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I've seen a few people talk about keeping the server locked until it's in "playing" so that the "mission" has time to "load" and this affecting vehicles somehow. Can anyone confirm? Vehicles actually spawning after a server restart seem to be sporadic at best. I'd really like to narrow down the best way to get them to show up reliably, and I'm talking about saved vehicles here not random spawns. One restart the ATV is there, where it was parked, the next it vanishes and the next it's back again. I don't consider it good form or fair to the players who might be searching for vehicles and have no way to know if they even spawned in the last restart.

I figured I'd throw in my own little thought since everyone loves to throw the "Rules" around all the time on what you can and can't do. (While also digging this mod deeper and deeper into its grave) Taken from http://dayzmod.com/f...ns-are-abuseing Now I will tell you why, in very many ways - This arguement is the stupidest thing you can throw out there. As you can see, there are many rules that are being "Laid down" - DCing not being one of them. Because of this, everyone seems to believe it's within their right to do so. Now let me go over the list of things that aren't on this list along with ghosting/battle disconnecting - I mean, it's not on the list so it must be fine right? Spawning Gear, Vehicles, Weaponry. Using ESP/Aimbots. Teleporting with .50 cals. Nuking Elektro/Cherno. Spawning Goats with .50 cals. Hacking a server and giving yourself server administrator powers. + Anything else that isn't on the list. Now that that little bit is done, let's go over the rules that are inplace and pick apart their meaning like everyone else does to validate their ability to battle-disconnect without punishment. BEWARE - The same restrictions apply to Non-Dev run servers! - IT MAY NEVER BE PASSWORDED - Forgot to add the "Except when updating/restarting for ping related issues" - NO OTHER KEYS OR MODS. NONE. PERIOD. - NO KICKING TO MAKE ROOM FOR 'FRIENDS' OR CLANMATES - Fair and is rarely being abused (And before you say everyone does it, realize that there are thousands of servers. - NO LOCKING THE SERVER - Again, forgot to add the "Except when Updating/restarting to resolve ping issues." - NO EDITING DAYZ/MISSION FILES - IT'S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO UPDATE YOUR SERVER TO THE LATEST VERSION OF DAYZ -BATTLEYE MUST BE ENABLED - Love how this was added moment after the first report yet all the abusing/cheating players get one post three days down the road. - Minimum slot count of 40 (30 for countries where bandwidth is expensive i.e. developing countries) - Their are only two reasons why you, as a server owner, should ban a player on your server. Those two reasons are: Malicious talk, and racism. You may not ban a user for stealing your loot, killing you, spying on you, etc. - So Malicious ACTS don't count? So aslong as I don't type something racist/harrass anyone with text, I'm free to do it however I want - Just along as I don't type? - You may only kick for disruptive behavior (such as continued VOIP over side channel). But you may not kick due to race or language or because the person does something you do not like. - Battle Disconnecting is disruptive behavior, but people also go "Not on the rules so it doesn't count" And if not, IE; Now then, what I would like to see out of this thread? Not what I'm going to recieve I guarentee - But what I would like is a definitive response from anyone with the development team on what is freegame on cheating? What can we do to cheat but not be banned like is going on now? How much can we get away with because "It's not in the rules"? Because it seems like alot of people seem to have mixed emotions on the matter, why not clear it up here and now? Now that your mod is getting views, is the time to get professional and not leave these loop-holes in your rules - Especially if you're blacklisting people who pay to NOT have people go through your loop-holes.

