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My clan has a similar experience, and we no longer store gear in vehicles. Only way to keep your pixels is to place them in your backpack when you log off. Yes its an alpha, and its still the best game i have played this year...

At least you can clearly see the action here... what you don't see is other "famous" streamers that are getting help from hackers while "offline". When they die you suddendly see them again with vehicles, L85A2, ghillie and whatever after half hour, without knowing what happened in the "middle", you may believe these ppl having tons of tents to restock from.. but when you ask you get kicked from the stream. There's a streamer that were being helped by a well known cheate/hacker about a week ago, his defense was that he cannot avoid the hacker providing weapons (like this thread) .. but then after a week that same "hacker" started to play with him (without cheating publically.. bt providing weapons and stuff while they are offline). What you would do to being "famous" (or to earn some cents with the streaming donations.. lol).

Well, I think I do every kind of pvp dayz has to offer nowadays. I'm in a clan, so we roam the map killing everyone on sight, looting airfields, getting vehicles. We did set up a base several times, but they get compromised/hacked/alphaed so we gave up on it. I go lone wolf inland. If I get a drop on someone, I let them go. I'm kind of in a won position anyway, I like fighting and don't care much about griefing. If he had bandit skin of ghillie I'd most likely shot the guy. I also go electro/cherno for pvp. There I operate on kos, don't care if the other is armed or not. I consider those cities war zones. If you take eve as an example, they already had very complex corporation/alliance mechanics in place, they still added faction warfare to provide players with more gameplay styles. Having mates on voice coms is of course fine, having factions would provide dayz with a deeper rpg context and more options in gameplay. I must admit that I'm myself not sure if it would work fine in dayz or if it's ok with the direction rocket wants to take the game in. And I don't think that it's possible for dayz to archive the rpg goal of degradation of human relationships rocket wants to have for 2 reasons: clans and servers voice comms.

Hi, As title really. Been playing roughly 2 months looking for semi serious group that are working towards a common goal (camp, vehicles etc). Play mostly weekends and some evenings although work occasionally gets in the way ! Have decent ping to east coast US servers also. (got mic TS3) Steam : Eeno 30+/M/UK Thx

Hey, me and my small group have a lot of items we have and don't need, and there's a lot of items we need and don't have. To start things off, I know that trading is risky and I expect there to be a million troll responses of LOL THEYLL JUST KILL YOU AND TAKE YOUR SHIT ANYWAY. I and whoever trades with me will be aware of the risks, and I'll be conducting trades in the safest manner possible. All items we own were obtained legitimately, about 90% from crash sites and the rest a combination of other players and airfield barracks. Stock is pretty low right now because 3 of our tents bugged out and I crashed a tractor with multiple L85AWs on it. What we have -Car parts, mostly scrap metal, wheels, and fuel tanks. -M107 -3 DMRs -3 FALs -1 FAL NV sight -1 M14 AIM -1 M4A3 CCO -1 MP5SD6 -4 Bizon SDs -Multiple mags for just about every weapon What we want -M4 SD -SVD -M24 -GPS -Rangefinder -Engine parts -Ghillie suits -Mountain Dew -Coyote Backpacks I also have a few vehicles available for the right price, although obviously theyre tied to the server theyre on. -Motorcycle -2 V3S -S1203 Van

I think perhaps the vehicle spawns could be a little more plentiful, I'd been playing the game for a couple of months before I saw my first vehicles. Both times I found a vehicle I would drive off and shortly afterwards someone would open fire on me and destroy it. Seems the initial reaction when seeing a vehicle is open fire and stop that person having it.

I know a lot of you will just say a straight up NO, but with the size of this map I believe that more vehicles are needed, in my opinion it would make the game better (It is awesome as it is) but think about it with more vehicles spawning in the same condition they do now would make places on the map more populated and give people more to do, at the moment once you have good weapons and food/water to survive all there is to do is to scour the map to try to find a vehicle with more out there to repair I think that there would be more player combat with people fighting over spare parts and then with more vehicles driving around, more attempted thefts, now im not talking GTA amounts of cars just a few more here and there, that is just my two cents, please if you have an opinion on this matter reply but please not just a flat NO, just NO :P cheers.

