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I don't understand when people complain about people having a few vehicles...My group has a few but there is about 10 of us so we need them for us all to get about! Are you opposed to that?

'Dickhat' timestamp='1343836335' post='528804' The survivor is just a dude who woke up on the shore and is trying to survive. It's never hinted you were a military in the past or a pilot. - Which this does not tell you ANY backstory so who are you to say I DONT have military traiing? The fact of the military scenario are because this is a previous warzone turned viral zombieland no? I have fixed choppers several times. If you read the thread you will see me saying my group has one, we had several already. It's not that hard to find the parts at all. You can fill it up very quickly of you have 5 people working on it - like clans usually do. - Fixed as in fully repaired to green? And are you on a server by yourself? Locating and keeping a chopper is one thing but when on a full 40/40 server makes it hard to keep track of your vehicles let alone your helicopter. Repairing it is not just 1 scrap metal, 1 rotor and 1 windscreen.... How have you had several within the beginning of a week launch of them? They aren't easy to shoot down at all. You need to shoot it several times to bring it down unless you shoot the pilot and kill him. - Then whoever has been shooting is a terrible shot. You have a tutorial to teach you how to fly one so it being hard to fly isn't really a point here. -Actually it is, because most people do not go practice on the tutorial editor etc, and when you have 5 people in your heli and you are being shot at from the ground and attempting to move out of the way it honestly is not that easy to avoid getting hit. ( I Guess if a toddler is shooting at you would be simple) There are 2 choppers per server. -Good to know. :) Repairing a car is not really hard. Almost every dude can do it. I agree that changing an engine is kinda ridiculous though and really hard. However they don't even come near the complexity of a helicopter. You aren't thirsty and starving all the time in DayZ. No I don't and I have made a suggestion on how weapons should degrade and require maintenance and how military gear should be nearly impossible to find. The opener is in your key chain, silly. :P Practice makes perfect? (Ie sniping, repair, bodyshop, farming, opening cans - Improvising?) I mean come on people. Do you think the first man to create an engine or repair one was taught by someone else? No. Every man can learn anything over time.

Tips for avoiding KoS... 1. Use a mic. 2. Always get first visual/audible contact and maintain the advantage of concealment and cover when making voice contact. 3. Play on low pop/3d-off servers. 4. Stay near the coast, but away from Cherno/Elektro/Berezino 5. Do not get fancy clothes. 6. Do not get fancy weapons, or hide them if you do. 7. Do not drive a vehicle. 8. Avoid people who have fancy clothes, fancy weapons, and vehicles. They have more reason to take no chances.

confirmed hackers last night were just off the podebo damn creating 8+ helicopters, a handful of escalades, and other miscellaneous vehicles, which they then proceeded to start blowing up? i did not go close enough to check their gear or anything. i got the hell of the server.

I dont think you would want a base in / near zed spawns - would just be a pain the @$$ all the time - unless there are some rules about "purging" an area tha you control. Which means setting the base up out in the wilderness somewhere - using existing PPO (player placed objects) for protection and / or canalizing. A water source would be a plus. Cover and or concealment would be a plus. But too much cover would make it easy to try and infiltrate and or approach the base. Too bad we cant use our axes to clear a firezone around the base - while leaving the trees right at the location. Road access would be a plus - to drive vehicles into the base. - although no necessary You wouldnt want their to be too much in the way of overwatch potential - so one would have to pick a hilltop or un-exposed hillside. One might assume that going all the way North or off to the Western side would be good to limit the amount of player traffic but i would contend that it would be better to be in the middle - thereby allowing players to move from the location to nearby loot spawn areas and to not make the trip, for new toons, too long. Did answer where exactly ? nope. but as its a hypothetical anyways .. meh...

Well if vehicle spawns were increased, the player count would also need to be increased IMO. Our group came across 6 vehicles in a server at the same time (We started with 2, they got stolen, we found 1, then found our original 2 plus 2 more and an ATV) It was impossible for our group to keep track of all them so naturally they were stolen, but my point is, there were at least 6 vehicles on that map which is more than enough for the 25 player cap of the server we were on.

If they're teleporting the whole server and have the possibility of having players with vehicles in them they need to make sure their positions aren't exactly the same, otherwise it might cause the server to implode.

im sure more vehicles will be added at a later date, theres alot to take into consideration....Server performance/handling, Lag, how many vehicles the engine could realisticly handle real time on 1 server at any one time? would be good to find out maybe...this maybe something for the standalone... maybe increase number of bicycles to start of and go from there, but this has been brought up before so we shall see :)

because of the following server hosts/admins lock their servers and take everything before it goes public vehicles can be stored well outside the map borders server hosts/admins can easily set a server to auto kick a player and repair a vehicle upon destruction(US 1340) vehicles take 7 full days to respawn but hey an admin can work around this issue

well most of the clans horde the vehicles so no one else can get them

I have I.D. #6059 and we have no vehicles yet either?

I say take the time to aim. If you panic and unload your AK in one burst you wont hit anything, seen it happen many times. I think that third person probably will be eliminated (I certainly hope so, people should not be able to see around corners or over walls), but as has been said you do not want to be shooting in third person. I do hope that they keep third person view for vehicles, like the ATV for example is really hard to drive because you cant see where your wheels are pointing.Or alternatively have some kind of indicator showing the bearing of the vehicle relative to your sight.

