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I also was thinking about a server wipe. our server was hacked 3 times yesterday and now the north west airfield looks like a junk yard with all the broken vehicles in there.

Not sure why but it seems a lot of the key issues aren't being fixed by rocket. Tent issues, vehicle issues, server restarts causing tents/vehicles to disappear until the next server restart (players hop on right after the server reboot and forces the server to load without any saved tents/vehicles), infected behavior needs tweaking yet again, and a whole slew of other things, yet we get patches with "Additional optimizations to login process", I mean yeah he's working on the graphical problems which is good, but there are other things that need to be prioritized over "Additional optimizations to login process". It just seems like recently rocket has been cherry picking easy things to fix instead of actually fixing core game components that are bugged to hell and back. I mean hey this is his mod yeah and yeah I know IT'S ALPHA HURR DURR and all that, but still shouldn't he be trying to iron out the major problems first and THEN work on the smaller optimization of things? I think the dev team really needs to sit down and actually talk and prioritize things, test things BEFORE release, and I mean actually test them and then give us good patches. I'm not trying to sound like I'm telling rocket how to work on his mod, but when it comes to programming and all prioritizing your fixes is a main thing and the more breaking it is, the higher on the list to be fixed it goes, not the other way around where you choose the easy things to fix and just ignore any posts regarding the other major issues. Anyways just my 2 cents from my view as a programmer. Feel free to flame away but like I said I'm just trying to understand why rocket has let some pretty major bugs go by now for at least 3-4 patches.

That men dat every ID saved on sever is erase or will the vehicles came back after an nother restart this is why i ask so would be nice if sameone can tell me more about it.

Why are so many ppl doubting the spawn on skalisty island? Confirmed! Found a chopper their day 1. Fixed it up, and are "pilot" flew way over the trees, started to go towards the shore, and then divebombed some trees...Also their are alot of hackers running around now spawning vehicles, found 2 choppers full gas, and fully restored right outside of elektro. Easiest way to tell if it was hacked in is no one will be around, and their will be no gear in it. Their also very buggy :/ we currently have 0 choppers in possesion.... Both pilots that have never dc'ed before dced while flying, end of story. P.S. no vehicle can hide from you when you have a chopper! P.S.S. going from elcktro to nwaf and back takes 2 min. and hardly any gas. ;P

finding vehicles is the end game dude, also having people to play with over ts3 orsimilar, if you play alone, its geting boring quite fast, but thats in every game the same oh yes, please QQ some more about the most awesome part of the game

So yesterday on my favorite server, there were some weird happenings including a bunch of people getting killed at pobeda dam, to arive there 5 minutes later again with full equip i asked some of my mates and they said cheaters were free to go atm because they can fake their arma2 cd key or ID, or can completely work around the scripting logs the servers are writing So, does anyone know of a fact what dayZ cheaters can do such a thing? until yesterday i never saw a cheater myself, well, alive at least, saw some hacked in guns in bodies but not more as far as i know, cheaters can: -Toggle god mode -spawn stuff in -teleport around -see where vehicles/players/tents are -nuke a server is there anything i am missing? can cheaters actually protect themselfes from getting punished completely? sounds like a lot of BS to me if they actually can...

Hi we have a problem on germany 17 all vehicles after sever restart are gone tents everything is lost. I walk around becouse our clan know where other bases are and there tens also gone 2 other bases are also delited. is the sever set back or will it came back after an nother restart never had have this before.

Hey ppl, as in the title mentioned why is it good to use the save action on vehicles/tents? I rather found results about this topic by using search engines. I tried the following on my server: I put an valueless item into the gear of a truck and used the save action. Afterwards I tabbed to my browser window and restarted the server. After my relogin in DayZ the gear of the truck was emty. How can I store items on my server permanently that they survive a server restart?

I/we have nothing to hide. The server was restarted to give a solid timestamp because we suspected there was a hacker present. Contrary to your statements, there was in fact a warning given before the first restart. After that first restart we discovered that tents and vehicles were not present so we restarted a second time to resolve the issue. The log files will be submitted to the dev team to review without being edited. They will be able to see if the files have been edited. Calm down and wait for the truth. I will not comment on this issue further.

