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Even if he would have run, hackers can see where all the heli crashes are, players, tents, vehicles, and then they can just teleport to you. So that wouldn't really help either, would it?

This got fixed, quite some time ago by Ander. Any vehicles/tents off the map for more than a few hours despawn. Remember to read the stickies in this section, they tell you to use the search feature, which would alleviate some of your grief if actually used.

Taking down the server gives no advantage to the admins. Yes it means that they vehicles that they have found are somewhat protected, but the server is not locked, they are not loot hunting. I routinely shut my server down at nights, the main reason being there is no admin present and I don't want the server unattended for 10-12 hours. My server is usually up well over 18 hours a day and I leave it on over the weekends (as the 2 other admins play at night then) I get that people who are displeased with servers being brought down solely to protect the admin/clan assets. However the people who want free reign during the quite hours are further south on the moral compass, they simply want to pillage unprotected bases. People pillaging my base is fine (finders keepers really) the server getting raped while I am at work or sleeping is more of an issue. I agree that this is borderline abuse, but it's not close enough for me

Please feel free to refer back to my post earlier in the thread for reasons why you will always have to rely on breaking the fourth wall to form lasting relationships in the game. The idea that you can bump into some stranger and just immediately become fast friends is ludicrous. To play with someone long term you need to know what time zone they're in, what their play schedule is like, how often they play, what their style is, whether they have other friends who play, etc. and you're going to need to plan ahead for times to play together, and keep each other up to date on your locations, especially if you play separately for a night or two, and where you parked the vehicles, and who took what from which tent, etc., etc. You really want to take care of all that over direct comms? No. "Hey here's a bandage see you later" or "Lets kill a few zombies, okay, see you around!" is the best you're ever going to get from random stranger encounters. Anything with more depth is going to rely on some out of game coordination, "4th wall breaking" or not.

Something very dodgy occurred minutes ago. Anyways I have been on my character for a few days now, got some decent gear and was ready to survive on my own. Got to Berezino and decided to get some supplies as I was walking into one of the apartments my character randomly teleported to some new zone or debug zone. I literally saw dozens of characters a car and a helicopter all in one location. It was a massive shoot fest. I crapped myself not knowing what the hell happened. Either way everyone was shooting like crazy. It was night time and all you could see was gun fire. Ended up getting killed. Very disappointed. Literally the whole server was teleported to this one location with vehicles and helicopters. By far the worst bug I have ever encounted. Feel sorry for all those survivors who have been on weeks without getting killed and then getting finished off by a bug.

The server my team and I play on also has another team of 6-10 guys who run the server. We constantly rape them and steal their vehicles but they're prtty good about it, haven't had any issues with them kicking us. We kinda have a friendly but hostile relationship, we sometimes work with them but most of the time just shoot each other because we're not on the same TeamSpeak channel. Yesterday we had around 11 vehicles, including the chopper until it crashed, and quite a good base set up and all they had is 1-2 ATVs

It means you shouldn't abuse your admin privileges to secure vehicles. Assclown.

Looks like i've attracted scum. Two clan hijackers in my thread. By the way, we are not a clan. We are a group of survivors. We are not gang members like these clans who look to gain members and ostracise the entire DayZ community. We are here to help others. This is why we go into Cherno and Elektro and fight these so-called clans (which are mere gangs) to save the survivors from forced recruitment and murder. We let people join us temporarily. We let them loot the bandit's bodies and take anything they want. I've been told i trust people too easily but i haven't been betrayed so far with my group. Probably will happen though but trust is the rarest thing in this game. Makes it so valuable that it's the only thing i seek out of this community. Weapons, vehicles, and even helicopters are all too common and easy.

These people are clearly mad that you found their camp. I assume they haven't been playing long enough to not be attached to their gear/vehicles. I would disregard any comments they made about scripting or hacking. What you are seeing is backlash because these people thought they were being clever by hiding up in the northwest corner. They thought they were being super slick and cant come to grips with the reality that people actively search that particular area (myself included). Don't allow them to talk trash on the server admin. Hey if they don't like it offer them a 200% money back guarantee on what they paid to play on your server.

"not trading cars caus I only have two" Dude... there are very few vehicles around, and you keep two for yourself?! You only need one, so share the second one. I've spendt almost my entire game time trying to find a vehicle, not found one yet.

