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I have only found a bicycle, two actually, and me and my team quite enjoy them, we search for cars alot and have yet to even see one, except for the guy in the jeep that ran my friend over right when he started the game for the first time. That being said, vehicles are rare, I like it that way, that means having one is that much more enjoyable(only had a bike but I can imagine), and losing it is that much more depressing. I love this game because it toys with my emotions like no other. Leave it the way it is I say.

After a lot of struggle, pain, leaving ppl, i give you this answer which costs us a lot of time at DE 10 to figure out and/or get confirmed by the Devs: - Tents and Vehicles dis- and reappear sometimes after restart - its a known DayZ bug (confirmed by Devs!) and [our server...] DE10 isnt the reason for it... see post #268 - Tents appear to be empty or stay empty after restart - also a known DayZ bug but with a possible workaround... see post #291, and give him your Beans! I am additionally sure this happend to US 10 too.

So, I only recently started playing Day Z, about a week ago. After some trouble trying to get it started, I finally got it to work. Very well, in fact. I have had no further problems until today's update. Today, I checked for updates, and installed beta patch 95389. Then I launched the game, and as you may imagine, I tried to join a server. But what is this? I was kicked? Because my ping was too high? But it says the auto-kick only goes up to 175, and in the browser, this server showed a ping of 16? This happened on every subsequent server I tried. I have come to a conclusion, and it is that the server is kicking me because of high ping, but high ping that the server is causing. In the first few moments of joining, my computer gets bombarded with information about the game; what time it is, weather conditions, where I am on the map, what my inventory is, the location of every single entity that the server is tracking (other players, vehicles, any zombies in the area), and returns fire with all the information that the server needs from my computer. I don't have the fastest internet, only 3MB/s, so my bandwidth tops out pretty easily, even though I know that I can play with much lower pings than would justify a kick. Once I'm all loaded in, which isn't a short process, I generally have a ping between 20 and 70ms. I don't know if anybody else is having this problem. My suggested solution is either raising the ping cap (which I know is mostly up to the server owner, not the devs), or waiting a little while, maybe a minute, for the ping to stabilize before kicking. I would ask for longer than a minute, as loading can take up to about two, but I realize that that would entirely defeat the purpose of the limiter. I really enjoy playing the game, and I really appreciate that it's free. I'd just like to be able to continue playing. Hope my voice is heard!

The servers were hit with a DDoS before and after a beta update on the servers. There's a possibility that things didn't load from the hive properly. Keep in mind, tents and vehicles are stored in the master database. These are not stored locally on US 10 or US 870. I'll perform a restart on US 10 to see what comes back, but I can't be responsible if those objects don't come back. With this being an alpha, things like this can happen. I doubt a DDoS attack on our server would affect what was already saved on the hive though. Things attempted to be saved during the event, I could understand not getting through.

Sorry mate, mod is in alpha state. Sometimes after restart all tents and vehicles suddenly vanish and we need to restart it few times more to get them all back. I wish things were different... Let's just wait till it's all get polished. P.S. Normally I warn players before restart but after new patch Battleye doesn't like me anymore and kicking me out if I try to log in as admin in game. Glad that you decided to play on LU39, feel free to PM me or contact any 30+/- members if you experiencing any issues. Not all of them speak English though, but most do.

The point is... I have been playing for quite the while now with absolutely no vehicles ever spotted by me or my team. It would be a cool objective to fix a car if we could atleast find one. As someone mentioned above, it is unrealistic that most of the cars on the map are completely demolished while only a few vehicles can actually be fixed. Just asking that they add some more vehicles to make things more realistic. Right now Im going to guess that 1 person finds a car and then uses it to find all the other cars and then they all disapear somewhere. Its stupid.

i coulnd't resist, i had to make an announcement. By the way, i also added a 'Known Issue' part on the first Post so ppl don't have to read the whole 15 Pages to find this posts. If you have additional stuff to add, just tell me. 27.07.2012 - Serverupdate - Implemented a Auto-Restart mechanism which restarts the Server every 6 hour (0,6,12,18,24 o'clock GMT+1/German Time). - The Auto-Restart mechanism will NOT warn you before the Server restarts! So keep an eye on the Time. Feature will be implemented later. - Lobby Kicking is deactivated for now, has something to to how i restart the Server, but will be used later again. - Also the empty Tent miracle was solved, by Corvax... see his post #291 - A Personal Note: My ISP has finally managed to restore my Internet Connection, i am Online again :D yehaa. Known Issues - Vehicles dis- and reappear sometimes after restart - its a known DayZ bug (confirmed by Devs!) and DE10 isnt the reason for it... see post #268 - Tents appear to be empty or stay empty after restart - also a known DayZ bug but with a possible workaround... see post #291, and give him your Beans!

