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They just did it again after I blew up some of their tents. Around 5:10am cst. I would find another server but I have vehicles. Can something be done? They did a couple hours after my last post too, after I stole an as50 out of their tents. It's getting ridiculous.....I work my ass off sneaking to their base for some revenge for the multiple resets they keep doing, and it just gets exponentially worse.

I understand there are many bug related things that are a priority but this should be up there on the list. 1) Cannot drop anything in a building, the item will fall through the ground and disappear, since there are only ~75 different enterable buildings in DayZ I think hard floor collision needs to be added. 2) Make ALL buildings enterable in some way. If rocket is too lazy to add interior I'm sure there are volunteers who would not mind designing/modifying game houses to make some simple rooms (I can do that for every single building) 3) Add bigger cities further north as I can understand why most players never even visit the airfield due to lack of checkpoints (without a vehicle). 4) Add more freaking hospitals around the map! It's crazy that the 95% of all server population is around cherno/elektro region simply because you are a walking time bomb without medical supplies. +more shit 5) Add a way to lose zombies without running into a building and shooting them/logging out. 6) Add a way to heal broken bones without morphine, yesterday I had 3 on me and ended up having infected break my legs 3 times until I ran out of morphine which caused me to commit suicide in the middle of the map. 7) I do believe that this is being worked on but fix infected pathing..... 8) Do something against clans who steal all vehicles and hide them in the corners of the map. 9) Give a reason to not become a bandit and to not kill all survivors with a weapon on sight. 10) Skill improvements over survival time, this would make players play much more carefully as even those with stashes will lose something when they die. (with shooting you gain accuracy? with running gain more stamina to run at max speed? Blood bags+bandage usage increases total blood? Taking hits increases infection resistance and you would be able to be hit by infected and not bleed?) 11) Add armour with different weight/armour levels (yes, welcome to proper English, armoUr) 12) Fix suits/female characters not being able to wear them (even though they are broken atm anyway) 13) Add a way to customize your character and maybe add custom skins (group/clan colours so we can tell whos friendly whos not) 14) Bring back Bandit skin, without it cities like Cherno and Elektro are a deathmatch zone 15) *******REMOVE******** all the military houses/w.e from cherno/elektro area, force players to go up north to get assault rifles.

There needs to be a setting for admins to disable Zombies all togather. This game has way more to offer than zombies. Once helicopters come back and more vehicles are added it will be a proper sandbox.

As a server hoster / admin you get the short end of the stick really. My friends and I host a server because we were tired of having other servers disappear (blacklisted, renamed or the person paying for the server not keeping up with the payments), or just run badly with lots of downtime, admin abuse and what not. Things to know: DayZ servers aren't cheap, I believe the going rate is €1 per slot with a current minimum of 40 slots. The hardware required to host is high end and unless it absolutely meets DayZ dev expectations will be rejected. DayZ servers are not completely reliable due to the Alpha nature of DayZ. Even with the best host in the world there WILL be issues. People blame admins for everything. Dying, lag, bugs, crashes, global warming... The only abuse an admin can really do is 1) lock the server (sure way to get blacklisted, goodbye Hive) and 2) kick / ban for no reason. Sure you can restart all the time but that just means the admin / friends can't play too. Some admins do restart however to dupe things. This will be fixed in the future fingers crossed. At the end of the day you get a lot of crap - whining - flaming... But the result is you get your own "home" in DayZ for you and your friends that you know won't just disappear suddenly one day, taking away all of your tents and vehicles too. On the flip side, you also provide a resource to DayZ and it's a pretty awesome feeling when I log on and see lots of names (who aren't my friends) but I recognise as they have made our server home too :)

Yeah i can see your point and as for the Blood situation I have now started doing that to get it back but imo , the vehicle situation needs to be altered, just the sheer size of the 225km2 map and the number of damaged cars on the side of the road that are (Part of the scenery) says to me that there would be more cars in action than just the ones that are available to the player and having the vehicles horded by large groups who rarely drive them really pisses me off i think maybe increasing the number that spawn and making them harder to repair or adding some other function would be ideal but that is just me :P, cheers

So looking through the logs it is showing people trying to spawn vehicles/guns but for everyone... For me and the rest of my guys that were on that I know don't use scripts. Is there a way someone can force everyone in the server to try and create items with a script? lol whoever it was tried to spawn ATVs on every single person in the server.