Vehicles are a fucking pain to maintain, hide and then you have to hope they dont warp back, wipe its inventory or is just missing for a single restart. So you havent been missing out on much.. We are so indifferent when we find a car now that we often just put it out in the open for someone to find or if we have time we use it as bait.. :) Save yourself the heart ache untill you have a 2-4 man grp at least or untill the game comes out with either a stabile vehicle build or its standalone game

So my team was all happy, we found our two first vehicles. He headed up north, mount a camp, and start looting airstrip and stuff. This went on for two days. Well today, we went to do our daily routine, head to the factory, get our vehicles fixed, and start looting towns. But then all of us (parted by 2-3km) started to hear a lot of explosions (C4 stuff). We thought it was ok, so we kept playing. Until two of us went to the factory while the other 3 players stayed in the camp. There was an UAV parked there, with all the excitement we got sniped. All was fine (we went noobish style). But, 3minutes later the same gun type (M4 type with silencer) shot two of our friends in the camping. The third ran away and logged out for 5minutes. The two of us who got killed in the factory, respawned in Solnichy, so we ran in order to loot our corpses (fingers crossed). My friend went first, I approach the factory and see a guy (name: RegEnt) arming himself and getting into the factory. I warn my friend, and he prepares. The firefight starts, I loot my body (get my M1911), and I shot the guy. Surprise surprise, he alts+f4. We wait for him (since he doesn't leave the server) and when he joins the message appears that he dies. But somehow he doesn't spawn where we shot him. All went fine, we get our Jeep back, and head north in order to help our friend (still waiting at the tents.) He keeps reporting that the bodies weren't looted and the tents were alone (And the other vehicle (the motorbike)) was still there. The server desyncs (happened a lot) and somehow I get killed inside the vehicle. My friend awaits by the vehicle, trying to get gear in Polana. When he gets back, we all hear explosions, and he sees 3guys near the jeep. They destroy the jeep, and vanish away. Meanwhile I spawn in Elektro, alongside with other clanmate, and we see a guy running from 6zombies. Name: RegEnt. And get this, he has the same weapon, the Coyote Backpack. We trap him down with our axes, my clanmate breaks his legs, he alts+f4. 2 minutes later, he spanws behind us, injures me, we still manage to kill him. He respawns, his body disappears. 2 minutes later he appears again with the same gear, and i fraps him down. So, what the hell? Take your conclusions. Server: Germany 13 Date: 1:30 AM GMT+0 19/07/2012 Complain: Hacking Video File: to be added. Please, avoid Germany 13. Good night!

Vehicles do not "spawn" there are placed on the database side. Since your single player mission is not connected to a database there are no vehicles present.

Rather no. Most new players dont have anything to stash in their tents. Tents would become kinda spammable and ruin the landscape. Btw you can destroy other people tents, ever used a grenade? or vehicles? Works fine.

Hey, all. I started playing DayZ in single player because I was sick of lag and bandits taking out my noob ass, so I searched about how to play DayZ in single player mode. I had to install a .pbo (not sure if correct extension?) file into my Arma 2: combined ops folder, then I hit single player in menus and scenarios/dayz. Everything works fine, except I've been to about 20 known vehicle spawn locations and haven't found a single vehicle that I can enter or interact with at all. I can't be having this bad of luck, right? Anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

uh #1 ive killed people by loading in at barracks, however i wasnt technically server hopping. Its cheap, but thats the risk you take when you goto NW airfield, someone can server hop in at any minute. #2 ive died and lost some really good stuff NV, GPS, m4a1 SD, DMR, m107 just about anything most players would consider good loot. But heres the deal, once i lost all that stuff, i literally respawned in elektro killed a guy and got NV, GPS and an m16 that easily. You never know whats gonna happen in day z. So ure a noob for quitting, but i understand ure pain. Give it a week or 2 and u'll be back lol. #3 once u reach top tier pro status, you can lose all ure shit x3 and still be able to re up on everything. I have a secret campsite with a vehicles, whenever me or my friends die we just go back and are back to 100% fully geared. We have 3-4 coyote backpacks, 4x m4a1 camo sd's, 4 m16's, an fn fal, 3 m107's, a dmr, everything. and tools and ammo, basically everything you need for pro pvp. even have 2 mountain dews lol. SO once you reach that status you can die 3-4 times and still have everything you need. as long as no one finds ure camp/vehicles. you may ask how i got all this stuff, Once I had a vehicle i could easily drive to 4-5 diff spots to loot weps and ammo, other supplies. drive back and drop the stuff off. also once you have a vehicle you will know some secret spots where you can get everything you need x5. However im not gonna reveal it to the public, but If you wanna pm me i can tell you how to get everything you need x5 within a day or 2.

