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I guess my question is, IS IT possible for vehicles to fail to respawn? It's not a matter of them being well hidden or not, I flew the map more than enough times. Ive seen a vehicle blow up, and not respawn there or at its original spawn location on several restarts. Just trying to get facts here.

I've been playing for a while and just figured it'd be cool to implement some sort of written word into the game. That is--you would have the power (w/ pen and paper or some other writing utensil) to write on a single sheet of paper in-game, that would be carry-able or store-able. I think it would be a great way to get at people that kill you (a string of curses, left on your person, so that the person looting you gets a chuckle going over your stuff) and could be stored inside tents/vehicles to indicate whom, exactly, you are robbing. Even something as simple as a SteamId so that the person who got scared and shot first can apologize to you (assuming they care about that stuff). I think the litany of possible uses for one of these papers (imagine an in-game sheet with supply dump coordinates listed!) meshes well with the open-ended and open-world environment in dayz. Thank you for your time. PLUS CAN WE GET BANDITS TO HAVE FLAMING HEADS SO THAT THEY ARE EASY TO SEE I LOST EVERYTHING I HAD IN ELECTO TO SOME SNIPER HE SHOT ME AND I D/C'ED BUT IT DIDN"T WORK AND I LOST MY ACU PACK AND ENFIELD

Finding tents and vehicles and looting what I want then destroying the rest.

Vehicles are overrated.

Sometimes they disappear and re-appear. I have seen a whole camp full of vehicles come and go so many times, seems like every other reset. Usually if you have a lot of vehicles (and by a lot I mean at least 5 or 6 - yeah I am one of those guys) and they are all gone but the tents and items are there then it's a bug. After restart they come back. This only applies if you have a REALLY good hiding spot.

that part is kinda up to you. generally you want the other person on vent, some people will put stuff into the other person's backpack. people can trade through vehicles. most have sniper cover. some will give a friend all of their valuables in the event they die. the mechanics of the trade are your call, take enough precautions to cover your ass for the risk level involved.

Gun wear and tear wouldn't be an issue for me, as I rarely use mine. I can see it as being a potential gun-sink. I also think that having poorly maintained weapons lying on the ground or in fields wouldn't be out of place in the mod. If it had been introduced at the start of the experiment, people would have accepted it, but people are generally against change. I don't agree with the removal of the anti-material rifles. In a mod that has helicopters and vehicles, they have a place. I don't, however, believe that we need two of them. Removing one of them wouldn't hurt the mod all that much. The bigger issue is the sheer number of weapons in the game. But as I've mentioned in previous posts, and taken a lot of heat over them, the biggest issue is the artificial injection of weapons into the mod. Duping and hacking in of these weapons is creating a huge imbalance that affects player behaviour and play style. The game and weapon drop rates might be perfect as is ... but we'll never know until the artificial injection of weapons is removed or reduced. Ammo drop rates might also be perfect, but again, we don't know because of the glitches that refill ammo, either intentionally or accidentally. I've made similar suggestions from this thread here. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/54577-adding-my-2cents-admins/#entry521751

I always hide my vehicles and they are rarely found. Try to take less obvious places

I haven't bothered with tents (because of the reported bugs), and have had very little luck with finding vehicles, which is why I didn't comment on them, but yeah...You can't balance the game properly until the really big, glaring issues are fixed. Instantly springing to mind: Zombies walking through things (biggest issue in entire mod). Slow the zombies down until you get better, faster animations to replace them (second biggest issue). Grass/leaves being bulletproof. Inventory management f**king sucks balls. Otherwise...I love this game like no other! ;)

Hacked. If you play arma 2 you'll see lots of weapons and vehicles that aren't in dayz.

I agree with you guys, I know this is Alpha, but I think we've had enough "new features" to hold people over while we fix bugs now. In addition to the backpack/inventory glitchiness, I would add in tents and (from what I've read) vehicles too; losing stuff because of the inventory being bugged really shouldn't be the hard to fix.

