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i don't server hop to kill people that is just cruel...i sever hop locations where i think people hide loot....is that so wrong that i steal instead of kill? And i only can hold so much....i leave about 90% of it for them i just like to stick my fingers in some pies....plus finding a city full gear and vehicles....feels good man.

My understanding it that it shows you where players and vehicles are. So its not really hard to get the jump on someone if you know their exact position.

So I am in a group who is active, and we need to be able to get around. We have gotten Vehicles before, but an admin took them all. (long story short, he was hoarding vehicles, he marked his camp on the map, and we took a jeep, so he abused his powers and got rid of everything we spent three weeks to get. Im looking at you DeadDogg.) So before we get all sorts of cars and boats, we were considering a crazy chase to get a helicopter just to be badasses. (Like we are gonna do anything but look cool with it. Or crash it. that too.) So does anyone have definitive proof one way or another??? I don't want to waste days to go after something that doesn't exist.

That will just make it super-brutal to people who just got the game. They barely know the game as-is, and then they wouldn't be able to heal their nearly dead mate without a fear of killing him, and having to burn through dozens of bloodpacks just to get him back to health. Vehicles are hard enough to fix without having a chance to watch your helicopter-rotor assembly just break as you repair it. My big problem with this is this; you aren't getting punished because you did something wrong, you are getting punished because you haven't done it 5000 times. You are getting buttfucked by something you cannot control at all without getting a human pincushion to practice transfusions on. And it really wouldn't add anything to the game except for the feeling of, " please heal him, please heal him, please heal himmmmmm......SHIT!!!".

Do we know why tents are gone? Is there a fix? Is it because the server was running 1.7.2.2? Did vehicles disappear, too? I'm missing my bike, but maybe someone stole it (nearby Krasnostav inside a pine tree)

Loot as in vehicles......not weapons...or backpacks... they restarted the server to make the vehicles, which were blown the fuck up, appear in restored condition....and don't even fucking try and tell me that is not possible because I have witnessed vehicles restoring back to perfect shape after being blown up as soon as the server restarts.

Both servers are currently maxed out at 75/75 players; we'll be looking to expand to a 3rd server in due time, and are currently upgrading our network. By the way, US-847 is a brand new instance, vehicles everywhere for the taking.

I think at present there is too much scarcity in the game. Given the small number of survivors to the dead and the deadish, there should be figurative mountains of loot. Every home should yield up canned goods of one sort or another including bottled water and cokes. Bic lighters and boxes of matches and maps should litter the floor of gas stations. Basic rifles, pistols, and shotguns and their ammo should be common as dirt. Parking lots and driveways should be packed with fully operable vehicles, just waiting to be hotwired and driven off. Store shelves and tool sheds should offer up hatchets, axes, shovels, and crowbars. The more advanced stuff nvgs the fancier flavors of weapons should be rare everywhere, but the military bases or wrecked or abandoned military vehicles. Where they should be found in reasonable quantities. The same goes for MREs. And unless my survivor is the victim of a shipwreck, he should spawn with at least one weapon and a basic supply of sundries. And not born naked into the game. All in my humble opinion of course. The question is what kind of a post-apocalypse is it? The Road or Dawn of the Dead? It makes a difference. If the zombie has been going on for years. If it's a The Road type situation then nvgs, gps's, thermal sights, et al battery powered equipment shouldn't exist and ammo should be nearly nonexistent. If it's Dawn of the Dead then load the stolen car and head for Wal*Mart.

This was a couple weeks ago, I had fixed up a bus I found in the centre of Cherno and I decided to drive north along the coast looting as I went (not the smartest choice in hindsight) I eventually made my way to Berezino. I looted the supermarket and a couple of apartments, filling my bus with 10 or so cans of food. I then continued along the main road only to find it was blocked. I start backing my bus up the way I came (buses have absolutely terrible handling) I was going very slowly to avoid hitting any junk or broken vehicles on the road. I hear large calibre gunshots hitting my bus and my heart literally almost jumps out of my chest. I am incredibly worried about my new bus (the engine health on the bus was red and wouldn't take much for it to explode). The shooter is rationing his shots as to preserve my bus. I am hit once, the shot brings me down to 5000 or so blood and I am bleeding profusely. I have no idea where the shooter is, the way behind me would take a too long and possibly put me in full view of the shooter. I floor the accelerator heading towards the barricade. Then I see a gap between the barricade and the building on the side of the road. I pray my bus will fit between, it doesn't. My bus is stuck, the shooting has stopped for now. I am still bleeding, down to 3000 blood, I back the bus out and get it through this time, as I drive through the gap the shooting starts again. I don't stop I keep going. I am driving painfully slow across the grass. I find a road leading out of the city, I take it. I pass out while driving, almost hitting a tree at 70 kph. I get out and bandage myself, It was very close I bandaged myself with 200 blood left. I get back in the bus and eat all the food I took from the supermarket bringing my blood back to 2000. I later slaughter a cow which brings my blood up to 5000. This was my most memorable DayZ Also if the shooter is reading this I hold nothing against you I may have done the same in your position.

