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What's wrong with the vehicles? Are they all hoarded, because I have troubles finding one.

Vehicles get stolen for a past time, they are probably on their 5th owner when they are destroyed, and there is no effective way to hide vehicles in Day Z when you are offline. How about a very rare item found in military spawns, that you can attach to vehicles. If you own a GPS, you can follow the movement of that vehicle. Now this sounds game breaking, but here is how it would be balanced and in fact balance issues already in the game. In the game, people steal vehicles with no effort at all. I know I just walk up to a vehicle and take it. Somebody put hours of work into repairing it. Well now you need the effort too. Vehicles have parts on them, like fuel tanks and engines, you can choose where on the vehicle you place the device. Be it a wheel, the hull, or the rotor blades. You can get rid of the tracking device by replacing the part of the vehicle with the device on. Should the thief be able to see if there is a device or not? Answer below. If they could see, then it may be more balanced. If they can't see it would add to the paranoia, with people replacing parts on their vehicle when they are not in fact being tracked. Answer below what you think, or if you think this is a bad idea all together. Current balance issues in the game include bandit teams hogging vehicles. I am fine with that having stolen vehicles myself, but only if they don't just leave them hidden miles off the map like they do. This device means people can see where their stolen vehicles are, and ordinary survivors can take them back from the bandits. Another issue I have discovered with the device itself is that fitting the device before it got stolen would surely make it visible on a GPS beforehand and more likely to get stolen? This balances out the issues with people using it all the time for their collection of helicopters. And also using it means anyone can see its location, so it may be stolen from the thief and stolen from them and that means there will be more conflict, so people will avoid using them sometimes. Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to make my point about them not upsetting the balance of the game. :)

Yeees, ye should be able to fire from vehicles, should certainly factor in how inaccurate it probably would be but yes you should. And i think ye should be able to mod vehicles to fit weapons on, tbh if its possible i think vehicles should be completely modable... mOOodable (if thats a word :S) obivously with some limitations so someone doesnt script nuclear powered submarine on wheels. But the capacity for making them look unique or reinforcing/arming them. This would blatantly be your end-game for surviving an apocalyptic zed infested loot based economy. [attachment=1751] Well unless your a lone wolf.

Mounting a machine gun on a pickup would be kind of cool. But, they could just add in the humvee or insurgent technical from Arma. But, that's a whole other suggestion in itself. I just watched the movie The Road after Rocket mentioned it in the pcgamer stream, and I have recently been going back and watching the latest season of walking dead and wondered why vehicles aren't used in the same way, and it's because we can't roll down the windows and pop a cap in the zombie running beside it. Or load up a bandit clan onto the back of the flatbed and patrol the streets.

@Radek, You have more than 4 vehicles outside map borders, I know that for a fact, you also still claim that the server reboot has reset every single vehicle, this is impossible. You and your group were banned for previously described actions. Onto the matter of what was said to your group, our community has no limits on who can join us, we have a huge range of people from all cultures in our community and classing any of us as racist is outright stupid, our admin team are forward in their remarks because we have learned that all problems must be tackled head on, sure sometimes it may seem a bit far but our community at EK has grown incredibly over the past few years, we work to ensure the server is as stable as possible and to make sure everyone is playing fairly, I have done my best to keep the server up to date in every possible aspect and we will continue to ensure the server is enjoyable, something your group ruined. @Omess, // WELCOME MESSAGE ("message of the day") // It can be several lines, separated by comma // Empty messages "" will not be displayed at all but are only for increasing the interval motd[] = { "Welcome to FR 15, Third Person is ENABLED, Crosshairs are DISABLED, Timezone is GMT-6", "We restart our server frequently to reduce issues with FPS and loot", "Remember to check us out at www.etherealknights.co.uk", "We host a public 64slot teamspeak, you may request private channels for your group!", "Server Rules: English/French Side-Chat Only, No Exploiting or Unfair Play", "------------------------------------------", "Server Hosted By: Ethereal Knights, Have Fun !", "------------------------------------------", }; motdInterval = 5; // Time interval (in seconds) between each message Our server rules are very clear every single time you connect, this is not our fault you fail to understand english very well which you have clearly shown, you ask the same questions repeatedly which have already been answered. I will not comment any further on this issue, the bans will remain and you are no longer welcome in the server, the entire community of our server are glad to see you and your exploiting ways gone from the server. If any staff member wishes to discuss this further with me please send me and email to: [email protected] and please leave a message here so I know you have contacted me and that the email is official.

