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All of my SOS "rules" are based on threat. Generally my list is as follows: -Armed within 200m, especially if heading my direction -Closer than 50m and no comm attempted -Heading towards any camps / vehicles I have I have a general preference to let people alone or even help them if we can strike up comms and share information, but I'm aware of my own shiny stuff being tempting. EDIT: ANYONE laying on a hill with a sniper rifle will be shot. I'm very wary of sniper rifles due to previous experiences... :rolleyes:

I don't need a ride mate. my group has most of the vehicles on our home server X3

thats the thing, its not hard to tell a buddy where you were he runs to the area, you loggin (usually on a different server) he spots you layin on the ground bandage/blood bag wait 5 minutes and your good to go again :-/ last night i died twice fighting the same ghosting combat d/c'ing worthless gimp from the [5*] clan, he really wanted that chopper, however we had more people and vehicles to ship us from the coast back into the fight before he could clear the area .. ive never combat logged from Z's or incomming fire, he fights diorty outside the rules we do it within the rules ;-) kudos to the OP, ya did the bad thing, then immediatley logged back in to watch the timmer tick away

the problem is that vehicles are somewhat broken right now. if a vehicle is destroyed, it should respawn back to one of the random start points on server restart (or after a couple restarts if no one tries to fix it), however, after a server restart, the destroyed vehicle stays in its last position and the vehicle is magically fixed. in fact, any damage done to a vehicle is magically fixed (even if not completely destroyed). the only time you will ever see a vehicle at one of the spots listed on the online maps is when the server is newly created or when someone left a vehicle outside the map bounds (in the grassless area).

I have tons of vehicles but I agree with you. Right now they're only used for the SAFEST of missions, like going to low traffic cities to refuel, or ferrying people through low traffic areas (always hiding them before going into any high traffic areas). TENTS should be hidden, VEHICLES should be USED. Hide your fuel, hide your weapons, hide your tents, USE your vehicles -- the game would be a lot more exciting if player A was pinned down and his buddy just drove up, gave him cover with his vehicle while he hopped in, and then tried to haul ass out of town. Currently player A's life is worth less than the vehicle you'd risk to save him.

I tend to have the most luck at the midsection of the craft looking down like when I refuel vehicles. Best of luck!

Fucking retarted shit it fucking pissed me off thanks for eating my SVD camo fucking tent no wonder people dupe if they have to feed tents and vehicles with rare weapons

i feel like some of those spawns are bs an atv and uaz were old spawns for green mountain but they changed it ive never even seen a uaz or atv at green mountain just the offroader and ive been there a great number of times do to our servers resetting vehicles..

you know my group use to ALWAYS have the offroader and we havnt found one in WEEKS. it may be in 1 tree we missed grid searching who knows but i havnt seen one in awhile which is a shame cause its one of the best vehicles.

Admittedly, I understand the whole .mp3 file broadcasting thing being a big hard to consolidate, (only thing I could imagine being, perhaps the survivor happened to have some CDs or an MP3 player to plug in or something, but still, I get that that's rather iffy), but considering that--to my knowledge--some vehicles like police cars and such have similar systems built-in. I'm no expert on cars, but I can't imagine it being too difficult to jerry-rig a loudspeaker system into something like a bus with enough know-how. I've seen that mentioned every now and then. Just now looked into that a bit. If that could be implemented into the game, then fantastic, close enough to what I'm envisioning. But from what I've seen it doesn't seem to be compatible with DayZ yet. As of now this is just an alternate idea. I fully realize that, yes, this kind of thing definitely has potential to be abused for the sake of annoyance. This is why--to at least help counteract that--my thoughts on this include making the spawning of this type of item (or components of one) rather rare. If you're lucky enough to find one, the hope is that you'd use it more wisely than if they were an easy commodity. And keep in mind that even if you were to, say, camp up high in a building in Elektro or what-have-you and spam Never Gonna Give You Up over loudspeaker for the purpose of pissing others off in the area, it'd highly increase the odds of the other survivors coming right for you to brutally execute you and gank your stuff. And, to reiterate, it'd also be a surefire way to attract more zeds to you.

New Players Think There's Only 2 Kind Of Players In Day Z, But Its Not True. There's Survivor & Bandits Of Course, But We Have Sub-Categories Also. Survivor ----> Can Be Medic*(Only Help People In Medical Condition) ----> Can Be Hero*(HelpAnd Try To Evade Fire Fight Most Of The Time) ----> Can Be Normal Survivor*(Help Most Of The People Except Bandits And Other Weird People) ----> Can Be Engineer Survivor*(Help People Crafting Bases With Barb Wire And More) ----> Can Be Hunter Survivor*(Like The Normal Survivor, But Hunt For Food Instead Of Going In Dangerous Cities) ----> Probably More Bandits ----> Can Be Thief*(Steal Vehicles And Camp And Kill Only In Last Resort) ----> Can Be Murderer*(Scum That Kill Every One On Sight) ----> Can Be Mercenary*(Only Kill When He Want Something,"Hired By Other Players To Kill Someone In Particular) ----> Can Be Clan Bandit*(Kill Everybody On Sight, Except Others From The Clan/Group) ----> Can Be Normal Bandit*(Kill Everybody, Except New Players / Unarmed People E.c.t) ----> Probably More That's My Personal View About It :) And The Game As No Rules (Almost), So You Can Do Whatever You Want! "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

I've never had issues with vehicles spawning or tents by killing the process. I think it's those who restart the mission only that have those issues.

