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First of all: Sorry if I am reposting, but i don´t want to read 22 pages of comments, so i refer to the main topic. In my opinion, the basic idea of your suggestions is pretty good, but it would be too much of "oh f*ck, i´m starving, and, oops, i´m also overheating, and wow, i´m still bleeding!" and it would make the players too dependent to strangers, and some of us don´t want to cooperate with anybody they do not know, because we all already learnt something in DayZ: Don´t.Trust.Anyone. Groups of players, which aren´t rare, would still be able to shoot every stranger they see, and I would say that most of us started to play the DayZ mod at least with one friend. It would also cause a lack of fun if you have to care about your damn health all the time, and i don´t think everyone would like to play with this difficulty. All of your ideas at once could make a hardcore version of the mod, but not a standalone version. Otherwise, some of your ideas fit this phase of the mod, like the increasement of the amout of zombies. I think, it would be enough, to increase the amount of zombies, reducing their speed, and increasing their hearing (remember: the hearing of loud sounds, it won´t make any sense if ten groaning zombies hear a crawling survior from two miles away), which would increase the danger of (for example) camping on a roof with a sniper, because they will hear you, and you won´t have enough bullets. This would also increase the use of meele weapons, wire fence, and other ways to defend a camp or something similar. PvP in cities would also get reduced, because you would have to hide or leave the city quick after killing a player (and the zombies would surround you pretty quick). You could also increase the amount of vehicles without worrying, because they will help you to move between citys, but won´t help you to move inside them. A higher amount of zombies would also allow new ways of mass-defeating of zombies, maybe by using fuel to make a big fire, and a hooter to make them going in. Maybe, zombies should be made more dumb, to allow single players to escape from them more easily by getting out of their sight and starting to crawl away. This change would need more accessible buildings, maybe moveable furniture, and ways to get away from zombies without a fight - unfortunatly for the makers.

I was on SESUK1 a couple of times, too. I can confirm the zombie behavior and other weird shit (buildings spawning in the middle of nowhere, vehicles loaded with a bunch of guns) and whatnot.

So lets get this straight. We have no cars or means of transport. We get killed oh bugger never mind its all part of the game i guess. We spawn run all the way back to airbase to get what is left of our gear to get killed again buy people that are super mobile because they have vehicles. This happens over and over we dont stand a chance because they are mobile and we are not so for them its like shooting fish in a barel which is no fun for us. You then killed us again 30 mins later. If you had left it at that we could have swallowed it but you have made it personal and are out to get us over and over again. Which is no fun what so ever!

Hackers can have the ability to see all vehicles on the map, so if you parked your cars near your tents, I reckon they ran over your tents before scuttling away with your cars.

tbh was going to start a new thread about this but as there is one here ill just ad my 2 pence here :) alot of server owners are fine but alot of loot and vehicles are being hoarded by these very same people leaving public randomers not much chance of seeing the real treasures in the game this is a flawed design ! majority of servers are run by clans or groups who take the stuff keep in with them vehicles best weapons rinse and repeat. so unless you with another group yourself theres not much chance of getting helis cars and the good shizzle hopefully the dayZ team look at this and try to implement something to stoip clans and groups just looting and controlling shit just for the sake of it.

Hi, After logging onto a server with my friends, spawning at our camp location we discovered that all our tents, the loot inside, tanktraps, wires and our vehicles are gone! Relogging didn't fix it and we have no idea what happened. I read this topic: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/25099-out-of-bounds-itemvehicles-cleanup-2012-07-06/ and also the other about cleaning up barbed wire and empty tents that were unused for 7 days. Though our tents are used and saved every single day, and we're not out of bounds we're just on the limit inside the map, inside of a forrest. Anyone have any idea what happened?