Before you start making assumptions about our camp being raided -- it was not. One of our members was near our camp waiting for a night raid about 15 minutes before said event occurred. He was kicked from game, supposedly of a server restart and then, 15 minutes later, we logged back in and all of our stuff was gone. Tents, vehicles, and items are all gone. I checked for flattened tents to make sure we weren't raided in a olympic-medal-deserving 15 minutes and there were none. We saved tents and the person who put them up did not die. The camp is several kilometers from the border of the map, it is not out of bounds. I also logged back in and had a different gun in my backpack than I did earlier. I had an M1017 in my backpack and when I logged off and I logged back in and had an M4A3 CCO. Now again, before assuming, I did not switch guns recently. I had my layout -- before logging out -- for atleast 20-30 minutes. We pretty much lost everything due to a bug/server side issue. An official response would be nice. Thank you, Walking Militia

Ive seen that bug once, but not all vehicles get it

I type when i'm restarting my server manualy. I give 5 mins for people to save vehicles and tents. But my scheduled restarts? Nothing I can do about, Except put the motd message stating server restart times.

I dont know if its been mentioned but there are some bugs with behicles. The Hilux, Pushbike and Ural all instantly repair themselves after an accident if you just get out, and jump back in the vehicle. A couple of questions Rocket if I may.. The duping of gear through the save / dont save exploit through tents and vehicles is getting quite ridiculous. Everyone whos played for a week or more know how to do it and do. Is this something high on the genda to fix? Example. Fill a car with your favourite gear, save it then empty it again. As long as you dont save the vahicle again, the next server restart will have it fiull of gear. Next major problem is if a vehicle blos up, it will be fully repaired after server restart in the location it was destroyed.

Yep, me and my clan horde vehicles. We usually place them and set them up in towns which usually have traffic and use it as bait.

I asked the same question earlier today, I'll share my knowledge. Most commonly, clans or server admins (and company) will collect vehicles and drive them to a remote location to stockpile items. You can regularly find videos of people stumbling on these "bases". A friend and I spent 3 days scanning spawn points and gave up in frustration only to discover this fact today. Really a bummer... I know.

Everyone in a group will try to hoard vehicles. It's just what people do. Once they have them, everyone else on the server is screwed. Pretend vehicles don't exist in the game because even finding one is just asking to get shot out of it.

**TENTS GONS/VEHICLES GONE**Before you start making assumptions about our camp being raided -- it was not. One of our members was near our camp waiting for a night raid about 15 minutes before said event occurred. He was kicked from game, supposedly of a server restart and then, 15 minutes later, we logged back in and all of our stuff was gone. Tents, vehicles, and items are all gone. I checked for flattened tents to make sure we weren't raided in a olympic-medal-deserving 15 minutes and there were none. We saved tents and the person who put them up did not die. The camp is several kilometers from the border of the map, it is not out of bounds. I also logged back in and had a different gun in my backpack than I did earlier. I had an M1017 in my backpack and when I logged off and I logged back in and had an M4A3 CCO. Now again, before assuming, I did not switch guns recently. I had my layout -- before logging out -- for atleast 20-30 minutes. We pretty much lost everything due to a bug/server side issue. An official response would be nice. -Thank you, Walking Militia

I have had very similar problems on this server. The admin is Nimrod =NMD=, and he has a clan that behaves the same way. He does the following: I have had very similar problems on this server. The admin is Nimrod =NMD=, and he has a clan that behaves the same way. (His clansmen are: Venom, Skullface, Jevron, and a few others) He does the following: 1) Plays very aggressively (and acts like a pratt) and kills people a lot (within game rules, just) 2) Turns off his server when him and his clan are not online to protect their kit (questionable) 3) He uses vehicle server hacks to create a blacked out set of off road cars that are not even in the dayz mod (should have server and game cd key revoked permanently in my opinion). He had several of these vehicles with the usual hacked equipment. Replaces them when they are taken or destroyed. Sorry I dont have screenshots of the vehicle hacks but I know him and his clan do this a lot, but will post at next opportunity. His website is: http://www.ts.nomandown.com where he has a public teamspeak. Whenever he initiates hacking he moves to the admin channel! To be honest I would stay away from his server as he will kill established players very quickly (night vision isnt hard to get if you are a hacker), and you will lose all your hard earned kit. For info GB 1 has now changed named to GB 2 so stay away from that server in my opinion. Hopefully it will be blacklisted soon. Well done to your friend for shooting him though!

