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It was 4:00 AM both server time and in real time. I was tired, both physically and mentally, as i swept the fields just southeast of NWAF. In almost pitch black darkness, i hustled up the steep slope to my right, hoping to find the enterance to the airfield. Alas, my luck was not so good. There was a "friend" of mine, so to speak. We teamed up 30 minutes ago and were moving together like true survivalists. One would cover the other during a bounding move from cover to cover. One would take shots from afar, not alerting a horde of walkers, while another silently made their way through, making an attempt at anywhere big enough to hold loot. It was 5 minutes since he/she last logged off. Their final words to me "Brb, sammich is done". I chuckled, as my hunger was orange, and without any food in sight, i was worrying about slowly dying. I crested the hill to see what seemed like a field set ablaze. Road flares were everywhere. In the middle of this madness there were 3 vehicles, 2 Gaz's and a bus. Curiously, i took out my binoculars and reconned the area. The distance between me and the vehicles was at least 1000 meters, if not more. I assumed i was safe from the 10+ men and women scattering around setting up shop. But it was the soft patter of large caliber rounds landing right in front of my face to remind me that sniper rifles still exist. I dashed for the nearest cover; a low-lying stone barricade. Again, more shots, these not as soft, due to the stone. I poked my head up, only to hear a bullet whiz by and hit a tree. Either the man was an amazing marksman, or i couldnt locate the muzzle flashes. Thats when "that was the most amazing ham&cheese ive ever had "appeared in the direct comms chat". After telling him/her the situation, we both decide to use our practiced bounding/cover technique. Very slowly we advanced from cover to cover until we were 500 meters from the trucks. Now we were in rifle range. Just then 3 or 4 of the bandits lit up my friend, sending him into a slow spiral of blood loss and death. Thankfully, he died withing looting range, and though i hated the fact i was now using my ex-ally's dead corpse as a means of survival, it payed off. He had not one, but two M67 grenades, along with roadflares. The ones lit previously by the bandits had long faded. The only sources of light were the vehicles, which the bandits had so warmingly aimed at me, and the sporadic muzzle flashes. I knew i had to find and kill at least one of the guys, to make sure my comrade's death was not in vain. So i revealed my position and flung the road flares far into the woods, highlighting enemy snipers. I knew there would be no survival, and alt-f4 would just prove to everyone (who by this time knew my name) that i was a coward. I would go down fighting. Armed with an Enfield, a makarov, 2 frags, and a few roadflares, i quickly launched one of the frags into an enemy group only 30 or so meters away. No dead, but i saw two men who lost a severe amount of blood. Suddenly another group opened up from my right flank and my cover became even less safe. i threw another frag at the group of two. Two kills. Now i knew there were at least 8 more remaining. Then the crack of a heavy sniper echoed through my headset. The bullet just barely missed me. At this point i was about 750 meters from the other group. I picked up an AK and one more frag from the two dead bodies, and blindly opened fire at the larger group flanking me. No kills.Then, i saw the flash of the sniper who had been taking pot shots at me for nearly 30 minutes now. I opened fire, expending the last of my ammo. It was dark, but after the final burst, i knew i had at least stopped him from firing, hopefully incompacitating him. Just then the large group split off into 3 groups. two flanked right, two flanked left, and three went right towards me These clearly werent your average run-of-the-mill players. But i was no greenhorn when it came to shooters. Having only 3 mags for my makarov, i fired into the group on my right, which would have forced me to move from cover out into the open. I hit no one. They were around 400 meters and closing, with the other two groups even closer. One of them had a lmg and was putting a lead curtain at head height. The only way i knew where they were was by using 3rd person mode and peeking over cover. I fired my last two mags into the group on my right, injuring both but not killing them. Were it not for it being night, i would have been dead long ago, but to my luck, it was tar black. Apparently they did either not realize or forgot that gamma and brightness all the way up can at least show you basic details of the landscape. I was out of ammo except for the hatchet i had picked up WAAAY back in Cherno and the one frag. I just had to bide my time and wait for them to get close enough. finally, the middle group was in range. I threw as best i could, but i threw a little to high. It blew up in air. Right about head height on them. 1 more kill. But midway through, between release and explosion, i found out the sniper i thought i killed earlier was indeed still alive, and put a bullet right into my arm. I was down for the count. It was a sad ending really. I was left laying down as the remaining 6 or so bandits ran up to me. After realizing i was bleeding profusely, they took my cans out of my patrol pack, restocked ammo, tended to their wounded, and drove off. And there i was. Just counting down the seconds till death. It gave me a moment to reflect on what an epic struggle i had endured. i was proud that, even though i died, i managed to do more harm to them, costing them a little under half of their group, and wounding 3 of their guys. I never did meet my ally again. But i do agree that it was his/her supplies that kept me going for so long. 2 minutes after the last speck of headlight had vanished, my character had finally bled his last drop of blood, and died. ~Supplice VI~

I'm going to ask now...how many people do you have in your group, and do you REALLY need two cars? I don't mean to tell you how to play but it just seems as if two is a bit excessive. Vehicles in servers are hard enough to get and you're going to deprive somebody of having one? I dunno, maybe it's just me being a whiny bitch. Either way, this is certainly why don't hang around in vans.