I think loot found in new vehicles is, for the most part, randomized. There is a chance that it spawned with a tent in it.

Not really, they have a day cycle that mirrors real life, just have the weather cycle do the same. Would be interesting because for 3 months people would need to horde cold winter equipment and gear, then the next 3 months anti-rain stuff, then hot weather stuff. Maybe make the winter time if you stay too cold it effects your aim like pain, and you have to heat up your water sometimes if you let your body (and thus your water) get too cold. Then in summer if you get too hot your food starts to decay and you tire faster. Could have different camo available for the season, and people could try to find and store the neccesary equipment for the upcoming season in tents or vehicles to prepare for the next season. If things like cleanliness or scavaging for plants was ever implemented, that could have some interesting tweaks depending on season as well. Thanks for posting this thread, I was actually thinking about this earlier today, then when I went to the forums I forgot what I wanted to post about!

Heh, trying my best. I'm very sorry the updating was a bit erratic and sadly, there isn't a lot I can do against most of the bugs, other than try to provide as much information as possible. I'm still trying to figure out a good way to inform players of shutdowns, sadly, that isn't all that easy to achieve automatically. Automatic server restarts are synched each morning to occur at the stated times, but of course, sometimes you don't watch the clock and get caught up (it has happened and I've lost vehicles because of it as well).

Hmm to have more AIs in game doesn't add up to the realism at all so this is a big NO from my side. Maybe have more wrecked military vehicles on a military base so you and your mates can put together a car, heli, truck or whatever and then go on a trip with one of them to find new parts and so on and do your own convoy that makes it still realistic. This shouldnt be like Arma, just play Arma in that case

DomiStyle, That is the server I am banned off of. And I totally understand the admin's deal, off map vehicle hoarding is so gay. When you join that server is says no off map vehicle hoarding you've been warned. But my camp is on the map and all my vehicles were aquired by finding other peoples camps etc.

Me and a friend have been trying to connect to LU131, we have been kicked multiple times and so have ~100 or so other people who were in the lobby and then just disappeared. I can see in the lobby there is an admin on the server "[PMR] Slk" was his name he is on there with 2 other people who are not getting kicked however everyone else who tried to join is being. The server is not titled for testing or anything like that so I can only presume that the admin is going around with a select few people farming gear/vehicles. Seen a lot of servers like this lately, it needs to stop.

I assume the ability to construct underground bases would be limited and require the efforts of many players, similar to the construction of a vehicle but far more complex and requiring more materials. Provided these materials are properly limited, and the resulting bases are destructible and decay after a time without being "used" (similar to vehicles), then I don't see servers becoming over-populated with them. As for their purpose, I believe it is to give players a more concealable, persistent base alternative compared to just stuffing tents into pine trees and hoping for the best. Structures would be fine, but larger structures are too visible from distance and vulnerable to ordnance like grenades, attack from helicopters, etc. I mean, this is precisely why people invented underground bunkers in the first place so it makes sense that their purpose is mirrored in DayZ.

