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I haven't been lucky enough to test this theory since 1.7.5 came out, but before it did I'd saved two ATVs and a V3S (or whatever the non-Ural 3axle truck is). After the saves, the server had a scheduled restart. Came back in, they were gone. 8 hours later, another scheduled restart (my regular server has 3 scheduled restarts daily), and THE VEHICLES WERE BACK. I asked the server admins on their forums about it and they said that vehicles will despawn after a restart, saved or not, but after a second restart, all saved vehicles will spawn back in where they were saved, and be permanently available (until moved, resaved, destroyed, stolen, etc). Not sure how reliable this information is, but I did witness our vehicles disappearing after the first restart, and then reappearing after a second restart. Who knows :blush:

Armed Vehicles??? Those may be to powerful but it would add very interesting gamemplay. The scenarios that could unfold are unimaginable!

Hahaha, I guess I could see that. Clans get mad at this one guy tearing them up, and start hacking. Please, come play on our server - I promise, we don't do that. |UCC| have been playing on our server for the past couple days (server is brand new as of Sunday), and they tore us up at first. They killed me and and Qlimax and then took all our stuff up Northeast (we found their camp later near Olsha, which is near where we crashed some vehicles). We like to think we got a stab back at them - but legitimately. Come tear us up if you want, we welcome the competition :D As it is, these 3 guys in this topic killed us on our main toons so we lost most of our stuff. We're still regrouping, but if you get on later tonight, maybe we'll have something tasty for you to steal :P EDIT: Know I said I was going to stop posting in this topic ... guess I couldn't resist, was nice to someone actually being friendly in this thread ;D

Don't saved vehicles stay for 7 days before they reset?

I think it would be cool to have a few of these dotted around the maps, they would probably be marked targets where every bandit on the map would head out to for kills... but if enough players were defending it i think it could make things interesting... or to even the odds actually make it available to build your own anywhere on the map like a tent, maybe after collecting the parts as you would with vehicles?? i know if i was actually irl surviving i would head out to the woods and build one myself well hidden not far from a water supply in the trees, not trying to hold up looking over my shoulder in a ruins, or in a building sleeping with one eye open. What do you guys think???

We have caught you teleporting on US 153. That is why you have been banned. I'll ask my head admin see if we can dig up any evidence and if we don't have any on our side we'll un ban you from the server. Last night we had tons of hackers in the server teleporting in vehicles on top of our friends and teleporting on top of another player. We may have accidentally banned you from the ban wave last night but it could be other evidence that we have gathered that goes against you. Please be patient as finding evidence takes some time up to 24 - 48 hours. I'm sure your vehicle you was looting is still up there I won't have anybody touch it that I know. And also no there is no such thing as a admin vehicle on our server. If somebody takes our vehicle in front of us we do not abuse and kick the person that takes our vehicle we let it be. But we do not tolerate hackers that tend to teleport to us and start shooting at us I know for certain we have video/photo evidence of them. We do have a secret weapon program on our side that is logging most of the suspicious activity. We can track almost everything.

I have noticed that all the hacked vehicles respawn with the exact same things in them. I don't think in this case it was admin abuse. I have my own serer and have never hit the restart map button. Now if you steal my stuff I will search every grid until i find you and gut you like a fish :D . But seriously it's part of the game to lose stuff.

You had horded 8 out of the usual 11 vehicles on a server and you try to speak as though your guild tries to make it fair and even for your server? You have a very twisted idea of fair. Heres an idea, Use 2 vehicles, one larger and a smaller town runner and leave the rest for the remainder of your server population and stop banning people for raiding and destroying your camp. As stated by the others, your actions and statements are childish and you do not deserve to be an admin.

I'm relatively new to the game and just died to a guy I couldn't see. I was at that big airstrip with the hangers and I was prone in the grass with a ghillie. There where 3 maybe more vehicles on the runway and I was waiting to see who owned them. I figured it would be a big group but there was no one around. Suddenly I hear panting next to me. I turn and the grass is flattening as if someone is crawling through it but I can't see anyone. The thing keeps on coming till its right next to me and then stops. I still can't see one but can here the player panting right next to me. I wait for a while and when it moves again I start to shoot. It shoots back and I get killed. So, when you are prone in the grass are you invisible? The fact that he didn't shoot until I started made me think perhaps he couldn't see me either. Then I thought, with all the abandoned vehicles, he might be a hacker just having some fun with me. Sorry if it's a bit of a stupid question.

