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In a hurrry? tl;dr Found a vehicle, server reset setting me back hours. Found it again and a bird spawn followed me until I was kicked. Bottom line: this server uses admin privileges to keep non-clan players from raiding their loot through honest gameplay. Be warned. See below. On 7/13 I was trekking through the northwestern wilderness on this server. My goal was to investigate all prominent landmarks, both for the views but also for tents or vehicles. I lucked out at a cluster of rocks labeled Skalka and found a well stocked tent. I traded in some of my stuff for better stuff (including a compass) and kept trekking. I then went to the top of Misty Peak, shot an east-bound azimuth with my compass, and followed that for a long time. In the wilderness north of Pobeda Dam I found a hatchback parked under a tree, also well stocked. This being my first car, I got in and went for a joyride. It lasted for about thirty seconds, and then the server reset. I log back in, and I'm hours back somewhere along the central western wilderness of the map, before I found the tent and the car. Takes me a while to figure out where I am (no compass), but I eventually see Palatino and orient myself off that to resume pushing north. I find the tent at Skalka rocks again, take some stuff and drop some stuff and then climb Misty Peak. I shoot the same azimuth and follow it to the hills north of Pobeda Dam. Find the car again, but now while I'm checking it out I notice a player, spawned as a bird, is above me and is folllowing me. I took a few potshots, then resumed my joyride followed by the bird. Lasts a little bit longer this time, but as I'm reaching the treeline the game starts freezing up, and then I'm kicked by Battle Eye for client not responding. I get the message and don't bother logging back in. Solos and independents, don't bother exploring on this server. The admin(s) will abuse their privileges to protect their clan's hoarded loot. Sorry for the assumption, see my follow-up post.