And how we managed to fuck up 9 vehicles in 2 days, on a single server. ANZ 1. It all started when I saw on heard on direct chat "There's a speed boat near krutoy cap, no fuel". I was near Elektrozadovsk so I decided to run over there, grab a jerry can and fuel it up. 3 jerry cans and one boat later, I'm in and off to Berezino. It was not long later I highly regret this, as I realised the boat only goes a top of 14km/h. I was around 2km south of Berezino when I realise my fuel is low, so I pull over to the town and refuel twice. On the second trip back, there's someone near my boat. So he gets in in, cool whatever. 2 minutes later, we see another boat so I get out put fuel in and take off starting a boat convoy. We arrive in Berezino and after a short trip to the military tents, my companion somehow breaks his leg and is eaten by zombies as I watch. I didn't know I was watching though, he was lagging balls crouch walking on the spot. It was only when his legs snapped and that bone crunching noise played, he teleported back beneath 4 zombies and said "help" in direct chat. I killed all the zombies in less than a second, he was already dead. I geniunely felt sad and as if I had let him down, my unarmed companion eaten by zombies while under my protection. I buried his body, Saluted for a full minute, raided Berezino and as I was heading inland with no use of the boats ~ I emptied my FN FAL into them and destroyed them. That's 2 vehicles already. I headed north to Pobeda Dam, because I knew people liked to stash tents there. When I arrived it was pitch black and I found a tent full of goodies, I was happy with this and heading up the hill to get a better look around when I see a red glimmer. A car. Seeing the car, I instantly knew a camp was nearby, I headed 20m up and see a tent and quad. The tent was loaded, M107's, AS50's, NVG's, Rangefinders, an insane amount of ammo. So I looted everything and put it into the back of the quad, sent my friend, Witch, a message telling him I hit the jackpot and to get the fuck online. I drive the Quad down the hill and up to the Dam structure, which surprise - invisible badly coded walls. My quad has a had time getting onto the Dam, and when it does, it shoots 20m into the air does a flip and lands. Fuck that shit I thought, as I reversed off and went around. When I got to the other side, the fucking thing rolls. With no way to lift it up, the bright red car is the only option. I go back, get the car, run over the tent, go across the Dam (The car was much easier to cross) and park next to the quad to exchange gear. I destroy the quad, as it no longer has any use. 3 vehicles. I take off in the car, Witch is somewhere near Mogilevka. I proceed to drive around for an hour trying to communicate on side without giving too much info and after some confusion by messing up Novy Sobor and Grishno I finnaly head to my friend. I'm literally 50m away when suddenly A FUCKING TRUCK SPAWNS INSIDE MY CAR. It explodes, I die. 4 vehicles. I respawn and head for Pobeda Dam, finding a crashed heli and an FN FAL on the way. I arrive, find some tents and am instantly kitted out. I head West searching for more cars hidden in the forests behind Devils Castle. Jackpot, 3 tents and an quad. I search the tents, a bunch of sniper rifles. I get on quad - missing two wheels. What. Who does that, I unload my FAL into it and leave. 5 vehicles. I keep heading west without a compass or map, and realise I must be heading NW so I'm completely off the map by about 2km. Suddenly Tractor. Out of nowhere, a tractor. I search around, no tents. This tractor must have spawned 2km out of the map. I get in and drive, due to being in a forest I nudge a tree. BANG CRASH DESTROY. Tractor explodes, I'm dead. 6 vehicles. I've had enough, I go to bed. The next day, I respawn on Skalisty Island holding a crowbar at 8000blood and an inventory full of junk. What. I respawn a few times but the furtherest East I can get is Cherno. So I decide fuck it, and loot the town and after 8 murders (No, I'm not joking. Every cunt in Cherno tried to shoot me. People even chase me around corners and shit popping their Enfields) I'm finally on my way. I find a Heli crash in the field north of Mogilevka chruch, and recieve an FN FAL. I continue heading NE towards Pobeda Dam to get a better look in the day, when oh my god. A shiny new tractor in the middle of the field. I get in and take of planning to stash it in the very NE corner off the map. I'm halfway there when suddenly CRACK BANG, a fucking sniper. He missed a few times, but finaly hits me so I decide to get the fuck out as fuck as I can. I turn on a bad angle for him and put the pedal to the metal, but I nudged a tiny bush so FUCKING BANG, EXPLOSIONS EVERYWHERE. The tractor explodes, I die. 7 vehicles. Whatever, it was fun. I respawn 6 times always in Kamenka and equally shit towns, until I get Prigorodki, which I realised is the best I'm going to get, I head into Cherno. Suddenly Witch tells me he found a bike north of Pobeda dam. I'm about to reply "lucky cunt" when suddenly a bus. Parked at a bus stop. In the middle of Cherno. No one nearby. On a full 50 man server. What are the chances. I get in, realise EVERYTHING is fucked and the only thing it has going is 2 wheels. I scavenge Cherno dodging gunshots and bandits untill the bus is ready to go. I get the fuck out as quick as I can and go east. I arrive in a small town and begin refuelling dodging zombies as I still don't have any weapons. Suddenly another player sprints up and into my bus. Aw hell naw. I get into the back and start chatting on vehicle channel telling him to pull over, let me drive. It works. I started driving, then realise the only way to meet Witch, it through Elektrozadovsk. Fuck. Witch informs me he's at Berezino already. I head on to Elektro when suddenly my graphics are destroyed. I have around 2frames per second, worse than minimum textures that you'd expect to see on a building unrendered 3000m away, my bus has turned into 2D shapes being made of a single rectangle white polygon with square wheels. Why does this happen now, I'm literally playing with less than minimum graphics, edited the .ini to have maximum performance. My companion instantly recognises something is wrong as the bus is lagging it's balls off. He asks if I want him to drive. Cool whatever, we swap seats and we head off, me still experiencing shitty graphics issues with a top of 2FPS. Suddenly 0FPS. The game has crashed. No, no no no no. no. It takes a full two minutes for my computer to even load back the desktop, steam is fucking me over by being all over my screen not responding even though it's not doing anything, explorer.exe is not responding, I open task manager and after a minute it loads but my mouse is still invisible because arma2co.exe is still open so I close it using the keyboard. I quickly get back on steam tell Witch my game has crashed and the bus is heading through Elektrozadovsk. I open Arma join ANZ 1 again quickly, game freezes on loading screen while I'm getting numerous Steam notifications I can't check. When the game unfreezes, I shift+tab and read them. Fuck. Witch got hit in Elektro on the bike and is wounded in the church, bike down. 8 vehicles. I spawn, I'm in Elektro. Witch is dead. There's no side chat to communicate to the bus, and as far as I know he's still heading to Berezino thinking I'm in it. An admin message appears "SERVER RESET IN 2 MINUTES". I'll never see that bus again, I never saved it. The bus is gone for good. The server resets. I log off. 9 vehicles. After the graphics issue, I've decided I'm spending up to $2000 tomorrow to get the best shit for my computer I can. I've got to be the unluckiest player ever.

