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If an admin reads this (3:32 pm EST 7/28/12) the server is in need of another restart, vehicles did not properly spawn upon restart. Thanks!

That everyone knows! You sound like you giving an excuse to be lazy cause you don't feel like going all the way up north to look for a vehicle. Even though during your search the likelihood of you coming across a nicely stocked camp is very high. The reason people take vehicles and camps mostly up north is because most people hang down south. It makes sense just walk your lazy self up north if not just walk if your gonna chill down south.

Impossible to hoard vehicles. If you haven't gotten a clue as to where 90% of the camps in the game are then I you will figure it out eventually. Think christmas, Santa, North Pole, Profit. At the very least if you go up north camp hunting your going to find a vehicle. If you go up north and there isnt a vehicle on that server switch to another I'm sure you will find one. I think problem is only a problem when its your "main server" if you just play on random servers I can't really see this as a problem.

This is a very nice idea. I like it. This would let us know how much danger we are in when we plan on stealing vehicles. :3

Vehicle hoarding is when you take far too many vehicles than you will ever need. If a clan of ten players took 10 vehicles fine but when a group of two takes 10 vehicles then that's a dumb thing to do. Vehicles spawns are around locations where players are likely to visit like towns etc. But hoarders are in locations that nobody needs to go. So glad the heli radar has been disabled! OP is just looking for an excuse.

I Love playing both ways. Driving 4 vehicles with friends is a rush, but at the same time I enjoy going solo to if my friends are not on or if I just want a little alone time. Id say I group 45% of the time, the rest I solo, both are good fun! Everyone should give both a good chance. Its nice to have friends to communicate with and to have each others back, but at the same time it also attracts ALOT more attention with more people.

If its a Hive desynchronization then all tents and vehicles disappear from the server. If you can see other tents and vehicles(damaged or not) then most probably someone stole yours. A proper server restart always fixes those kind of problems.

Just so you're aware, the same thing happened to me when we stole TKG's vehicles. As soon as a TKG member (it was Terraknight) saw me, the server went down for at least 4 - 5 hours. When I logged back in about an hour after the server came back up every car was moved, including the one I was driving. I can't prove any of this, but I won't play on UK34 anymore, that's for damn sure. Not sure if Leavaris is responsible, as I managed to kill him before all of this went down and nothing odd happened.

Vehicle hoarding more applies to people who smuggle vehicles into the debug plains or that one island that you can only get to during a certain time of night.

haha this. Snipe people at elektro for an hour or too. You soon get over killing people and all the hard hours they've put in. When we find fully geared vehicles at camps we usually just blow the things up. Feel no guilt.

This all happened at 7:00PM GMT on 28/07/2012. After watching some guys in an ATV and a UAZ, they drive off somewhere unknown, being cautious about leaving the area since they could be around, we see someone spawn in a Bus by the camp we were watching, so I decide to go for the kill, and nail it. The guys name was Matt(2) the admin of the server. About 5 mins later the UAZ comes along to where the bus and camp is, so they are obviously friends and have communication, they proceed to get out and check the body, setting up our shots my buddy unloads his M249 SAW for supressive fire and i start taking them out one by one with my AS50, a person in the UAZ disconnects and the UAZ bursts into flames. The last two people start running for their lives, my friend stops firing and i nail both of them in quick sucession. After admiring the shooting of both of us, I eat some meat and we proceed to change position, and to our surprise the server restarts once, we load back in to see the UAZ perfectly fine and all 3 bodies gone. Then the server goes down a few more times, so instead of trying to take down that UAZ again we call it quits. The UK115 server has been reported several times for admin abuse, the threads can be found here: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/36063-uk115-admin-kicking-abuse-npv-clan-11-people/page__hl__uk115 http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/29157-uk115-admin-abuse/page__hl__uk115 http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/26527-admin-abuse-on-uk115/page__hl__uk115 This server and the admins deserve to be blacklisted, they don't deserve to host a server if they can't take losing their vehicles and gear. The names of the people killed in order are: Matt(2) -(The admin) xXMadSupraXx Rotari Not Iceman Thanks for reading this wall of text. If you managed to.

Server was all updated earlier. It has not been unknown for tents to go missing (and vehicles) when the server crashes. A restart usually fixes that. Anyway... who's getting the chopper tonight then? :D

I believe they are working on it chaps. Server seems to have gone missing from six launcher for some reason, but can accessed from the in-game multiplayer options. Server auto-restarts at 7am (GMT) from now on. Main admin has been busy/away for the last few days, but we're hoping he and vilayer get things sorted soon. boat, if your vehicles went missing about 36 hours ago .... we found them :) dead, if your vehicle was the yellow car .... we found that too. :) Just returning the favor for the guys that nicked all our vehicles a few days ago .... assuming that was you boat? .... otherwise, there's another large group of players we're playing cat and mouse with.

Server is back online. I know that its controlled by the Hive. But i had a long talk with a DayZ staff and so i had to do some things. Dont know now even if the vehicles are back. Let me know if you got your vehicles back, Otherwise i have to send a mail again.