Today was a very successful day, bandit-wise. And be warned, it's a long one. And it started rather crappy.... I got shot on my dirtbike....losing my entire kit AND the bike. A few hours after that, when me and my crew returned to our camp, our two vehicles and most of the stuff from our tents was gone. Turns out I had actually heard earlier, how the douchebags crashed our pickup outside of Gorka. The driver died in the crash, I gave the pessenger a .50 to the back...oh sweet revenge...I didn't know it at the time, I thought it was just a random crew with a pickup. Anyway we decided to change servers and find a location for a new camp. So we packed up what we cold carry and kitted up, and started our journey. At this time it was me (Pixel), BAEM and Paddy, who were moving through Cherna, all ghillied up and armed to the teeth. We soon made it up to Vybor, where we found an ATV, fully fueled and ready to go.At this point, Paddy was afk and several minutes behind. So BAEM and I decided to take the ATV for the time being and scout ahead...check a few known vehicle spawn locations and a find a good place for a tent. We found both. At first a nice little site, that we makred for later camping...and then another ATV, this time completely damaged and with lots of stuff in it (7 satchels, a MK48 with 5 belts and all the parts for the necessary repair, sans two wheels) Our goal now, was of course to find the missing wheels. At this time, Paddy was back and in bad need for food and drink, so he decided to go into Vybor, where we met him at the gas station. After a quick discussion, we decided that BAEM was gonna check Vybor for wheels, while I took Paddy to our campsite on the ATV (he had the tent) As fate wants it tho, I flipped the ATV going over the bridge in Vybor (damn you, Arma engine!). So now we had to flip it back, for which we need the second ATV, so we need those wheels. At this point Foxman, our fourth, logged on, he was still near our old camp. So he went back to that server, took our wheels out of the tents and made the long journey to the airfield on foot. In the meantime, BAEM, Paddy and I decided to make a run on the airfield, maybe find some wheels. We raided the southern barracks and adjacent buildings without incident...but also without wheels. But we saw zombies at the firestation across the field, meaning players! We moved to a overwatch/sniper position. BAEM was carrying a DMR, Paddy's got an AS50 and I quickly put my silenced M4 into my pack and took out the M107. We watched...and waited. Nothing happened, the zombies despawned. BAEM says he's gonna go to the other side, check the industrial compound for wheels. He moved over, we stayed. Nothing happened at first. He then aggroed a bunch of Z's and ran out of ammo for his silenced M9, so he had to use the DMR. At nearly the same time he fired, two other players fired on him, but missed badly. BAEM ran like a bitch and managed to evade without injuries. He retreated back to the damaged ATV in the woods, Paddy and I kept overwatch, sadly not seeing the two players. Things stayed like this for a while. Somewhere in between, I lost my ghillie suit due to a re-log error, so I was a little uncovered, but still in a bad position. Foxman soon arrived at BAEMs position, they repaired the ATV and moved towards the flipped one. So, at this point, Foxman and BAEM are far off the airfield and Paddy and I are on two sides of the same tree, hidden and waitiing....and now it got interesting! Pixel: "Hey Paddy are you walking around behind me?" Paddy: "No man, I'm still laying here." So I turn my head and whadda you know...two players, jogging through the wall and right by us (maybe 10 meters distance) like it's cool, without seeing us. Pixel: "Holy shit, don't move, two guys right behind us!" Paddy: "Oh fuck, why didn't I hear them?" Pixel: "Forget it, just get ready to run. Even if we take them out, we can't stay to loot after we fired our cannons." So I quickly slap the zero on my M107 to 100m....let them walk by..take a knee...and pray to god. I aim for the first one....BAM...center mass in the back, he goes down. I was shooting on my knees, so the recoil of the fifty was a bitch...It took me too long to readjust. enough time for the second guy to figure things out. he got off two rounds in my direction with his M4 before I center-massed him to the chest, taking him down too. I took a quick breath and then Paddy and I hauled ass, off the field and south, getting distance in. We decided to circle around and watch the flipped ATV, keep overwatch while BAEM and Foxman try to flip it (they werent there yet). I was going first, so I was also the first to see them: three other players. moving across the field towards a barn south of Vybor, not far from our ATV. I kneeled, guesstimated the distance and fired. I missed the first shot cause they were moving. But the last guy of the group hit the dirt as soon as I fired and started crawling and rolling, turning towards me, too. He had a DMR, so he needed to go. I readjusted....BAM..headshot, one down, two to go. The other two made for the barn and Paddy and me kept watch of the entrance, but we couldnt see the back of it.Lucky for us, BAEM and Foxman had of course heard about the commotion on TS and circled around it all, so they were able to get them from behind. We knew they were in a little shed off the main barn, but we couldn't get to them. What did we do? We used the old "scare the shit ouf of them tactic". Foxman grabbed the MK48 off the ATV and just bursted the shed with rounds. Sure enough, they ran, for the main barn. With the machine gun going from south and the sniper north, they didnt count for added accuracy from the south, too. As soon as they bolted from the shed, BAEM took one of them down with his DMR. The last one had made it to the barn, he was now trapped. He had a MK48 and a DMR pointed at the south door, an AS50 covering the north door...and I had moved to cover the west door. We wanted to take him down, too. I quickly grabbed my M4 out of the backpack and moved in, along with MG-Gunner Foxman and marksman BAEM from the south.I saw the guy in the small west door..and he saw me. I quickly moved from the line of fire and gave supressing fire onto the door, to keep him inside. While I did that, Foxman and BEAM moved to the main entrance and leaned around the corner... I heard one long burst and a few DMR shots and saw a couple of tracers fly out the backdoor, but most rounds hit their mark, he was now dead, we had taken him down without losses, without injuries, even. We had the sweet satisfaction of taking their loot...weapons, backpacks, night optics and of course....BEANS! Sadly...in all the goings on in Teamspeak..with the attempts of flipping over the ATV and the collecting of gear from the dead, we completely missed that our fifth guy, Melo, was moving in on us. So as I was moving some stuff around, I saw some guy a hundred meters north of us...and I called it out. There was a little rushing and shuffling, a slight panic...and then three DMR shots in quick succession. BAEMs murder count got up to 7...and Melo was dead. In the end, we got the ATV back on all fours, found a second tent on the dead guys (thank you!) and moved to set up camp without further incidents. Melo got picked up in Zelenogorsk, so all was good, as we had saved his gear, naturally. And I want to take this chance for something... You group of three people we took out: I do not know your names. But THANK YOU! Thank you for staying and fighting, you had several chances to cowardly log off (at least two of you did...) and you didn't! You chose to stay and fight like men, which is so rare in DayZ these days....I don't know if you had made the same decision had you known how many of us there actually were...but you made the decision anyway, which is good! Thank you!

Ok, first off you didnt read my post well enough or you at least didn't understand what I wrote. Yes I understand that vehicles are often near large camps, but that is a risk that must be thought of and can be avoided, such as moving your vehicle not near your camp. The only thing locks would do is reduce your chance of you crap being stolen temporarily. Vehicles are rare, so it will much rarer for a single tent to be demolished/looted. Also, you should make large camps in general in this game. They should be spread out in a certain vicinity from the a each tent to avoid detection. I can't tell you how many times I've raided tents because they were large groups or vehicles with them, they were very easy to spot.

