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Why it's a good idea: 1: Crowbar sucks (should need 2-3 hits to kill), but you can kill the occasional zombie 2: If noobs die, it's instant feedback that they're doing something wrong (like taking on too many zombies) 3: You cannot kill other players that are beyond talking distance and you have no incentive to kill other players (he only has a crowbar/bandage like you do) 4: The crowbar symbolizes any sort of crappy metal rod or plank or tool you'd find in any shed, so it's realistic. Why no-weapon is a bad idea: 1: Only certain buildings are enterable and have loot, but new players have no way of knowing this, so they'll attract zombies without finding loot where they in real life, intuitively, would find something. This will lead new players to blame the game for their failure. 2: Once they have a zombie on them, it's intuitive to run. New players will end up running forever, since shaking zombies isn't really intuitive. (leading them through a building that they don't know where to find) If they die swinging a crowbar, they'll know it's their own fault. Or they can kill the zombie, learn from the mistake and try again. It allows for some margin of error instead of simply encouraging a respawn. 3: Experienced players are not challenged by lack of a starter weapon. All you need to do is respawn until you end up in cherno, elektro, or balota and then run (no stealth needed) and check all buildings until you find a weapon. That's it. Thus no weapon doesn't really add anything to the game, it just makes it unnecessarily mean towards new players. EDIT: I know some fanboy will go ad-hominem, so: I've survived over a week now, I can find a weapon in less than 5 minutes from spawn, I have an L85A2, Coyote BP, NVGs and 3 vehicles.

I have had a server since the day the new support system rolled out. I have been wondering the same things as all of you, mostly due to my server being first setup during the DDoS attacks the Master DB was getting. Tonight though all my worries that vehicles were never going to spawn went away. I found the Bus in Cherno and repaired the 3 wheels, repaired the engine, and gathered up 2 Jerry cans to juice her up. So my suggestion to anyone else running a fairly new server, or even an older server, to maybe give it a little more time and see if a vehicle happens to pop up. There is also a sweet new support ticket system in place to address your server woes, if you feel there is still a problem and need to do something to fix it.

I host a few servers and have also experienced a lack of vehicles spawning.

First off, I'm playing DayZ since one month now and I've had my fair share of equip, PvP, PvE, vehicles and all that good stuff. I know pretty much every loot spawn and the usual hotspots. At this point I feel like the gameplay has reached a certain point of stagnation for me. When I respawn at the right position and with a bit of luck I'm able to fully equip with a good primary, a secondary, hunting gear and generic loot in less than 30 minutes. With my oldest survivor ever I even deliberately ran into Cherno to die to another player since I had nothing else to do than camping the airfield or stary. I had everything except NVG. Now don't misunderstand this. The game is still amazing, especially in terms of interaction with other players. At this point, the game simply misses some motivating endgame content to keep fully geared players from getting bored and sniping noobs along the coast. This is where the title comes into play. I've played Minecraft since the early alpha version and witnessed every new feature Notch has introduced since then, until the final release. The game was great until a certain point where piling up blocks to make a huge castle, hunting monsters for loot and mining ores for items just wasn't fun anymore. Simply put, it got old. Notch tried to counteract this by putting more endgame content into the game. The Nether, Endermen and the end, villages, strongholds and other stuff you probably know. While all this was fun to explore for a few hours, it didn't change the core of the game: Mining and piling up blocks to get items and build stuff. And that had gotten old for me already. Due to that I never really returned to Minecraft after checking out a major update. Now I'm witnessing another game in alpha stage with a lack of endgame content. What I want to say is that Rocket should take the history of Minecraft as an example on how to not put endgame into his mod. For example he could just put some extremly rare weapons into the game and declare them endgame content. But that wouldn't remove the real problem and rather postpone it until the player finds that weapon. A good endgame update for example would be a place on the map designed for group gameplay. Somehow similar to dungeons. I know "tis isn't WoW!!!!1111" and I don't think the conception of dungeons would fit into his game, just take the general idea of it as an example on how such a group content could look like. Obviously it would not create more endgame for fully equipped clans and groups, but maybe lone wolfs that need to group up for it. I think player interaction is the biggest endgame plus this game has. In my opinion the best way to enhance this is through metagame rather than pure feature addition (like more weapons or zombie types or whatever). Incase you don't get what I mean with metagame: When people go to the airfield to fight other players there because they know it's a highly frequented pace, that's metagame. A feature not directly in the game as an entity, but still recognized by the players as a part of the game so to say. Look at Starcraft II. Blizzard hasn't put a single content update up since the release and to be honest, the gameplay is really dull. Collect money, build units, fight the enemy. That's it and yet it's the most played game besides LoL in competetive gaming. This is because players create, change and shift the metagame constantly. That being said, thanks for the read and maybe even Rocket reads this. Who knows.