They have a monopoly on vehicles, that's why ppl begin to form squads, not to be like them, but to blow up cars and destroy tents. Clans are hated by half the community, glad to see an adequate man. I have never played wow and I'm never gonna to. I'm not an individual, we have a group of three. And you are speaking with the wow principles, where a single man can't pass an instance. That's shit in DayZ, because no group should ever think they're better them others. Even a single survivor can use such a mistake and strike a powerful blow. Once I took out the entire group. You know the nw cherno hospital? There are also three 4-store houses opposite the hospital. I was lying at the one in the middle. Suddenly a Lada flies up to the hospital and stops. Three get out, one inside. Two head for the hospital, one looks for the 4-storys. I throw a grenade to the car, blow it and the guardian up, the other couple run up to the car, I shot one with AKM, the other quickly runs inside with zombies on him. He runs up, where I had put a steel hedgehog. He gets one floor down and begins to shoot zombies! So he's done too. The only bad thing was that when I was already leaving Cherno, I got shot from m107 while sitting in the car...(

It's a little bit offtopic but I'm just curious if it's the same with vehicles. Are they bound to you and your last save?

I personally choose to play on a server where this does not exist. I don't know what the 'tag' given for that type of server is, however... whether that means it's a veteran server or what. But you can spot vehicles, tents, and people from over 1000 meters away with that little trick. I don't mind being able to spot things, but I'd rather not be spotted. Makes sniping super easy though. No guess work when you don't have a rangefinder.

Actually it's 24 hours for tents, if you read all of his posts in the thread, it's only about 6 hours for vehicles. The vehicle spawn time is also something like a week now (give or take a day or three for randomization) if I remember correctly, so if lots of cars are carelessly wrecked, or someone blows up a hoarders camp, then those vehicles will be gone for quite some time. So, the majority of the non-exploded vehicles will be on the map, learn how to look for places people would hide them. Doubling the amount of vehicles wont do much to prevent hoarding, giving each vehicle lots of different potential spawn points instead of one per mission ID might help though.

nope, i disagree, a full wipe would be completely pointless, what would it be testing? If you want quick results, keep all the gear/Cars etc the way they are. That way, if there are problems say with a bus, we would know basically immediately, if there is a full wipe, players would need to reacquire vehicles before they could be tested, wasting time in the process. That and there is no need for a reset, how will a reset speed up the testing process?