Given that the servers must connect to the hive to access the developer data for dayz players, it's fully within the dev team's rights to lock out and shut down any server that refuses to adhere to certain rules; rules like battleye compatibility, public access, and server specs. How is it unfair to shut down a server that's facilitating hackers or allowing clans to horde all the vehicles? Volate the terms of use and you lose your server. Nothing unreasonable or unfair about that.

They do appear to have alot of unoffical servers to play on , all with nametags so they can see people creeping up on them. Group has looted about 3 vehicles from them so far.

yes, I cant spawn men. Only vehicles and planes, chopper etc. But I can not spawn soldiers.

I think the real issue with DCing is how cheapening it is for the DCer. Danger? DC. Well, if you want that kind of hand-holding, just load up any other shooter where you can spam F6 to quick save every step. The fun of Day Z is in the threat of losing everything you've earned. Found NVGs in the barracks? Well, now you have to survive getting out of the airfield. Got a treasure trove of loot? Now you have to hide it. Your tent will be found, your vehicles stolen, but you know what? You'll find other people's tents too, and steal their vehicles, so it evens out. That's the fun. I admit, it took me awhile to realize that. I used to sprint everywhere, picking up a zombie train, then log in/log out to despawn them. But the game got boring quick. Now when a bullet hits near my feet, I try to find the attacker and decide if fight or flight is the best decision. The tension I feel in moments like this does not exist in any other game, period--and that's what makes Day Z special. If you hack, DC to avoid death or re position, you aren't playing the game, you're cheapening it for yourself and others. I died the other day and lost everything. Coyote backpack. NVGs. Silenced m9+m4. But you know what? The moments before I died were epic. A 2v3 gunfight over a vehicle, blood spouting from the jeep as it drove before the passengers jumped out and died. They all had similar, maybe even better gear, than myself. In the end, my friend managed to escape with the vehicle and reclaim my NVGs, so I'm not naked again (and have regeared almost completely in under a day). Day Z is fun, and it sucks to lose loot, but when you know where to go and have backup, it's not too hard to re-gear.

Seriously! After playing for nearly 2 months I've visited military bases at least 70 times by now. Even on restarted servers to get fresh loot spawns. As well as at least 10 crashed helis. Even the player kill count of around 30 and never found one NVG... I've found nearly 12 vehicles...which I thought were as rare since everyone hogs them. Am I doing something wrong here or am I just the unluckiest person for finding them?

I'm trying to set up a server, just by renting. The reason? I have a group of approximately 12 - 20 people who compete against each other / which each other over several games and communities. It's no fun joining US 520 (for example) where every car is saved in a random location and being camped by people 24/7. I want all the cars to be in their spawns, there to be no tents and no one with base camps around my server.. At least not until every has a fair chance. I will open my server publicly, not locked or anything, but the first 20 or so people who will connect (a few minutes after it's open) will be my friends and fam from these other communities. We're probably going to disconnect close to vehicle spawns, so as soon as we log in we should be good to go. Some may find this unfair, but I find it unfair how certain people hide a vehicle then never log into that server again. It's ridiculous, and really frustrating. I hope that when I open my server we will be able to get set up. My small group (about 8 of us) who work together will be restricted to 2 vehicles. That leaves a shit ton for everyone else.

Some vehicles are just tricky to refuel, all i could suggest is just keep trying at different angles.

You shouldn't chat shit about what you don't know about. It's pretty easy for a hacker to disguise an overlay as a voice communication or recording software, and use that to get by a hack shield. That's why BattlEye is proactive at banning people who may have overlays. The other thing is that BattlEye has logs. If you've ever used hacks in anyway - spawning vehicles, weapons, etc - they can tell. They questioned a friend of mine and seized his base camp because they found a hacked helicopter. After less than 24 hours of searching, BattlEye cleared their base and gave them all their gear back minus the heli. Not to mention they also gave his whole clan free copies of Arma 2: CO. The moral? BattlEye are doing their best and you're just chatting shit, lol.

bandits being the "population majority" is an illusion. generated by the fact they roam in large groups and generally make a lot of noise, either with gun fire or by seeking out High population areas to get player kills. The vast majority of players roam random servers in solo, or 2 man groups, while bandits stick to a single server where they have a massive advantage with stashed gear and even vehicles. This further increases the effect of the "illusion" that you "carebears" are out numbered. You are out gunned, but not out numbered.