So this is not a complant just an observation of what i have seen with my friends and how they play compared to the "old Dayz" So firstly im 15, most of the people i play with are roughly that age and i've noticed they seem to play like, well children. They joined Dayz after it reached such a high level of popularity and i think this shows. First of all they see someone with pretty gear, they just shoot, they shoot unarmed people as well, why? because there stupid kids, they see a bright shiney thing. They want bright shiney thing and instead of having the paitence to try and trade or negotiate (or even RP a steal) they just shoot and take. Secondly, they dont value anything, i worked hard for vehicles and then they join me, they always have a go at me to "just use the vehicles its no fun if we dont use them! its a waste of time just having them sit there!" My friends dont seem to understand that they are precious and a luxery to have, you dont drive it to the NW airfield just because it saves time! and that they also need maintenance. I also have friends though that have played with my since early Dayz (and are a little older) that have resorted to shoot on sight, because of the people i mentioned before, they didnt partically want to but they have "addapted" to survive. Now i was wondering, have you adapted? i havent. I still dont shoot on sight, and i die. A lot. but as i say to my friends "i die with a good heart" (and they laugh at me.) now i know most people would consider my playing style stupid as i usually end up losing nice gear but thats how i play, im not complaining about it since i know every game changes and mutates through the course of its life and Dayz will probably change even more as it moves on, but i still play the "old way" i try and help first, shoot second. How do you play? Have you given up on your morales and now shoot first ask later? Do you see shiney things and just take? Or where you always that cold hearted killer that i use to know and love in Dayz before it got a little to cold. A few side notes: I know not every young person shoots on sight that is just an example and what i think is the main cause of this new engagement rule I know my spelling is bad, its not a good skill of mine, However i did try to please dont hate me for it. Thirdly im not complaining about how Dayz is changing. =) Oh and last but not least, this is my first major thread that is over 30 words so if it doesnt make much organised sense, im sorry as well :P

Hey, I'm getting pretty mad at this, me and a couple of friends have gotten some ATV's and stuff, and I got 2 Camping Tent's I want to place so we can keep our gear if the vehicles explode... But whenever i try to pitch a tent this message comes up: "The are must be flat, and free of other objects" when it is flat, AND free of objects... Is this a bug, and is it going to be fixed? _______ Fatneck

Just make more vehicles. 10 times more from now. I think that'll be enough.

Yesterday I managed to find my first car! After hunting around on foot to find wheels, then repairing it and started driving around, I quickly realized how powerful this superfast mobile tent is... The thing that struck me as incredibly overpowered was the fact that cars can store so many items, including car parts. I'm not sure on the exact limit as I never reached it in the armored SUV, it seemed that this vehicle was the ultimate machine for finding more vehicles. You can cover every vehicle spawn in 30 mins of driving, all while carrying enough materials to repair any vehicle to full health. In the interest of balance, you would think that a finite resource like vehicles should have diminishing returns for players to prevent hording them all. The current build is the opposite, once you have your first car, finding more becomes trivial. So in an active server trying to find a vehicle, players on foot that can travel at like 10k per hour carrying at max 2 car tires and some scrap metal has to compete with other players who travel at 100k and can carry a seemingly infinite amount of gear. What I propose is to greatly limit the carrying capacity of car parts for a vehicle to prevent this snowballing effect. Repairing cars will still be easier for players with other cars already, but the gap will not be so massive. It also increases the chance that a car will be wrecked beyond repair because you wont have 4 spare wheels, a fueltank, engine parts, scrap metal in the boot for whenever you crash. tldr; Don't let cars carry car parts.

If your talking about the white dots/blobs that appear at the side of the screen, then yes, this is a feature of ARMA and not a bug. They notify you of things that are near you, players, zeds, animals and vehicles. They change in size and brightness depending on how close or far away from you they are.

There are plenty of vehicles. The problem is that douchebag clanners are hoarding everything off the map, effectively taking the vehicles out of the gameplay for 99% of the players. Exactly. All it takes is for one of the clan members to have a spare account next to their off-map vehicle park and save it on a regular basis ... I do think that it would be too harsh to have vehicles blow up instantly if they leave the boundary of the map, but a timer of 1-2 minutes would be reasonable in my opinion.

It's not assumption, we screenshotted their "parking lot" and posted in their forum to see the reactions^^ They definately are the owners of the vehicles. It may be assumption that they altered server time to do their stuff, but i can list a number of facts that make it at least very suspicious: -The server's nighttime circle was usually between 3:30 AM - late morning (real time, CEST). After the (i think) last patch it was daytime all day long, no night at all. -One of my clanmates spotted their bus right before it got suddenly dark at around 3 PM...it was never night at this time on the server before. -7 of their clan were suddenly online, while none was before. -After a few hours (around 8 PM) daylight came back and most of them went offline again. -Between 3 PM and 8 PM (nighttime) our ingame watches kept showing different times everytime we checked - it looked like someone was playing with the server time again and again. Yes i could name and shame them - but i won't until i know that this is not legit. I'm not going to blame and shame someone who is moving inside the borders of law, even if those borders would be very weird in this case^^

Prey tell the clan and the server, although i reckon you placing a lot on assumption here. But let it be known here and i bet you there will be a lot out looking for them and if your right some admin rage server closing will commence. I think vehicle balance is fine, I do not use vehicles much finding them is hard and repairing them harder as it should be. Now the vehicles are being swept of the plains keeping them within map boundaries and deleting if unused for a few days will help more in the long run.

I believe there is an issue with crashed chopper sites. I've been on dozens of servers in the past few days and only seen maybe one crashed chopper. Normally I'm able to just sit on one server and find five or six quite easily. It appears that some people are having issues with their tents/vehicles not spawning into the server (as have a friend and I). Obviously people steal/destroy bases but I'm thinking there's a connection with our site (and others) not being there and the crashed choppers not being there on any server I've been to in days.

