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We find that if we dont hard reset the server (Close the exe) , and just use the #restart command, it will not spawn vehicles. Solution: Hard reset server.

true but dude im telling you its the saving system i found 5 vehicles in 2 days they were all dayz mod vehicles...they all vanish...same with the tents i set up they either vanish or they get wiped gear wise....ever since post 1.7.5 the saving system has been broken.

They might have been hacked in I guess. All hacked vehicles will disappear after restart even if you save it I think.

As for theme Chernarus is great. Tropical island like Lingor (custom map) or Mediterranean island like Limnos (ArmA 3) just don't have the same feel. It doesn't really have to be ex-soviet state though. Imean, the only thing making it one now is all the russian text. Even though there are some Soviet/Russian weaponry, there's also plenty of western European and American stuff anyway. I do wish the new map would be an island though. The current 2km empty forested zones at edges are just boring places to go wander to find camps or vehicles. I'd much rather have those replaced with water or at the very least have those zones way smaller. This way all the vehicles and tents would have to be stored in places where people will actually have a chance of finding them by accident when they travel between landmarks. In general I would like a bigger map only if server populations go up too. Honestly though, current Chernarus could easily handle at least 100 if not more players if the player spawns only were more spread out. It's no wonder Elektrozavodsk and Chernogorsk are so crowded since they're fairly small towns where every freshly spawned player wants to go and most spawns are fairly close to those too. If there were more spawns around Berenzino and probably around some of the inland towns too it would feel far less crowded - though those inland spawns could be annoying. The beach is a nice "people spawn here"-indicator. No random stumbling upon your party by fresh spawns when you are in outskirts of an inland town either (and since it's beach, even the inland sides of shore towns don't have people spawning on top of other people) So yeah. Bigger map if networking supports it. Island or at least far smaller edge areas - possibly also flatter and less forested. Preferably using assets similiar to current ones or at least those based on non-southern European/Northern American towns. It's not like I'll avoid buying the game even if it just has Limnos or Lingor or old Chernarus though. Oh yeah, I'd also like to see some slightly bigger building complexes. Like a bigger military camp or a bigger airport. Those shouldn't be too taxing on resources since they'd probably still be smaller than any of existing Chernarus cities. I'd also like to see at least one city that's considerably bigger than any of the current ones with some taller buildings. They don't have to be skyscrapers, just closer to 10 than 3 floors. Also while I don't think all buildings have to be enterable, more of those would be nice. Especially in the smaller towns where buildings are smaller too.

I had 3 vehicles before i restarted the server, i saved them at least 5 minutes before restart but no vehicles appear at all, players are reporting their vehicles missing too.

They shouldn't be banned at all Polli. The majority of people that come in a read this thread will think you're the one at fault here. You hoarding vehicles is fine with me, banning people that take said vehicles and destroy them so they respawn is UNACCEPTABLE. You're abusing the privilege of having a server. Undo the 7 day ban. Also, how the hell is this anti social?(those vehicles respawn so other players might have the chance to find them) You are in fact the one who is being anti social, hoarding all them wheels.(again I don't have a problem with that, just your crap admin ways)

Assuming your playing on a server that doesn't range with scroll wheel. The SVD is the easiest rifle to range of all the snipers. M24 and DMR basically range the same with mil-dots. CZ is its own animal. 50.cals still have to be ranged with mil-dots. Your only argument against 50.cals being in the game is that they are 1 Shot kills which is fucking dumb. Urals, VS3 become tanks if you take out 50.cals. Helicopters fly around free with out 50cals. Yes you can kill all those vehicles with those weapons but it's going to take alot of ammo. It's a dumb argument do you really think if a sniper has you lined up with a DMR and knows its not going to be a headshot he still won't take the shot? He is still going to take the fucking shot so your only argument for skill is that he has to shoot you twice because his gun isn't as powerful as a 50.cal.