Shutdown and bring your server back up. Vehicles have a respawn timer, and don't all respawn at once when the server starts up.

Well the server was down. Idk if the cars are gone yet. I meant losing the server/losing the cars would suck. We usually park the vehicles at night and get them the next day. Not really hoarding, we use each vehicle everyday.

Helicopter crash sites can be found in various locations throughout Chernarus and are most commonly found on open fields or on hillsides. The locations of the crash sites vary for each server. As for vehicles I'm not to sure. If someone gets the vehicle first from the original spot and saves it, it wont spawn back. (I'm not sure though) Don't know what map you're using but this ones very good! http://dayzdb.com/map#4.061.115

Vehicles are all luck. Helis crash at Stary and Novy all the time.

The server gets refreshed. The vehicles that were saved will stay. The ones that weren't will go away. Tents will stay if saved. They go away if not saved or empty. Loot goes away. Zombies go away. Blah laabllaetbltbtrjpekvldf[

So what happens exactly when a server restarts? Do vehicles respawn in their original places aside from the ones saved by players? Does the matrix update to stand the huge ammount of bandits? Does Rocket stab a bean can just for fun? What the hell happens?

Vehicles are controlled by the hive and are unrelated to your server itself.

Hi Vipeax, tents and vehicles seems to save good now. However, we still have about 2-3 camps on our server that is completely duped, full of gear that we can never get rid of. We blow it up time and time again, but it all just reappears after a reboot. Is there a way to fix this? Or would it require a full db wipe of the tents? Right now, people just run there whenever they die, grab themselfs all the gear they can carry, and then leaves.

We saved two vehicles and a tent last night. After a good night's sleep, we logged in this morning to find that all of our hard work was left intact. Everything has saved properly thus far... ;)

Are the heli's on yet? Last night there were many servers locked after the update. Both my regular servers were locked with only 3 and 5 respectively in them, all clan members. I'm assuming they were doing the rounds and gathering the vehicles before opening the server up to the rest of us peons. Glad to hear at least one clan won't be parking them off the map, though that isn't as much of a problem as clan/admins locking servers until they gather all the vehicles. EDIT: Actually I just checked, the servers are still locked. Any bets once the helis appear and are taken by the admins they lock will come down?

Not sure about that, unless it was changed in a recent update. Every time I've had a vehicle I've driven right up to barns, ran in and ran out. My advice? Save often. Carry as many jerry cans as you possible can. Make sure that you keep ALL valuables on person and keep the crap stocked up in the vehicle. Also, make sure you have inventory space in the plenty, so that when you run to grab something, you can be in and out as fast as possible. Obvious one, don't hit high population zones. If you need decent medical supplies and such, drive to a forest, get inside the trees and go to the supermarkets on foot. Try to hit the towns like zelenorsk that's further north from the coast and further inland (west). Make sure it's a good distance from the towns and not on any specific path that someone could walk through. When you hit a hospital make sure you rearm the box (if the option isn't there then clear all the junk away from the box, at least that's how I personally do it, it's worked every time but I've never seen another post on the subject, but I spent ages looking for the rearm and noticed every box had crap around them, so I cleared it then rearmed and it worked). Also, make sure you have as much space as possible and take the 10 morphine and 10 pain killers. I like to keep 3 of each on me, the rest you can store in the truck. Maybe 2 pain killers 3 morphine. Also, bandages, they are important. Once you've got those supplies sorted, then it's time for food, since taking blood bags would be dumb (why risk someone helping you?) clear your inventory and go look for some animals. Get as much meat as humanly possible, go to the truck, make a fire, light it, cook the meat and drive off ASAP. I had the ATV once and I found that great for quick runs. Make sure that if you're going to check a barn and you don't want to stash your ATV/car whatever, turn the engine off (move to side seat then back since you can't start it right away) and just look around for a bit. Especially if you have the army truck, that's a big painted neon sign. It's LOUD and it leaves a trail of dust for miles, so you need to be patient. Watch out for walls! I let my idiot friend drive my truck when I had it for so long and went through so much with it, and I went to fill up some water and some people drove up in a hippy-mobile and started shooting at him. I ran back from the lake and shot at them and noticed there were quite a few and they had snipers, I told him to drive off and I ran with them shooting. After some running he picked me up, but was bleeding, he drove it over a wall and got it stuck. I got in and tried to reverse it but it was t aking ages (4 of the 8 wheels over the front of the wall, 4 behind it) and as I was doing so, I saw his head explode, and I jumped out (couldn't drive off) and someone was shooting at me and I couldn't pin point the location and I died. So moral of the story? Don't drive while bleeding. Lucky for me, the server went down about 20 seconds after I got shot so no one got the truck in the end and then there was a patch which reset everything. Personally, I hate vehicles, they are too much pressure to keep. their never safe, they are an attraction, people will chase you, shoot at you, want your stuff and go out of their way to make sure they get it. No where is safe to stash it, so make sure when you log off you have everything decent in your bags. I'd also suggest putting as many weapons as possible in there, just crappy ones like the WC or LE along with whatever ammo you find. That way, if you die and the truck is safe, you can go pick it up.