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New Server up: US 83 hosted by TopMarks Gaming and is based out of Dallas. This is a fresh server with no vehicles hoarded. Come check it out.

Wait what? Are they enforcing the rule "do not kill our clan members" only? I bet that: 1. they only play in this server 2. it is regular with nametags 3. they stored all known vehicles in the server Sounds like, based only in the enforced rule, that their server should be blacklisted.

find vehicles' date=' make camps and await new updates for the game [/quote'] Or go kill people for their lootz, both are valid options, just because you disagree with one doesn't make it somehow against the rules.

Just an observation; tractors do not seem to make as much noise and as a result obtain zed attention as one might expect. I drove a tractor along the shore highway and few zed came out of the towns to investigate. I actually tried to save a fellow player by distracting the zed with the tractor, to no avail. As a relative nano, not sure if this applies to the other vehicles as well.

find vehicles, make camps and await new updates for the game

I would say thank you to the dev team, from when they resolved this issue is finally possible find some vehicles for the casual users, i've seen "excited" ppl to find motorcyles, bycicles, cars ... etc. while until yesterday they were only a dream! :) Thank you!

This is all a total lie. I just logged in and this is my inventory, after about 2 hours of looting around Elektro and then the Cherno apartments/hospital, after I DIED when I was teleported into the sky along with everyone else on your server: The most advanced weapon i've ever had in my inventory has been an M4A1 CCO and a couple of AK's. I only got Arma 2 CO on the 2nd of this month. I'm really amazed that you went to all this effort just to blame some random person. Why on earth would a hacker loot bodies when they can just spawn items/vehicles etc whenever they want, as is quite well documented? You think a hacker who can teleport people into the sky wouldn't be able to do that? I can't read these logs at all as i've played this game for a week and have absolutely no idea wtf any of that means, but I have no doubt that they either don't mean what you think they mean or that you just plain edited them to make me look guilty. I also have MANY posts I made on unrelated forums about this when it happened, complaining about how I died and how hackers have killed me around 5 times now. I'd be glad to give an admin access to my accounts to these forums (as they are private) and you can check out the posts I made for yourself. I could just screenshot them but screenshots prove nothing. All in all it's really disgusting the lengths you're going to just to blame some random person whos new to the game for something they didn't do at all. Here's what I was doing when this happened: I went afk for about 30min and stayed in the lobby because reconnecting to this game takes 5min+ for me. I came back from afk and spawned in. Ran around looting for about 2-3 min at Mogilovka, then got teleported into the sky and died. After this, I started a new character, looted around Cherno for a bit, and then went to Vysota. Here I server hopped a couple of times in order to loot the barn. Yeah server hopping is bad etc, but it's NOT hacking. Next I went to Kozlovka where I server hopped a few times again to loot the deer stand. After that I logged out for a bit, then when I came back I played on a different server and respawned to meet up with a friend since I didn't have any good items anyway. If there are logs on the hive server, I have no doubt that the Day Z admins can confirm everything i've said here. K I think I learned to read the logs now. I think you're connecting the messages of me connecting followed by items being written to the hive as me being the one looting them. I havn't coded anything since html in high school so I could be wrong but at a glance that's what it looks like to me, assuming you didn't edit these of those. From what I see you can see my real items here. The # thing is 12096715 15:00:12 "HIVE: WRITE: "CHILD:201:12096715:[118,[6529.62,2355.87,0.974679]]:[["ItemFlashlight"],["ItemBandage","ItemPainkiller","ItemSodaCoke","8Rnd_9x18_Makarov","ItemBandage"]]: 15:00:12 "HIVE: WRITE: "CHILD:201:12096715:[118,[6529.62,2355.87,0.974679]]:[["ItemFlashlight"],["ItemBandage","ItemPainkiller","ItemSodaCoke","8Rnd_9x18_Makarov","ItemBandage"]]:[]:[]:false:false:0:0:12:0:["","aidlpknlmstpsnonwnondnon_player_idlesteady03",37]:0:0:"Survivor2_DZ":0:" / 12096715" 15:00:51 "HIVE: WRITE: "CHILD:201:12096715:[105,[6543.91,2411.21,0.00143862]]:[["ItemFlashlight"],["ItemBandage","ItemPainkiller","ItemSodaCoke","8Rnd_9x18_Makarov","ItemBandage","8Rnd_9x18_Makarov","2Rnd_shotgun_74Pellets","6Rnd_45ACP"]]: ["ItemBandage","ItemPainkiller","ItemSodaCoke","8Rnd_9x18_Makarov","ItemBandage","8Rnd_9x18_Makarov","2Rnd_shotgun_74Pellets","6Rnd_45ACP","ItemMorphine"]]:[]:[]:false:false:0:0:19:0:["","aidlpknlmstpsnonwnondnon_player_idlesteady02",40]:0:0::0:" / 12096715" Etc etc. I looted most of my other items on that char from other servers because as I said I was server hopping for loot, which is probably why they don't show up. IIRC I had a double barreled shotgun and no sidearm. The way the loot progresses there its pretty clear to me that's my character, because when I spawned in I was at Cherno and I immediately went to the northernmost hospital/apartments to loot. You see me loot ammo along the way just incase I found a gun, and then morphine shows up in my inventory once I made it to the apartments.