What is cheating, here is a list of cheating activity. 1. dupping gear by droping and disconnecting 2. disconnecting in PvP 3. disconnecting to despawn zombies. 4. disconnecting to refresh your ammo 5. using aka "scripts" on a server to spawn vehicles, gear, and things that was not intended for DayZ mod. other cheating activites that happen against you. 1. Logging in and take a few step and everyone die instantly on the server. 2. Being teleport to a bandit. 3. Legs breaking for no reason. 4. Getting you inventory stripped when you log into a server. All of these things make this game impossible to play, and people lose interest in a game that could be allot of fun if played legit. Sad people lose interest in the mod after a week or two. Bugs that make it difficult to play. 1. getting disconntect when in a vehicle and logging back in to have the vehicle kill you. 2. Screen tearing making it impossible to see. This started for me since 1.7.3 patch. 3. dieing and spawning inside a buildings in stary Sobar and can't get out.and since 1.7.4 you can kill your self to restart. 4. opening a door that swings and kills you. 5. Trying to find a game you don't spend 20 minutes looking at "LOADING". 6. Being disconnected because you brother joined the server, because you share the same interent connection. Theses are just a few I personally encountered while playing the game.

Those are cool suggestions. Here are mine: Less emphasis on military: Make the clothes, weapons, vehicles and locations a lot more civilian, and stuff like cammo, sniper rifles and jeeps into a rare reward. Especially night vision. More "medical" sim: I would like to see more wound variety just for the sake of team building, and also better ability to disable zombies with careful shooting. More world alteration: Barricades and barbed wire are cool. I would also love to see restoring power, clearing zombies (for a while) and setting up bases.

Not sure if I agree with these exactly. Maybe just make the spawns more infested with the infected? I do like the idea of making the game more difficult though (which this would help to accomplish). I like fuel being a currency, but more vehicles would mean that it would be much easier to get one. At their current rate they are difficult to find, which makes them more coveted. If everyone had a car it wouldn't be much of an Apocalypse in my mind. Isn't that a long way off? If it means waiting even longer for this game then I have to say a heartily disagree. Arma2 is nice, it will do the trick for now imho.

Not as many ranged weapon spawn location Not as many military weapons More vehicles spawning at a time Fuel needs to be like a currency.

My approach to Stary Tents & NWAF: In general, I avoid going there. I'd rather spend the time looking for crash sites (particularly if the server restarted recently) and the edge of the map looking for tents. You'll find much better gear and vehicles in camps but it does take time and patience. But if I go to loot I follow this approach: a ) Go on a moonlit night: so much easier to avoid avoid zombies. If completely dark, use RED chem-lights. b ) Bring a tent & set it up some place out of the way and well hidden about 500-1000m away from those locations c ) put all the stuff you are not willing to lose into the tent. Usually I just keep my handgun, bandages, 1 food/water, morphine. d ) Move within 200m and spend a few min scoping for other players. Check the player list. e ) If you see a player, kill him if possible. Otherwise, move as fast as possible through your objectives keeping best cover in mind. The vast majority of times I have died at the airfield has been inside the barracks because i took too long. f ) leave as fast as possible to the woods, make sure you are not followed, go back to the tent.

so if i happen to have 3 vehicles on the airfield, im a hacker? i think we once had a bus and a bike there at the same time, is that close enough? Of course it depends on the terrain/vegetation. if both go prone right on the airfield they will NOT be hidden. Sometimes... common sense...

He's right about the sounds being loud and stuff. But you described a hacker, especially with the 3 vehicles sitting not far away... Not sure what he means by being invisible if 2 players are prone. Not really true. Harder to see them in 1st person view, but nowhere near invisible.

1.) Running as fast as they currently run is probably going to be changed. Their ability to keep up with Cars, at times, it's pretty insane. Other than that, I'd rather not play a zed, especially in a small town on the northern part of the map. You'd almost have to die to a Zed on the coast or the NW airfield to have any real fun. 2.) These items have use, learn to use them. Breaking hospital windows, distracting zeds. They ARE in the game for a reason.... 3.) This would only persist on the current server you are on. They wouldn't transfer to different servers, just like tents/vehicles. 4.) What kind of crafting is in this game? 5.) I agree with you on a few more melee weapons. Right now all we really have is the hatchet. As far as regular guns, I'm pretty satisfied with what we have.