I did not see the metalhead was killed message and your body was not there at all. I did indeed hop server as yours had no map positioning and without GPS & compass I ran all the way to 014-044 before realizing I was lost. I admit that I hopped server but you should admit that while you were in the lobby discussing this with lolbroccolli the server "happened" to go down. As far as it not being fair on other players...you can say that again to clans that hoard vehicles at the edge of the map, admins that lock servers for personal gain and people that use hacks. Yes I was well kitted out thanks to the luckiest day I've had in dayz and the NVG I got from your truck. You don't need to warn me. I'm not going to log on to UK63 anymore :P

Vertisce Hmm i'm sorry but you are mistaken, as i said i have only banned 6 in 3/4 weeks 2 banned caught on video. (Dev's were informed of this before banned) http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/13769-two-cheaters-caught-on-tape/#entry154655 1 banned spawned a heli (Dev's were informed of this before banned) http://dayzmod.com/f...ng/#entry231477 can't remember the first 2 ban's but again dev's where informed before the ban's I don't ban anyone without asking in the dev's in admin channel first. Plus only MiniGoold was banned from this group who had these vehicles within there group. Due to server hopping, one main reason for the ban was server hopping as it was noted on Arma2 Rcon, But since we want to go down this road. What was not said about the raid on our camp was MiniGoold admitted being involved in the raid. when our first 2 guys went down. we grouped together 12 of us went to our base and 5 of them were at the base. we killed 3, MiniGoold name was not one of them that was killed. 2 Alt F4 on us. 12 members is proof enough for me and the fact MiniGoold wasn't one of them killed he had to be one of them who Alt F4ed and if i had to guess the other that would of been XslaneyX who has not been banned. You can draw your own conclusions if you want, but as far as i'm concerned i informed thoses needing to know before any ban was placed. We have nothing else to say on this matter and as said in my OP if told to remove the ban i will.

To start off with i'm going to apologise for the server going down but it was out of my control, the servers have been up and down all weekend (resulting in downtime for most of Sunday morning and afternoon) In total since the server started up at the begining of July there have been about 7 days of downtime due to the server going down with 'Status:Unknown' More Info before you accuse of restarts http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/31534-vilayer-hosting-issues/page__hl__vilayer As for this incident, i found the truck while running back in towards stary via devils castle (assumed it had been portal'd), and thats when your friend stated shooting at me.(didn't shoot your friend who was very obviously out in the open) Messaged him saying don't shoot, bandaged, and took the truck again leaving your friend be with whatever he'd taken. Then when i get back north. I gave him the choice of leaving with the stuff he'd taken but he chose to come back after me. On returning to our base there he was waiting for me, I had no choice other to kill or i'd have been shot myself thats when you server hopped in shot me and left me to bleed out. At no point did I disconnect, I had no bandages so I was screwed regardless. I have no idea how your friend managed to get from devil's castle to our base on foot in the same time it took me to in a vehicle... shame you're 'corrupt' footage doesn't show me respawning due to having 1500blood and sitting in the lobby for a couple of minutes discussing with lolbroccoli about the incident, As for the Server going from day to night, speak to Villayer about that, we have and we've yet to get any idea why it does that when the server restarts either... The Vilayer servers are currently messed up due to the ACP panel being screwed, thats the only information i've been given as to why random reboots and endless server downtime happens. (despite your video having no day to night changes) Oh and that loot you stole, was shit we'd collected through alot of time and effort which was gonna be given around to newbs on the coast to try and balance out the fact that bandits seem to like shooting new guys with no guns. Ask some of the noobs who come on the server, we always try to help out the new guy and after many bandit encounters still do not shoot on site, such was the situation with your friend, up in the tree's I simply drove away. You came chasing after me, weren't much more i could do that take him down. Like i said you're more than welcome to some free stuff at cherno when we head down that way, and the vehicles will be left scattered close by for new players, but accusations like this are uncalled for as it hurts both the servers and the admins who spend their own money to give people a server to call home. As for your friend server hopping to the rescue, we don't allow this sort of behaviour especially to gain position or advantage, if you have a home server, stick to it, don't go ruining other peoples servers just for gear that you would rather steal than work for

Andrej we've lost around 15 vehicles on DE10, 4 different locations. Someone didn't simply steal a bus with no wheels and then kindly gave it back 2 days later. Of those 15 vehicles i'd say about 5 were stolen, it always happens when the server restarts.