Yeh brand new server have A LOT of newly spawned vehicles soooo go grab that V3S and URAL!! Just as an Admin try not to screw up it makes you look bad. XD

It will normaly happen around midnight or early hours GMT time. IF you just rented it a few hours ago it will probably be a few days before this happens. Just get preped if your part of clan get stuff ready like car wheels lots of car parts etc. Virgin servers are alot of fun as there is vehicles everywhere :)

Hello guys, i made a list of suggestions. 1. A quiver for steel bolts 2. A larger Map with more Cities, Airfields, seeports etc. 3. Colours, for painting vehicles or weapons. 4. More different houses larger houses and maybe with a basement, loft 5. More different zombies like a fat Zombie a tall Zombie etc 6. Larger Hospitels with more rooms and more realistic 7. Areas you can't reach without a helicopter or a boat 8. The ability to build a own military camp 9. Edit the Sound for farmlands (fields), because walking on them sounds like walking on a street 10.A Radio in the vehicels that can be turned on and off, so that other players in the vehicle can hear them too 11.Zones which can be conquered (captured) by clans 12.Uprade your vehicels with guns and steel plates, etc These are my Suggestions for DayZ For more informations write me a mail. :thumbsup:

You can use the forums to arrange bounty's on bandits, I think it's been done. As mentioned above there is no currency... which may prove difficult in paying someone for their skills. If you want a certain bandit killed, post it on the forum offering nice guns, vehicles, jet-packs. Whatever you want to give to see your bandit in the dirt. Someone will take-up your offer, or die trying.

LOL. Actually, it's quite funny you ask if we recorded it, because yes, we did. We initially logged into your server because the server we had been playing on was hacked (Battleships and Abrams all over the place, US 328) and we had been summoned and killed. Fortunately, the tents respawned on the next server restart so we took what we could carry and migrated to a server that also had a similar time offset (yours). We brought tents and all our supplies with us and simply set up our camp in the same position as the old camp, that's why we had gear. Secondly, we were enjoying the "clan war". I spotted the white offroad truck at its spawn point (redacted, I won't give your camp away, if you're still there.) and called all my guys to come help me repair it. As I was clearing all the loot spawns in the factory to get all the parts necessary to get it running, I ran into two of your members in the long barn located ever so slightly to the southwest, and they shot me down. We then had a ~30 minute standoff with you guys that resulted in all of us being killed except me on my new character. Luckily, I spawned at Kamenka and had the sense to check the Bicycle spawn next to the lighthouse so I could get back to the action ASAP. While you guys messed with the white truck, I decided since there were ~5 of you there, your tents must be nearby and decided to go due West of where you entered the tree line, and imagine my surprise when I found your blue Van parked right in the trees. Armed with the encouragement that I was right about your stuff being nearby, I continued to scout every dense spruce grove nearby (GOSH! who would think tents might be there?!) and found your 5 tent camp. Despite seeing your two ATVs, Bizons, and more, I just took the GPS to mark your coordinates, and a Kobra to get home safely and I returned to my camp to regear. Later, I snuck back down and grabbed an ATV to pick up my clanmates and regear quickly, and we ran into you again (actually I literally ran into one of you, with your van!). When we regrouped, I led my team to each of the Ural spawn points until we finally found it. By this time it was fairly late in the evening, and they logged out (after quite a few firefights with both your clan and other players). My squad was actually somewhat bummed out that we had lost so much gear (even though we could replace it) that I decided to handle things myself. I ran the 30 minutes each way all by myself and went back to your camp. I tend to stick to tree lines when I run places as it allows me the best vision of potential camps and vehicle hideaways, and I got rather fortunate to find the same above-mentioned white truck parked in a single spruce tree near the edge of the map. I then systematically drove each of your vehicles from your camp back to our camp, and raided your tents for some basic supplies (mainly food and drink, and one more kobra, since you didn't have much we needed.) The next day, we noticed your "We Have received suspicious activity of hackers!" admin-speak had become more prevalent, and realized you were referring to us. Frankly, we were annoyed, so we decided to drive the Ural to your base, that's what knocked the trees down, not C4. If you notice, I drove a fairly clean cut path from the center of your camp all the way back to the road. I'm also rather proud of the huge circle we flattened in your camp, it takes a lots of patience to drive in a circle like that for 10 minutes. (Evidence of the Ural, our team, and the circle here! http://imgur.com/a/Vj9yp)To address your concern of how we knew it was you, we have played the game before. When we were en route to the camp, we don't sit and twiddle our thumbs. I drive, one person watches the players screen to see how many of you are in game, and the rest scan for movement in the trees. We knew it was your base from watching you come and go, and you were the only member of your clan who was in game and then suddenly out as you were being shot at next to your tents. I'd love to see what proof of "scripting" you have, in fact I believe the mods would too, as we already contacted DayZ Shawn a few hours ago and he was none too pleased to hear about your admin abuse. Learn to play the game, or at least learn how to be an impartial server admin. Good day sirs. - [RD] Randiesel

Agreed with that one. One thing that would happen with vehicles is people coming straight from the coast (on a pushbike) to raid the barracks for weapons. More traffic is good traffic.