My V3S (same as Ural, just looks different) disappeared on a server restart. As did all other vehicles, and tents. Now they won't come back, even after more restarts... very weird

For me, logging out any other time than quitting for the day would ruin the game for me. It's supposed to simulate the experience of survival, you have to feel like you're in the world fighting for your life, and if you rely on a 'get-out-of-jail-free card' when things get dicey, that breaks the immersion and the experience, as well as severely lowers the difficulty. You can't logout of life. It's ok if there's clearly hackers (teleporting, invincible people/vehicles, thunderdome, nuclear bombs, etc.) because they break the immersion when they do impossible things, but aside from that, I'd rather stay in character and fight it out. If I die that means I was careless and need to not do what I did next time. Just my 2 cents.

I saw zero my first 2 1/2 months. However, I've seen about 8 in the last 10 days with 4 being in the last 72 hours. Still, I love the game and will keep playing. But, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't playing less and having less fun because of the constant possibility of being part of a mass teleport or shot by an invisible player. Sadly, I wish it was "only" hacked weapons and vehicles. One at least has a chance against that. Previously, I never was too bothered at all by the glitches, loot hoppers, dupers, DC-ers, and spawn killers. Those were things that might occasionally annoy me, but never affected how often I played or my enjoyment of the game and I realized they were either due to the game being in alpha or simply a byproduct of a persistent game set up (which I love!). But these recent mass-griefing hacks have become too common, too rampant. It's so bad now the scripters/hackers are crowding each other out and many are hitting even low pop servers. I truly hope the stand alone will allow the devs to make the integrity of the game a top priority. Personally, I think they know what's currently going on and, without being able to manipulate source code (it is only a mod), have severely limited options. No, they can't stop all the hacks, but stopping 90% of them would make a big, big difference. It's just a hacking free for all right now. Let's hope the stand alone comes sooner rather than later. I would happily pay for the mod as a standalone (in it's current state) if some semblence of control over the hacks were included.

You may be right with your opinion about the vehicles driven in the docks, but that's not against the rules. As an admin you should only interfere when foul play occured, like hacking or teleporting etc. But that what you did was sadly, simple admin abuse.

BattleEye doesn't ban you for picking up / using hacked weapons. "No one is banned for using non-hack programs (like Fraps, overlays, etc.), picking up or using hacked in-game items, weapons or vehicles, being on a server at the same time as a cheater, or other passive non-cheating activity. Therefore all requests mentioning these things as possible reasons for the global ban are ignored."

I believe someone said on here that to the west of Myshkino there is a clearing where a lot of vehicles are stored are many servers. Haven't checked it out myself, but it doesn't hurt to check over there. EDIT: http://dayzdb.com/map#5.009.079

Look harder. Theres a limited number of vehicles per map, and they only respawn every 7 days after being destroyed, so chances are someones beaten you too them. Most organised teams spend hours searching and preparing to find vehicles.

so wow, bummer. I logged in and my scooby van is gone. That's cool, though. I know to search up north for good vehicles, already repaired by other players. Just as I'm musing about finding the heli on the server, there it is.. In all it's glory. I'm stoked. I stalk it. I work my way up. No one is around. I check gear... 2 jerry cans. I grab them, fill it up (already mostly fueled) and take off! I fly around. Very interesting. Some "landmark" vehicles that others have stashed in the woods, but I have noted are still there. Then I find it. A giant camp. Couple dozen tents, four or five vehicles. I'm set. I have a plan. I marked where I found the heli. I'm thinking, why should I do all the work when I can just have all the fun? I'm going to land it back where I found it, swap their empty jerries that I burned up joyriding with the two full ones in my back pack, and go do my thing, borrowing the heli as long as I don't get caught. I'm a good pilot, so I'm eeeeeeeeasing it down at the edge of this clearing. 40m to ground..... Game locks up. Sound but the video is frozen. Nothing works, so I have to reboot. I reconnect, heli is nowhere to be found. Sorry, guys that stashed the heli on the server where I play. Find it and fix it and stash it there again, please?