When you say it hampers your combat ability, that's where you went wrong. The thing is, you still should be able to wield long guns and camo. Your skill as a medic is not the same as your skill as a "soldier". Just because you can handle meds doesn't mean you CAN'T handle a big gun. You see, giving players a slight advantage or a special skill they can preform without giving them weaknesses. That makes everyone potent. Not everyone can do the same thing, but where they can, everyone is potent. Relevant to my original reply on this thread: Say you were an engineer. He can repair vehicles. Say as opposed to a hunter, who can use specifically long weapons a little better than you. An engineer is not worse at weapons than he was before, though the hunter is a little better and only in one area BECAUSE that's his advantage, and he cannot repair vehicles as the engineer does. Same with say a doctor. He can use bloodpacks better, opposed to a policeman who is better with one-handed guns. Sure, a policeman is good in a fight, but with one-handed guns, and then he can't heal himself as well as the doctor. While the doctor, is just a little worse at combat, but can fully heal himself. The policeman has more of a combat skill, while the doctor has a more practical skill to help out of or in post-combat. If I'm in a zombie apocalypse situation, if I find a rifle, I'm picking it up as long as it has some ammo. Who cares if I don't know how to use it? I'll have to learn. Either way, the risk of using it is less than that of not using it and dying. I'm not going to try it first time on an intense life or death situation, but.... The point is your class should not deny you of apparel, give you any special bonuses that everyone has but you have a little better just because (unless it's for combat, and not storage space, like clip size). In my opinon the certain classes shouldn't have their own equipment or meshes and here's why: it's like the bandit skins with the combat classes. They get scared and shoot. People looking for meds will shoot doctors. A bit off topic, when Day Zed goes standalone it'd be cool if there was a character customization for clothes and face. You see it a lot throughout the game, and it could have an effect on this area of the game.

I'm against the idea of npc's, so there are 2 ways of aproaching this; - driving convoys -Stranded convoys Driving convoys would be hard for players to loot, it would add extra vehicles to the map and therefore "destroying" some the current gameplay Stranded convoy could be like crashed heli's and therefore require no NPC action only crashed trucks so no extra vehicles added and they could funtion as heli crash site ofr industrial and civilian loot

Right now there are not as many incentives to team up and stay teamed up to outweigh the average players innate greed or paranoia. When more clan and group oriented content is added, stuff that requires teamwork and above all, trust, in order to operate that power plant or building or whatever, or build that massive underground base, have reliable access to nice vehicles, etc, I think there will be less backstabbing. There are good and serious clans out there, but right now some of them might just not see a reason to actually even care about recruiting, since you don't really need more than 5-6 people to do anything and be safe doing it. Edit : Still don't trust anyone in game. That will never change, deal with it. My own clan would probably hesitate to recruit anyone outside our own community even when they add more clan content. These forums too perhaps, but very selectivally.

I'm fairly certain I have the latest Hive, yet when I put on a Ghillie/Camo suit, I start to notice this in the logs for myself. UPDATE: [<NULL-object>, I've also noticed similar behavior for tents/vehicles as it notes that a vehicle cant have a null ID (which would explain why I have tents that keep wiping after every server reset).

Lost my nod (nvg's) whilst swimming after a boat off the coast of Nizhi. lost to the ocean gods. Complete bullshit by the way. Soldiers dont let gear fall out of their bags, and these guys dont spawn dressed as golfers, if you know what i mean. Lost my Bino's. Lost My M16a2 with 5mags Lost my medical supplies and my alice pack with food and drink in it for days. Managed to hold onto my pdw, secondary mags, and toolbelt gear. So, i used to be well geared. I now have an: FN FAL with basic combat load. PDW with G17 and MP5 mags Binos A.L.I.C.E. pack NO NOD! ARRRR Med supplies and food for days. Camp is set up with 7 tents with multiple weapons, vehicles, medical supplies, and food. and believe it or not, I am not a bandit. I just choose not to die. haters gonna hate...ching ching.

Some people assume that because their vehicle is in the Wilderness, that it is safe... it is not. I've found more freshly repaired and unguarded trucks in the wilderness just accidentally than I ever have around cities. People don't even shove the vehicles in trees, they just leave them in the middle of clearings... I think there should be a lootable camouflage net that can be draped over vehicles, mostly to remove the "glowing orb" that shows up around them when looked at in peripheral vision. But also to visually mask the thing.