The second restart was to restore the missing tents and vehicles.

I regret to inform you all but for now we can not trade. Due to our stock server Glitching out and not spawning our tents/vehicles back in after a restart. We are looking at ways to fix this. Thanks The {CTS}-TEAM

Don't feel bad. Over the last few days this game has screwed us out of: 2 Offroad Pickups 1 Ural 3 ATVs 1 Van 2 Bikes 1 Motorcycle 1 Heli All of which do not return on server restart since this last patch. All of the ground vehicles disappeared on server restart except the Van. So we took the van, found a Heli and repaired it, then looked for our vehicles with it. They were no where I could see and from 200-400 altitude you can see right into woods. Then server restarted a few times that day and still they did not come back. Then next restart out Heli and Van are gone. Yet nothing out of our tents was touched. Those tents had decent loot in them too. So I doubt if someone was lucky enough to stumble upon our well hidden camp that they would take empty vehicles and not load them up with super good loot. expecially when our tents had extra jerrys. I know the game is in alpha but it still pisses me off. If someone stole them, whatever its part of the game. People wonder why there are so many hackers out there right now. I'm starting to understand why. Spending 3 hours looking for parts for a vehicle that disappears on restart and never comes back is stupid. This is the second time its happened and we found the Ural once already in some random spot on the map with the same amount of fuel and all the gear we left in it. So I know no one stole it that time.

I'm voting "No" on the poll. Camo netting may be a viable solution to hiding tent camps and vehicles from the air.

Yap ... same here ... on LU258, tents only save once - the first time you click "save" - Now i was putting some items in the tents and vehicles and saved . 4 hours later the server restarted and the tent's status is the same after the first(!) save ... vehicles are working properly :(

The tents were fixed in the last patch. I tested them, they work, vehicles too. Funnily enough, the camps that I find are always in an "obscure, rarely visited" part of the map. Next time set up your camp somewhere inland. Everyone thinks they have a great spot for a camp because it's in the wilderness. That's exactly where people look for them. I just found a fully loaded and repaired UAZ stocked with rare items in a VERY obscure and secluded area. Good luck.

We got the fly ours at least, but yes it vanished from the place we parked it so perhaps the coding needs some fine tuning because our other vehicles saved to location ok. We had a really wild escape with ours. We got there, repaired it and we were just about to start fuelling when someone opened fire and killed one of our darlings. Cue intense gunfire refuelling, all done by me, with my back to the shooter. We escaped with just enough fuel to get it over the water to the beach NW of the island. Epic times. I highly advise you all to play the "airwolf" themetune while flying.

I never found a Heli except the regular crash sites, but shouldn't it be damaged like the other spawning vehicles?

Playing 1.7.2.4 Broken vehicles with more than a days of work missing as well. It seems to be multiple servers having the same issue.

How do you know you werent raided? Our server is fully updated and tents aswell as vehicles(with its contents) saves perfectly fine for us. You are either playing on 1.7.2.3 and old hive, or 1.7.2.4 with old hive. Or you got raided.

So here's the deal....looking to do an honest trade for some L85s...our small crew has pretty much every weapon you can imagine yet we seemingly lost all our L85s either when our vehicles were blown up...or trying to put them into backpacks with not enough space. No traps...no bullshit..straight up meet and greet. I know how some people like to roll with snipers in the trees or have someone ghost at the meeting spot immediately after the trade...but I will be by myself...with said gun(s)/items in tote...thats it. No spotters in the trees. No support with me. Just my flashlight crap backpack and said trade items. So PM me if you really want to do such a trade.

If I am to continue playing Day Z (Which I really hope I will be able to) the issues with disappearing tent, losing items in tents, and disappearing vehicles needs to be fixed pronto. I cannot progress in this game without the contents of my tent. Now before you say my tent was raided it was not. We had one working vehicle and one that needed repair in a really obsure and very rarely visited area of the map. Yesterday everything was there but the tent items across two servers had vanished.

