have ppl on this forum complaing about all 3 of the servers they host, how many times they shut it down, all of em. And the fact they did it a few mins after the vehicles were found. And its still dead. Admins cant get mad at innocent players who happen upon stuff.

I was there. Besides something is up when you have ppl on this forum complaing about all 3 of the servers they host, how many times they shut it down, all of em. And the fact they did it a few mins after the vehicles were found. And its still dead. Admins cant get mad at innocent players who happen upon stuff.

I'll be checking it throughout the night. All the proof is in the pictures. That and other complaints about the other two servers they run. I mean look at the times of it all. It's to perfect. They can't even say we were doing something stupid like server hopping because we were there for 30 minutes. Truth be told I found the boartyesterday night during another large 40 tent raid, but was waiting for my friend to get on as we are fully geared. You see my wife plays and we were being very careful. We figured there had to be a camp there since the boat was there for over 24 hours and those same two people were playing. We go explore and low and behold two amazing vehicles. 10 minutes later server completely shut down. If you look on there server restart logs, they've been doing it a lot. Bust usually only lasts 30 minutes or so. We must of really made them upset as it's been down for a couple hours and probably the rest of the night. If it does come back up, I have a team including my wife and we'll raid it and destroy it all and then save it. I have fraps ready, I'm very determined to get server admins like this away from ruining the community. Hopefully others see the proof here. I hope they come and open the server with a lock, I'll fraps it all and hopefully have it blacklisted.

I have been keeping a close eye on the antics of SOBR clan on the server and we may set another trap so see if the results end in the same outcome. Thomas Beckett seems to be extremely lucky at finding vehicles and I have some reasons to suspect foul play at foot. BattleEye are working on something big so time will tell.

About one month ago a group of two players were attempting to steal the vehicles from my group's camp. As one dude was driving out I shot him in the driver's seat and hid down in some brush, with the car they wanted to steal in an exposed position on the side of a hill. I knew they had come here for our cars so obviously the other guy would be coming to drive it away and/or avenge his buddy's death. And so I waited. About five minutes later he skylines himself on the top of the hill, walking toward the car I shot his buddy out of. With my M4A3 CCO I shot him until he dropped. I walk over to his body and he had an L85 AWS. As with anything else in this game, patience and misdirection can go a very long way.

Hey guys, we mentioned by a few times for now, that some of our vehicles are placed some meters away from their original saving point after a server restart, on a place where they have never been saved. atvs are 15meters away and even a V3s was teleported some meters away, any suggestions on this? regards

Nice suggestions from OP, but I dont think it should be harder for solo players! There should be more vehicles, because they're so rare in the present DayZ. I also think the map should contain all kinds of weather; Desert, snowy areas, forest etc. Oh and one last thing, please make the engine alot better (arma 3?), because the present one has pretty crappy graphics and it still requires "Crysis"-hardware!

Edit: I should add I only played PSO very little. However, DayZ reminds me more of EVE Online than any game I've played because of the harshness and the player-driven communities. With that said, EVE Online is somewhat ruined by RMT and I hope that DayZ never implements RMT to buy guns/vehicles etc. because I will probably stop playing.

What about a big reinforced wall on the end of the vegetation. So you couldn't walk over, or destroy it. And for those helicopters, there could be a warning that they will be destroyed in a couple of seconds, if they won't return. This could be explained, by an attempt to contain the infection like in serveral zombie movies. Of course the boats could get the same warning. So we could keep all the vehicles in side our lovely sanbox and have all fun with it. :D

Before saying "someone flattened it for the lullz dawg", please hear me out : 12 hours ago, our vehicle and our tent are about 10 meters apart at our outpost in the middle of the woods. Vehicle is mostly used for storage and hasn't moved for days. Both tent and car are filled with equipment. Now the vehicle is still there with its many items, still in pristine condition, but the tent is flattened. It seems to me that anyone who would have found our camp would have looted/taken our vehicle in addition to flattening our tent ; so how can this tent be flattened ? Is there any known reason besides players destroying them with vehicles for tents to get flattened ? Is this a bug ? Thanks for any light you might shed on this mystery.

If he weren't an admin, would that have changed things? Anyway... I agree with OP (but beware, I play with him and I'm an admin too!). Wouldn't it be more fun if vehicles were actually used what they are in game for instead of just hoarded outside of the map boundaries? Sure you could take lots of food and water and go play Running Simulator 2012 Pro outside of the map boundaries to find those vehicles. But wouldn't it be fun if you could actually sometimes see one driven or could stumble upon one somewhere in the mountains? Sure, the vehicles should despawn after 24 hours, but there have been reports that after 3 days without touching a vehicle, it was still there. There should just be a big invisible wall on the map boundaries so the vehicles stay in the map. Or Chernarus should be an island like Lingor so you can't drive them off map. Or vehicles should automagically break down when you leave the map... lots of possibilities...