I just installed Six Launcher and ran it. I verifyed it then I clicked quick game. I get as far as the loading screen ,after I have joined the server, with the bar at the bottom and the background is tanks and other vehicles. Right before it finishes the game crashes and gives me an error that says Bad Animation File Format in file 'ca\ah64\data\anims\kia_ah64_piolet.rtm' CAN SOME PLEASE HELP ME! I have been googling everything!

Not a bad idea imo. Why not? Coding work? There are already a kind of containers in the game like corpses or medical boxes, even vehicles. I'm sure it could be carried over to some closets and chests aswell. And it seems some people didnt get the topic. Maybe i didn't, but i guess the TE was not talking about carrying chairs and tables with you. I guess it is about taking guns etc out of a closet just as you take butter out of your fridge. Nothing to do with troll at all.

imo this is the biggest issue in the game... cross server meta-gaming. it's cheating, plain and simple. the best solution i can think of would be to put your character into a 'pacifist mode' for ~2 minutes after logging in. the pacifist mode would basically disable your weapons for the duration. if you're a legit player, you're also going to be effected - but 99% of the time you won't need to use weapons in that time period. you have your camp and vehicles on your home server as mass storage... your suggestion means you could farm on other servers and just server bounce to instantly 'bank' your loot. that's probably even more detrimental to the game than 'ghosting'.

I jumped into a jet on arma 2 and flew at 1000kms an hr for about ten minutes, there is no end to the wilderness. I'm wondering, can vehicles be saved off map? If so, that should be rectified.

We are currently recruiting new members. I am the owner of Omega-6 myself and I invite you to my clan. We have vehicles, weapons and combat experience and take fortnightly combat training. We are organized and maintain a chain of command, although this seems complicated, it makes sure everyone is happy and decisions are fair. We currently own a TS3, DayZ and killing floor server and as I said, we are recruiting. So feel free to give our forums a visit/sign up @ www.omega-6.co.uk Also feel free to add me on steam, on varden696.

I just destroyed a camp on UK666 so there should be a lot of vehicles and cool weapons spawning on that server now.

We are currently recruiting new members. I am the owner of Omega-6 myself and I invite you to my clan. We have vehicles, weapons and combat experience and take fortnightly combat training. We are organized and maintain a chain of command, although this seems complicated, it makes sure everyone is happy and decisions are fair. We currently own a TS3, DayZ and killing floor server and as I said, we are recruiting. So feel free to give our forums a visit/sign up @ www.omega-6.co.uk

If you're looking to play with a community of people, who think the same way you do, and are all down to earth cool dudes, then add me on steam: Kevin51501. Also, we use teamspeak 3 instead of Skype. Easier that way. Also going to be purchasing a server next week for us to call a home. If that interests you, we can talk. If not, good luck! We're all experienced, and we're bandits who shoot to kill, rob from tents, and search for vehicles and camps as much as we can. We steal from the rich, and give to ourselves. ;) Me personally, I've been playing since May. So have most of the guys I run with. Some even from April I think.

They are only on select servers. Newer servers do not have any Choppers. This is because Choppers are known to cause problems and be bugged. Recent beta patches have been an attempt to fix the desync problem with vehicles. Ander hinted recently that the servers that updated recently will get chopper love possibly. :3

Technically this already exists. The Squad.XML that comes with Arma 2, you have a profile which displays information about your group if you are in one and also shows a 256x256 (Adjustable) graphic along with the information. This graphic also appears on some vehicles, and if I am right on your arm as well. I could be wrong about it appearing on your arm. However armbands are coming in the future.