The game is at it's worst stage perhaps as it is now. Pretty much a 45 day old character with 6 vehicles 25 tents and more gear than I will ever use. Tents duplicating items without any glitches, the inability to lose a tent if you die, too many dayz servers up, and then today dysnc so much that I can't even get an item from my tent to my inventory. There is nothing to do in the game and we tried to dertroy all of our equipment and coulnd't even do that because it spawns back. I'm stuck in this pitiful excuse for what is Dayz at this point. It has became a joke. To die means absolutley nothing to a veteran player at current stage and the entire feel of the game has been lost due to these problems not being fixed. We loaded all our gear into cars and blew them all up, then we ran over all the tents and gear with a tractor, the remaining vehicle, and boom, restart server and everything is back.... Please fix the mod, screw the zombies, screw the alt f4 crap, screw the worrying about how you spawn, camps off map, and blah blah blah...Wipe the whole damn system, clear the game of gear and duping, fix the damn tents and make the most basic elements of the game work before you do anything else. I miss the good ol dayz of death by climbing a ladder because at least back then the game had purpose, and that was to survive, now I can't even get rid of the shit we got...WTF happened?

I've had vehicles restolen many times within just a few hours. Easy come, easy go....

tell you what. i once ran out of balota and on the treeline outside the village i found a motorcycle in the grass. i took it and drove of. after 200meters the session was lost. when the server restarted it maybe would have been just a few minutes away where the guy left it. when i found a pickup outside a castle, i quickly drove off with it and saved it a mile away to loot a barn when that server restarted. so you never know. next just just increase you search radius.. once rocket wrote though that if you park your vehicle to far out (like way northwest, after the airfield) vehicles get deleted.. (or something like that).

Lol, yeh don't forget about the secondary explosions from crashed vehicles.

People do find them pretty quickly. I have found like 4 vehicles.. none of them survived the night. Sometimes if the server is especially shitty, your vehicle won't save even if you choose to save it, and will respawn to its last position (AKA where you found it).

This game is about the players discovering everything for themselves, give us a heatmap of the players and a lot of "hiding" places will show up and interest people to go give that a look when they otherwise wouldnt have done that. It's bad enough all the vehicles, choppers, loot spawn locations WITH PERCENTAGES are already out there, basicly fucking over anyone still wanting to play in the "dark", because half the players already have all that info and thus any chance of spotting a vehicle or some actual discovery in this game is already very much hampered. And then the devs themselves want to give a map of player locations too ? hidden camps anyone ? That you cannot understand this probably makes you at least as big an idiot as me.

Oh, people do find trucks in the middle of nowhere, trust me. Spotting a truck isn't that hard if you have an L85, their wheels glow like a firework. Tents do have a bug that the equipment inside may temporarily disappear until the next restart, however I didn't hear anything about the same happening to vehicles.

Lol, the Huey is actually pretty fragile, far from indestructible. I think you mean the chopper "owns" because it makes finding vehicles and camps so easy.

true point, but as a group with several vehicles, who knows and even i it is a bit of a long shot, it still means that there is a clear cut advantage to be playing at the same time as admins then any other time kinda narrows the playtime per day really, want to play late at night? tough shit, admins have logged off, servers dont reset and pretty much every heli is looted

Hmmm, haven't heard the vehicle damage part. Checked the damage, 37552 / 174205 m107 / nato I would assume they deal so much damage it wouldn't even mater against vehicles, but if so.. keep 1 nato clip just for such an occasion.

nato does around 127k damage, m107 does 37k i believe. same for people and vehicles.

Right. I also heard that when using the M107s you do around a steady 30k damage, but using NATO rounds you do 25(?)k damage with up to 160k damage to vehicles

Does anyone know of any servers that were recently stood-up that have a good administration team behind them? I had my 17 day old guy killed in the wave of hacking in US10 that has happened over the past few days and want to find another server to play on until things there get under control. My character on that server was on a 3 day hunt for a vehicle with absolutely no luck. I want to try a server that has only been up for a few days so that all the vehicles have not been horded into the middle of nowhere.

10 or so tents all now empty(had several of every weapon - well, most weapons) with two tents that were crushed by vehicles now back to normal. Blown up tractor back to normal and the two trucks and the two bikes we had are still there. Fix this shit, annoying as fuck.