Find vehicles with my L85 thermal function quite a bit. Not the most practical for everyone, but it works. Helicopters also offer a radar for vehicles.

My first kill I felt bad and thought that I shouldn't of done that. 16, shoot on sight. Don't care, they will kill me if I don't shoot first. Unarmed? Don't care, could come back and kill me. Blood-lust feeds my frenzy. Love to kill. Value vehicles to a certain extent, they are pretty easy to find again. Found a ATV tonight and my friend blew it up thinking he could get some air. Was annoyed, but not mad. Lost a ghillie suit, cz, and some other stuff. We already both have ghillies and an extra camo. At one point I was a friendly guy, then I got killed by people I thought were friendly. After it blew up we went to NW, found nothing in one barracks yet the other contained 2 m16 acogs and a m4a1 holo grenade launcher. Also had a helicopter with a FAL nv. So tonight we blew up someones ATV and found some nice loot. Overall, good night. Sorry to tell my life story.

Hello! I have a bit of a problem. Me and some friends have decided to start a server. We want to play friendly, explore the world with eachother and we plan on starting a project where we will build a giant base, filled with tents and vehicles, just for fun. We are currently around 12 people that want to create this server. I thought about buying a server from Multiplay but they said you were not allowed to put a password on your server. I googled "DayZ Server" and I read on the forums that passworded servers are apparently not allowed? Is this really true? I mean, there are loads of passworded DayZ servers out there. We only want to play alone. We do not plan on hacking or doing any type of modding, we just want to play alone. We don't really care if our server get's blacklisted or whatever, we just want to play with eachother, on a passworded server. Is this possible? Thank you for your answers. /Abstract

I've had hacker problems recently and a extremely large scripts file(500mb) Was wondering what kinds of codes I should be looking for that spawns in those ammo crates and vehicles, etc.

Why would you want to just run around with you and your buddies? This makes absolutely no sense to me. The zombies in this game are a joke (except for their lag) especially when you posse roll. With no threat of other players what is there to do? Just hoard vehicles/items and never put them to use? Jesus, I can't think of a more boring thing to do...

I haven't seen this mentioned before, if it has then please ignore this suggestion. I think you should be able to syphon fuel from one use able vehicle to another use able vehicle. A friend and i found a truck and was joyriding when we found another use able vehicles by the side of the road unfortunately it was out of gas and we didn't have a jerry can. It can just be a plastic tubing and be a special item so it doesn't take up space. There isn't too many use able vehicles so its not something you can do a lot and it wouldn't replace going to the petrol station.

Hello, I am really enjoying the US70 Server - Hosted by DrTyWords. However, there are a few game settings on the server that annoy me and I'd like to see changed. These settings are: 1. Being able to see yourself, others & vehicles on the map. This setting feels like cheating, I always know where I am and removes any excitement of figuring out where I am. It also renders the GPS useless. Having some kind of sonar around you that shows any nearby players or vehicles is also really dumb, imagine being killed by another player only because he saw your icon on the map. screenshot of this: http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/184/arma2oa2012062122395128.png (left: my position, right: set waypoint visible in screenshot 2) 2. Setting waypoints on the map, telling you exactly where the target location is and how far away it is. Again, takes away all the excitement of finding out where you are. Should be removed. Screenshot: http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/6724/arma2oa2012062122393194.png 3. It is also possible to see the "black X with a circle around them" markers that other players placed on the map, this allows players to communicate while it shouldn't be possible. global chat was disabled after all. I don't know if it is possible to disable this setting, but if you can it should be. Everyone who likes to see these changes happen on US70 (or not) please reply in this thread, starting your post with either YES or NO. I've got confirmation of the server admin he will read this thread and might change the settings if we get enough votes.

Well, since the other two came clean, I'll fess up as well. We are a pretty dirty bunch, we started DayZ trying to be decent individuals, but since people became trigger happy we've followed the trend as well. Kill or be killed, no such thing as friendlies, and trust only your closest mates. Yes, we've pillaged a few camps, stole plenty of cars, and lost a few as well to firefights or shoddy driving. We aren't bandits, just survivors who have lost a lot of trust in the remains of humanity. We haven't stolen EVERY car in the map, and do not have ALL of them either. We lost a few vehicles to server restarts when we didn't really understand the save system but we seem to have overcome that. The downside for some people playing this mod is that the vehicles are server side- you can log off, but your car cannot. Be wary of where you park them unless you have a group of guys that can cover the whole 24 hour spectrum. Rest assured, the admin are fair on this server. We have not had anyone in our group kicked or banned for any reason at all, least of all an immature admin. Read the forums a bit more and you will have a greater understanding of DayZ and how it works, allowing you to explain some if not most of the strange disappearances.

Hey, a friend and I are looking to join a group. We are about two a month+ into the game. We are a two man unit but we're looking to change that and play with a mature preferred age 21+ coordinated group. We know the game pretty well, have plenty of medical supplies, scouting and sneaking into towns we do well. Looking to start building choppers, vehicles and raiding for military grade weapons. East coast time zone. We play into the night. Hit me back with a PM if any clans/communities are interested.