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I would love to see a motorcycle. Dirtbike would come in handy. Quads also. I do agree I saw someone posting more cars. Cause in zombie apocolypse vehicles would be everywhere packed with supplies. But Zombies would be there also. It is a fictional 3rd world country and nice thing about that is that most cars would be made by same company so most parts would be compatible with each other. I would also like to see a welding kit added. So if you find metal poles and spikes you can welded onto the front of the car/truck and run some zombies over! Just a suggestion.

We got our new server running finally, our first host was terrible. I suggest NO ONE use defcon, there total crap, at least for Arma. Let me get to the point then, our server just started, we had no vehicles, we rebooted the server and they were there, now, after an hour of having them the server did a weird crash thing... Everyone was either kicked out or (what happened to more people) they disconnected to the lobby and had to reconnect, after that all of the vehicles were gone and have yet to come back. I heard that once vehicles are back they never respawn... I honestly hope this is not the case because we were really looking forward to using some vehicles. -ServantOfNeutrality from Clan FMF-

Are Vehicle's still enabled or when I see them are they from the people using cheat engine to hack to get them ? Also if they are disabled when do you think they will bring them back ? ~ Epidemic ~

If I find a vehicle on one server and park them somewhere, if I change servers will the same vehicle be in that spot? Or is it only on the server I found it on?

How are you supposed to find working vehicles in this game? I mean if someone picks one up off the spawn and hides it somewhere then the vehicle won't ever respawn. So pretty much after a few weeks/month of the server working all the cars will be picked up. So it's pretty much impossible. Also at the same time your whole inventory is full with car repair parts (and you need a 2nd person to hold other parts because your inventory isn't big enough) so you don't have any food, ammo, medical supplies or anything. Sure, you might say "Find a car first and then find the repair parts", but it takes ages to find the parts! I spent like 6 hours running between cities and finding all the parts needed.

How do i get vehicles on my server? Is there a file i need to download? As my server doesnt seem to have them. Thanks

Currently the vehicles seem a little bit of a bonus, and they are unstable, anyone can steal it at any point. I don't mind the fact it can be stolen when you are online. It is your job to defend it, but when you logoff it seems unfair. So here's my idea. When you find the newly spawned vehicles you can take the key. You can only start the engine, and open the boot of the car with this key. If you wish to steal the vehicle you must kill the owner of the vehicle and loot the key. (the key doesn't take an inventory slot, it's like a special item slot. Now in order to stop people just taking keys off all the spawned cars, you must fix up the car to a working order before you can take the key.(don't moan that this is unrealistic, in this game you can do a full blood transfusion in 5 seconds) Now this means you can logoff and know that your vehicle is safe (Not from being destroyed) Because lets be honest, it's kind of unrealistic that every survivor can hot wire every type of vehicle including boats and heli's! This could be interesting because you may see a jeep parked up just outside cherno, then you could maybe wait it out for the owner to return. Or you could be a dick and just blow it the fuck up :)

Hey guys we are having trouble with our land vehicles, They don't seem to be re-spawning or spawning at all. A few players said their vehicles had vanished and that they cant find any at their usual spawn locations. Boats seem to be fine and apparently peddle bikes are also unaffected. The problem seems to have started after i had restarted the server to update the MOTD. So yea... Cant find any ground vehicles (cars, 4x4, trucks etc) Any help appreciated Cheers.

Just wondering been playing the game for a few days now just wondering how do you get vehicles, do you make them or just find them. Some help in this would be great thanks :D

My clan, the Chernorussian DayZ Militia, had two base camps and several vehicles, like tractor, land rover, skoda red and the bycicle. And tons of weapons, food and equipment. So we were playing on the server, about 20 minutes ago, and the server restarts. We rejoin, and it´s all gone. Everything. So: what the hell happenned? Can they just destroy all our work like that? Was that a time warp or something? And congrats to the admin or admins. Great job on the server. NOT.:@ [ChDZM] Unster

Server: UK13 Server Version: 1.60.93348 Client Version: 1.60. Date: 14.06.2012 Time: 18:21 GMT Issue: 2 players spawning helicopters for themselves that are not available in DayZ Mod. What happened: I was running west along the north side of Chernarus, heading towards Devil's Castle. I heard the sound of a helicopter, and saw a player (UK13 runs on regular with nameplates on) flying above me in an Mi-24. The player was 'Mr.Razor'. He was followed by another player in an AH-64. The player was 'Cortez'. I heard some loud explosions, but could not see anything else. I followed in the direction they had been flying and came to Devil's Castle. There I saw 2 helicopters on the ground. A Chinook, and an AH-64. There were 2 players running around the AH-64, 'Mr. Razor' and 'Cortez'. I took a bunch of screenshots and then disconnected, so that they would not see and kill me (remember nameplates are on). Screenshots below of the Chinook, and then of the AH-64, once with 'Mr.Razor' in it, once with 'Cortez' in it. Edit: You can also see some kind of boxes in the ground on the screenshots, that are definitely NOT part of the normal Devil's Castle landscape. Chinook: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/28/chinookq.jpg/ Mr.Razor: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/440/mrrazor.jpg/ Cortez: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/267/cortezp.jpg/ Chinook Edit: Added links to other hackers on this server http://www.dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=10950 http://www.dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=11022

I don't think I'm alone when I say that I don't want to have to walk for 4 hours off of the map to discover the location of someone's camp. It isn't fair or realistic that a clan can get all of the vehicles on a server, drive them north for a while, and make them nearly unattainable to the rest of the players on the server who are stuck on foot. Some invisible walls would solve this problem.