What I'm trying to do is locate a server admin that shut down his server when we stole his vehicles with LOTS AND LOTS (of obviously duped) items. The server ID is US 935 btw.

isn't there a class system in DayZ already? you are what you have in your backpack.. you can't be a all in one player, because you do not have space for everything in your bag.. we can also work towards this idea.. serious injures can not be treated by yourself you need a second player - medic (you can only take morphine, bandage yourself but still lose a small amount of blood until you find someone to do it for you and fix you 100% or if you are lone-wolf you can do the bad bandage and after a longer period of time you eventually are completely healed but maybe because of the bad bandage you have a little infection an need some drugs to treat it, broken bones can be partly fixed using branches and 100% fixed by another player, for lone-wolfs again it takes longer to be completely treated if you do not find a medic) big guns can not be stored in your backpack - sniper/soldier/whatever (you chose what you will be using a sniper rifle, winchester, AK47.. or maybe you can store them in your backpack but it takes lots of space and you don't have room for other things you need to survive.. this way you should be able to carry a couple of rifles to your base but you will need the help of the team to get to your base safe) tools used to repair stuff and a full set of first aid tools take bigger space in your backpack - medic/engineer (so you have to choose will you have a backpack full with tools or a backpack fool with medicine) everyone can have a pistol and a bigger gun but medics and engineers do not have space for a lot of ammunition some players crash vehicles more than others (same with helicopters) so if you are good with the in-game controls you will usually be the driver of your group this way you are free to change who you are if you get bored being a medic and you will be motivated to team-up with other players and for lone-wolfs it is harder to survive alone but not impossible and that's why some players want to be lone-wolfs.. for the challenge

you must have read something wrong friend. trust me, i'm not on the side of the admins. if you read the other 7 pages you would know that. and, the majority of their stuff up there was not by any means 'l33t' and would not take much time to acquire. ( sorry guys, but it's true :P ) the only thing that would take time to amass in that camp was the vehicles, for which i give props to that clan for getting. only thing missing was the chopper and the bus i think (feel free to rpove me wrong) the tell-tale sign that they weren't dupers was the fact that they didnt have multiples of almost anything, and had a bunch of low quality guns. if i was a duper, i'd dupe all the best weapons, not single crappy weapons.

Well if that was true then other players on server that got teliported by hackers would show on list. These guys should up at our camp when vehicles was getting teliported etc.Was 10 players on server at the time and they showed up on logs a number of times. Just came across this aswell which proves that cheat now 03.08.2012 19:49:41: ZacTheMidget (*****:2304) 4fcd842c5770f9391b41f7d5dbae5c3b - #1 player addWeapon 'Itemtoolbox'; player addBackpack 'DZ_Backpack_EP1'; (Unitbackpack player) a 03.08.2012 19:49:46: DarkFocus (*****:63730) dd98404dcc2a2c8522a4948d041f9aa4 - #1 player addWeapon 'Itemtoolbox'; player addBackpack 'DZ_Backpack_EP1'; (Unitbackpack player) a

Well I have had a few run ins with people running scripts, one time the whole server died at once to a Russian, people started to get teleported into the air as I was on ts but not in game the server got stopped straight away and no-one lost anything. The funniest was last night, so me and a mate were setting up an ambush in the wilderness when some guy starts speaking over direct comms, this is pretty trippy as we cant see anyone anywhere. So eventually the guy shows himself and declares himself a genie and if we can answer some questions we get 3 wishes. At this time we are franticly trying to find out who this guy is so we carry on.. He asks if we want to see his spaceship so we are like yea go on then, a boat pops in on top of my mate breaking his legs and knocking him out. We fix him up and he asks for his first wish, a chopper and a chopper appears. Then the second wish was a dog, now I dont know if this was some dude morphed into a dog or a random npc but lassie kept running around and wouldnt come home. At this point my mate tries to fly the chopper, this goes badly and it goes boom, lol. The genie as ill now call him asked what I wanted for the third wish I wanted a tank but apparently that wasnt fair, oh the irony. So we get in his time travel spaceship go pick up my mate then he teleports around to random people proclaiming a great flood is coming and they should get on or die in the flood, I dont know why but people didnt take to his time traveling spaceship and mostly ran away. On about the third teleport to what I believe was actually another "hacker" who as he spoke to him glitched around like mad and eventually killed us all and himself somehow. While all this was going on another admin was constantly scanning logs trying to find who this guy was and the two names who we believe were the genie and the guy that killed us show up no IP and no guid, no record of them at all. A restart wiped any vehicles that had been spawned but it seems thats about the best we could do. So it would seem that at least at this stage we are completely at the mercy of anyone who wants to do whatever they want. Can I say though people who kill the whole server or teleport you somewhere stupid doing malicious things for whatever reason they have are bad, this genie guy although I dont agree with using all this stuff and would of banned the guy if we even could was really funny and not just ruining peoples days for lols.

I'd love to be able to take wheels off vehicles. Find a vehicle or two stacked together? I'll take the best one, all their spare parts and remove the wheels and take fuel out of the second. Troll and roll.

I use Host Altitude and they are very friendly. They actually go out of their way to give you a refund if you are not satisfied. Also I found this on another thread that may or may not explain why vehicles are not on your server. solo_888, on 27 July 2012 - 02:52 AM, said: Instance ids above 6000 do not currently have any vehicles, the DayZ team plan to add vehicles to these newer servers over the next couple of days. This is controlled by the hive and not the game server. This is the answer from support team of my hoster

Vehicles can take upward of 3 days to begin spawning on a fresh server.

Ouch, server logs aren't really going to help you here. The best you can do is get them to unban you for not being a hacker. Anything else is legit, as anyone at any time can scam, lie or steal, and killing you and taking all your stuff is fine. Sadly, the only thing they did that broke the rules was ban you without proof that you hacked. A server can't really be blacklisted for that alone, as the admin can just unban you. Like you'd ever want to play on that server again. But if they do unban you, and you hold grudges, get to hunting. Blow up tents, vehicles and ruin their day.