Photon : You call this the idiot level because you can get killed easily IF you act like an idiot. Wrong. It's easy to get vehicles, build a base relocate etc... just a question of time. That's the purpose of my topic : you can choose your difficulty level directly ingame. You chose the easy way to get a car (more easy than look for it in the vast forests of chernarus). This is not a judgment, just a statement and I would do the same thing as you with a M249 in hands :D

Well, not all of us are bandits by choice. It's just how it evolved when one tries to play "Jesus level" that you apparently call hard. I would call it idiot level Easy. Hard Difficulty is to build a large base, scavenge enough vehicles to pack up and leave every 2-3 days. Relocate, keep scavenging, firefight with other people etc. The way it's meant to be played. I let people go when I understand they are no threat. But yesterday, we saw someone at a heli crash site with an UAZ.. The prize was too good man... My two friends covered me, while I sprayed my M249 towards them, then ran from cover to cover to joink the UAZ right in front of their eyes. They were too scared to actually fight back. So now: UAZ: Check

My clan just got butt raped, bunch of German dudes found our base location. Funny video though.

Currently nearly all tents and vehicles seem to revert to their earlier saved states on server boots, allowing for rampant duping and greatly inflating the value of all gear. I suggest wiping all tents and vehicles and disabling them until the duping has been addressed.

Who are we? The Boys are a group of players, more commonly referred to as bandits by most, who either know each other in real life or from other games. The name originated from when we had no idea what to call our server, so we asked the guy responsible of inputting the name to put anything. The Boys is what he came up with. We're all from and living in the UK and our home server is UK1337. The server is maintained by us and we aim to provide an enjoyable experience not just for our team members, but for the general server population. We are a somewhat casual group of players though we do take the game seriously enough when the situation desires. What do we expect from you? First and foremost we expect a decent level of English. As stated, the four of us are all from the UK though we have no problems with players from anywhere else in Europe, or the world for that matter, if you adhere to this criteria. Our main method of communication is through TS3 so a working microphone and access to this software is a necessity. We also expect some maturity from your part. I'm not going to slap down age restrictions as I believe maturity doesn't always develop with age. This means that if your only intentions are to grief us and want to use us for supplies then look elsewhere. Abiding by the game rules and general playing morality is very important to us. We're not interested in cheaters, scripters or hackers and we're as equally disinterested in players who ALT-F4 during combat, abuse game exploits and server hop. Generally anything that would provide you with an unfair advantage. You should not be in it for the loot. It's true that everyone enjoys obtaining new guns and kit but this shouldn't be your sole reason for joining. We also don't have tents and vehicles full of endless supplies ready to hand out to you so bear this in mind. What can you expect from us? I think most importantly you can expect a fun and fair group of players to play with as well as maintaining a good amount of activity. We're a tight-knit group of four already so we're always having a laugh whilst playing. You'll also be able to frequent our server in which you'll be able to call home. Setting the laughs and jokes aside, we're also serious when it comes down to it. If we're moving to a location and we spot an enemy nearby we'll put our game faces on. We tend to come out on top during conflict and this is from maintaining that serious approach to it. Expanding on what I briefly mentioned in the previous point about coming out on top; we're also decent players. We all possess enough skill and game knowledge to outplay opponents in most situations though this is something we're constantly striving to improve upon, and even more so after inviting more players to our ranks. Final words Just to wrap up the post, if you're interested in joining us then please feel free to get in touch through any of the methods of contact that'll be provided at the end of the post. Either apply via our website, get in touch with me via forum PM or add me on Steam. If you do the latter then make sure you tell me who you are. Thanks for the read and good luck! http://theboys.enjin.com Steam: [email protected] Server: UK1337

The server has nearly run its 1 month and will be offline soon at anyrate. including all your efforts upon that server. We will not be renewing the subscription. Owning your own server in this game proves to serve no purpose except taking your money. We are payed for this server so that we could have some degree of control over the enviroment while we bring new players into the game so that they can learn how to play it. We where teaching two new players how to play the game last night, they had litterally just started and you slaughtered them. We do no spam kick, we kicked you and only you (despite your boasts above, we are not stupid and we knew what you where doing with the name changing) because the function exists within the server control and you guys kept insisting on trolling us, using your cars to reach us before we knew what was going on. We never found any vehicles on the server and we now know why, with you and your troll band murdering us every 5 minutes and forcing us to spawn down on the coast alot we run into your stash of cars, bikes and tents in the southern west corner. (they have all been liberated BTW). we wondered why we could never find any vehicles and the reason was because you and your murder squad had horded the lot. None of use can see a point of paying money for a server when you and your crew just exist to farm weps and cars and sandbox troll us ad nauseum. We sent numerous messages to you regarding your friend/foe status and they where ignored.