This is not wow, you don't "deserve" a mount/vehicle. I'm not in a clan with vehicles or anything btw. What i mean is that you don't "deserve" anything in this game, if clans are hoarding vehicles, it's their ability to find/repair/hide them against yours. Don't even imagine for a second that you as an individual can be more efficient than an organised group at this, it's pretty much normal that they have a monopoly on vehicles.

Well done, it's there own fault for taking vehicles into cherno. everyone gets a bit of luck now and again

The PVP is a little weird at the moment since they removed the Bandit skin from the mod. Now nobody knows who is a legit friendly. And, you can't know where to look for vehicles in a full server, since most are atleast moved from their original spawn. You could use this very useful interactive map to find vehicles -- even specific ones. http://dayzdb.com/map But do remember what I said; They have most likely been moved from their original spawn.

Hopefully once the out of map storage is removed it will be harder for the massive clans to hide various vehicle allowing the smaller groups and solo players to get a chance at vehicles on servers which have been around for more than a week. (Seeing as there are about 3 other sections of land about 225 square km s other than chernarus) The amount of vehicles on each server are probably about right, just the majority of players don't get to see them.

Although vehicles are great I think the amount in each server are MORE than enough. Think about the chaos of EVERYONE having a car... It would be terrible. Mainly the vehicles go to those who need them the most Clans/large groups. I currently have a Van, bicycle, and a dirt bike all for my group of 6. We keep our camp in the map to keep things fair, and I really think having those vehicles is perfect as we all fit in the van for large missions or we can go in single on the bike or as a pair on the dirt bike. So in the end I say it's pretty ok right now. Just look for camps up north (Around Guba, and west of NEAF or in Petrovka).

Hey there DayZ community! I started playing 2 days ago with 3 other friends and WOW, this is by far the most addicting game I have ever played (29 hours logged on steam in last 50ish hours) I have multiple questions to more "veteran" players who still play right now. So in the last couple of days ive done it all: killed friendlies, been killed by friendlies, killed/been killed by many bandits, owned many different weapons and ran half way through the map just to have my friend break his leg and die :( One this thats been bothering me lately was the vehicle implementation in DayZ. We have been hopping servers as seattle hasn't proved to have very stable servers today and I've been having SUCH A HARD TIME finding an atv or any type of truck. In every server so far all of the cars on the bottom half of the map are not there (yes I checked ALL the locations) [even threw away aks and m4a1 once to hold fuel tank and engine parts (yes i know those 2 are not really REQUIRED) So my main question is what tips would you give us? Currently logged out in Staroye and heading to check on cars in Dolina tomorrow (fucking calculus test tomorrow morning) I looked for videos on youtube and noticed some big clans/groups jump servers that just went up and quickly grab all the vehicles and stash them in their hideout in a forest in the middle of nowhere; thereby effictivelty leaving everyone else on the server transport-free. Starting a seattle server? Play on one? Have access to vehicles? Know untaken ones? Plox help :( Just to add an opinion so far: pvp is just silly in this game; I know starting with a revolver has been removed but still in Cherno and Elektro the ONLY noises you hear are automatic assault rifles and death feed filling with names. Been backstabbed SO many times by people who call out friendly when held at gun point but right as you say "Nice meeting you, I will now depart to meet my friends at a different city, gl!" BOOM BOOM BOOM 'You are dead' TLDR??? -where to look for vehicles in a full server -seems to be no reason to not be a bandit

Good idea, I appreciate! I've mentioned that there are too many destroyed vehicles, it's illogical. What made them trashed? They should be repairable, not all of course, about 15%.

I am playing DayZ with ARMA 2 Free and ARMA 2 OA. Since that makes the texture blurry and bad, I was thinking about buying the ARMA 2. However, I heard a rumor that DayZ is going independant. If that happens, ARMA 2 CO users will have to buy the DayZ again. I'd like a link or something about this matter, since if it's true, I don't want to waste my money on ARMA2 just to buy DayZ again a couple of months later. P.S. I'd also appreciate if someone told me if this is going to be developed on another engine when going independant. It would be great if unreal engine 3 or frostbite were used. The ARMA engine is buggy as hell. If the framerate and graphics were even just half of the one of frostbite or unreal, this game would be greater. Something like amnesia would be just fine. opening closets with physics engine and such. Right now, DayZ is gaining popularity only because the gameplay was unique, not because of its engine, framerate, graphics, AI, or anything. Except for the ideas and gameplay, this game is a total disaster of programming. Everyone knows that. ARMA2 original was sort of popular because of the vehicles, big map, teamplay and realism, not because of amasing graphics or nice feeling of shooting. If DayZ is going independant, that's okay. I just hope they make it on another engine. They need to fire the programmers, keep the brainstorming department, and headhunt programmers from DICE and Activision.