Hey, me and a friend found a camp with two big trucks and an atv, full with weapons and items, we just drove those vehicles away and i got kicked. I was like "WTF" joined again, asked in the group channel why i got kicked, but no reply. So i then connected again and got kicked immediately. Now the Server is full and i can't connect on it, the name of the admin was GH3OSTLY. I hope he get banned or whatever... edit: my ingame name was "Aerial".

I think its hackers that remove all items from players, tents, vehicles ...

Yes well your "2 minute" restart last night was about 1 minute not leaving my crew enough time to save the vehicles that they were on so they went poof. And everything else that was in our main camp is also just plain gone.

It's not just him, we lost everything too. Multiple vehicles, all tents etc. There is something very shady about that server.

I'm not sure it does. At least, not in the way you imply. If I break down what I spend my time doing in DayZ, the main activities look like this: traveling to meet up with friends, gathering vehicle parts to repair vehicles, setting up camps to store excess equipment, gathering basic survival supplies, checking vehicle spawn locations, and searching for crashed helicopters for high-value military loot. None of these activities on their own or in combination are particularly thrilling. With a partner or two (I never play alone) zombies can be easily dealt with and now that I know the map just getting around successfully is no longer a great challenge. So why do I continue to play DayZ hours a day, every day, over 500+ hours in game already? Well, because each and every one of those activities is made incredibly intense, stressful and emotionally charged because I know at any moment my "plan" could be interrupted by an enemy player who has other things in mind for my evening. So why would I be angry with these people? Why should I hold ill-will towards them when they are the very people who make the things I do in the game interesting and fun? The reason I need powerful weapons, trusted friends, intimate knowledge of the map terrain and a keen understanding of the effective ranges and behaviors of various weapons is because these people exist and I have to deal with them occasionally. They are why the game is fun. They make DayZ what it is. You should be thanking them, not decrying their existence and calling into question their humanity and "treatment of other people." If dying "ruins your fun" or spoils the game for you, then I submit that you're just not quite thinking of DayZ in the right light. Dying is part of the fun, and the threat of death is the soul of DayZ's intensity and challenge. How you deal with it depends on what your goals are. I suggest finding at least one trusted friend to play with. Preferably 2-3. If you don't have any friends in real life who are playing the game, try to find a clan recruiting here on the forums, or look for servers with active Teamspeak channels and join those. Playing in a small, tactical team and cooperating is the single best thing you can do to increase your chances of survival. If you just want to survive as long as possible, then I reccommend a strategy of tactical avoidance. Scout ahead, remain aware, and if you spot players simply stay put and quiet and let them pass and go on their way. 90% of PvP situations can be avoided entirely just by staying where you are and not exposing your position to players. Read my treatise on the groundhog here for more information on the value of awareness and avoidance-style game play. But, that's not the only way. You can take a much more direct approach and try to eliminate your competition. Take the war to their soil. Find their camps and raid them. Steal their stuff. And if you see them, put holes in them. It's a more dangerous style, but it works too. To each their own in Chernarus. Best of luck out there, mate.

Locked. Thread will be reported to Developers, which I don't think will do much. Besides... where is this going? Please consider the following: Admin states that they have no control over the server other then kicking/banning. Due to a server restart tents may of bugged and all loot inside tents/vehicles may not show up until next restart. (This is a common bug, you just didn't know about it.) In the image you state it is locked (Where is the locked icon?) and that an admin (No proof of showing an admin in, only a anonymous player.) is in there alone. There is no proof of an admin being in a locked server.

I can confirm this, I just came off Atlanta 22 about 15 minutes ago and the vehicles are still there. Proof: http://i.imgur.com/RYqyU.png

I would like to know if there is any way to tell whether or not a vehicle or tent will eventually eat all your hard-earned gear? I had a vehicle that had some medical supplies and stuff in it. They still were there the next day and I thought that the vehicle was safe to use and thus stored my AS50, mags, more stuff and 2 aks74 kobras in there but then the next day the whole inventory of the vehicle had disappeared. And tents, I can't even get them to work. I have used them twice, hiding them in a good spot far away, put in some useless items to see if they are there the next day, which they weren't so I haven't even dared to use tents to this point since the "test items" I put in them always disappear. Is there no way to get vehicles and tents to work? And yes, I remembered to save.

Have you spoken to Lee on the Vilayer Ts3 channel? He (and the other Vilayer guys) have been extremely helpful to me and many other server admins. What is your server name? When you restart, do you stop and star,t or just click the restart button, I always stop it, leave it 60 seconds then start it again, this has led to vehicles and tents being fine (players need to remember to save the tents (and vehicles when you get them Yes Vilayer restricts access to certain things, but these are things that you should not be messing with unless you want a quick visit to the DayZ blacklist I'm sure one of the guys form vilayer will see this and contact you, but just in case here's the TS3 info ts3.vilayer.com

so seattle 13 was hacked yesterday. The hacker teleported all players on the server to the NW airfield and spawned planes for everyone near the firehouse. I DCed immediately to avoid losing all my gear to a hack. I went back to camp, dropped all my gear, and headed to the airfield to see if anyone/any vehicles were left. This is what happened: Also, this is what i get for going straight to DayZ rather than playing Arma first!

