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It could be vital to make the zombies harder. Though if we are going to have something like stamina we will also need more vehicles on average per server. Just make it harder to repair and maintain them.

Will be applying this guide to my current dedicated box. However I currently only have 100MB connection compared to your 1GB and I also run 2 DayZ servers. What do you recommend differently than what the guide purposes for our specific bandwidth? We also do automated reboots of our servers every 6 hours. However most of the time a reboot causes our tents and vehicles to disappear until next reboot. Any idea on what is the cause of this?

Ever heard of something called an 'alternator' ? no? most vehicles have these and they charge the battery of a vehicle in the real world so car battery's are moot points unless you could build a generator using an Engine/Scarp metal/Fuel tank parts/car battery('s) in which case would be an interesting thing to set up and have relevance to add a car battery or even allow for storing of power, but these are all mechanics that would have to be implemented but will more likely be ignored in the Alpha because of Rocket's plan to make a Standalone.

hello Im Admin from DE 929 I have the same problem how ur´s i played 6 hours and grab all Heli crashes and Vehicles and save it in some Wood place ....after restart all my vehicles and my Camping tents gone plz help us how can we fix that I dont have root server only host from www.gamed.de

I'd have thought they were stolen, I've lost atvs to people stealing them from seemingly good hiding spots after about 30 mins of me being away, but the saving feature is rather buggy, I've saved vehicles before and the loot in the vehicles has reset when I return.

So first off, I feel like I'm missing something when it comes to saving vehicles to keep them through server restarts and what not. Every time I have clicked Save Vehicle on the ones I've gotten (about 6 now) it has never actually saved. It's always missing after a server restart or update. I feel like I'm doing something wrong. There were a couple that could have been stolen potentially, but I've lost vehicles even within 30 minutes of logging off, the server restarting, and coming back on, on servers that had zero players on them besides me. So what am I doing wrong? My second question is about a more specific and recent incident. I found a player camp with 2 offroad pickup trucks and 1 UAZ. Being by myself, I loaded all the things I wanted from the 2 pickups into the UAZ and left to stash it somewhere else. I had to leave for a bit, so when I found a good spot to hide it, I made sure to click Save UAZ several times before I logged out. The server restarted within the ~1 hour or so that I was gone, and when I came back, the UAZ had disappeared. I went all the way back to the 2 pickup trucks to see if they were there, and they were missing as well. Now today, the next day, when I logged back on, the UAZ is still missing, but the pickup trucks are back where I had found them, WITH all the gear that I loaded onto the UAZ the other day. So where the hell is the UAZ, why is all the gear that I put into the UAZ back in the pickup, and why can't I get my vehicles to stay put?

In my case i restarted a couple of time to see if it changes, but sometime nothing is there at all, then it come back to be old savegame. And today we only took 4 hours to grab so many vehicles, and all is gone. damn

So right now is the best storage method in vehicles?

At it's current state, even if all of the bugs were gone? $5 Obviously I lost quite a bit with the initial purchase of $30, but I believe I made up for it with time played. It's hard to say how much I would pay for a standalone game. I love the idea, but some of the execution is a bit lacking. More like the decisions in the PvP aspect of the game. With every sandbox that I've ever seen in development, the best games are games heavily focused on the PvE aspect of gameplay. When that sandbox focuses too much on PvP or ignores the drawbacks of allowing open PvP, it fails. You can go down the list of the recent notable sandbox MMO's. All you need to do is have the ability to kill others, and it will happen. In order to maximize your player base, you need to make the game all about the survival against infected. Add non-zombie threats, such as bears and wolves. Add power grid functionality, similar to repairing vehicles and such. Add new light source functionality as well, such as attachable flashlights to weapons and dual wielding. Further allowing night play, as it's a major issue right now. Make repercussions for murder. My idea about requiring whiskey after several murders, to calm the shakes, would be a decent compromise. It doesn't prevent killing, it just requires players to think about it. Something needs to happen, again, a death match mod is not the way to go. There are plenty of those out there and most of them do the job better than DayZ. Add base building, not instanced. Open up non-enterable buildings, Arma 3? Allow higher max players and require login similar to MMO's, that force characters to be made on one server and one server only. It eliminates server hopping and players will not be able to reposition. Also, doing this allows people to have multiple characters. Create your own hand-crafted land mass, that allows you to change all names to English, or the server locations native language. How the game loads and the UI for nearly everything should be re-evaluated, remade, and polished. New cheat detection, or lock down your servers like I suggested with logins and everything being controlled by you, not the players. It's your game, you will need to take it back. I probably could go on, but those are the most glaring things in my opinion, bugs being fixed is obvious. I think this would most likely require a new game engine and some seriously talented designers and artists. However, with the amount of people who have purchased Arma 2, and will no doubt purchase Arma 3 if the game is ported for beta, getting the money for something as ambitious as that shouldn't be a huge problem. If that is the type of product I see, I would probably be willing to pay $50 for it. If it got to the point of supporting several thousand players and turned into a MMO, I would probably pay a monthly subscription. Though, and I'm not saying it isn't possible, I'd be surprised if most of the above mentioned features and fixes get done. Prove me wrong, you'll have my money. Don't, and I think you'll go the way of games like Darkfall, but even at a smaller scale. Yikes.

i wouldnt have a problem with that id still play the game fine and not come on the forums and bitch about removing them what would the odds be that every tank the US or any army has would all be destroyed (or any armored vehicles if they dont have tanks) what if rocket added in the desc the nvg are solar powered and charge during the day would you still bitch?

