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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.

My friend and I found a truck outside of a village and it was wedged between two other vehicles. Whilst trying to get it out the truck exploded and killed my friend. I was left unconscious surrounded by zombies until my blood went down to 600 and I came to. Looted my dead friends corpse and he had a mountain dew! Carried this until zenorogorsk and got sniped one shot clean.

Thanks for the ideas. Got a good server with vehicles to suggest?

I'm going to say no, because you have to look at the big picture. Bikes, motorcycles and ATV's are vehicles as well. It doesn't make any sense to have them locked and magically you can't interact. Not only that, but the windows can be destroyed, so not having a key wouldn't be a problem.

Here is my copy pasted post from another thread similar to this one a while ago. You look for even more satisfying equipment. Get NVGs, rangefinders, GPS, frags, coyote pack, ghille or camo depending on your liking, get a good close range gun that two shots a player and keep a high powered sniper in your backpack such as the M107 or AS50. Find an m9 SD and ammo for a good sidearm but make sure you head shot since its weak. Find the perfect inventory setup that will support your needs perfectly in any possible situation. After that find a server with vehicle spawns and find the one that suits you best. Fix it up, get it running, repair all the windows because they block bullets from certain guns, and so on. Get a tent or two and fill it with everything that you need to fix another vehicle and to survive without that one and keep stuff in the vehicle as well. Due to DayZ being an alpha the tents and vehicles like to vanish, so make sure you can live in the vehicle without the tent and fix another vehicle if you lose the vehicle, and always keep your inventory good enough that if all should fail and you lose both then you can survive. After that it is up to you to find something to do. Do you want to find an M136 anti tank rocket launcher? Collect vehicles? Kill yourself and start over, possibly choosing a new play style to challenge yourself and liven things up? Also find friends to play with. The game takes on a lot more when doing rescue missions in your car, fighting snipers in cherno with them while you try to get out safely, defending them from a hoard of zombies that just don't seem to ever stop because your ally's legs are broken and you both are out of morphine. Its a sandbox game and you do what you want in the end, but those are my recommendations to keep you going for a while and provide some good entertainment.

+1 with op, -make a confirmation int the "respawn" with red glowing letters saying: You are about to kill yourself! -backpack and vehicles number slots visible.

Lots and lots of threads about putting a confirmation trigger on the Respawn button, which I support, but I'd like to expand on that a bit. Storage receptacles such as tents/vehicles, they hold a limited amount of each category of item (weapon/tool, backpack, everything else) in the game. My suggestion is to add a warning trigger when you're about to exceed the maximum amount for said item instead of trying to stuff something into a full tent/vehicle and having it get eaten by the game. While not a tremendous issue by any means, it's rather aggravating to have a pair of NVGs or an M9SD get eaten because you forgot to remove your extra compass from the tent/vehicle. On a side note, I only seem to have this issue with the weapon/tool category of items, the "everything else" category will just dump excess items on the ground surrounding the tent/vehicle. I'd even be okay with weapons/tools dumping on the ground surrounding the tent, just make stuff stop getting eaten by time and space because I made a minor mathematical error or was absent minded for a moment. TL;DR - Add warning triggers to tents/vehicles for overflow of items/weapons/tools/etc.

I can see where the admin is coming from but it still shouldn't merit a kick/ban, even if they are allowed to kick for this type of thing (which they aren't) it is a cheap thing to do. As long as the vehicles we're acquired legitimately it should be a non-issue. Sounds like another case of "butthurt admin"

Me and a friend were playing today and we found two Ural trucks parked up next to each other in the middle of the airfield, one of which was taken by a random player and wasn't seen again. So my friend went to look in the second truck and it was full of PKM mags, a few RPG's and Strela's too. We decided to leave the trucks because they were most likely hacked/spawned in. We decided to run to Elektro where we were greeted by a guy in an APC blowing up buildings and trying to kill us and other players, clearly a hacker Unfortunately because it was a veteran server names didn't appear when looking at players, so we had no idea who the hacker was. Just thought i'd warn people about EU8 considering there's a guy (or the could potentially be multiple people) spawning vehicles and weapons in such as APC's and RPG's and driving around Elektro blowing stuff up and killing people. If any admins of EU8 see this too then be sure to keep an eye on it please.

Dude, me and my mate is just as bummed out about it as you are. We had 2 other guys nearby in another vehicle ready to move in and retrieve our loot, but because of the restart we can't get any of our loot and both of our vehicles are stranded somewhere. And we had just spent several hours retrieving all the necessary industrial loot to repair that pickup after spending several hours actually finding one.

Spawning with one? No way. There would be thousands of dogs everyhwere and their advantages would be pointless if everyone had one. Eww. Should be an ultra rare find, like more rare than vehicles - tied to a fence or house somewhere in need of rescue. And your dog's death should be permanent too, like yours. Also: infected dogs. Rawr.

Just wanted to post an update. I restarted the server and the tents are back. However, the vehicles are gone. Is this a typical occurrence?

Technically then shouldn't you be able to siphon fuel out of other cars? Would be funny if some clan got a load of vehicles and you steal all their fuel in the night.

Only users with a non-SSD HDD are going to notice significant improvements using a RamDisk. I have a 7200rpm HDD and at certain points within the game (both SP/MP) I had some performance issues such as: :: Stuttering whilst moving around (more noticeable at speed in vehicles, more so as you approach cities with many objects) :: Texture popping (as there is no file caching, textures are streamed in real time from the HDD) :: Object popping (as above, more noticeable when zooming in) After moving several Arma 2 and DayZ PBO files to a RamDisk I dont get any of the above, it runs nice and smooth and I've been able to increase my view distance by 100% :) If you're on an SSD, I doubt you need a RamDisk.