There isn't much difference between the two connection errors. The only thing that will affect tents and vehicles is to be sure to save them. Otherwise, they won't be there when the server starts up again. Of course, it's nice to give the users a bit of a warning before restarting it. Hope you enjoy your server, and don't hesitate to contact me with any further questions. Kiotie

Hello all, so I just rented a server from HFBServers. I just had a few questions. I would ask HFB directly, but their live chat is down. I'll just label my questions here. 1. How do I restart the server? Whenever my buddy restarted the server it would come up just saying "Session lost". When I hit the reset or stop button in the control panel it just says "No message recieved for X seconds" I know doing that will not allow the server to connect to the hive the next time. 2. If hackers get all the vehicles is there a way to completely refresh the map. Like put all vehicle spawns back to default. I know hackers are running rampart right now so I want to be preparred if the situation arises. That is all I got for now. If anymore pop up I will post them here. Thanks in advance.

Recruit = "heat" dots on zombies, vehicles and even nearby players. Also all shown in regular below. Regular and below = Location shown on maps, along with unidentified players and seen vehicles nearby. Crosshairs and name tags will be on, along with 3rd Person. Veteran = none of above, unless specified by the server. Expert = no 3rd person, no crosshair, no map location, no name tags. Pretty much hardcore mode. Certain servers will say what they have enabled. Otherwise just look at the difficulty. If you want name tags and crosshairs, play on regular.If you want annoying white dots, play recruit. Just some acronyms for you to help: 3DP = 3rd Person CH = Crosshair NT = Nametags (you barely see this anymore) Look for those being "on" in server names if you want them in veteran or expert servers.

No, we frequent a low pop server and mainly at night, we have no vehicles either. :P Plus I'm fairly sure that we picked a spot so far out of the way that considering that its a low pop server with no clan control, the chances of someone with a vehicle to destroy them with, a vehicle that can traverse a forest on a hill, are pretty low. I'm crossing my fingers that they'll be back when I get off work. :P What server were you on?

Watching you at the first reminds me of a vehicle camp (no tents) that I raided that was entirely surrounded by barb wire and sandbags and I didn't have a toolbox or an entrenching tool at the time, but guess what? They had some stored in one of their trucks. It's very wise of you to not park you vehicles right by your tents as well.

TENT CAMO NET its not like the most important thing that dayz need but it would be very nice to have. (and hard to hide). ofcourse you should be able to place military camo net over it so its harder to see far away. I was thinking about the big military tents that stary sobor have, and it should take up about 5-6 slots on you and have a loot capacity like the Ural-3420. (attached files) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CAMO NET FOR VEHICLES + TENTS it could also be nice to be able to hide your vehicles with camo nets. and they should only be found at military tents and other military buildings. you should always be able to take it on and off ofcourse :P where to find it? well since its used by the military and hunters. you should be able to find different camo where you go. supermarket and other normal buildings = hunter camo net. (attached files) like this one it doesnt have to be the most important update but something fun to have in the future in this game :) please dont bite my head off :P

Sorry if this has been brought up, I searched only quickly and didn't find anything. A few friends of mine had the idea that only servers with a certain amt of people spawn the good/rare loot. Like, there needs to be 20(or whatever #) people to spawn Heli Crashes or Loot in barracks and so forth. This will prevent people from finding low servers and bum rushing the good stuff. It will also prevent admins and servers from locking out people and cleaning house because theres no point now (can do all vehicles as well) Again, if this is redundant, lock the shit out of this thread or delete it. But I didn't have time to do an intense search of the suggestion box.

looking for a (somewhat)mature/fun group to run around with. I've done most of what the mod has to offer solo (banditry, boring ass sniping, "survival", vehicles, etc.) but looking for a group to go on (mis)adventures with now. I've died alot and lost plenty of "good" gear so dying isn't a big deal, and is usually pretty funny. i usually play sometime around 4:00pm - 1:00am est (GMT-5?). I have vent, TS, and Mumble NOT interested in the following: snipefest 2012 groups coastal town CoD heros vehicle hoarding map edge nazis dupers/hackers/ etc. anyone super attached to gear ultra-hardcore try-hards (it's a game...) Aside from the above, I'm down for pretty much everything else. raiding AF's for gear, building up a vehicle or two (not just to leave at the map edge all day), hunting snipers camping the coast, maybe a small base camp, some banditry if we're in the mood, etc. If you're interested in generally having a good time and not treating this mod like a job/CoD drop me a PM I'd be happy to play.