I have my own server (40 player slot) we lose so many players because our server gets hacked about (no joke) five to six times a day. Usually by teleporting players and then killing them. Heck, even our chopper got teleported and destroyed (it took us 12 hours to get the parts and working) and when we did, bam! Who wants a to play a game where you have to spend countless hours putting work into only to be stripped down by hackers. This game NEEDS its own engine and a better anti-cheat system than battleye. Shit, BE could EVEN implement a feature that auto-kicks when a player moves a certain distance in a certain allotted time. So many things that can be fixed easily yet they choose to ignore...it makes me even more sad when this is the game everyone has wanted for so long and the Arma engine and BE are ruining it!!!! EDIT :BE needs to implement a system where it tracks player movements. If it sees a player has moved between two points too quickly - it should boot you from the game (this saves people being teleported and the teleporters themselves). Obviously this wouldn't count with vehicles and helis and such. All BE needs to do is look at the server log files and determine logical movements. Minecraft can do it - why not an Anti-cheat syste?

Well I'm pretty well loaded out and I want to find a vehicle... Over the last week I've been to about 50 noted vehicle spawns taken from dayzdb, but I've found no vehicles... I've server hopped, but still no luck... Most vehicles in the server have been taken already. So i want to know when do vehicles reset/spawn so I can go try to find them before anyone's got their hands on it.

If you server hop with server-side location system, you spawn at the coast. If you combat DC, you cannot relocate to a more advantageous spot with the help of a different server. Currently, the only thing that ties you to a server is the vehicles and tents, and the vehicles are hoarded by close-knit private groups on every server. Unless you play this game with friends you made prior, you are on your own. And your actions are without consequence because of your anonymity. This is why we have shoot on sight deathmatch. What this game is missing is community. Private hives have a community (and better anti-cheat protection as an added bonus). Why? Because you are tied to a single server and because side-channel is enabled. Community is good because your actions will have consequences. If you are an asshole you will get called out. If you are nice it won't go unnoticed, people will trust you more. Your name will have a reputation among your peers, your words will have more impact. If you want to switch server with server-side positions you will keep your gear, but you will lose the trust or notoriety you built up and the security of knowing who's a bandit and who's not, and you will have to battle the new server's Bean Coastguard in order to get to safety. And believe me, they will be after more than your beans knowing that you might be fully geared out from another server. Heck, you'll probably only be able to safely switch servers under the cover of night, giving time of day meaningful purpose while we are at it.

Actually if you would even bother to read the rules you would see it's not an offense to have hacked equipment equipped, it's only an offense when you spawn it in, wich we didn't. Oh, and if you actually played on our server you would know that our camp got raided, and honestly except for the vehicles there wasn't much to find. Seeing as every time the server restarts we lose all our gear that we put in the truck (and yes we do save it, we're not retarted).

They dont work on self healing vehicles. I tried. It shows them blowing up but the vehicle heals.

What's with servers with the same prefix for example US #00 Duplicating Items you can save such as vehicles and tents onto the other server with the US #00. Example if I go on one us #00 deploy a tent save the tent and go on the other server that tent is in the same spot I placed it with all the items i put in that tent on the other server any way to fix this or anyone else experiencing this ?

Just so you know.. There is a bug where after a server restart all static objects don't load in, such as wire fences, tents and vehicles... That could be the problem on your server... Fixes itself at next restart. If that's not the issue, you're welcome on my server, as is anyone else who sticks to the rules and doesn't abuse exploits is. :P

Sounds like you've been playing a good amount. Glad you stuck with it. Are you keeping a tent, or just stashing your stuff in the bus? (I assume you can keep gear in the vehicles but I don't remember because I don't look for vehicles)

I'm actually doing that I just gather supplies and search for vehicles but I hardly run into other survivors, so I'm getting kinda lonely

And I find M107 mags every night in deer stands and at chopper wrecks not to mention player tents and vehicles. I would tell you to stop huddling in Electra like a new kid in daycare but that means you'll end up in my playground and I'd rather snipe you in yours.

I say good for you - I found a camp and stole recently too - it's part of the game. I am also a player that has been killed many times by people that did not even loot my body. So now I shoot on site unfortunately. Luckily though I have not had to yet; so I am only a theif at the moment not a bandit :) I am in a similar position on what to do next - I am thinking about searching for some vehicles or heli sites and then hitting the castles for a laf ;) Good luck with the travels

This is why you don't play on servers with name tags on, Makes it quite a bit harder for butthurt admins to kick when they dont know who you are. Hell, on my server i've had my base raided about 4-5 different times, my response is "oh fucking well, time to grab more vehicles when they respawn" for that matter in the current state of DayZ, pretty much all the tents and vehicles that got blown up will respawn with everything anyhow. People don't quite understand that unless you actually save shit after destroying it you're just wasting your time. If an admin kicks because he was killed/lost a vehicle then well, they're not very good at this game. When I do die, it takes me about 20 minutes in cherno to gear up with alice/enfield/tools and am good to hit up military locations again.

I've seen (at least locally to me) footprints of people/myself that are running with me, as well as tracks from vehicles. I'm thinking this would be something easier done in a standalone as the way for it to be expanded upon.