Right, let me pitch in here, as this is ridiculous. I am on the server, every single day. I see you guys talking russian, every single day. I warn you to speak english or french only, every single day. I tell you that you will be banned if you carry on, every single day. See the pattern???? Vehicles being kept outside the map, are and will be taken away. Average players who spawn on the coast and are going around solo, have no chance of getting these. DayZ admin themselves have said that they will be deleted and the people outside the map will be placed on the coast. Thats 2 things already. Next, is the disconnecting in the middle of a fire fight, not only have i seen it from some of your guys personally, i have also shot one of you, to have them disconnect for 5 mins, then respawn right behind me, which i presume is going on another server, bandaging, moving behind and then coming back on behind me. Sadly for you, your aim sucks and i managed to spin and shoot him. I have also seen some of you insult regular players in the server for no reason, spam the shiz out of the side chat, use in game comms to scream down and generally act immature. No one cares that you took any vehicles, its more fun getting the gear than having it. Which is why when we have been fully armed before, we have given our gear to someone who is struggling. As for the f**k the f**king russians, not only is that "quote" in a film, it is also in a computer game. If you knew the diversity of different races, cultures and creeds in our community, you would laugh at calling anyone racist. Your ban is deserved for any 1 of these points and there is a fair few, you are just lucky you wasnt banned sooner tbh.

We scattered all the vehicles again only to log in and find them all stolen from debug forest this time. I have screenshots of the markers on the map and have a screenshot of the bug they used to teleport here to with no wheels. How much more evidence must I present until someone looks into the server logs? Were all about to just give up on the game and go have fun on something else...

Brilliant thread here on electric grids http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=6791&highlight=Grid Police Stations: Potentially alot of nice gear in there, also maybe zombie police in riot gear which require a head shot a potential drawback. Possible new Items: Riot Gear, Baton, Pepper spray (could be used on zombies (and players) short range to at least blind them temporarily) Small Garage: Id suggest you could still do repairs anywhere, but if the options of custom mod vehicles entered the game, they should be done in garages. Factory: I know they already exist but very little seems to spawn in them that you couldnt already find ten times over in a construction site, maybe if any extra sandbox features involving item creation was introduced then i think there should be more focus towards using facilities in these buildings, whatever they might be :S Houses: Just more XD I know it might sound silly but egg-timer would be a good item, essentially because its a noisy distraction on a timer, and id wager a bet you could more likely find one in a shopping area than a smoke grenade, let alone in a household kitchen. Supermarket/Shopping Gallery/Mall : BIG shops :) Poncho!!! Meh, any thoughts on this?

A lot of Day Z videos focus on action/vehicles/PVP. I wanted to make a video that more captured the essence of surviving.