We are currently recruiting new members. I am the owner of Omega-6 myself and I invite you to my clan. We have vehicles, weapons and combat experience and take fortnightly combat training. We currently own a TS3, DayZ and killing floor server and as I said, we are recruiting. So feel free to give our forums a visit/sign up @ www.omega-6.co.uk

In reply to the reply of PixerPopper 1.difference in opinion There are more griefers in this game than there are actual survivers. I think body armor would become something that griefers would go get so they can run around cherno, get shot, turn around and kill the players. Also a lot of the rounds used in this game would go right through any armor made by a surviver. 2. I use vent, skype with my friends and would still like to see more diversity in player appearance. It's one of the things with games that people find the most overpower and stick with it. Maybe more skins you can pick up would be cool but not ones you spawn in. They first need to fix that others see the same surviver outfit that you do. At the moment it's random what clothes you see on a surviver (it can be different from what they are actually wearing). 4. yes they would show up as a different shade of dirt. If they were like a mound or something that could be useful but just a slightly different shade would still be hard to find if the player didn't put it in a stupid place. May as well just use a tent instead. 5. If you change the mechanic of the zombies that they move slower but in larger packs, and they cant be killed unless with a head shot then it would be very useful if you blow a leg off. if they don't have arms they cant hit you. Oh I see, you can shoot out the legs of an infected so they go prone already. I would start making a team of armless infected to follow me around if I could make them not be able to hit me. They aren't changing anything to make it so infected only die from headshots. 7. Its not about panic. Because i'm really patient even when they are right in front of me. if you watch the zombie animation when they are right next to you and aim for the chest (with an axe especially) they seem to have a slideshow effect about them dancing around where you would like to actually hit. I assume once they tidy up the animations once they get the new pathfinding sorted it will be improved. 8. if you notice when your throwing something you cant stop in between that action. you have to wait for the animation to go all the way through before you can complete another action. I guess it just means timing you actions more, also if you're doing an action you can scroll to cancel it. 9. thanks grammar police. throwing takes practice but its never quick or precise and it should be. Spelling police* Also grenades are fucking strong, you only need to get it near a player to destroy them or to knock them out. Percision isn't that important. 10.I'm only thinking about every zombie movie i have ever watched. The undead never have had amazing vision. Unless you count the infection of i am legend, but those are a completely different monster. besides it was just and idea. and i changed the idea when i thought about it for a minute. Again, the infected in DayZ are infected, not zombies. Rocket is clear on that one. 13.yes you can only get in if you break the boards.. but you would see small community's forming in the middle of city's taking over and fortifying them. What about the fresh spawners who don't have any items to get into these houses? 14.it was just a suggestion. My brother and i had to walk 2 hours south to help a new player and by that time he had to leave. i'm people are split on this and how to effectively implement it so its not overpowered or unrealistic. might be a bad suggestion. I don't think it takes anywhere near 2 hours to walk from one of the map to another unless you get lost. Spawning on players would ruin the fair of losing your items. (Eg you have no food, just die and respawn back at your body with your friend next to it instead of panicing to get food) 15. I have found vehicles and know where to look. But it is a suggestion, why not add more? Limited use would work too if they were plentiful enough. I do find it weird that with the amound of roads in the game that there are only like 30 cars. And there are way more broken cars than working ones. If we find a car owned by someone else and it can't fix my whole squad or isn't one of the best cars, we blow it up so a fresh spawn can be found by other players. 16. Your opinion Shared with a lot of other people here from the sounds of it. 17. That's not a trap that's an ambush. Traps are really for when you aren't around and want to defend an important location I.E. a tent or a vehicle. Bear traps are a good start. Shovels to dig holes and place sharp sticks into. Claymore mines with trip wires. maybe even go as far as finding left over ordnance you can combine with blasting wire and a watch to create and ied. TRAPS! Think of it as some crafting and this kinda stuff would happen IRL. Seems like it's being implemented anyway with bear traps being bought in. Having too many in the game would be more bad than good. They should be rare so you don't have to carry 20 morphine when trying to raid any city on the map.

