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The current system only saves a vehicle to the server you find it on, and as I understand it's a bit unstable. There is probably a way to get vehicles working between servers which will be implemented in the future, but until then I have a suggestion which should be relatively easy to implement as a stand in until vehicles are fixed properly. Suggestion: Make vehicles able to be packed up, like the tent is currently, but make them only take up one inventory slot and force the player walk quite slowly while holding it. The intent would be to pick up you vehicle when you disconnect to keep it safe in your inventory, not for walking around with. I was thinking make the player completely stationary while holding it, but they would have to be able to move around a little bit, just in case they need to move to a larger area to set it down again. The only down sides I can see are not being able to keep the items you store in the vehicle (the tent can't do this when you pack it up, but I suppose it was on purpose and might not be difficult to change). Or someone could pack up your car and flee the server, putting a long delay before the packing happens could probably fix this though I know it's a bit hacky it's not meant as a permanent solution, until rocket gets vehicles bug free it would make finding and fixing them a lasting reward, nothing is worse spending hours fixing up only to lose it to a bug. EDIT: It may be 'unrealistic' but it wouldn't effect game play at all, only disconnecting, which is already an unrealistic practice.

So me and a few have my friends bought OA around a week ago and have collectivly logged around 100hours playing this mod and have yet to find a SINGLE vehicle!!! We have activly tried to find them and have literaly visited every known spawn location for ever car, helicopter and truck on the map with no success (while doing this on newly created servers). The only exception to this was that we found another players vehicle hidden in a forest which we promptly flipped within 5min of finding it just to discove they couldnt be reflipped without another vehicle >:(. So i am not sure if we are doing somthing wrong or if vehicles in this game just need a WAY higher spawn rate? This has become insanly frustraiting for us so any tips would be hugly apriciated. Thanks :)

I think as of right now vehicles are too easy to just steal. I think when vehicles first spawn, they should have the keys for it in the inventory. When you pick them up they take a tool slot. You can make as many copies as you want by right clicking and selecting "copy". This way you can share it with your friends. Now once you picked up the keys if someone wants to steal it they have to have a tool box and hotwire the vehicle. This makes it harder to steal vehicles, a little more realistic, and gives the toolbox more value. This has to be doable in ARMA since I was playing a mod last night where you could only fly certain jets if you were a clan member of the server. So this has to be an easy mod.

This makes no sense to me whatsoever. What's the logic behind vehicle explosions?

I've noticed that since DayZ's up turn in popularity (every server being full most of the day now) that vehicles are just non-existent? Is this a product of hoarding / bugs, I don't know, but I've trekked to around 12-14 vehicle spawns over the past 3 days and found zero vehicles, not even seen one in 3 days. I had an ATV but it got bugged on a dam and I had to leave it, that was 4 days ago... Anyone else experiencing this or is it just me?

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i know that most vehicles are randomly generated, but are there certain spots on the map where vehicles are guaranteed to spawn? if so, where may that be?

Hey everyone! I have a minor issue with my group: Only I am able to access the car trunk while in it, as long as I'm not in the driver seat. However, noone else is able to do that, which is a shame because it would really come in handy to change stuff while driving. Does anyone know why I am able to do that but noone else is? Thanks in Advance H@buster

We have been playing on US 132 and have yet to see one. Is this a server side setting or does every server have to enable them?

Why do vehicles explode in balls of fire? I can see it if they are hit in the gas tank with an explosive weapon but running over a tiny bush in at ATV and having it explode in a ball of flame, ejecting the driver and passenger, breaking their legs, etc seems excessive. Can vehicles simply be disabled instead?

Is it possible to prevent going outside the map borders? Like, you start to loosing blood when you go past the border, or get a time before you die (like in battlefield series)... etc. Tired of seeing all the vehicles being saved ~10km beyond the map border.

Before somebody blows a gasket, no, I'm not suggesting they be removed. I just don't personally see what the point in using one is. Sure, the speed and storage is nice but you can hear the damn things from so far away that you're essentially broadcasting your location to every player within a thousand or so meters to come and murder you, so they seem impractical to use outside of maybe clans using them to come pick up their buddies on the coast. Driving them around to loot attracts way too much attention from what I've seen. I feel so stressed out every time I'm driving one that it's almost a relief when they do inevitably end up getting stolen.

if a vehicle is not used (driven for a relatively good amount of time) each day, it will start degrading - i.e. rusting - and will require parts to fix it back up to green. if it stays in the same general area for too long it will degrade exponentially, eventually blowing it up for it to respawn somewhere else. this would stop clans from hoarding every fucking vehicle in the game unless they switched bases alot. hoarding is annoying and this would fix it

Hi, as you might know zombies and loot doesn't spawn right now if you're driving around. It also doesn't spawn in your surroundings if you get out, you actually need to approach things on foot. Now I'm wondering if this would be the same for cars, because I mainly found them in big towns where other player might have spawned them (by walking near them on foot), but not in the supposed spawn locations far up in the north, and I looked nearly everywhere (shortly after a server restart). Also Helicopters are currently not spawning on new servers right?