I guess spawntimer resets during a restart but already spawned vehicles stay on their places and don't despawn. -> But I really dont know it exactly.

1. What is the average life expectancy of a vehicle (from the time being driven for the first time until it is despawned/destroyed)? 2. What is the share of the vehicle's life where it is actually used (driven)? 3. How long do vehicles remain at their spawning locations? Thanks!

The appearance of vehicles depends on the time the server is running (I've read in another thread).

There are vehicles, quite a few of them. But they are either scooped out quickly by players or abandoned.

Look at one of the maps that have all the looting options (like the dayz db one), including deer stands, vehicles etc. Now look at all the places on the map that have no loot, no landmarks. Now consider how often players will pass through those quiet locations getting from loot point A to B. Now come to understand every other player is thinking along the same lines as you. Now, with all this in mind, pick a spot. What I'm suggesting to you, if you don't already know is to pick a spot that isn't obvious in any way, ideally close to some low yield crappy loot location no serious player would visit, like one of the small towns with a few houses and no barns. Find a few big tree's near one of those places and make a camp. You can also put a tent inside a tree if you are patient. When my friends hunt for camps, they hunt up north and near cities and landmarks like Dubina peak etc. I've never heard of them going to a crappy little town and searching the forests in a 500m circle around it. Hope this helps.

I just want my own bicycle so I can ring the bell :'( Isn't there a respawn on the vehicles?

you also have to realize that people like to collect them and hide them. every now and then you will run across a stash of vehicles and tents that some clan has set up. loot city!!

It also may be an addition benefit to add either anti-vehicle mines (Damage wheels) or more common anti-vehicle weapons. Caltrops would also be a possibility. We still want to make vehicles something special, but not as rare as they are now. Problem is that if we provoke a "glut", that everyone will be driving around in cars etc. Then again "accidents" account for alot of the vehicles. Would be interesting to see what would happen if the spawn limits were removed,

Rondom vehicles. According to this map I visited about ten places where vehicle spawn, but nothing found. The appearance of vehicles depends on the number of players? On my server just 2 players.

ai yes, this be a point brought up before, to which im not entirely sure on ze answer, although there are more favourable solutions on my palette. its for that reason i havnt really dabbled deep into it because i think its a problem you can attach already to peeps setting up tents, and hiding vehicles away in their secret bases. I think a massive extension and greater creative capacity should be explored with traps. This could potentially help this situation. Otherwise i have seen the dev team discussing this idea requesting feedback which seems pretty interesting: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/29313-some-feature-ideas-requesting-feedback/

Once a group controls that industry, they cant transfer it to another server, like all the permafixtures, it stays there. If they wanna control other industrys on other servers, meeeh i can see that would become an issue, but tbh i think it would be easier for a clan that was considering doing this to keep as many industrys on the same server. So for example, it would be pointless server hoping for a garage, because the vehicles stay stuck in the server. IT would be pointless to server hop once your electric grid is up, because electricity can only be sent/used to areas on that server (not transferable across servers), the radio tower, the ac tower, they all effect and are effected by the server they are on, and not any other. Sooo tbh I think this would more likely bind larger groups to specific servers then force them to hop more often.

Alas it will happen. Things will disappear, up to and including vehicles and tents. The game is in a development cycle and a state of flux. You will always lose things. The dev team could announce five minutes from now that a full database seset has been done while you were reading this post... Best way to never lose equipment: once you have it, take a screenshot. Log out. Print out that screenshot for fond memories. Never log in again, and you can pretend that your pixels are always there, waiting for you. Pro tip: pass that screenshot print out on to your kids! Family heirlooms are made this way!

At the moment, the best way to store items in on your person. tents are not safe, but sadly neither are vehicles. Hackers can teleport right next to any vehicle if they so wish, and anyone can find the ATV or car you parked and just drive off with it. Remember you are playing an Alpha game, and things are not perfect. I used to work hard to get my clans camps stocked etc, but we got raided and now I just don't bother. I use only what I can carry and fuck the rest.

Thats not the same issue, what you noticed on your server is normal, because arma 2 (correct me if i'm wrong) can't "start" a mission automatically it only can "select" one. At least one player has to be on the server to start. ;) Do you mean random vehicles or vehicles you already found and placed somewhere?

Vehicles still work. I was on a mission yesterday to get one so I could have a stash. Tested it through a server restart and they still work.

If its not safe to store items in tents, is it safe to store them in vehicles ? and will they restarts and crap like that because its lame working hard for your stuff and have it dissapear

There is, if you look at the Day Z map they updateded it yesterday and there is far more vehicles on it now.