Hey Denver Admins can't spawn anything. Hackers can, and with some screen shots they can be banned. When you say you found 3-4 vehicles randomly abandoned, it's possible that you just found them at their spawns before anyone else. As far as your Ural, I think you got robbed. As hidden as you may think it is, someone probably spotted it by pure luck. The only thing you can do now is hunt them down and take it back :D

Vehicles seem to be a strange one for me, the first week of playing my group got about 4 vehicles, a GAZ, ATV, BUS, tractor and some something that looked like a Skoda. The ATV rolled for no reason far from our camp, we couldn't right it again so gave up and lost that one, the Bus got destroyed by a sniper killing two of us who were joyriding around inside. The Gaz and Skoda both disappeared around the same time that the server we were on had troubles with hacking. Someone was doing something to the server because all players were suddenly spawned 200m up in the air and dropped to our deaths, this happened twice. Afterwards both cars had disappeared and didn't respawn in their usual places. I suspect - although can prove nothing - that hackers stole the vehicles by examining database code and determining where they were, then they spawned and stole them. This has been reported before by the community but like I say I have no evidence and so both cars have simply disappeared into the ether. I also have a sneaking suspicion that vehicles are being stored off of the map, which obviously needs addressing if true, I'm half tempted to go north to the edge of the map and run east to west looking for a collection of cars, bikes and heli's. Of course both cars could simply have been stolen legitmately by other players, after all, I found one of them 'deep in the woods' which is actually a silly place to put vehicles 'cos they stand out a mile away when you are running though the forest, found the bus and tractor in the woods as well. Going for a bicycle next, cheap, fast, no fuel and easy to hide but if the hacking thing is true then don't store vehicles near your main camps, don't want some scumbag spawning onto your car then running over all your tents 'cos they were right in front if it.

Yesterday my buddy had the luck of running out of the Debug forest for 30km. As He was making his way to a water source when he finally found the NW corner of the map, he stumbled upon a HUGE camp. this was definitely the clan server camp. He proceeded to raid the dozen or so tents and 10 or so vehicles that were initially visible. 40min-1hr or so later he gets the red chain and the server disconnects. It was late, and he figured that it was a regular restart, no big deal. The next day he logs on to discover that everything that he took from the camp, including the vehicle and the items that he stashed in our camp was gone. He calls me to log on this morning with him @ aprx 11am est. There were NO [FoE] members on at this point, so he proceeded to load up a cargo truck down with TONS of gear. I make my way to the camp, and do the same thing. We both split up and stash the vehicles. I log for the afternoon. Around 2pm est after dicking around in a military off-road vehicle that he found at the camp he received a BAN from the server with no specific reasoning. He then connects to another random server to go setup a new camp and this happens. [FoE] Drazik (some admin, leader Im not sure?) follows him somehow to the random server he went to, teleports him to the middle of nowhere, and kills him. You cant make this shit up. Im sure that he will respond with the specifics of his story, but I want to make sure that these douchebags get blacklisted. So here is what happened to me tonight when I logged back on. I went back to the location where I stashed my truck, and as I approached it I saw a white pickup truck. I dropped prone and watched until they left, sprinted to the truck, hopped in and took off. I drove around a bit as close as I could get to my camp as possible (running out of gas), and then I drop all of the crap gear I had on me, and load myself up with the AS50, ghille suit, and NODS. Shortly after I equip all of this, the server goes disconnected again. Im assuming that they are trying to do a roll back like they did before, but it didnt work, because when I finally got back on, the truck was still in front of me. right when I start to drive away, kicked...reason? my 93 ping was too high. wait 5 min, log back in, kicked again..reason? my 73 ping is too high. Im just assuming that I haven't gotten a ban because there was nobody on that could do it. I am sure that someone with the ability to can look at the server logs and verify that this all happened, because these f***s need to be dealt with. PS - For rougly 4 days or so AFTER 1.7.2 was released this server was not updated. but there was always around 6-7 people on. My buddy and I had speculated that they were probably building a camp and looting their server blind while they had a chance. Im pretty sure this isnt illegal or anything, but it is pretty shady stuff. Something that can also be validated by looking at the logs