You ban them because you failed at hiding your camp where you horde all the vehicles? You sir, are a complete butt nugget, I wish I could open my beans and throw them on you.

we run our own server for about 5 days, and every server restart causes the same problems. vehicles disappear and spawn at their original, or instead of the cars there is a bus in midden of our tents! this sucks, all the hard work for nothing -.-

You talk about fair play and sharing and 'letting everyone have a piece of the cake'. But yet you hoard all the vehicles from the server to yourselves. They probably destroyed all the cars, so that they would respawn and someone else could find 'that piece of cake'.

lol wait so you were able to track these people in your logs and then ban them for stealing your cars ? which sounds like you guys were vehicle hoarding. #1 sounds pretty fishy that you were able to figure out who stole your shit #2. you should ban your self for taking all the vehicles on the server for yourself douche bag,

Not sure I agree with banning them for taking the vehicles or with what they did with them? Surely they can be blown up and set to re-spawn on server re-start? This is not one I agree with, this time.

The problem right now is that vehicles are the only reliable way to store items, given tents are unstable. So until they fix the tents people won't want to risk moving all their precious loots around.

If gas was rare, i would still hoard vehicles to edges of the map, i would just be less likely to use them

Or time to start hunting for vehicles and creating your own tent base.

The fact of the matter is, if you hacked in weapons/vehicles. You will eventually be caught and key banned. If you happen upon a hacked vehicle or weapons, you will not be banned. The server owner has the right under suspicion of you hacking to ban you from his or her server with proof... but you can just join another server. Have fun with the AS50 TWS, I found one on a body and it is an amazing scope... but just know you wont be perma banned for using it!

We need all those vehicles...always have backups, and then have backups of your backups. Must be a Console kiddie. (J/K flame, relax champ) But the point is....why would you not take all the vehicles you can...your logic is flawed. If you walk by a motorbike, why on earth would you leave it behind. I am sorry, but I do not give one single fuck about you, I care about me and my group putting us in the best position I can. If you have a good gun, and you find a another good gun, would you leave behind the 2nd gun? or put it in your backpack....yes vehicles are alot more rare, but the same logic applies.

A. When you are not in cover never stop moving. B. Always stay in hard cover if you can, if you can't concealment is the next best thing. C. If you're still in a coastal city an hour after you respawned you made a mistake, probably a lot of them. This is advice for people who aren't interested in the current Coastal Counterstrike fad, obviously. 1. Spawn in. Immediately find hard cover and/or concealment while you figure out exactly where you are on the coast. 2. Figure out the nearest grouping of spawns large enough to yield you 2-3 food, 2-3 soda, and some other basics. 3. Hit that grouping, when you stop to loot something make sure you're out of any long range sightlines. Make sure you're facing the most likely direction to get attacked from at short range. 4. Once you've looted that, figure out where the closest 2nd tier(off the coast, but not deep in the interior)village is with a super market. That is your next destination. 5. Find any basic tools in that market, in that town that you missed down on the coast. Pick up a basic weapon if you haven't already, snag a pack, etc. Now, you've got food, drink, hopefully you've got matches/hatchet/skinning knife/water bottles, you can live off the land, never approaching a village or town until you're comfortable that it is safe, or it is a moonlit night so you can see just fine and the zombies can't. Now you can address longer term priorities. The three most important are getting military grade weaponry, a supply of morphine, and a GPS. Good news, you don't have to go to town or a military base to get any of those, all of them can be had at remote deer stands and can be had without firing a shot, without exposing yourself until you are very sure there is nobody else around. Deerstands almost always have one forested approach. You want to come in that way. Come in just far enough for the zombies to spawn, then go prone in cover/concealment and wait and watch. The way zombies typically spawn is in a clump, on a point. Over time they'll usually radiate directly away from that point. In this case, that point is the deerstand. Once they're comfortably far away from the deerstand, approach it stealthily. Quite often you can use 3rd person camera to see what is in the deerstand without actually exposing yourself on the ladder, or up top. You don't want to risk that ladder unless you're fairly confident there is something up there worth grabbing. That ladder is the most exposed, most defenseless you've been since you spawned on the beach. Don't waste time in the stand, don't stand up, if you're going to loot, do it quickly and get out of there. Experienced players know that zombies mean players and if they see zombies around a deerstand they're going to know somebody is there. Voila, you survived the initial spawn and you've got everything you need to survive indefinitely in the boonies. Once you can do that without breaking much of a sweat it'll get boring, that'll be the time to switch over to using other players to get your gear when you respawn. You can also use either of these methods to fully gear up after using the above methods to get your basics. method #1: Once you know the map and are familiar with how many people play it, you'll realize that you can get everything you need just by finding somebodies stashed tents and/or vehicles. These are almost always hidden in the same areas of the map. Grab enough food/water in town so that you wont die and then hit the likely camp spots. method #2: You'll realize that the people who like to snipe freshly spawned players are actually fairly poor when it comes to skill level. These people are easy to flank, easy to sneak up behind and kill with basic weapons. They'll have tunnel-vision through the scope of their 1-hit I-Win rifle, making them easy meat. These people will usually be fully geared, all of which you take after killing them. Leave anything you don't need on them and hide their body. The really dangerous groups/players in this area are usually there to hunt the noob hill snipers and those players/groups will often leave you be if you don't pose a direct threat, some of them will even help you if they're feeling generous and despise the hill snipers as much as most players do. All of this ignores the largest threat to survival, at least on non-private servers, and that is the hacker who can kill you at any time, regardless of where you are, regardless of how smart you're playing. Kind of makes any long term strategies pointless, which is a major reason so much of the action has moved down to the coast.