Our server restart as everyone can see, is to ease stress from the server after long runtime which all servers must do, our server had been running for a fair few hours and we like to restart it every 4-6 hours or so. We also have an administrator announce ATLEAST 5 - 10 minutes before every restart and advise everyone to get to relatively safe locations and to save all vehicles and/or tents etc. DayZ 34 Chernarus 2012-07-03 22:19 In Progress DayZ 30 Chernarus 2012-07-03 18:07 2012-07-03 22:01 Taken from: http://arma2.swec.se/server/data/234389 You can see above, taken from the game statistics page, that our server was due a reboot within an hour or so of that time, I edited the server to support 50 players which I was informed was necessary and instantly acted on it and used this as an excuse to do a slightly early server reboot. All of the fast reboots or short runtime's of the server are due to either server or hive issues recently, causing mass lag and reboots/shutdowns quite frequently. Our server runs very stable most of the time, if anyone is curious as to the server slot changes (50 > 25 > 30 > 50) This is because when we first had our server up a few patches ago, people experienced massive FPS issues and we reduced the limit, we have happily increased the server back up to 50 as the FPS issue seems to have been resolved or caused by the server running too long. As I posted, me rebooting our server will not and HAS NOT reset any of your vehicles or equipment, nobody on our server has reported any major issues caused by a server reboot and I can guarantee that all of your vehicles are directly where you left them. This data is stored in the server and I or my admins cannot alter this or roll it back. And you did not rob me of my camp, I have been busy with many other things lately and the little times I have played I run 'suicide lives' in which I expect to die within a few hours. Whenever I have any decent equipment I carry it at all times, what our clan had stored in that camp were basics and alternate weapons, none of us are in the slightest affected by what happened and that is all part of the game. You seem to think that by constantly bringing it up that something will change? The entire server community has had issues with your group not following any of our rules and have caused everyone to become Anti-Russian towards your group, we have other russians on the server who gladly accept our rules and are speaking English on chat the best they can which I thank them for. To summarize: You disconnect during combat, your group has insulted admins and the community, you have stored a mass of vehicles outside the map grounds which is unfair and an exploit of the game.

The protesters above are from clan/group called "Team Awesome", who seem to have some sort of rivalry with L. First of all, the admin did not spawn any vehicles. He looked for a suitable one with his heli. The admin himself stated that he cannot spawn vehicles, but he actually made this game a little bit fun by giving us rides on the heli to our destination. On a side note: This mod is depressing as hell. Everyone is a bandit-- hell, there are more bandits than zombies. Zombies kill people through walls and walk through collision hulls of static objects, fail steam overlay triggers a key held event, and the mod is choked full of ridiculous rules that scare off admins and modders alike. To the DayZ dev team: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page You see that? That is Valve's Developer wiki. Valve gives you the complete source code to HL2 including a dedicated modding wiki and freedom to customize. They don't choke server administrators with silly rules. Maybe if you gave the admins who spend money to host your mod some more freedom (like Valve does), your mod would become more successful. Valve realized that and became a multibillion dollar company, yet you people fail to realize something so simple. DayZ itself is an example. As an Arma II mod, DayZ brought the game nearly 10-fold more $$$. Uniqueness and creativity keep players coming. If the rule-makers can't realize such a simple thing, that's a financial fail. Give your admins more freedom, and don't blacklist amazing and fun servers. Learn from Valve. Also, your forum has image issues. From the looks of the source code, it looks like you are using the php/mysql forum software called MyBB. Fix the postbit_image issue.

The bans given from the administrator Zelus were completely justified, you have spammed our server with Russian after constantly being told to stop and to speak english or french only, you have gathered a large amount of vehicles and put them all far outside of the map and we have had constant reports and have personally seen first-hand that your group disconnects constantly while in a firefight. In regards to the videos posted, he is very forward with his opinions, but this was done for the better of the server and our community, the rest of the community are taken care of and we address as many issues as possible, our admin team at Ethereal Knights are a close-knit team who handle all problems personally. We founded the community a few years ago and have successful servers which are full most of the time, our admin methods have been questioned but ultimately work perfect and have always been for the best. Most problems must be tackled head on, such as your group. This issue with your group has been long-term and we have had report after report, your acting like you own the place and that nothing can be done to you, but we will not sit back and watch as your group abuses glitches to ruin everyone else's fun, and storing everything far outside of the map inaccessible to the average player is completely out of order in my opinion and we will NOT tolerate it. The ban on Irokez was given by myself and it was a 3-day ban for insulting server admins after being asked to stop, which he did not. The entire server community hates all of you which is seen very verbally on a daily basis, we have had none-stop problems from your group and the bans will remain, the community is much happier with you gone and the server can resume normal play. We have many regulars on the server who rejoice at these bans, our server does not have many rules at all, yet you guys manage to break almost every single one atleast once a day. We don't care for fair PVP combat and encourage groups to work together to survive at any cost, but what I have seen of you is downright sickening. You also claim that we have restarted the server to roll back the saves, we CANNOT roll back the server to delete any vehicles or equipment, all of this data to my knowledge is inside the hive and we physically cannot alter this, a server reboot will practically do nothing at all to your vehicles or tents, they might just get rolled back maybe 5 - 15 minutes maximum based on server and vehicle saves. If you bothered to provide any of the conversation from before the video, then you will know that the server reboot was to update the server to a 50slots which I was informed to do on IRC and that our server was not permitted to be 30slots.