Stop trying to piss of others who like other playstyles then you do. Sorry you ask for changes so YOUR way of playing the game is more fun for you, but heck it cuts down some fun for others. L85s are great till some point, you only have to know how you can limit even the thermal view of that. The ghillie? Heck i can make you one in less then an hour and couver even your backpack with it, running through a town with it, best way to show yourself. And sorry there is for now NOT a single confirmed loot of one as of version 1.7.2.3, only ones found so far in tents, vehicles or on dead guys, so they seem to be realy rare at the moment and hard to get. NVG´s, i have one around, not hard to get some and sorry if you like to play in pitch black night, do so, i did it for a long time and did not get shot, maybe you stop running into hotspots? .50cal OP? Heck that thing is the best tool to get these alt+f4 guys, they do not get a chance to leave, but i can do that shit with a lee enfield, makes it a bit harder but the end is clear, you are dead one way or the other. And like some wrote, all things allready have downs, for now there is only one sniper that can be used with NVG´s and one that has night vision, limits the count a lot. L85s are also gone down, i know enough who lost there L85 after the patch, did cost us a lot of time to find one again for our group, most used to find snipers to guard our looter in a town. The problem in this game are guys that can not deal with how the world is, it is broken, some are smarter and stay, other do not have luck and die. I do not like to talk about some that think shooting a fresh spawned guy is worth the bullet, for me that makes no sence at all. What realy is a problem in this game are players crying about getting shot, well i have seen so much stupid guys out there, firing an automatic rifle near a town, only by watching a bit he could have known there must be someone in that town (he was more then 300 meters away from it and a lot of zeds were allready spawned in it) and then he got shot. He did not think about what he is doing and payed for it, that is dayz. Sure at some point you take a risk and you get shot, but it is you who was the one taking it and payed for it. If i go to Cherno or Elektro, NWAF or Stary i know what risk i take, if i get shot by a sniper or what ever, i made that call and that is not a problem of the gear others have, it is me taking a risk and not have the luck i needet. Complaining about items and gear is nothing new and is like a red line going you can find in most games having such things, you will never get it the way ALL are happy with, someone will come up and blame the stuff that makes his way of playing harder and from his point for others much too easy. I think, if you can not stand the way how it is, do not play it, complain about something and try to force others to go your way and how you like to play is nothing more then selfish and changes nothing for the game in total.

Great one! More vehicles needed!

Abusing private servers by admins... Riiight. I mean come on! You know that this server is sh*t when admin team took all the vehicles and looted all your tents just by reading logs. If you found such server you just don't go there anymore. And this can happen on public servers NOW and before. As an admin I can read logs you know. I know what gear you carry in inventory and where do you hide your possessions. But if I want to have fun and have no ego issues - I will let you have your vehicles and your tents untouched. And try to ensure that no hacker will spoil your fun. Because it's not fun to play alone or beat some unarmed players. I want you to gear up and meet me at Cherno so we can shoot each other and have some fun after work. I want you to raid our fully stocked tent, steal our stuff, our cars... so we can chase you later and have even more fun! You don't realize what kind of bloodbath we had on our server when someone found our main tent city with huge stockpile of weapons (2 weeks of gathering by the team of 10-15 players online every evening). Now we have clan wars. I don't know these guys but they are at each other’s throats because of our stash. Battle raging third day already, they killing each other like crazy and our old camp is filled with dead bodies. Now THIS is fun. Somehow they play when we are going to sleep but I’m eager to meet them. And I'm really happy that they play on our server now. This is the best reward I ever had in DayZ.

Hello all. Couple of months ago I started planning on making a guide series to DayZ, helping new people to get started. Topics I will cover will pretty much cover anything that isn't too advanced (I doubt I will take time going through every weapon etc, I won't do this in that much detail as I find that somewhat unnecessary). What I will cover are vehicles (again, basics, I won't take everything for a ride), navigating, fighting, first aid, player interactions etc. Parts will be added as I get them done. This isn't my first rodeo either, I've been doing videos for some years now. Quality should be as such, even though I'm not particularly proud of the editing of the first part - it'll have to do though. Why? Well, the guides that I had glanced through were shit to be quite honest, usually some guy improvising live over a footage, not really taking the time to produce something half way decent. Also getting started was bit of an hassle for me and it'll be more of that now that people can't use in game comms to get help on the spot from more experienced players. Thanks and have fun.