Agreed, that discussion going on did not show us in the best light. As a community we are going for a place that many different types of people can call home and feel welcome in, from military role-players to casual beaners. We have had some disagreements, like many others, but we certainly worked to address the issues that were raised. One of the main points was the revelation that some members were actively targeting each other's bases and vehicles. Ultimately, this ended up being an argument between a few individuals (one of whom was already accepted but not promoted on the forums officially until recently). The situation could have been dealt with quickly had this been brought to the attention of a moderator/admin but instead it devolved into a slandering match on the forums. Since then a number of protocols have evolved, sanctions been handed out and the relevant parties have re-conciliated. This community has been around for a few months and certainly the last few weeks have been a trying time for many members, myself included, but I am confident that with the hard work our members have put in that we have come out stronger because of it. Ultimately, the negative comments have helped us organize ourselves more effectively which is better for members and guests alike. Feel free to ask whatever you wish.

Lets say you are alone and someone kidnaps you. When you have nobody who will rescue you you are lost until the scrubs decide to let you go? Stupid idea (not just in the case mentioned below). Good idea to make almost every house/building enterable. This was mentioned hundred times before and i am optimistic that this will be the case in the stand alone version. Barricade a house should be possible too if your character and therefore all the buildings are bound to this specific server. But this wont happen i think because once you are offline ppl will rape your house and there cant be some locking mechanism since sooner or later all the buildings would be locked up because little bitches have fun blocking everything (like all these wire scrums which block all the entrances of towers/fire stations with their fucking wire). No need of money in a post apocalypse game. The only thing that counts is to survive. Goods can be food or weapons (trade system), but it will never be money. Zeds are fucked up with their behavior. There are countless things to do. Stupid idea. Hackers can appear at any time. 30 min of playing on a server doesnt count shit. Stupid idea since you would have to implement new weapons which are attachable to vehicles. It would be enough to make drive by shooting (shooting out of windows/from the back of the car) possible.

actually e-rager, this is in fact an alpha and other peoples losses including my own are part of the game. Dare I say a LARGE part of the game. So you had vehicles and equipment and you got vicked son. Now you wanna cry about it and even say its Rockets fault? So what if tents dont work? Even if you drop a tent dont initially expect it wont be found or stumbled upon. The community is not the problem here, its you losing your e-inventory that is; don't get it twisted. Instead of raging go requip and steal some one elses vehiicle. Its all part of the game.

Yes, but not on a totally fresh server (I mean no server restart, but a new server just going online). On fresh servers usually the server hoster gathers the vehicles quickly.

Lol. We don't hoard vehicles really, I play with a small group of friends and we raid camps. After we pillage the vehicles all we generally keep are the ATVs/motorbikes/bicycles. The others are too easy to find, so we destroy them eventually. If you ever have an ATV come up missing, I'm sure it wasn't us :)

There are vehicles on every server. On many — if not most — servers they are being hoarded off the map, so that's why they are so hard to find.

Those Germans.... This is common all over. It's considered a perq of being a server admin. We grubbies who don't host can still scavenge their hidden vehicles, though.