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If the admin force load the map it resets all the vehicles.

Vehicles are highly sought after, but server restart is not when they spawn. They each have their own "secret interval" which I believe is controlled by the hive and not revealed for exactly this reason. Find out where the vehicles spawn and then periodically check those locations. You would be shocked at how often they re-appear. I have repaired the same pickup at the same location probably ~8 times across various servers and 2-3 times repeatedly on some servers. But, yes, your best bet in the long run is to hunt the wilderness and steal pre-repaired vehicles. You don't have to do all the work of repairing, and the vehicles will come pre-packaged with a ton of great loot most of the time. ;)

We didn't have that problem on uk7, granted it was a few patches ago but we kept 3 vehicles alive for a week. The only vehicle we've kept for longer then a day is the bus that lost all its wheels and even that disappeared and reappeared a few days later. Its just frustrating to not be able to make any progress, my character has every equipment and 2 good weapons, whats left if vehicles are useless :(

in my base :D vehicles are highly sought after, most servers will restart and then hit the server fast knowing where vehicles are going to be. You may get lucky every now and then, but in the time you find one and get all the parts to it it is probably going to be gone by that time. Your best bet is to look for a camp or join the teasmspeak of the server your joining and asking the clan if they have a spare vehicle.

Last night and the night before, my friend and I travelled all around the map, through many towns, checking vehicle spawns. We were at far out towns as well as the well populated towns. Later we got killed by hackers at the airfield so all the searching and tension moving through towns was for nothing. Why are there no vehicles anywhere? What is the best way to find a vehicle? (The hackers weren't on the server we were looking on. There was a server restart on the server we were searching on and we just decided to go on another server to see if we could find vehicles elsewhere. This happened after all the searching.)

Day 1: Found and repaired a bus, found a moto cross, hit the cross with the bus, got killed, they stole the bus. I was so happy cuz I never found a veichle before. Then so sad when we lost it. Day 2: Found the bus again, met two quad drivers on the road. Lost the bus again. Day 3: Found a quad me and a friend, found a bike when we were cruising. Now we are on our way to pick up another friend. Bike tires break. Finds a new bike, my friend hit me with the quad and there was no bike no more. Two bandits kill us and steal or quad. We respawn and find a new car. Cruising around looting deer stands we meet three other players in a car. Kill them, take their car. Crash their car, then crash our old car. Everyone died. I respawn in balota, finds a m4a1 and after 10 minutes im up in the balota airstrip and hear a car. I run back to the road and the car that had passed makes an uturn so I can kill him and steal the car. We cant believe we found so many vehicles in such a short time. This car lasted 20 minutes before we crashed it again... So at the moment we are looking for a dedicated driver and our old bus again :)

The game is a little more enjoying because you feel less the "pressure".. whenever you don't care at all about your gear (i usually don't), you can't simply ignore the fact that you spend a couple of days to have that NVG or AS50; on private servers this doesn't exists: you know you have many characters on many servers (more like regular games) and you do so much more things ... it's more common to find vehicles, you finally have a chance to repair and use a helicopter (last night i had great fun with it) ... and such. I must admit that i don't play on official servers (mainly because of the latest issues with patches) by 5 days already..

Easy. Random player found a clan's campsite and discovered the charges inside one of the tents or a saved vehicle, then proceeded to take a joyride and quickly hit random buildings while awaiting his eventual death. I've found many things in tents, and more than once I have found vehicles. Usually due to the servers going down within 2 hours, without a restart warning, I can only assume it is the clans running the servers resetting them in an attempt to reclaim their lost stuff. As I have no proof of this, though, I will not report them. 2 hours is a long time, and many servers reset after only 8. But yeah, you can get your hands on those charges. Plus, what is the point of having them if you aren't going to us them? Well, someone did.

you should start camphunting, since ive done this i dont know how many vehicles ive found...

trust me there are no "good" people that hide away vehicles with a shitload of bloodbags etc... its either bandits, or clans with their skypes and what have ya.... :lol:

HAVE Weapons: Assault Rifles: - L85A2 AWS - FN FAL - FN FAL AN/PVS-4 - M4A3 CCO - M4A1 CCO SD - M4A1 HWS M203 - M16A2 - M16A2 M203 - M16A4 ACOG Sub machine Guns: - MP5A5 - MP5SD6 - Bizon SD Light Machine Guns: - M240 - M249 - Mk 48 Mod 0 Shotguns: - M1014 - Remington 870 Sniper Rifles: - BAF AS50 - M137 - DMR - M24 - M14 AIM - SVD Camo Sidearms: - G17 - M9 - M9 SD - M1911 - Revolver - PDW Ammo: - Too Much Tools: - NVG - Range Finder - GPS Equipment: - Tents - Antibiotics - Blood Bags - Morphine - Grenades - Camo Clothing - Ghillie Suit - Bear Traps - Satchel Charges - Etc. Vehicles: - N/A WANT Weapons: Miscellaneous: - M136 Ammo: - Offer Tools: - N/A Equipment: - N/A Vehicles: - Old Bike - ATV - UAZ - Military Offroad - V3S Civilian

So, I play with a group of about 6 friends, our normal server we play on is down so we try a different one. Nothing streange, we carrry on like everything is normal. First day on our new server goes well, we find decent supplies and weapons, couldn't be happier. So, the next day one of the members of our group finds a clans stash of vehicles, he takes thier heavily equppied Ural truck and makes his way to Kabanino before an alpha glitch nearly kills him due to debris not loading for him. He's from AUS playing on a US server so it's understandable that it happens. The truck is totaled and he is saved, Fortunatley, the rest of he group were in a bus and were heading towards him. there were ATV's and cars there, so we went to the spot to take what we could. Turns out they have a ouple of tents well hidden. We raid them as best as we could, one of our members went to an ATV to bring it to us and BOOM! She blows up. We assumed she was a bad driver and we continue on our looting. Shortly afterwards, our newest member in the group while looting one of the tents blows up as well. We are worried now, while he was separated a bit from the group we heard nothing up until the giant explosion. Pin point accuracy grenades possibly, or pipebombs as there was some spotted on the truck that blew up. So we go prone and try to pinpoint who is shooting us with the M203 as that could possible be the only explaination at the time. Sure enough, we were reduced to 4 people looking around, while 3 of us were somewhat close together the fourth of our group was about 100m ahead of us. In clear view the last we saw of him was the smoke of the explosion around him. Since we saw nothing except the explosion we think hacker. We've run into a few hackers before, most just respawn after we've killed them about 20 seconds before we shot them. We log off, something isn't quite right. We are aware that it's bad to log off but from where we were, there was o excuse that no one heard any thing else but explosions. About 20 mins after we've calmed down, I log in myself because the first 2 that were killed were both banned/kicked from the server. I thought I would see for myself if I would die while back in that spot or be banned because we raided the admins camp, as that could have been a possibility, After about 30 seconds being back in, I check my imediate surrounding, no sign of life apart from myself. My screen goes bright white and when the white went away I find my body in a lump and dead. From an explosion... I will share the details of the server and location if need be, to protect the set up that these guys had, but if no proper explanation is given I will release that info so others can test it out.

very good thoughts. i like! :) ... yea with that running it a crap to be like too slow in forrests. but maybe 5 minutes of constantly running is ok, while you have to take a rest. am maybe there could be the possibility for more vehicles like the bicycles. or energydrinks or stereoids which give you back some stamina.

you could a least add this in a special difficulty setting to just some server for trying and see if this is not only interessting for the hardcore players but also for casuals. what's more ruin for a game if you getting all the best equipment and vehicles in just some hours. it's like you have already everyrhing which is interessting in this game (looting to highend equip). me took to 3 hours yesterday to get map, compass, matches, hetchet, knife, gps, binoculars, clock, a m4 with 10 packs of ammo, a g17 handgun with 4 ammos, a m1 handgun with 5 ammos, a lot of food and stuff . (and all this shit NOT with camping and server hopping. I am againts this!). now it's just like running from one village to another and lookout for other player which i can kill for fun. because its just borring and i have nothing to do ... and by god I'm not a professional pk, I'm really not!