Why am I dragged into this? THIS IS NOT EVEN MY BASE! And I can prove to the Dev team( but only them) of the location of my base, I was asked on TS to help out a few friends because some "hacker" was always following them, and always knew where their base was, so I gladly came, I was close by, and thought I'd come have a look. First off I was not even heading towards you, nor did I know that you were up that cliff, I was not heading towards you, but rather I was heading towards the base in hope to find this "esp hacker" looting the base, and as I was crawling by the base I was holding alt, and looking around, and suddenly I see you up the hill, with no such thing as protection around you, and you were flipping side ways to do god knows what, so I took the shot, and no I don't have ESP hacks! If I had some, why the hell would I crawl to the base in the first place? I would already be on the hill by your hill and sneak up behind you and kill you, I won’t come crawling in front of you! And I never was even crawling to you! Your hiding tactics were horrible, and if you already saw me crawling towards you... WHY DID YOU NOT SHOOT? Now regarding the Duping, as soon as I killed you, I went back to see that base, and I saw 2 people dead, no standing bodies! Now if I had seen a duped body, which I have already seen many times, in the NW, Starry, Cherno, Elektro, and Berezino, not just on the server, but on many servers, ever since the update, it must of been a 1.7.2.2 glitch, or the new mod glitch, now if your accusing me of having duped those bodies, why did you not "study body" it will show you the person’s name, you could of taken a screen shot, and I would of been more than happy to investigate the situation even more. But throwing accusations at some of these guys, and I, over a body that looks like it cloned, in the same area, just a few meters away in the pic you provided, also regarding those bodies, why did I not see them when I logged on earlier, nor before that? When I finished killing you? I asked another friend to come in, and also have a look at the area, and just make sure no one is around the base, and he himself, did not see any sort of suspicious activity, yes both of our bases found a lot of vehicles, but it is 100% legit, because I myself found a lot of those vehicles, and retrieved most of those with a couple of other guys. Now the pictures of you looking into the tents, now that is another story, so your telling me, that the amount of water they had in those tents is wrong? The amount of ammo is wrong? And having 1 M4A1 CCO SD is wrong? And 4 AS 50’s is wrong? If they had duped these things don't you think they'd have about 20 more of all these guns? Now I tried to see how to dupe on the forums, and no one has posted anything related to duping, other than the already fixed ones. If you had come by, and taken a video of these guys doing it in person, or pictures of them looting it, Id happily investigate it more, because it is worth investigating! I will myself ask these guys in person right after they come online, and see what the issue is from their side, but you should watch out on who you blame, because I have said clearly many times "please record your DayZ story" because sometimes, there is that moment, that you catch a cheater. Now I myself am trying to set a Stream up, and you can have a look of some of the adventures I have with some of these guys! but my computer is acting a bit gay at the moment, and I can't set up a stream channel, but Fraps is killing my HDD space, so I'm looking for alternatives like Dxtory, but there have been in many instances where someone has literally spawned in-front of me, and killed me, some where people find me from 1000 meters away, while I'm hiding behind a tree, it happens, but I have no proof to prove all this, so I won’t start throwing accusations at any random person, even though he was there. Let me also remind you that, yes there are still many bugs happening with the new updates, but it will be fixed, this must of all happened after the patch, and I'm sure Rocket, and the devs are aware of it, I will most probably send a post in the dev bug report forum, that if it is still possible for bodies to dupe, and if there are.. What will be done to stop them, Rocket has posted a few hours ago, that he is concentrating more on the main server, and how it handles connections first, then secondly he will handle the exploit/hack problems, patience is what everyone needs now, and not start spamming on every little detail, now I myself won’t pay about $40 per month to run this server, just to hack/exploit, I could of used that money to fund a hack if I wanted, but no! I'd rather use it, so that I can handle these issues myself, and so that I can ban those hackers myself, and not have to go through a long process of who has enough proof. Now if you are suspecting me of using exploits/esp hacks, please let the Dev team know, and I completely give myself to investigation if you feel that I am not being a good admin, or if I don’t follow rules... because in many instances I found, people blame admins for every little problem, then blame the Dev team for every big problem.. I won’t say much more, but one more thing! I don't have control over duping, nor can I check logs on who dupes, and who doesn't, I just ban hackers, and try to administrate the game to you guys, so that you can play, and not have hackers around, now as I am writing this, a few guys just spotted a heli, with a guy named jason driving it, I can't even ban him right now, because they have no proof of jason, so I urged all of them to start recording it so that I can easily ban these guys, if I had seen him personally, this guy would of got banned on the first second I see him, that is what we admins do! We run the server for you guys, but also police the server, there are some bad admins there I admit, but if you have, or had a problem with Dallas 69, please come to me, and at least let me know first !But anyways I will have a talk with everyone on TS! Good day, Ach out!

I've pondered an idea similar to this before. I had an idea that a REAL in-tact military convoy would go through the streets killing infected, AND players. This would make players come together to beat the military convoy, and then afterwards... fight for the loot. Vehicles from the military convoy left in-tact through the firefight would also be available for grabs. Roleplay reasons for the convoy would be something along the lines of the military trying to contain the infection, and destroy anything that's been affected.

I can't really understand what you are trying to ask and what it has to do with moving tents but... At a server restart every loot on the ground will disappear. The only things that will (should) stay are vehicles and tents.