I've never come across even a tenth as many vehicles, both parked or currently in use, as I have on 1051. It's awesome and mystifying all at once. Over the weekend I: Stole a big blue truck from a camp that also had 2 tractors, a Gaz and a dirtbike. Lost the same big truck, Found a Gaz in the middle of Polana. Lost the same Gaz. Stole a tractor from the same place I stole the truck. Found another tractor far to the west. Shot at someone driving off in a pickup truck west of zelenogorsk. Saw three guys driving off in a big green truck from a supermarket. Found another dirtbike. Saw someone cruising a vehicle spawn location in a pickup truck. Shot at someone driving a blue van out of 'the Factory'. On other servers, all of them, combined, I found a bicycle. Once.

Exactly. I'll join a group, sure I'm friendly guys.... Then: I'll steal your vehicles... I'll look in your backpacks and take what I want... I'll throw flares around and let everyone know where you are... I'll tell another team where you are or lure you into an ambush... I'll stand in front of you when you try to kill players or zombies so you hit me instead... I'll lure you all into a shed and then stand blocking the door so you can't get out... I'll play absurdly loud music over direct chat... I'll throw smoke grenades at you luring zombies and impairing your vision... I'll throw actual grenades at you... I'll drive you into the sea in the sedan we just spent an hour fixing... I'll ask to try out your gun or request an item off of you and then not return it... I'll keep running into you in buildings until one of us breaks a leg... When we're looting together, I will grab the best stuff first and tell you "you snooze, you loose"... I'll walk you into a building and then barbed wire the front door... I'll lure 100+ zombies and run in circles around you... What you going to do? Nothing -- I'm "friendly" according to your system, aren't I? Going to add a kick function for the group leader? Cool, now it's ME who will form the group and then I will kick you and shoot you in the back. Going to add a timer on the kick function? Cool I will accidentally "lure" 100 zombies and have us all take refuge in a building then do the kick while everyone is concentrating on the chaos. Or, failing that, barb wire the doorways so no one can escape the ensuing massacre. To troll them, retard. To lure them into the perfect ambush. To lull them into a false sense of security. To make sure EVERYONE dies, not just one or two. If the "lurer" happens to die, he can come straight back to the bodies -- His friends will be guarding the site and there will be more than enough loot. If he really wanted to be a pussy, he could even log out just before they open fire or lay down and tactical roll to the side so they know who not to hit. The naivety in this thread is only trumped by the stubbern stupidity.

Congrats on being terrible at Dayz! So apparently the server we were playing on just got vehicles because we found ALOT, so we were in the process of fixing up an offroad truck that spawned right where another had been, which one of us took an hour before. So first Henrique backs out whilst my friend is shooting at him and Brazilian kills my friend, then i go see whats up and i shoot a few m107 pot shots and notice a guy (not sure if eather had backed out at that point, but wouldnt doubt it), so he starts shooting at me and i quickly run to reposition. After about 10 minuts im set in place and theyre toying withe truck, crawling around, i kill henrique before he can back out again. Brazilian quickly aborted, i figured hed be comeing up behind me so i repositioned once more. After about 15 minuts of waiting i see the silhouette of a man in the distance, it was brazilian, back scoping the SUV (as if im that big of a donkey). I hesitantly take a shot while he is walking because I could not wait for him to be dead, ofcourse i miss and he backs out once again. After about 30 minutes i know they are not comeing back. I tip my hat to the man who kills BR4z1L14N, i know you probably wont read this, but atleast i know it WILL happen. And Henrique, i hope you learn to out of the game once you alt f4.

Why would you use a sniper rifle instead of the binoculars? If I, or anyone else, sees you aiming (yes your aiming) at a fellow survivor or teammate you WILL be shot. No one knows, nor can they verify, if your friendly or not. I do the same thing when scouting but I have the rifle out and ready to shoot. If i'm alone and just looking into a city i prefer the binoculars because players that may see me wont consider me as a threat as if i were armed with a high powered accurate 1-shot kill weapon. No excuses. Besides, you can't be a serious player if you lack the capability of using binoculars. Forward observers in the army don't all run around using sniper rifles to simply scout or zoom in. We are an anti-bandit group. My entire group can attest to that. We've saved more lives than you have or will. That rifle is extremely rare isn't it? We've ran into Whitelisted medics before. They weren't armed to the teeth like you. More like running around with a hatchet yelling "FRIENDLY". Not only that their name usually state's "<Name> Medic (Friendly)". I assume you use it to use the night vision? I do the same thing as you guys at times but i always switch to pistol when im done using the rifle. The only difference is that i don't QQ and will call people bandits if they shoot me because i'm using my rifle for the scope. Rifle is a PVP weapon and will always carry blood along with it. So far, we've won every single battle, even against hackers, when it came down to Assaults, LMGs, MGs, and Explosives. It just takes one sniper with a ghillie suit to suppress 12 of us. The sniper doesn't even have to have good aim nor a good rifle. Our 6 vehicles won't protect us either. Just shows the extreme danger snipers pose and their intent.