What happens to the vehicle if you drive a it (VAN) and you get kicked by battleye? I ran back on the trail I was driving, and where I stopped a bit and saved it, and where I found it, but I haven't seen it. Is it possible the vehicle goes on without a driver? I suspect it was stolen by an other player while I wasn't on the server. (10-20 seconds)

I have only had luck with vehicles saving equipment, but even that is not fool proof. Vehicles are also tending to duplicate items, which is quite exploitable. I don't understand why tents and vehicles don't just automatically save whenever their state is changed. Add item? Save. Take out item? Save. Just saved? Wait 5 seconds then save! I find the whole saving when you want thing to be error prone and ripe for abuse. Please add an automatic save feature on top of fixing the tents!

Well.. No offense, but it sounds like you don't want to play a realistic post apocalyptic zombie survival sandbox game set in a post war soviet country. It sounds much more like you want to play a base building game set in a futuristic or modern setting. I'm not saying that the two are mutually exclusive, but dayz "as is" is nowhere near what your suggesting. The level of "turrets" and base building your talking about is crazy. How immersive is a survival-pvp-zombie game, where you can basically leave your crap laying around and feel secure in your items safekeeping as long as you log in once a day and fill a generator? You SHOULD have to worry about random people stumbling upon your shit and stealing it. You SHOULD have to restart afterwards, not revel in your drone armies capability in protecting your crappy akm, NVG, and blood bags.... The most funny thing to me is that what your suggesting is SO much more advanced than anything you could protect with it. Tell me one item in this game that is more valuable than an automated targeting turret? That's like me suggesting a nuclear deterrent in a game about farming so that people don't steal your fertilizer. Whats next? O FUCK MAN SOMEONE BROKE MY TURRET!!! ROCKET NEEDS TO ADD ROBOT DOGS THAT PATROL MY BASE TO PROTEXT MAH TURRETS WHILE I EAT HOT POCKETS AND SLEEP! Sorry, whereas your ambition is great and it would change the game in big ways, I feel that the biggest point of the mod is to show people a world in which nothing is permanent. Be it your vehicles, weapons, food, drink or for that matter your life. At any point if you feel "SAFE" in any of those aspects, something about the spirit of DAYZ as we know and love it, will be lost forever.

Why because I don't approve of killing someone without a purpose? I sometimes just farm kills for food, ammo, water, tools, etc. but not too often. We spend most of our time looting large places and we have found multiple vehicles and have fixed them all except the ATV...that is tomorrows mission! :P

we currently have lost over 3/4 of the vehicles we have had in the last day or two through various attacks by a LARGE amount of players, not sure if it's the same players changing their names but it has been fairly suspicious as to how so many people have found the base, in such a remote location. AS stated before the server has been offline and we are working to fix this. My permissions on the admin console were reset unbeknownst to me and I have been working with the server provider to remedy this situation. Call it saving our face as you may but in the end it is our group that has lucked out, not only have we lost what we have worked for ingame, we now have a tarnished reputation which we have tried to build over the years, due to some alleged accusations with no means of confirmation. Server is now up and running. Thanks to the help of another admin. If the party that posted this would like to resolve whatever has happened feel free to join our TS 203.46.105.35:20040 If you do decide to join just poke the user FlintSTONED, and i will happily discuss the matter.