New Players Think There's Only 2 Kind Of Players In Day Z, But Its Not True. There's Survivor & Bandits Of Course, But We Have Sub-Categories Also. Survivor ----> Can Be Medic*(Only Help People In Medical Condition) ----> Can Be Hero*(Help Every One! And Try To Evade Fire Fight Most Of The Time) ----> Can Be Normal Survivor*(Help Most Of The People Except Bandits And Other Weird People) ----> Probably More Bandits ----> Can Be Thief*(Steal Vehicles And Camp And Kill Only In Last Resort) ----> Can Be Murder*(Scum That Kill Every One On Sight) ----> Can Be Mercenary*(Only Kill When He Want Something, Mercenaries Normally Horde Vehicles And Guns In Hidden Camps) ----> Can Be Clan Bandits*(Kill Everybody On Sight, Except Others From The Clan/Group) ----> Can Be Normal Bandits*(Kill Everybody, Except New Players / Unarmed People E.c.t) ----> Probably More That's My Personal View About It :) And The Game As No Rules (Almost), So You Can Do Whatever You Want! "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein

I used to play as stealthy as possible. After a while though, the game gets kinda boring when you have lots of high end gear thanks to duping and 10 vehicles. Now I just run around like crazy firing my gun as often as possible. Now I WANT to be noticed. Snipers you say? 50-75% of them can't hit a thing. I encourage them to fire as it just gives their position away. My AKM or m16 acog or M14 will be aiming right back the second you fire. Been playing this game about a month and only been sniped twice, both due to me staying in the NWA way too long.

Quoted for truth. You get this for crashing a chopper. I dunno if the other vehicles produce the same scripts though.

Well I experienced two cases that annoyed me. 1) Found a helicopter, explored some areas with it, and then server restart comes... When we came back with my friend that helicopter was disappeared (We were flying when the restart happened). That's just so stupid that we lost that heli just because of that! 2) Found Ural from it's spawn place, repaired the wheels and then started to drive. Approximately after 5 minutes of driving it exploded on a flat field, and I dont really know why?! Does it explode if it has bad engine/fuel tank? And Im sure that nobody shot that car. So I died and lost all the good stuff I had (as50, m249saw, nvg, rangefinder...). Is this normal and if it isn't, could it be fixed? Thanks for your attention!

Fixed. If they were less common, people would be more willing to use, lose and play around with their vehicles rather than just pack them full of AS50s and hide them in the wilderness like buried treasure.

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Basically, I got this idea in my head today in the form of a mental image of a bus driving around playing "Low Rider". It was an entertaining visual, but it also had potential, imo. What I'm thinking is basically this: Rarely, in spots that would make sense to have P.A. systems such as hospitals, military & fire stations and the like, you would be able to find systems--or at least usable components to one--that you could take and install in a building, or in smaller structures like deer stands, or even equip them to certain vehicles such as buses, cars, helicopters, etc. How they would function would be probably just how you'd expect; Using one/using Direct Chat near an active system would greatly expand the effective range of your voice. This could be used for easily sending out messages to large, spread-out groups, or sending a distress message, or--if you're feeling particularly like a bastard--luring in other survivors to do what you will with them. Of course this would also risk drawing in more zombies as well. And as an added functionality, a user would also be able to possibly take mp3 files from their computer and directly broadcast them over the speakers in the form of a pre-recorded warning or help message, or--as I'd expect most commonly--music, which could not only be used just for fun, but also for, say, drawing a large portion of the zeds' attention toward your vehicle and away from your friend who's searching the nearby small village for loot. Lots of different, neat functionalities for something like this would be possible if implemented well, I imagine. Mostly, I'm just wondering if anyone else would like something like this or if I'm the only one who thinks it'd be rather neat to broadcast Ride of the Valkyries as you and your friends fly over Chenarus, mowing down the armies of walking dead. :P

At the end of the day who cares if its a hacked item. You CAN NOT be banned for using a hacked item you picked up that you did not hack into the game yourself. If you kill a hacker and take his thermal as50 scope, its legit to use, and battle eye WILL NOT BAN you for using it, as long as you're not the hacker that spawned it. http://www.battleye.com/support.html Read it, first bullet on top of the list. For those incapable of clicking a link(seems to happen a lot on here) "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."

Recently me and my friends managed to get a camp going, and it lasted for a week with no one finding it or stealing anything from it. Then all of a sudden we log in and nothing is there (the time was also off, it was supposed to be mid-day but it was night). We had 2 vehicles and a camping tent, yet everything is gone (even the fencing kit we put up lol). I doubt anyone took it...im just kinda mad that all of the stuff is gone. Will it all come back on the next server restart? Or should i never bother making a camp again if this is going to happen all the time?

I think we should be able to light buildings and vehicles on fire.

I haven't really had many problems with saving. It was just once that my ATV disappeared due to something server-side. The other times the server just spontaneously vanished from the list. As far as I know it's probably just the fact that all the servers in which I find my vehicles are insanely low-populated, so they just stop being hosted. Is it true that people go around hiding vehicles just for the hell of it? I have yet to find one on any server that has an average population of 20+

When you start to play Arma2 and not just DayZ, both DLCs will start being used alot more in alot of other missions. Cars, guns, vehicles, units, choppers There is a whole world of mods and missions out there which are amazing to play if you enjoy tactical warfare games.

hi, No we have no vehicles since we are too disrupt to own one :). Even if we would steal one we would be too lazy to take care of it. cya. Nikiller.