We have played this game for nearly a month and not getting attached to your gear is a good rule to live by at the start but when u play with 10-15 guys and we pick each up after death.. Its not really the same.. If you ever experience it you will understand. And its not the fact of the gear like we said.. we don't care if it gets looted.. But when people like this can destroy your base vehicles and the experience of all the players here in a few seconds it really is hurting the game.

So basically our camp of 4 sets of tents and 4 vehicles all set apart by about 300/400 meters were blown up in about 2 seconds in a simultaneous explosion. This has to be the work of a hacker as the tents and vehicles were too spread for a single grenade and them all exploding at the same time meant it couldn't be a chain reaction of the vehicles. Are people working on removing the exploits in the game and do we have a current eta.. This one experience has really hurt our team and made a few not want to play after we worked so hard.. We did not mind people finding it and looting it and taking vehicles.. But when they are destroyed by someone for fun. To make it worse our server host had a problem with the ACP log in and we still cant get to restart the servers, Knowing our gear is gone and our vehicles are destroyed we really wanna know if there is to be a fix to this problem.

I'll try to make it short. We had a van, followed the coastroad, found a boat. Spent 50 minutes driving to the skulia thing island AND FOUND THE CHOPPER. Hurray, we boat'ed back to the mainland, 2 man went to Elektro, one went back to the island and secured chopper. After we got the stuff, we went back, radio'd our mate to meet us at the coast BAM he got sniped mid-sea. Lack of time, we log off. Few hours later we go back in, our third mate confirms (respawned nearby) that server has swimming (without dropping) enabled. He went over and secured choppr again (with an axe). We swam over as well, integrated the first chopper parts, only a few windows missing, fuel leak prevented us from effectively starting. ~2 hours later and 2 more trips we gathered more supplies and some fuel (without incidents, hurays). Awesome moment to lift off with the repaired chopper :3 We landed close to the spot we found our boat at (and had left the van). Van was gone. Meh, we got a chopper! We made our way inland to a semi-remote fuel-source close to open field. Landed chopper and started filling and filling and filling "VAN AND QUAD INCOMING!" Since they were directly heading at us, we opened fire. Oh hell, M240 (mounted), M107 and an AK... Quad took medium damage, driver dead, van exploded in an instant. Then, during looting&securing, we got under unidentified gunfire again. Presumably somebody with a assault rifle from north. only a few minor hits on chopper, no wounds. One guy made his way north, trying to pinpoint the attacker, chopper made his way off into safety, 2 remaining grabbed the quad and went on. Some minutes later, the loner meets up with the chopper in a remote clearing and suddenly LAG BUMP CRIIIIIEK. Enginedamage. We got lucky the chopper didn't explode. We had enough stuff left in the chopper and got it fixed up again. Whilst heading for our HQ camp, the quad decided to show some stunts. 2-3 saltos on random occasions, luckyly without damage. However, when we passed a railroad we suddenly head-bumped into the ground. Quad near instantly catched fire, driver managed to run off just in time, co-driver instadropped to 400 blood and died next to the Quad as it exploded. Derp. Now, driver started looting our fallen teammate (he had a M107) and ... "SErver restart in 3 minutes. Server restart in 1 Minute!" 10 seconds later the server shut down. Chopper managed to land in time, we are yet unaware what things got saved and pray for the best. PS: Server had announced a restart within 15 minutes. 45 minutes now and counting. Given the past days events and the fact we stole the van from a campsite (and later on escaped a chase), we STRONGLY suspect we have met the same guys I've told ya about on the other page... and given they had all vehicles... We're currently making up they may have been admins and now rageshutdown'ed the server :3 Right now we're making up fun ideas how to use the chopper. Probably a shuttle flight service for unarmed newbies? :§ PSPS: Next day, server is still down :/ Now, guess we have to search ourselves a new server/chopper.