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Mature, 24 year old, active-duty US Army guy here looking for a serious west coast based team to join. I am on PST time zone and mainly on the Seattle servers, but willing to migrate servers. I have Teamspeak, Skype and Steam with a working mic. Looking for groups of players to find/repair vehicles, set up and defend camps, go on scavenging raids and possible set up a trade outpost. I am very flexible and can fill any role well. I have all equipment except NVGs and GPS.

Love the odd Zombie train that flows through the town every once and a while. You can see the Zombie AI at work a little. Like someone said, a Cherno time laps would be cool. May capture some vehicles and maybe a gun fight!

I think minor loot should be spawned in and around dustbins and trash piles instead of in low priority buildings. The kind of things I'd like to see in bins are empty tins/bottles and the very occasional food tin and soft drink can. I think the shot up military vehicles, like the humvee, should occasionally have a chance to spawn a medical item or some ammo clips too. I'm not sure it's possible, as right now the only spawns seem to be under a roof of some kind(like outhouses and shacks) or inside a building. Perhaps keeping track of extra spawn points will bog down the server but I'd like to know what others thought.

I would leave it at 6 hours, every server we tried that had a larger window than that had a couple of "dead" loot hours and zombie wierdness.. plus some extreme desync on vehicles... It is possible to make new camps.. we just made 2x5 tent camps full of our old gear 'cause to many people were stealing our nvg's and we had to hunt em down constantly.. xD . But you have to get a few tents.. then put em down alot of spots you think would be good, then pack em back up again after every spot.. preferably done right before a restart (min. 5 minutes before) less than that will have a chance of not recording it. You then check back after respawn and should have tents working if they came back I.E, is remembered by the hive. Then you should put a few crap items on it and see if it despawns on the next server restart or stays.. REMEMBER to save the tent after putting items on it... and give em 2 mins before you save it. Saving items in tents/vehicles and backpacks is slower than main inventory.. IF you put something in your backpack then you dont wanna relog right after.. never touch your backpack items less than 2-5 minutes before you relog. I always do 5 in case the server might be desyncing at the very moment I log. This has stopped us losing weapons all the time from our backpack :). Hope it helps you get a stabile hope up and running.. cheers (sidenote: its not a good idea to have a big camp near cherno unless you wanna feed the entire server population with nvg's and big guns :D)

I don't see the point in trying to find vehicles, someone always manages to use hacks to find them, doesn't matter where you find them, there was a hacker on US 455 the other day, we were looking right at both of our vehicles, me and 3 other friend's, they managed to dissapear right in front of our face, 1 of the admins friends teleported to us, obviously a hacker also and said a hacker had been on the server and teleported all vehicles very far north, he then spawned both our vehicles back but they didn't have gear. So in other words there's not much point finding vehicles especially if you want to keep them until the hackers are dealt with because this game atm is a hack fest.

I am recruiting for my militia. we have a wide range of skilled players, weapons, food, drinks, and vehicles. If you are interested we can take you in, my skype name is OFhooligan24.

Im recruiting for a militia group, we have a great amount of food, weapons, and vehicles. If you are interested my skype name is OFhooligan24.

You know what they say keep your friends close but your items closer be careful with all those vehicles scripters would love to get a hold of them.

Since I assume most choppers will be quickly repaired and claimed by admins/larger clans I want to put together a group to counter this. Generally I play solo, and that leads to much difficulty finding vehicles at all, much less the high value ones. Larger groups can hit more spawn points, carry more parts, and generally have an upper-hand at claiming the vehicles, and soon choppers. To counter this, I want to put together a group of maybe 3-5 people to combat choppers and cause general mischief. If I can organize a team of other players we can coordinate strikes on likely fuel points, spawn points, and likely travel routes for helicopters. I'd suggest we use mostly .50 Cals for their anti-material munitions as well as LMG's for good support fire and sustained damage to vehicles and teams. I think it'd be a pretty awesome experience to take down a few choppers and whatnot. I imagine there would be a few epic firefights somewhere along the way. My hope is to get lucky enough to spot one being repaired and/or landing long enough to take out the entire piloting group and claim it for ourselves. I've played enough ARMA2 that I can pilot one if the opportunity arises. Additionally there is always the good old trap of leaving it in a field in a high traffic area and sniping everyone that enters the drivers seat / searches it for gear. Anyone interested post here or pm me and we can arrange something. I can set up a teamspeak server if I get enough interest. TL;DR: Anyone want to help me destroy / capture some choppers when the patch is released and they're brought back?

I am recruiting for a militia. We have a good amount of weapons, food, and vehicles. if you are interested my skype name is OFhooligan24. We can take you in.

Our group hadn't had any vehicles in our two months of playing until four days ago. Now we have a UAZ, ATV and two Motercycles. Once you find one you seem to run into more.