Server restarts will remove the contents of your tent(s) permanently, not making it an ideal method of storage as of right now. None of the items listed are of interest to me, but I've got a couple in my vehicle if you acquire any better items; vehicles have a storage capacity as large or even bigger than tents, and the contents stored inside of those are not deleted upon server restarts. :P

nope just remove the ability to save weapons on server in tents/vehicles till it is fixed. is it that hard? you are retarded.

I always thought it was certain number of guns and/or packs and THEN a certain number of items. I thought the guns and packs were treated differently by storage objects (vehicles, tents, ect...).

Serverjump on: 1) new servers (high serial like de 1040) 2) on spawnlocations at the edge of the map 3) that just rebooted (briefing/setting up on server browser) I found 3 toyota hilux, 2 urals, a bike & a bus like this. Toyota's were on 3 servers out of the 6 or 7 that i tried. Urals were 2 out of 3 servers. Bike was next to the ural on a server. Bus was hidden in the forest behind the ural spawnpoint. As long as you keep these 3 things in mind it'll take you 10mins max to find a vehicle. It's pointless to try and find vehicles on just any server. Servers that havnt restarted recently and that have clans on them will have no vehicles at all on the spawning points actoss the entire map. You can look forever and still wont get one.

A while back a heli was spawned(by a hacker) and abandoned on my main server. After an epic long fire fight, a clan ended up taking it and flying it off. I've spent a lot of time since doing some 'back country' atv exploration looking for where they landed it. I've found more camps/tents then I could(be bothered to) count. Only 4 so far had vehicles, and only one camp had more then one vehicle. I've found at least 20 vehicles. Almost all were in the middle of nowhere(no camps anywhere near by) and had a tire shot out. This leads me to believe that the vehicle shortage isn't caused by people hoarding vehicles at camp, but instead by hackers teleporting vehicles into the middle of no where and shooting out one of the tires so that even if someone does stumble accross it they cant drive it...

yea but it's nice to have a vehicle. Solo players are usually the ones doing the most walking since clans and teams have vehicles.

You can't find vehicles because you suck at the game. People who know what they're doing are running into vehicles, fighting other groups, and moving camps.

not the admin, but same issue on the server i have been playing on. since earlier today all the tents and vehicles despawned. waiting for a restart to see if they will come back.

Dayz seems to be more geared towards farther into the apocalypse where civilization and most working vehicles are gone. It is not set at the start where much of civilization is still intact. Having bikes disappear is an interesting idea but there will probably a lot of people that will object to this.

I feel that bikes should be more common and disappear a short time after you get out of it. I was thinking like if a bike isn't rode for an hour, it disappears and goes back to its spawn point.I can see vehicles being rare and uncommon but bikes should be plentiful.

Well after you spend a few more days on this mod you'll realize there really is not much to do. Surviving in itself is not hard to do at all. Run away from the newb zone go to a town get some supplies. Eventually you'll get a hatchet, matches, and hunting knife then you can enjoy the rest of your dayz life out in the woods if you want. Once you realize zombies aren't that big of a deal and are easily dealt with the only thing left to do in the game is interact with other players...attempting to shoot them is more entertaining for me. I say attempting because I'm terrible and can't hit the broad side of a barn so I usually end up respawning instead of the other guy but it's still entertaining. Oh and vehicles are good fun. Just enjoying a drive down the ro- OH GOD WE'RE GETTING SHOT AT SERPENTINE SERPENTINE!

Hi, i'm the admin of DE 853, and i have a reoccuring problem. Since a couble of days the Server seems to have only one point from that it's loading after a reboot. New Vehicles and Tents are not saved, after a reboor its simply resets to a point from about 2 days ago. Anybody else experiencing this problem?

I have 2 Urals, a Bicycle, an Offroad truck, and a Yellow car, Accross 4 servers, all fully repaired and gassed up. I also have everything for a heli once we find one! I have had all these vehicles for several weeks (Good hiding spot?) #LikeABoss

Server it happened on: US 729 - Hosted by (Faith).RU Time it happened : 7:57 PM Pacific Time What Happened : Saw at least 3 or four different players that were dying within 2 or 3 seconds or their last death. Names like (but not exactly) "[Faith] HelloKitty" and "alex." After about 10 seconds of this, the server jumped to being very laggy, and all or a sudden every entity (players, animals, vehicles) started to fall from the sky in an unknown location( I now know it was Elektro, as I logged in and my friend and I were directly nest to each other). I (Kaz) and my friend(Acoliet) attempted to disconnect as quickly as possible, but we are unsure if we died or not. Thanks for checking into this!

Server Name: US198 (Your) Timezone: GMT Date/Time: 30/7/2012 10:41am Server Administrator('s): not sure, there was an admin present but didnt note his name down. What happened: about 2 days ago we started playing on us198, myself and some mates. After wandering around in the wilderness for an hour or 2 we came across a large camp with multiple vehicles and many tents. When we found the camp the server went down. At first we assumed it was a crash but now whenever we connect they immedeatly shut down the server. We reconnected today upon seeing the server was live again thought we could finally go raid the camp we found. About 5 seconds into the game we were kicked and the server shut down. It came back a minute later but when we tried to connect we recieved an error messge saying we have been battle eye banned for ghosting. One of my friends hasnt even seen the camp and wasn't there when we found it the first time around and he has also recieved a ban just for connecting. Evidence/Proof: Everytime we connect the server shuts down. The same people appear to be present in the server and we have been banned for no good reason. We figure they are only using the server as a camp server for themselves to rearm and collect vehicles and good weapons in peace. As a side note were ot bothered about getting in and the camp anymore just thought it was very unsporting and maybe something would be done about it. Thanks in advance, Calaghan