Ghillie suit is fixed as of 1.7.2.3 lost mine with the 1.7.2 update, .2.3 came out and put mine back on and all is well. It will show you have killed no zombies etc. after you put it on but just disconnect and reconnect and your stats should reappear, so feel free to wear one, just DO NOT go back and play on a 1.7.2 or .2.1 (not sure about the .2.1 version) server and you'll be good. But yeah I've had a UAZ get eat by the server I normally play on while my ATV was fine. It's just a current bug in the server side of the code and not much we can do about it until rocket nails down a fix sadly :(. So yeah 3 things not to get attached to in DayZ: Tents, Gear and Vehicles lol cause at some point either someone steals them, raids them or bug eats them.

Let me start off my saying that I haven't actually played the game yet, but I have been following it's progress for a few months so I can definitely see where you are coming from when you say that there is a limit to when the game stops becoming fun for experienced players. I'm sure this has already been suggested before but it would be cool if there were achievements, (e.g. kill 200+ zombies in one life, repair 5 vehicles etc) to give players something to work towards. I think the appeal of the game is the fact that players can do whatever they want with it but it would be nice to have the option of completing challenges.

When 15% of Admins use their power to do that, and the other 85% use it to kick anyone who isn't in their clan, or who tries to steal their vehicles, or raid their camp, or just happens to kill someone they like, then, yes, cumulatively that's bad for the player base as a whole. Maybe it's not quite as severe. But even if only 25% of Admins (I feel that's low) are using their powers unscrupulously that still has a massive impact on the game. Not to sound dramatic, but apart from hackers, rogue Admins are the greatest threat to DayZ at the moment. A few are dedicated, motivated and professional individuals out to contribute to the advancement of the mod but many, many are a consortium of children who pool 5-10 bucks apiece every month for the privilege of taking advantage of the power that gives them over other people. I've said already I appreciate your dedication to hack prevention, but that in the grand scheme of things you're basically spitting on a bonfire. By the time you know someone is a hacker, the damage is done and by the time you ban them they're off on another server anyway and by the time BattleEye gets around to banning them the next 5-10 people are lining up to take their place. Hacking is a problem that is going to have to be dealt with wholesale, most likely when DayZ makes the jump to a new engine and branches off into it's own stand-alone product in which case they will have access to all client and server code, not just the mod, and be able to deal with the issue in a broader, more comprehensive way. It's not going to be stopped by some grassroots effort to IP ban then 1-by-1. It is a dynamic demographic, made up of people who have either quit playing DayZ or quit playing ARMA and don't care about their CDKEY anymore, or those who are capable of finding other ways to acquire CDKEYs. The very small percentage of Admins who have the time and dedication to do what you do, while noble and laudable, are not going to make a difference across thousands of servers and 700k players. Oh, god. Because if DayZ turns into an abysmal failure they won't turn around and fire him. How do you think the world works? Like, okay, he's hired now he's set for life? They hired him to do a fucking job. That job is DayZ.

Any loot dropped disappears soon after you leave the area. Tents/vehicles need to be saved to be able to survive a server restart.

Thanks Zero - I usually run fraps and record all engagements, but just reinstalled windows and hadn't gotten around to it yet. I know these are issues that you can find anywhere, but it sounds like whoever this group is they have set up shop with vehicles. I do not know what a "pathfinder" is but I just refuse to believe that someone would be able to see me from my position. The way the terrain elevation was, I was on a flat area above the road and could not see the road or any vehicles till they had passed. For someone to spot me they would have had to be looking directly on their 9 o'clock at the right moment where the terrain dropped away from my position and gave me a angle at the road. Mind you i was at least 100m away as well. The bike or atv did not stop past the small vantage point or go around. I just find it incredibly unlikely that this person just happened to be glancing my way and could pick my body out from a stand of trees while driving and looking directly left. A more likely scenario is that with a tag over my head, the person drove to the best position for a clear shot. Anyway, good to know you guys are aware. I wish general chat was enabled as at least then people could warn others about possible hack issues.