Hey Miggy, The server has been up and running for around 3 months, vehicles have been respawning as we have seen new ones on the server... We have quite a few regular players and you can allways find teammates via our facebook page and teamspeak 3 server.. Cheers

What Frost said. So far, in my experience, if you think to yourself "THERE'S NO WAY, THAT COULDN'T BE A COINCIDENCE!!" ... it likely wasn't. I've been hacked, annihilated, spoken to a talking german shepard, and also had my perfectly hidden vehicles disappear overnight, and I have to say... I can't wait for this game to go public and be under secured servers.

Vehicles, tents and traps don't respawn on server restart unless they are destroyed (vechicles). But you have to save them when you find/place them so that hive would remember them, even if you drive around in a vechicle and you don't click save it will disappear when server restarts (happened to me). I guess it's same with tents.

The vehicle warp cheat seems to be back. We know it from BF3, you warp/teleport vehicles with players inside in front of your crosshair and kills them. Some russian hackers do that nearly on daily basis since a few days.. Guys, if that happens to you.. restart your server as soon as possible, the cars will be back at the latest saved position.

Besides the Windscreen everything else is mandatory for Vehicle Repair but I got to thinking should there be additional items you can find and add to vehicles as Optional extras? For example, some people have mentioned (including I) of Mounted weapons on some vehicles like the Off Road Truck to be used as a "Technical" fighting vehicle, a type of improvised truck with a mounted machine gun. Other ideas I thought of was improvised armor plating using sheets of metal along the body work and windows. (Purely basic metal like thick aluminium or tin nothing firmly "bullet proof", could stop Handgun rounds and shotgun pellets.) Others included: A roll cage for vehicles to allow them to protect the user and put the vehicle right side up should it roll off a steep incline. Some sort of Trunk or storage box which can be used to store more items in a vehicle and have the potential of protecting the items should the vehicle be damaged or destroyed. (As it should be possible to recover SOME items from a destroyed vehicle) Some sort of Turbo system which increases the speed of the vehicle but severely dampens it's manueverability and increases fuel consumption Off Road Tires which increase the speed of off road driving but decrease speed while on roads Some sort of rigged explosive that can be applied to vehicles as a means of booby trapping idle vehicles or potentially protecting your own vehicle from theft. (If I can't have it when I leave it, I can rig it to blow should anyone take it)

This camp doesn't have shit on the camp I found on top of Klem. While their weaponry was slightly worse than the stuff here, they had: 2x Tractor 2x ATV 2x Bikes 1x Bus 1x Red UAZ Sedan 1x UAZ 1x V3S 1x Gaz We took 4 of the vehicles as there were only 4 of us, we blew the rest up, and destroyed the camp. The tents were reset and the idiots just seem to think that their vehicles disappeared so they continue to put ammo and weapons in their tents. We've stopped destroying the tents now, but we'll continue to take it upon ourselves to steal all of your shit.

One way I'd always thought about "Technicals" is having the actual gun an optional item for vehicle repair, much like how the Windscreen is optional. It should be found in Military Spawns as "Machine Gun Parts" with Green ammo cans with ".50CAL M2 Can" consisting of 50 rounds which take two slots much like how other Machine Gun ammo takes up in the Inventory and can be attached to vehicles such as the Off Road Truck, an Open top Ural or V3S Truck.

At the time it doesnt matter it seems since the camp just comes back with all the loot still in it. Also yeah, they cant run back and get new loot, however the camps are usually up north so it will take a good hour for them to get gear and pose a threat again. Hoarding vehicles is still bullshit however, they just park a dozen vehicles at the camp and they are there untouched most of the time. And sure, if they know someone looted it they might want to gun them down, however they would do that in the first place i imagine and they have no clue as to when this guy was there and when he will return, so if they want to camp ..in their camp... thats only their loss.