The helicopter being pinched while you are logged off is exactly the same as you being asleep and your camp being raided and that is possible,although you would have people taking turns to guard your camp (which obviously isn't possible to have someone logged on at all times) So I think camouflaging would be a much better and realistic option, nothing should be completely safe in this game,I think if turrets and similar ideas are implemented the game will just end up being another online shooter with zombies. Camouflage and burying items and have a map generated of the position so you can go back and retrieve it (which if your killed or robbed another player could try to find it).But stopping players from server hopping etc would make a major difference,the game is supposed to be about the experience you have trekking half way across the map to the airfield for example,you might get killed you might not. Also barricading houses and using locks and broken vehicles to block off and protect is far more realistic than finding automated turrets. This is supposed to be a very harsh difficult game world and that's what makes it so refreshing and enjoyable,don't take this the wrong way ZombieGrin but it sounds like your annoyed about one of the things that make the game so different it's realism, the fact you have to constantly worry about losing your gear and starting again,but even though I don't like your turret idea I think it's great your taking the time to go in to detail about new things to improve the game.

So I've been wondering, why are there loads of shot up military vehicles if the military were are the only ones with guns? Did the zombies take up arms (and by that I mean weapons, not arms that just fell off) or did the mil get infected and shoot each other? If they did get infected, why aren't there military zombies with guns, like the ones in STALKER? Would you think a zombie randomly taking pot shots at you among the other chaos is a good idea?

Hi, i've been playing for a while now and have some tips for all newbies. When I first started I sneaked around Cherno and Elektro, looking for the stuff I needed to survive a trip north. I always ended up dead when I had everything I needed for my trip. Lately I discovered that you only need a weapon, so now I run like crazy mother****** through the town thats closest and loot evry building with no care of others, a couple a dayz ago I ran in through the firestation in cherno and a guy was camping it with an rifle. I said friendly and he answered: then you can leave. Just gonna loot real quick. Ran past him and looted the whole tower and ran out again. Wtf was all I heard. It's when you stay and hide, waiting for the right moments you die. In the tower I found a rifle and now I was ready to head north were the fun is. Now I loot all the deer stands and towns in (almost) peace and quiet. I think the towns and roads in the middle between cherno/elektro and north east airfield is the most fun. You always encounter bandits on their way to the airfield, often there is cars and other vehicles you can ambush ;) So in short to all newbies. Don't sneak around in cherno or elektro til you got everything, you will die every 10 minutes. Run through all buildings and loot til u find a gun, maybe some morphine for those broken bones and then get the hell out. Head north, loot the deer stands until you find some other players. Ambush them and then loot their bodies. They often have everything you need for survival or else they wouldnt be there :) This is the way we play and its been the funniest and easiest way. Yesterday we managed to find 2 cars, one quad, two bikes, a bus and maybe six crash sites :) Good luck For you who never left the coast I have to say

The thing is that I dont think that this would mess with the games environment since if your going for the more realistic feel there would be no endgame since in real life you would just stay low hidden in the forest however in dayz a end game challenge is of need because there is nothing left to do when you have a tent and some vehicles. I know I know it's a sandbox game and you make your own challenges but I still think you need a goal, something to aim for if that's going to be possible. Of course you can modify my original idea, maybe the seeing blood status and so on is a bit too easy for dayz but being able to create a group and having some basic goals and some more advanced that won't directly effect how powerful the group is would be excellent. And if it doesn't bring any sort of necessary end game solutions then simply delete it in a future patch, no harm done :) And as someone said you can easily accomplish these goals alone, then make them only achieve able when in a group, or only put in harder goals? I really think there is a lot to this idea we only have to figure out the right ingredients to put in it. And please write WHY you think it's a bad idea!

Having five vehicles in your camp also greatly increases it's chances of being discovered.

I heard a rumor that smaller map was being worked on for DayZ, and I thought to my self why would that be required? If there were more vehicles, heck not even more just available. Not stashed in the woods not being used 75% of the time then the map wouldn't be so isolated. Rocket is implementing a map border explosion to deter those camps outside of the map. Why not add a timer to vehicles that when not used for more then 3-4 hours they explode, and lower the spawn time from a week to maybe 1 day. This would ensure people hoarding 5-6 vehicles and leaving them in the woods would slowly stop, and increase activity around cities and vehicle spawn locations. Ultimately this would relocate the vehicles from being hardly used to mostly used. The vehicles are obviously rare enough, just not hidden in the mountains. TLDR: Add an explosion timer to vehicles that have not been saved or touched within 3-4 hours.