Suggestions (gear and otherwise), sorry if any of these have been mentioned before 1) camp stove, less visible fire, but takes longer to cook meat (i.e. less visible at night, but you have to sit still longer) 2) shelter tent, so if you're in the rain or it's nighttime you can find someplace to get your temp up if you want to hide in the woods 3) use empty tin cans to drink water, but can't carry the water with you 4) sleeping bag, 5 minutes rest gives you 1000 blood back, but you are immobile and screen is black while you are sleeping, only gunfire or other party members (if there) can wake you up if they need to before 5 minutes is up 5) zombies can go after livestock if they are detected (maybe even slowly gravitate towards them like they do survivors). Maybe if the zombie gets close it attacks, animal could have a chance to kick (and kill) the zombie, and zombie could infect or kill the animal if the animal takes a certain amount of damage. Finding untainted meat might be harder. 6) single player mod - yeah, i know, not rocket's intent, but I think if you nerfed drop rates on military gear, NVG's etc., maybe had a repairable helicopter in Berizino, but you had to get parts from most of the major cities, etc. to escape that could be kind of an intense Omega Man type scenario, hopefully without a lot of work. Would still be challenging since nobody would be there to help you if went unconscious, give blood transfusions, etc., especially with random locations for stuff to fix boat so actually had to scour a city. Vehicles used could break and need repair easier so you couldn't just drive around to get everything (maybe some kind of road block in front of cities so you have to go on foot?).

I think the amount of vehicles is good at the moment maybe there should be a few more military vehicles because there are allot of bases. Also you need to check the vehicles on the road there are allot of them that don't work so those are also in the amount of vehicles on the map. Adding those to the actually drivable vehicles you get a fair amount of vehicles.

Same happends on my server, tents and vehicles are loosing gear randomly or disappear completly. Suxx, but i cant do anything about it.

I have been using R4ZOR restart script, and when I have it set to a scheduled windows task it gives me an error. If I run it off the desktop though it works fine. Anyone have some input into this? Also, side note when the server restarts from scripts sometimes vehicles and tents do not load and I have to do a manual restart whats the insight into this? Thanks for the help

This is the fucking 3rd time in a row we lose our cars in the time of a few days even though we hide it far in the forest. If you sleep next to a fucking car you will fucking hear it go. Add a key system, a chance to lock the cars, chance to add bulletproof glass to make it more safe, ANYTHING to help against getting the vehicles stolen every fucking time. The only way to safely hide vehicles is to drive them out of the map but we're not douchebags so we don't do it. Fucking do something, Rocket. It's unrealistic. Excuse my language but I am pissed right now as we lost a land rover and an ATV full of weapons and loot and left with nothing.

This is one of the better vehicle suggestions. Tanks with extremely rare parts, radars, and guidance systems requiring advanced training to operate and repair: no Civillian vehicles that you not only would find in the region and have a chance to repair, but might know how to drive: yes

I'll be changing the header soon to reflect my server and instructing people to play on my servers if they want multiple characters or to simply have fun with friends on something secure. I'm going to wait a bit and see if I can get a definitive answer before I do but it's really getting unplayable. Every user whom hacks that joins my HIVE network pretty much gets banned right off the bat; only two issues left to solve (working on it). My users enjoy having more than the meager amount of vehicles spawned in Official. Aside from that they all tell me don't touch shit and just make sure vehicles and especially bikes are more prevalent. Not TOO many, but enough that at least each town has a vehicle or two hidden.

I'm sorry, but you can't just stamp "It's realistic/unrealistic" on your suggestion and it automatically gets approved. If you don't want people to take your car, find a better hiding spot for it, that or recruit people for your group so that it can have more surveillance and thus be less likely to be stolen. In short, it isn't Rocket's job to safeguard your vehicles, it's your job. (( Also, how does a key system solve people who'll just shoot-up the car since they can't steal it? ))

I think the real reason why everybody is tantalizing OP (including myself) is because everyone has lost a lot of valuable loot and/or vehicles in the game. It's still in Alpha. He's raging. You're raging. I've raged. We've all raged. That's why this game is great: it forces emotion because of the high stress situations. It is, literally, the perfect video game. Of course, there are bugs, exploits and hacks going around, but everybody knows about them. In the future, we will have the perfect community and a flawless (or near flawless) game. As of now, just get used to the feelings this game instills when you're playing this and just remember not to freak out or get pissed off over losing stuff. When the game is finished and officially released, you'll be part of an elite group of people that will trample newfags that will be like "ZOMG HE KILLD MEH FO NO RAISIN. WHAT ZE FOOK?" TL;DR - Relax. You'll lose everything eventually, especially when the game is officially done. (Notice my use of the term "game" instead of "mod")

Hey i'm from the UK running on time GMT +1. I have been playing for a couple of weeks on a different account and have only recently got it running on my laptop so i will be a completely fresh spawn, although i do know the basics of the map, locations of weapons, ammo, equipment, vehicles, parts, etc. I have also been finding it hard to survive alone because people just shoot you on sight even if you are friendly, but if you're in a group you can survive a lot easier. I would love to team up with you and a few others who post in this thread :) I may be able to play tonight (9th July 2012) so message me if you can as well :D *EDIT* I also do have skype, so if you have it as well, include it in the message you send me :P

who said we were butthurt? he destroyed the vehicles he didnt want and took the others and then he banned us. he stole the cars which doesnt matter, you win some you loose but cant do either when your banned.