I have 2 copies of arma 2, on 2 steam accounts, on 2 computers. It has become invaluble to my crew as the "whipping boy" who hauls shit 10 k's autorunning on foot, picks us up from the coast in vehicles, carries the food, drink and ammo for us. I can leave him in an overwatch position while we are all off scavenging. It only cost me $15 during the steam sales, already earned its keep. Of course it helps when you have a good enough second pc/laptop though, as i tried to swap copies of arma 2 on the one machine and hit resistance. It adds another level of challenge controlling 2 people at the same time. Current challenge is trying to fly a chopper with the main and then gun with the second dude.

Please...there now that i balanced the rudeness... I can't stand it i have lost over 5 vehicles and multiple tents both with AMAZING gear due to them just fucking vanishing (sometimes the tents reappear but never the cars) Seriously, it makes playing this game even more repetitive since the only option is to hold whats on your person and wait to die and get annoyed. The game right now is just the embodiment of the "shooting the shaggy dog" trope...ya it can be fun at times but only for so long. Granted maybe it is because im not a sick fuck who gets his rocks off for virtually killing and griefing every other player, and if this games "vision" or purpose is to just be an open world deathmatch griefing machine than ya i guess it isn't the right mod for me...but it can still be fun....it is just with all these bugs and constant (and sometimes unnecessary) new features; tank traps wire fencing, sand bags....(are you fucking kidding me) it just gets boring real fast is all...i know not all people crave more...(look at call of duty, lol comparing this game to CoD is actually appropriate since they are both massively repetitive and without significant change each just adds a neat little new feature to keep people coming for more). BUT HEY im just saying it would nice if shit would start getting fixed instead of trying to add more, though it seems that they are adding more and also trying to fix things at the same time...i don't really see why they are doing that when no matter what each time something new comes along so due a slew of new problems i just wish they would focus solely on fixing or adding things. It seems they still have plans to expand upon dayz...though i don't think by much (meaning i don't think they plan to make this some kind of fallout game with zombies; as in trade and reform of civilization) and because of that i think it would just be more fun for everyone if problems were focused on getting fixed instead of new features that add even more problems be implemented. BUT HEY im just someone who is part of the minority here (kind of, i at least hope the blind hardcore loyalists would at least recognize not everything is intended GLITCHES EXIST YOU GUYS)

@Bulletproof, have you watched the Book of Eli? Did you watch the end of The Road? Both of these films were apocalypse types and both show forms of humanity and people working together. Remember the scene in The Road where he shoots a cannibal with his revolver in the woods? Did he do THAT for fun and giggles? Also the ending i am sure you know is not exactly any form of FFA (Beach, Kid, People etc you know?). In the Book of Eli there certainly are horrible people but the majority are working together something i don't see in DayZ unless its some 4-5 people hunting noobs and hoarding all the vehicles for themselves. Take from Games too, You have Fallout without alot of shits like Raiders and the Enclave running around but theres also groups of people working together (Megaton). You also have Left 4 Dead and that IS a zombie FPS but has more teamwork then DayZ does! Do you KOS?

I think its kind of luck of the draw to get Tents/Vehicles/Inventory to save right now... We just kept getting/repairing tents and vehicles, and finally we got a UAZ, and a bus to actually stay after the restart, granted their inventory keeps reseting, but hey, at least we got the vehicles! As for the tents... we just kept putting down 3 at a time each day, and then would call it a night. Eventually they started to stick around after restarts. Once that happened we would dump a gun or 3 into each one, (something we didnt care about), and once they actually stayed after a restart we could finally use them cause the inventory would commit. Just do it slowly, and as a process, and keep a majority of important gear/items on you until you can verify they stay, and save. Over all it only took us, maybe a week of try/fail before the vehicles and tents stayed, and inventory saved to tents after restarts. We still haven't gotten any inventory on the vehicles to stick after a server restart though... but hey, at least when the inventory resets they come with 2 jerry cans on each so we got gas to drive around and get gear. Oh Well.