Required: Server this happened on: Atlanta 22 Time that it happened including your timezone: 9:30 AM, July 7th, 2012 (Central time) What happened during the incident: I just respawned and saw theese 5 vehicles. Not knowing if they were hacked in or not, I drove one away, ending up in NW airfield, which I found a Apache in. After seeing that, I assumed they were hacked in, and flew the Apache back to Chernogorsk to get screenshots of the trucks. I am scared that after driving the vehicles that I found I might get battleye banned, and I wanted to make sure the ban was distributed to the correct players. Optional: - Pictures: Screenshots, some were from me inside the vehicles (Before I knew they were hacked in - http://steamcommunity.com/id/Bobustin/screenshots?tab=public&showdate=1&filter=app_33930 Again, I am sorry for using the hacked in vehicles as I shouldn't have, and will not drive vehicles without checking if they are spawned in again. I would like to see the hacker banned, because Atlanta 22 is a fun server, and the homeserver of me and my friends. Thanks, Bobustin

Hello DayZ Community, I host a virtual server and two dedicated servers for DayZ. My virtual server, hosted by ViLayer.com, has been up for 10 days now. This server is the odd-ball in that no vehicles are spawning. I can confirm that no vehicles are spawning in that over the course of a week, many of our 15 admins and 35+ players are have not come across any vehicles, other than crashed uh1y's. Before anyone starts stating that the vehicles are randomly spawned and that the HIVE decides at random intervals the vehicle spawn rates, I know this already. This is why I think there is a serious issue with either my server's connection to the HIVE or some sort of configuration of my server. Unfortunately my server company, ViLayer.com, sent me a cookie-cutter response and isn't really interested in assisting in the problem thus far. They also limit what files I can edit on the server (this is why I bought 2x dedicated server from HFBservers), and I can only get access to the time-management, server config and reset the suffix name of my virtual server. I've also noticed on my troublesome ViLayer server that tents do not save after I restart my server (I do restarts daily). My HFB Dedicated servers all spawn vehicles randomly and people can find vehicles on both server, and tents save! My ViLayer server does not spawn vehicles and does not save tents. Any thoughts or recommendations on how to solve my ViLayer.com server issues? I'm not really interesting in giving ViLayer the boot just yet, I want to try and solve this issue with the server. :@

Sorry for lagging US60 (NY1) and US61 (NY2). Cant restart them right now. World map is fckd up, all vehicles was destroyed and so on http://steamcommunity.com/id/beginner85/screenshot/559820538320170334/?tab=public http://steamcommunity.com/id/beginner85/screenshot/559820538320178215/?tab=public

These 4 guys all have GPS, Night Vision, Maps and great weapons. They also have 3 vehicles. How did they manage to get all this stuff when they only manage to make 25 minutes of video before 2 of them are shot dead at night on a server without many people? They must have cheated. They even mention one of the guys has been accused of cheating before. The 4 people in this video are hackers. We all have to go through the grind of looting. These guys should be banned. 1st Video 2nd Video

Helicopter vehicles are disabled currently. Apparently they caused too much stress for the servers. Alpha and all that. They'll be back.

What you think of diffrent zones with diffrent conditions? I would suggest 4 of them, i painted a map to explain. The first both dont change much, maybe weather conditions and a bit spawnrates of loot and zeds. Green Zone (spawn area wich big cities and much zeds) -infected spawn rate as it is now -loot as it is now Yellow Zone (inland) -infected spawn rate as it is now -loot as it is now -chopper spawns as it is now -maybe spawn random camps in the deep woods which spawn loot and zeds The last 2 Zones are more dangerous, the infection was developed from the military in their area behind the airbase to protect their research area and the castle. The zeds are more and stronger because they are longer infected and wearing military clothes. Orange Zone (regular military zone) -higher infected spawn rate -loot as it is now -random dead military patrols and outposts wich spawn zeds and sometimes loot Red Zone (military research and test area) -high infected spawnrate (maybe 1-2 stronger versions of infected, longer infected) -permanent bad weather in that area -spawn random military bunkers, dead patrols, vehicles and stuff deep in the woods with many zeds around and loot. - maybe a military field hospital with medic supplies and aggro doctor zeds wich are stronger than normal ones because they are infected first -or spawn real enemy soldiers wich are not infected and armed to make it look that the military try to clean up the evidences

@Trowa, due the fact i can't really control where and how the vehicles are saved / spawned it doesnt matter when the server restart and how often. I can only run the server 24 hours before i have to restart. :S

If you remembered to save the tents and vehicles then it's possible your items will be back the next time the server resets. I've had tents completely disappear only to be brought back with all my gear after the server did another restart.