Me and the rest of my clan are looking for a perfect spot to save our vehicles and possibly tents if we run out of room, but the thing is that a perfect spot on this map simply does not exist, there is always a chance someone will find it. If we ride a huge way out of the map into where no grass or trees load, will our vehicles and tents save properly? I'm talking 10-30km out of the map. Any info would be appreciated

All the servers went down just a bit ago. Ours came back up. All our vehicles and tents have disappeared. Any news?

Vehicles are rare, the parts are everywhere. Am I the only one who thinks this is backwards? Shouldn't broken down vehicles be all over the place? The people turned into zombies, so where did all their cars go? I think it would benefit the mod if there was an abundance of vehicles around the towns/cities. BUT!! make the parts very rare. Things like tires, scrap metal, & jerry cans should be semi-rare, maybe a bit less chance of spawning, but still found in most places. On the other hand, fuel tank parts and engine parts should be extremely rare, like on par with GPS/NVGs/etc. And you could only find those parts in gas stations and industrial areas. This would make it more difficult to get car parts, but easier to get a working car once you've obtained those rare parts. Also, it would be easier to stash a working car in a built up area, because there would be other cars sitting around. Another advantage of having more vehicles on the map is the containers. A survivor could use a car as a base for scavenging, dropping all his extra loot into it while he goes out and gets more, or searches for those rare parts to get it going. Which this means more possible places for us to find loot. The downsides I see are server load and hackers. Obviously more cars means more load on the servers, and since there are ways to dupe items, people could get a bunch of cars going from just one part. But, I don't think it's such a huge problem considering it's also possible to just spawn in items and vehicles already.

I would like to see a new feature where a vehicle which nobody interacts with (drive, save, etc.) for a set period of time will have its "health" decay and if it continues to be neglected it will be destroyed. This would help to alleviate problems where people log into a server find a vehicle drive it into the middle of nowhere, or off the map, and save it. Thus permanently having a vehicle out on the map that no one is using. Obviously the time it takes to degrade might need to be toyed with to find something optimal, but 48 hours with no one touching for it to take a hit to durability doesn't seem to bad to me. Thoughts?

As many of you admins and possibly players know some servers simply dont have any vehicles. The reason is the devs for dayz have not added it to your mission/instance id. I contacted one of the devs and he posted whats below "We'll be processing servers one by one once we sort some issues. Vehicles arent currently being processed until we fix these problems." So thats it folks. All the people who have a newer server (like me) can't have vehicles till they fix some things. There is no way to fix it atm. Kind of sucks i know.

You are talking about another game, NOT DayZ. Food is NOT that common! And with this latest patch you are even hungrier than before, which is absurd and grotesque. The problem with "pew pew pew" is because they keep adding weapons taken from ArmA (which is easy and of little work) and they don't add "survival" things: all constructions with skins (jackets, pants, belts...), the arches, make it more and more difficult to build fences and place tents in the woods and instead make it easier and easier to destroy them. There are few vehicles and they don't work never. And many other things... ALL this, coupled with the fact that so many players are looking for the fight as if it were the only source of fun (and these programmers favor this idea) and this is how DayZ is becoming, patch after patch, more and more a stupid FPS of war.

What I mean is, like if I found a car, fixed it up, parked it in the woods, and forgot about it. would it stay there forever if noone found it?

How do you enable vehicles on a server? Or are they just standard. Cheers

So I'm driving a vehicle. Lalalalala, weeeeeeeeeee! *server crashes* I relog and I spawned in a location I already traveled with no vehicle. I head the direction I was moving in the vehicle and I don't find it. I go back to where the vehicle was last saved and nope, it's not there. Where the hell is it? Despawned? I've had this happen twice so far :( Also how does saving a vehicle work exactly? Will it be saved into that spot forever if nobody moves it or it doesn't get blown up? Or will it eventually despawn after a period of no use?

So is there any kind of ETA when you guys might toss helicopters back into the game? I'm not talking about an exact date, just like a general idea or like frame of time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_(software) "Bullet is a physics engine which simulates collision detection as well as soft and rigid body dynamics." Cuz that is the NAME of the physics engine... It's possible to use it for vehicles although it might be a bit tricky but it's doable. GTA4 uses Bullet Physics Engine and Red Dead Redemption. Maybe more games use it.

I ran a forum search and realized how confused people are about the whole vehicle respawn thing... The first question people want to know is what happens to the vehicle count when a vehicle is destroyed? Some say that the vehicle is gone for good, and the vehicle count on the server will slowly decrease until all vehicles are gone and destroyed. Others say that the server is supposed to (Or if not, then should) note the vehicle that is destroyed and respawn a new vehicle in a random location at the next server restart. That's fine and dandy, but as far as I know, vehicle destruction is permanent. So when a vehicle is destroyed it is gone for good, and eventually all vehicles on the server will be gone. If this is the way it works, then the only way to replenish vehicles would be to run some kind of an uber database reset like that of a few days ago, when all the vehicles came back. Unless I'm mistaken, isn't this currently the only way to bring vehicles back? And if so, when one of these resets takes place again, what will happen to vehicles owned by players currently? Will they disappear (As well as the items inside them) and respawn as useless husks elsewhere?

Date/Time:Not exactly sure, between 3am to 6pm on 6/12/12 What happened:I log in and all my vehicles/tents are missing, I am not exactly sure if this is a bug, I have heard some people talking about bad server restarts and I was wondering if that is what happened. Where you were: Very for North. What you were doing: Logging in. *Current installed version: 1.7 *Server(s) you were on: Seattle 9 *Your system specs: *Timeline of events before/after error: I drove my vehicle to my base(GAZ) and log out, get back on later and all my stuff is missing. About 6-10 tents, UAZ, Ural, Bike, ATV, GAZ, Van.