Go out, do something productive... Hunt people at the shore (trust me it's fun) Horde vehicles.... I also heard Helicopters were coming in soon enough (;

Have you got a "base camp" setup ? - with vehicles / food / protection. Have you formed a type of government over the area you are in ? There is a lot to this game that gets missed because of people getting too wound up into PvP battle, which is fun, but yes it does get "old" if you don't have an "ultimate" objective. And most importantly of all if your leaving .... Can I haz your stuff ?

I have had very similar problems on this server. The admin is Nimrod =NMD=, and he has a clan that behaves the same way. He does the following: 1) Plays very aggressively (and acts like a pratt) and kills people a lot (within game rules) 2) Turns off his server when him and his clan are not online (questionable) 3) He uses vehicle server hacks to create a blacked out set of off road cars that are not even in dayz mod (should have server and game cd key revoked permanently in my opinion). He had several of these vehicles with the usual hacked equipment. Sorry I dont have screenshots of the vehicle hacks but I know him and his clan do this a lot, but will post at next opportunity. His website is: http://www.ts.nomandown.com where he has a public teamspeak. Whenever he initiates hacking he moves to the admin channel! To be honest I would stay away from his server as he will kill established players very quickly (night vision isnt hard to get if you are a hacker), and you will lose all your hard earned kit. For info GB 1 has now changed named to GB 2 so stay away from that server in my opinion. Hopefully it will be blacklisted soon. Well done to your friend for shooting him though!

Hi, I'm the Admin of DE 231. On July, 25th a hacker teleported a bunch of players to a place on the map. Some kind of explosions happened there. Can't describe exactly what explosions, cause I wasn't ingame at this time, but a lot of players reported it in our TS. Addictionaly I have to mention, that I turned off the "regularCheck" before, trying to get rid of the lags the server experienced in the days before. Maybe this was it, that made it possible. A lot of players got killed and lost their stuff. We're very sorry because of that. The regularCheck is turned back on and after applying the new beta patch it seems to work just fine - without laggin'. I hope this solved the problem. At least it seems to not happened again. There was also a bug that made it possible to duplicate items, that were taken from tents or vehicles. After server restart the items were still in the players inventory, but also in the tents/vehicles they were taken from. Today I was told, that it doesn't work anymore - hopefully. Did ya experience this on other servers too, or was it just ours?

I had a mate that had a similiar issue. It appears to be a bug more than anything, because they weren't using vehicles it was dark for me, but bright as day for them

i think the way that admin reports are handled needs to be drastically rethought. i should not have to go out of my way to record someone abusing their admin etc. then spend even more time uploading the footage etc. why are there even logs if you guys do not utilize them? btw : us175 is a trash server with admins that hoard vehicles and restart etc. when losing them. all the while happily abusing global chat and trash talking players they kill etc. do i want to spend the time recording their habitual abuse of power ? no, i do not. i'll just move to a different server.

Made me laugh when i found camp with 6 cars filled with obviously duped items. Then someone started to snipe me and got me down to 1k blood. Took me few minutes to get back to 12k and started to hunt that bastard down. Got behind him and emptied full mag on his back, obviously he combat logged like a fagget. Ran down to the camp and destroyed 3 vehicles, stole one. Too bad his friend got away with 2 bigger cars full of stuff.

Hi forum, I was just wondering, do server admins despawn vehicles that are parked out of bounds themselves or does the server detect that a vehicle is out of bounds and automatically despawn it after a period of 6 hours? This is because me and my friend parked an offroader (white) near the edge of the map, there were still trees, shrub etc near and when we logged on the next day it was gone. I would just like to know if maybe the server admin despawned it. Thanks.

I left my good gear like NVGs and L85 behind as I don't know you guys (I was doing this before meeting up with you guys). You can kill me or get me killed with bad tactics. And the reason I survived is because I broke off from the group to watch from a far so I wasn't far off. :P I usually play with monocled gentlemen from a prestigious gaming magazine on US/Europe servers but it is hard to be on at the same time due to time zone difference. We are mostly done with Dayz and playing less often now. We got so bored once we had a race to Cherno, it ended up with loss of lives and vehicles. But it was fun. :)