Also, for those who really hate vehicles, or those who just don't want their rides to be available to others, maybe consider adding the option of burning the car down using the matches?

Vehicles shouldnt spawn at the same location! Let them spawn like Heli crashes, randomly. That will prevent these VehicleHunters from hording them somewhere! Cant be that on one server ,35 players are without vehicles, and 5 players have all vehicles horted! Thats pretty annoying!

sancuary servers have their own rules. vehicles and weapons can be added at will its not part of the hive server

That's all pretty much common sense and what not - but it doesn't change the fact that your clan restarted the server multiple times all within an hour of each other. Each time was after my buddies and I killed your clan mates. Now you can sit here attempting to defend yourself and your clan but the fact you have -MULTIPLE- people claiming you do this, even with screenshots proving it, it's kind of lame. If it only happened once, I'd say it was just a coincidence that it reset after you all died, but the fact that it happens every time we kill anyone from your clan, steal your vehicles or loot your items from your cluster of tents, it's just a bit too much. Going back to my first statement in this post though, the server restarted easily three to four times within the same hour yesterday, so either there was some serious lag that needed to be taken care of, or you guys reset it on purpose the moment after you all died. Don't get me wrong, the server is great, no lag, etc - I can't even deny that. Still, you all reset it the moment a group of you dies or you lose your gear.

In a couple of weeks of playing on various servers, not once did I ever see a vehicle at its spawn. In fact, I saw maybe two vehicles in total. One driving through berezino at night, the other, a busted military truck that dissapeared from the server the next day. Then all of a sudden, joined a server the other night and found most vehicles at their spawns. So, now we have a UAZ and a Bus and have spotted boats (too slow) and a tractor. I guess you just have to be lucky and playing on the right server to find anything...

AFAIK the vehicles spawn randomly to those spots when server is brand new. However, if someone repairs one and takes it to some far-away hidden spot, that vehicle is "reserved" as he saves it and there is only X amount of vehicles per type on a single server. So it is not impossible that every possible vehicle is already "taken" and hidden away somewhere as "tent on wheels", so to speak. So spawn locations would turn up empty until someone manages to wreck one of the existing vehicles (or it stays untouched for long enough to "rot" and respawn elsewhere) So the only way to get a vehicle would be to scour the countryside for those hidden campsites and "liberate" one... I'm fairly new at this so I may be mistaken but this is how I understand the situation.

Hey guys, just wanting some outside opinions on this. I've looked up on the wiki the locations of various vehicles, and gone to A LOT of them, but never had any luck. Is there any knack to it? If anyone knows the spawning probabilities that would be appreciated too :) Also, would anyone consider joining up with me for a while, with the eventual goal of actually getting some wheels? I've only ever met hostile people, and have yet to be in a group - forever alone :L I'm UK based, and have a mic of course :) I'm quite experienced, well equipped, and have enough cooked meat for 3 guys xD Now I think I'll just sit back and watch this thread get shot down, but hey, hopfeully something will come of it eh? Thanks :)

+1. God damn. All amazing ideas except the double amount of cars. I feel a quicker re spawn for vehicles should be in place. But more cars no. There are tons

It took me 1 month to get my first truck, then we saw 3 more vehicles that night, which made me slightly mad, but whatever. I hope they don't make vehicles spawns more popular, they ruin the game to a degree. It becomes FAR to easy to travel, ambush, loot and stock everything. Imagine if there were 10 vehicles cruising round on one server, it'd end badly.

If it is a hackers tent area you would see alot more weapons, speaking from experience my clan has two tent "cities" of roughly 6-10 tents each, but we are a group of almost 15 people, and have played constantly for over a month and a half. We have gear that ranges from AS50's L85's, M107's, camo, ghillis, NVGs, (no range finders yet!) etc. Just because you see alot of good gear doesn't always mean its hacked. Like us, we have put a large effort into aquiring all of this gear and it has taken a LONG time. If you happen to pick up a hacked weapon, or find a hacked vehicle, upon server restart that gear will dissappear as it is not synched with the hive, but dont worry about getting banned, Rocket said himself that if people are found with hacked vehicles or weapons, investigations commence to find out if you were the one that SPAWNED them.

It's Legit and you wont be banned for using hacked guns or vehicles.

Yeah it had a bison, DMR and a FAL on it untill we stripped it, whoever ambushed us straight after blew up the ATV with all of those weapons. Don't bring a grenade to a vehicle fight :) Update: All vehicles are back and the server needs updating to the new DayZ patch

What you mean by "UH1 will be added to vehicles". Has it been added or not ?

I've only seen vehicles twice, and they were buses both times. The first time, it was out of gas, second time I jacked it but someone else jacked it from me once I disconnected. That's the way it goes I guess.