That actually sounds like a really good idea. Definitely would be more realistic. Like I've said in other threads, in reality, you won't just kill everyone cause you NEED other people to *gasp* replenish the shit you use. Yes, that includes food, weapons, vehicles, fuel, ammo. Things won't just "spawn" and you don't magically know how to repair shit with no training. If anything, this game is like The Matrix movie. "Wanna fly a chopper? it's coo, I know how to fix it AND fly it, just give me a second here to learn it."

The only two vehicles I have at the moment are stolen from other player camps. I never repaired a vehicle since those parts take too many slots from my backpack and its rare to see them (even if I have seen some recently spawned).

Everyone must have seen maps of vehicle spawns. Now, when DayZ is popular, many people know the spawn points of different cars. Because of this cars are now nearly impossible to find. Even a month ago it was much easier. For now all the cars are out of the map, hidden by large clans. I know about cleanups and respawning the cars outside of the map. But think: Ander said about despawning the cars outside of the map AFTER THEY ARE UNUSED FOR 24h! In every clan there is a lot of people which are online every day. They will make a system where members, in turn, will use all cars every day. Maybe not really use, just sit in, drive 1m, save car and go away. They will not let the cars respawn. For now the only threat to these camps are guys spawned in the wilderness, which can occasionally find a camp. Even if the cars are respawned, they will be picked up at the same moment, because a lot of people come and check the spawns nearly constantly. So, my idea is simple. I dunno why there are so many destroyed cars in villages. But if so, let's continue the logic! With military vehicles it's already working, for example, spawning them at Black Lake. Why not to spawn civil cars in the same manner? Imagine: a tractor is waiting for his driver Petrovich near an old barn next to the road, or a race bike standing on a dirt road deep in the hills... More cars should be spawned in cities, so it will be more challenging to go there. Every newbie knows: DONT GO TO CHERNO AND ELEKTRO! THERE YOU WILL CATCH A BULLET! So campers are bored... :) Seriously, by all logics, a car might have survived all the shit in a backyard of a house or at a filling station... Why not? Cities will become hotzones again, and people will unite to go there together. Military vehicles should be spawned where now, and, with quite little chance, at the outskirts of any settlement. They should also spawn at the cities' firestations. Also I suggest a new type of vehicle for the supermarkets - Gazel. That will be realistic, because such cars bring in merchandise there IRL. Also, thats a Russian vehicle, it means realism of its location too. This car should serve as a movable storage, capacity 100/15/10, passabilty - simular to GAZ. Fuel tank - 300 litres (cars have 200, right? say me if im wrong, i'll rebalance). So, that's all. The point is: Make the vehicle spawn points less bounded to locations. But dont lose realism. Also there should be twice as much vehicles per server (not include Huey!!!). This will prevent clans from farming/stealing all the vehicles at a server. Even a noob will be able to find a car. It's the best balance. Awaiting devs and users comments and suggestions.

Our server we play has an automated message each time its about to restart. In this case the normal restart time is 17:50 UTC, so that means it should have restarted at 19:50 GMT+2 my time but in fact it restarted at 18:50 when I just got the pickup truck. I dont really care about the pickup truck and I already got told by a friend that the server restart isnt being made by an admin but by the server itself (automated;) but I do see people complaining in the forums when they find a camp of an admin and he restarts the server to take back his gear or something so that might as well be a case. and im saying all this because its funny how whenever me and my friend got a vehicle the server restarts 5 minutes after when its supposed to be restarted at another time. As for the starter towns action, I never expected so many vehicles in cherno's most obvious starter place to go, its a suicide, better off raid NW airfield or Starry with that gear. I never go hunt noobs in starter towns as many do, i find it not rewarding.

I very rarely find vehicles. Rented our own server and cant find designated vehicles according to the www.dayzdb.com/map So Im just wondering, When do vehicles get reset back to the original spawn points? It seems the markers on the map for them are never accurate. How do I get a vehicle. I am so tired of running. Preferably a bike.