Vyrosa, 1 AM. (Past midnight in real life, the game was pitch black. Not monochrome but proper darkness.) So me and my boys were on the east of that town, on our way to the Northwest airfield encountered two helicopter crashes along the way. We move in a wide line formation and just crossed the road and sat down in the treeline whilst chatting on third party comms. Suddenly... Let's start off with the group composition for now. We have two norwegians, one with a FAL Nightscope and one with a DRM scope. Two english players, one with a M4 one with an AKS Kobra Finally one Dutch player with a FAL Nightscope with an AKM backup. So we were chattering on voice comms and then suddenly I hear the rumbling noise of excitement rumbling in the distance and I quickly call out to my friends on coms. "Clear coms! Prone, vehicle approaching from the east." It so happened that I saw a six wheeled truck drive by over the farmland by the road that goes east from Vyrosa and intersects up the North airstrip. One of our norwegian nightscopers spotted a motorcycle and didn't even see the truck some how and we called the order to engage and try and fire on the vehicles. He managed to get away behind Vyrosa and we figured that the truck got blown up since one of us saw the thing smoking somewhere. However, we had forgotten about the motorcycle in the middle of the fight and we were reloading and scanning with squinted eyes for those who did not have a nightscope. Admist the fight one of our english players' computer crashed so we counted him out. However, the other english guy and the DRM norwegian lad got popped out of nowhere and in panic me and the norwegian nightscoper proned and were trying to see where the shots came from. Whilst I convinced him not to ALT+F4 like a little bitch, I ordered us to back up slowly and find some cover admidst the darkness, fortunately he managed to spot the sniper and shot him. We saw the death message pop up right away and we cheered. Then followed a full five minutes discussion on weather there was only a motorcycle and a truck. We approach the body and found a fully functional motocycle beside the corpse with full fuel. And while the norwegian lad began looting the body we actually found a nightvision and a GPS. As soon as we got the nightvision we moved back to our treeline and began scanning around while our reborn brothers were running back to our location. (Where they arrived to loot all over the place about 20-30 minutes later.) However, before they arrived we managed to find the truck driver and the norwegian guy easily managed to spot the guy using nightvision and screamed out in happiness while we carelessly ran over to the other body. Morale of the story: Don't fucking alt+f4 when shit goes down. Man the fuck up and you might even obtain a nightvision, gps and a fully working motorcycle (and actually a bicyle aswell xD) if you deal with your situation. To the owner of the truck and motorcycle (One of you had a NVS and GPS on you.): Good fight, the most exiting ones we've had so far. Midnight, pitchblack combat with almost no vision is amazing. :) --- Later that day we placed two snipers on the northeast hill above Starry Sobor. Three of us went down along the mall and towards the militairy camp. It just happened that some asshole spawned behind our snipers, shot the two of them, stole one DRM and then ALT+F4'd while I was binacularing him. Whoever that was: Fuck you. --- Now it's time to go to the supermarket... without guns.

yeah because in the military they never fire weapons from their vehicles... guessing youve never seen generation kill

Play however you want, but don't label and assume other players are 'bandits' just because they have multiple cars or stock up on supplies. You're not a hero though, you're just a dick. Taking others gear and vehicles they've obviously worked hard for and giving it to undeserving noobs who have just spawned.

Part of the issue is that once you are well geared, there is not a lot that the game offers in regards to challenge. There are players who are happy living up north, who see how long they can survive off the land, or those who have other RP goals. There are some who like to establish campsites, stockpile weapons, gear, and vehicles. But as far as I have seen, both groups are in the minority, and they will get bored like anyone else. Most people, though. see little else to do once their equipped and turn eventually to the one constant challenge: other people.

I randomly found an ATV in the forest and partied hard because I'd never found one before. Anyway I drove it to Berezino by the docks - you can find an old fuel tank on the northernmost pier. I drove down the pier and the ATV jumped in the air then flipped to the side as if I'd hit a ramp or something. Through turning the wheels and reversing it very slowly righted itself and my heart started beating again. I refuelled it, got on, then tried driving away. I had a few feet in front and behind where it would act normally, but past that it would start going vertically, as if I were driving up a sheer invisible wall. I tried everything to get out of this invisible box, eventually culminating in a straightforward rush to see if this wall could be 'jumped'. It could not. ATV blew up and is no more. Incidentally I managed to put it on its side once before, on the train tracks. Upon relogging it was correct again, but it had not saved the repairs I'd made to it - all bars were yellow once again. Fuel was saved however. Not sure if this was because it had been damaged when it tipped, or if vehicles are not saving properly? Anyway - I would highly recommend noone tries driving on the piers. Date/Time: 15/07/2012 What happened: ATV went full retard Where you were: Berezino northern pier What you were doing: Refuelling ATV Current installed version: 1.7.2.3 Server(s) you were on: Seattle 39 Your system specs: Godlike Timeline of events before/after error: See above

and what if he simply finds a cz and does the same thing. true its not a perfect plan and some of those suppiles will end up in the hands of bandits but ill ask you what are you trying to do to change things? the primary issue at the beach is the difficulty that many have in procuring weapons. we can help them if we try.an example if i find a large camp. I have no need for 20 rifles in 6 vehicles between 2 people so i take what i need and want and ditch the excess for anyone to use and if its for rearming purposes once I've rearmed from my personally stock which at this point is tiny and continue playing i find more weapons easily afterwards and still don't need a large stock pile of surpluses. like i said in my topic post its an attempt. do you have any ideas that doesn't require rocket to recode and change the game?