Hello I was just wondering what vehicles we can rebuild and the tools we need. Thanks!

If people put up tents and save vehicles outside of the normal map, will the server save them or will they be deleted when the serevr restarts? Also how far can you run outsie of the map? :S If it does save isn't that kinda lame :/

Saved vehicles have disappeared several times on different servers. They were not stolen, they were not unused, just disappeared with all our stuff inside. I've saved 3 cars 1 hour ago and bike in the another place, now all gone. I think your 7-days system is not working correctly.

I've tried to search for a conclusive answer but with no joy. Can you guys out there post either some links or the info required please? Perhaps Rocket will one day patch it so it shows (like a backpack) the capacity and the amount of items in the item in question to save loading it up to the point of items disappearing. Cheers in advance...........Mad Jock

im looking at the dayz map for vehicle spawn locations. wondering if they spawn 100% working or do they all need to be repaired?

Problem 1: Vehicles/their spawns The main problem causing no vehicles on the map is the RADAR ON THE HELICOPTERS, REMOVE IT PLEASE. Vehicles in DayZ are now out of map zones/saved to someone offline etc. So there is now no vehicles spawned hardly anywhere on most full servers. This takes away the want to go to other towns to search for vehicles since hey I'm on foot for 4 hours running to a town to fin there are no vehicles to fix then die. Solution: De-spawn Timer 24 hr, Crafting Vehicles Vehicles need to be de-spawned after 24 hours of not being saved. This will clean up servers of ditched vehicles that are saved in no-mans land. Toolbox is needed to start the crafting process by right-clicking on the toolbox you can select a range of crafting options, the most basic is crafting a bicycle , which can then be upgraded to a motor bike etc. ( with adding more materials and items of course ) Example: Problem 2: Player Spawns / loot spawns Also the spawns are mainly in the kameko, cherno, electro areas, this makes for alot of people dieing, no loot to be spawn in those areas and more dieing with no gear. Solution: Add Item to place beacon( spawn location) This item can be place on the world much like the tent it too has placing requirements that must be met before you can place it, it is saved you alone and is your re-spawn point, once used the ITEM IS DESTROYED you must get a new one. It can also be demolished by your enemies. I really feel all this scrap metal, tires, cans, fuel parts and all this stuff isn't getting used and this would be an extremely fun way to do this.

As stated by this post at the bottom: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1935&pid=19049#pid19049 If you don't want to click the link, the posters says that all vehicles - manned and unmanned - show up on the helicopter's radar. I understand a helicopter is supposed to be more "prestigious" in that they're rarer and harder (debatable) to fix than normal ground vehicles; however, this just kinda ruins the motivation to go find vehicles, fix them up, and do my best to keep them safe from other players. Pretty much, a team of players in a helicopter can just sit back and reap the benefits of the hard work other players put in to repair a broken vehicle. I'm not sure what other "features" a helicopter comes equipped with. I wouldn't even care if it had FLIR and could spot another player hiding in a bush 10km away. I just think being able to see any vehicles on the radar is a little too much. P.S. - I don't know the limitations on this vehicle identification, such as you need to be right on top of a vehicle or something. I assume you just have to be within a certain proximity of a vehicle.

I've been playing for a little over a week. I've seen other players with vehicles, I found a bike stuck in the water, but I've never found a vehicle of my own. is there some place they're usually at or around? what should I be looking for?

our server just went through a restart and when we came back all of our vehicles were gone. kind of upset cause my sexy motorcycle disappeared but if its a hive issue like we were having yesterday i may have hope.

Can someone please clarify these questions. 1. If you place a tent and you die, the ten will exist for like 7 days? But your new character can not pick up the tent. Which means you will need to find a new tent, or lose your stuff stored in the tent? 2. When the tent despawns, will all the items despawn with it? 3. If you die, what happens to a saved vehicle? Will it despawn, do I need to find it again and save it one more time?