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The server maybe wasn't connected to the hive? There are some server admins who think its cool to not have the server connect to the hive to prevent server hopping / ghosting etc. While these user exploits ( as defined by Rocket) are deterred by this, your character does not get saved onto the official hive. Probably after restarting the server lost all player data from its local character database. My 2 cents (a bit OT): Personally I am pretty annoyed about all the fragmentation going on just with this mod itself for 100 servers found there are 30 different flavours with different settings, versions, beta versions and own modifications (side chat, vehicles etc.). This is typical for ARMA 2 servers and has always annoyed me that almost every server has its own strange mod settings, mod-modifications and versions running. To top that off the integrated Gamespy server browser is a piece of shit.and external server browsers are very slow when refreshing / updating.

If you got a bullet in your head, i think it doesn't matter anymore. The only thing that matters is who kills first ;). Shure for your surviabilities it could be Useful to know that Player kill for gear, then you better don't raid an Airfield without cover. If we take it seriously it would matter, but there are so many reasons to kill that it make no difference, the only thing you have to know is that you are not save in Chernau, wherever you are! I think would this scenario be real the most ppl. only would Kill for: Religions (some kind of new Zombiereligions), Food, Sex with your girlfirend, weapons and Vehicles. Srry for my sometimes Bad English, its not my first language, so if you find any faults, or sometimes the meanin of my words are not clear because it's wrong... then nvm... its just another opinion.

Tents don't disappear as long as they're being used. That's why tents in crowded locations such as cities and airfields never seem to disappear: there's always someone taking a peek every few hours. I don't think static object such as tents and barbed wire put much strain on the server performance. Most issues relate to vehicles and the zombie AI.

The huge hilltop between Cherno and Elektro (The one with shizzloads of rocks on its side) - it's on the very top, and 2 of them spawns there. OBS:: Vehicles doesn't spawn as a working unit, as far as I know. I've found like 4 tractors and 6 ATV's, none of them working. Bring before looking: Scrap Metal x1 Fuel Can: Atleast 2 (more = better, you cant have too much) Engine Parts: Atleast 1, or no point in going Fuel Tank Parts: Atleast 1 Car Wheel: Atleast 1, if you've got coyote backpack, don't hesitate to bring 2 if you've got spare room. Remember, you can store extra parts for your vehicle inside it, so you'll get some space in your backpack again.

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.

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.

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 :)

So, I will just start of by saying I have only had the game for about two weeks and I love it as it is but i think a few things can be tweaked a little bit, now I know that it is only in alpha and the things I am going to say are not Bugs, My ideas draw towards more reality. this would be for REGULAR servers IMO. 1 - Vehicles that are found are not in need of repair to begin with, they may be locked thus needing you to break a window or obtain a lockpick to enter and (Hotwire) the car OR they may be unlocked and Empty or near empty on fuel, my reason for this is that how many cars in your city if a zombie outbreak were to take place would be just "Broken" - Now i can see people crying about this one but IMO this makes for a more reality driven gameplay experience . 2 - The ability for a player to play true "Lone Wolf" style gameplay, this game is fun both alone and with friends but there are limitations on how far a player can progress alone as in the blood effect, i know you can get blood back from food but i would like the option to use a blood bag on yourself rather than wait for a friend to log on or risk asking a survivor for help, now once again the very idea of a person giving another person a bag of blood to survive is not reality anyway so allowing someone to do this on their own is no big stretch. Now these are just my suggestions for a Regular server, Now these are not demands in order for me to keep playing, i love the game and will continue to play regardless, they are just my two cents, Please discuss and please dont just say "No way" if you want to shoot down my suggestions please give a valid reason. Cheers for reading my babble and i look forward to a good discussion.

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.

As the title says, I see no point of having a toolbox since you can repair vehicles without it. Am I wrong?

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...(

Like the title, I havnt played DayZ since 1.5.6..Will my char still be alive/where i left him? What are the major changes that have been made? When I last played vehicles had just been re-introduced. I was Northwest somwhere, I had survived about 4 and a half hours and had some nice gear and a nice supply of food/water.

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

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

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).

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%.