DayZ noob here but I just have to put my two cents in. I've only been playing this game for just over a week but I'm lucky enough to have gotten into it with a couple of friends. We now have survival skills, 4 tents a bunch of vehicles, decent weapons and an intense hatred of other players. Like everyone else on this thread we have suffered with item deletion, tents going haywire, vehicles disappearing and bugging and just general issues you'd expect from a game currently in alpha. My friend has OCD and so just had to make sure we had a fresh tent setup for all of our high value weapons and ammo, sod's law, this was the tent whose contents vanished yesterday, not the one with our blood and food, but all the bloody weapons :) Still no complaints. Keep working on this game, it's awesome, can't tell you how much we are enjoying it, havent stayed up untill 6:30am on a game in years. Our Gaz disappeared yesterday, our weapon tent was wiped, a tractor blew up killing one of us and then I flipped an ATV which caught fire on me immediately; we stole a car from a rival camp, then wrecked their camp for being too close to ours, a guy spawned in the car we stole and we killed the poor bastard. The only thing I'm concerned about is the item deletion, silenced weapons and NV googles take too much effort to aquire only to have them get erased, that aside this game rocks.

Are you insane? The 7 day inactivity rule is more fair, gives people a chance to keep their hard earned vehicles. However I agree, nothing should save off the map. Everyone should run the risk of having their hiding places discovered. The fact that people are allowed to drive 40km off the map to hide their stuff boggles my mind.

I have a noob question for you: if a group of players amass every vehicle in a single spot will they disable every other vehicle spawn until those mentioned vehicles are destroyed?

I lost my hopes.. more time passes and more cheaters comes. Even worse now half of the streams on twitch.tv in example are about cheaters "helping" the streamers (ie: spawn vehicles and weapons for them) or the opposite: cheaters hunting streamers. The "funniest" (if you say so) was about a guy helped by a cheater (L85A2 spawned in gear) but then killed by another cheater! lol ... If i were care about my gear (at least a minimum) now i'm trolling all over.. you never know when you're going to die, even if you pay much attention you can die suddendly by a nuke, by being pushed in the air, by being shoot by a cheater teleporting to you. I start to agree with ppl that are playing this like a death-match .. there isn't much sense to collect stuff, coz the only way to "survive" against cheaters is: to not play at all.

There is no evidence of cheating and no one cheated. You shut the server off after your friend got killed so no one was there to claim your items or vehicles. I hope you found the bus we hid.

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I take that back... after they restarted the server several times I was able to make it in for a minute... to find that they had removed all of their equipment. There was probably 20-30 barbwire fences/sandbags/tank traps and ~15 vehicles. They definitely wanted to cover their tracks. Too bad I already got it all on video. ;]

Also I wasnt online when you guys stole the Offroad and the rest of the vehicles on the hill. The truth is in the logs thats all there is too it...

Hello My name is Zecele, i'm recruiting for the DayZ clan Hellsing's. We are currently a small clan as i have just left my old clan to start my own. We are looking for mature players to join our clan. We are from UK/EU but we have recently had a few international members join. Below will be a list of the rules and regulations. 1. What are/is Hellsing's. Hellsing's are a UK-based group which aims for co-operative play in the world of dayz. This group is all about using violence to accomplish its goals so any players that are looking to kill a lot of survivors/bandits this is were the fun is. 2. What are some Benefits to being is Hellsing's? The ability to trade equipment with other clan members. Having support from other members such as medical supplies, ammo, backup etc. Also when its available access to the clans supplies, stores etc. Also the higher the rank the better equipment you will receive from me personally so you dont have to worry about giving your own gear away. 3. What are the groups goals? Hellsing's main goal is to become one of the most feared/respected clans in all of chernarus. In otherwords this clan is all about being the bad guy and therefore the main focus of this clan is for everyone to have fun. This clan is aiming to have a max of 15-30 members so not to large. 4. How are we going to achieve these goals? One simple way brute force. We will use force to control towns, villages etc. This will raise the knowledge of our clan (hopefully) so that players will learn to avoid us. 5. What is being a member of Hellsings like? We want all want are members to have fun. This means that you can play whenever you want, however you want. We do not want the clan to get in the way of your real life. 6. How does the clan play in-game? In-game the clan is well organized. Depending on how many player's are on at a time e.g. groups will usually be a max of 4 or 6 so if there are 8 players online then there would be 2 groups of 4 and so on. Obviously we will still talk and chat like normal there isnt going to be any ordering people around or any "sir" bullshit. 7. Requirements for joining the clan (Below) Must be 18 or older.. We do not accept any d/cs, hackers or server hoppers. Must have played the game preferably for atleast a month or for more than a week at the least. Must know the Chernarus map and were the the main loots spots are. Must have skype or teamspeak preferably both. 8. How do i join this clan. Simple leave a comment below. This system is simple the more respect you gain as member of the clan for example: Supplying the camp, sharing with clan members, Finding vehicles, finding camps with good loot, etc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ranks Private Corporal Sergeant Warrant Officer Lieutenant Captain Major Colonel General ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Meh. Thank you. Also While not an item. I would like to suggest using repaired vehicles as a mobile tent. Not the small vehicles but cars and trucks.

We had a camp with tents and vehicles and everything was stolen in less than 5 minutes which is not possible in such a short time. I do not give nicknames now. Last night we saw an A10 on our server. There are players who are killed and despawnent as fast and are teleported far. It is no longer possible to play a friendly and normally, there is talk of shutting down the server because I'm sick of cheaters. Too bad it could have been a good game Admin chicago 44

*Server: Chicago 57 (Hosted by Ghillie Suit Goons) ...(The [GSG] guys] *Time: ~1:30 a.m. EST A friend of mine had spotted a large camp with several vehicles and tons of weapons... Thing is, those weapons weren't supposed to be in the game. So I went up to the camp and noticed someone standing there (A [GSG] clan member named "ThatDirtySlave"). I crept up on him (I think he was afk) and killed him. I ran to his body to check what he had real quick and found an M110 NV Scope rifle. Right after I took it an admin had kicked me. I then joined another server since I figured they kicked me to get in place to kill me when I logged back in... Then once I had gotten back to Chicago 57, I was in only for a moment before being kicked yet again. Every time I try joining this server now I just get kicked after a few moments, probably once they realize I'm back in. This server needs to be shut down immediately. Video: I'm still getting kicked for no reason... I'm almost tempted to just post a pic of where all their stuff is to show everyone how badly they've cheated. So many guns that shouldn't be in the game...

*Server: Chicago 57 (Hosted by Ghillie Suit Goons) ...(The [GSG] guys] *Time: ~1:30 a.m. EST A friend of mine had spotted a large camp with several vehicles and tons of weapons... Thing is, those weapons weren't supposed to be in the game. So I went up to the camp and noticed someone standing there (A [GSG] clan member named "ThatDirtySlave"). I crept up on him (I think he was afk) and killed him. I ran to his body to check what he had real quick and found an M110 NV Scope rifle. Right after I took it an admin had kicked me. I then joined another server since I figured they kicked me to get in place to kill me when I logged back in... Then once I had gotten back to Chicago 57, I was in only for a moment before being kicked yet again. Every time I try joining this server now I just get kicked after a few moments, probably once they realize I'm back in. This server needs to be shut down immediately. Video: Edit: I got back in this server to see if they were still gonna kick me and they did. But after awhile they stopped... until I was mysteriously killed from nothing. Then once I got close to where I had died I started getting kicked again. Video: Good thing I had been recording, I was assuming shit was bout to go down. xD

There are TONS of vehicles in this game, only a few handful are operational all others are destroyed beyond repair. Walk through the towns and open your eyes.. Everything is destroyed and has been raided. This game takes place in a POST apocalyptic zombie world. Finding the bare necessities should be difficult you have to assume people have already been through that town and taken whatever they needed and continued on. You're sorting through their tossed aside crap.... It's why we are surviving on cans of beans and not cans of chicken! all the good shit is gone.

Nah you're good to go , but DO check out the armory (ingame training where you can test all weapons and vehicles). This way if you find something good , you'll already know how to use it properly.

Tents and vehicles save to that server.

So if you took our vehicles from our camp and we found them at your south west who spawned the svd dragunov camo in the truck? Thats a hacked weapon how about you explain that since you were the ones that took the vehicles from us and we know what we had and that certainly wasnt ours...

I am somewhat new to DayZ and i am wondering that if i were to save a vehicle or helicopter using the "Save" function (i believe it saves it for 3 days) and i join back in on a different server that i saved it on, will it carry over or do i have to join back on the same server that i saved the helicopter / vehicle on? (if nobody were to steal it). EDIT: Am i correct that the vehicles / tents only save for 3 days or is it longer / shorter?

I like the idea except.... It just becomes Arma II + food, water, weapon finding.... If servers could hold more people, and I mean a lot of people... You could have multiple 'gangs' battling it out. maybe one 'owns' NWA, another 'owns' cherno, ect... That would be pretty cool. with limited vehicle spawns, vehicles would be the focal point im guessing. The NWA's have a chopper! We need to launch a raid and steal it!

Might have something to do that it is the bike. Me and my friends got 4atv's 2jeeps. 1 truck. 1 van. 2 pickups. 1 hatchback 1 'lada'. We HAD a bike. But it refuses to save! Also.. remember to save like 10 times if you want to be 'sure.' When we park our used vehicles for the night we usually save it 3-4 times each. Per person. (For the lulz and for the paranoia that they might dissapear.)

Hey Emptytester, I think I found out the deal with the low fps...there is a problem when installing Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead through Steam.When I launch A2 OA in Steam after it finishes installing I get this first error saying bad serial number given in instalation. I got past that somehow and now I get a new error saying Addon 'dayz_code' requires addon 'CABuildingParts'. I can however enter the game and in the menu I recieve another error "No entry 'bin\config.bin/Cfg/Vehicles/Citizen1.scope. Errors and errors after errors...the files of A2 OA are simply f*cked and it is affecting the FPS, once every 1 min or so when I go to a new place I have like 4-6 fps for about 15 seconds like the game has to reload all the textures or something. I have played Arma 2 normal to see how it runs and on a 30 player server the game runs crystal clear with graphics on high. I tryied fixing the game cache in steam but nothing works, even reinstalled the game...im thinking of buying the retail version of arma again just because I want to play dayZ without having to suffer the fps once every 3 mins. If anyone has a solution tell me. Thanks.