Come over to US200, I'm the Admin and their are plenty of vehicles. I can give you a tour once i repair another vehicle up =D

all our Vehicles ar still there where they are before the attack ....... 6 vehicles or so and all tents are there too... with all the loot inside ...... so we are LUCKY :D

Struggling to find vehicles myself, unfortunately. Seems like the hoarders took them all and stashed them away.

came across an ATV ealier with no fuel, however since my group is larger than 2 we just took out one of the wheels and moved on, later I heard an engine running north of southern air strip... any way most of the vehicles are currently hidden out side of the play zone because its not considered an exploit yet.

I rent a server from sisu and we have vehicles but no choppers since they desync and crash, any sisu server will have the same.

How can you tell if a server has vehicles enabled or not? How can you tell if helicopters are enabled on a server? How can you tell whether or not all the available helicopters, vehicles, bikes, etc are being hoarded by 1 group...somewhere off the map? I have been playing about a month. I have seen one vehicle. An ATV that was hung up on a fence where someone crashed it and couldn't get it off the fence. Never seen a truck, helicopter, or car.

Ahem...... Chernarus Military is given WESTERN weapons and WESTERN vehicles...... ACCORDING to ARMA 2"s STORY.... "CDF forces are equipped with a mixture of Eastern and Western weaponry" Military Weaponry spawns will stay the same with some added Eastern weaponry spawns. Civilian weaponry should be overhauled with alot of Eastern weaponry for sure.... military weapons, no.

That's what I've been able to come up. We're able to canvas more of the map simultaneously, get access to more parts with less aggravation, et cetera. There's no reason why we shouldn't, logically, be the ones owning 80% of the vehicles on the server. Where a lot of people see vehicle and loot hoarding, I see our hours of hard work. We worked just as hard as you would've had to for the exact same prize. I don't see why we're less justified to own a piece of hardware just because we have other vehicles. We spent our time and effort to repair them or take them from others. Hell, if I had to really say, it's the people who raid empty camps who are the ones who don't deserve the vehicles. But that's not only nitpicking on a non-issue, but also not the point of this thread. I definitely would like to see some way to facilitate group play. But not only that, I want a way to facilitate the communication from outside the group, into the group. As of right now, we have the Survivors HQ, which I can proudly say is where I met the small group I travel with right now. But I would like to see something in-game that would allow others to communicate more safely. I've been saying it for nearly two months now, but 80 meters isn't enough when even the Makarov, pretty much the shittiest gun in the mod, can outclass that. We need a way to communicate over larger expanses. Whether it be bulletin boards, or even some way of setting up small settlements or hamlets (something I would really love to see in end-game if the mod breaks off into its own large-scale project) that survivors can wander into and trade in. As of right now, we can't really facilitate coop, because there's no stable way of communication. If I really had to throw a guess into the wind, I would honestly say that the removal of side chat and global chat 'created' this shoot-on-sight phenomenon we have nowadays. I haven't met a friendly survivor outside of my group since, and you really can't chance that the survivor you're waltzing up to won't gun you down unless you have literally nothing. I'm not asking for side and global to make a comeback, but I do, at least, feel like direct chat might need a boost to distance. And once radios come out, we might even have radio towers that people can occasionally pass by to catch an APB from a group or two looking to recruit. So, tl;dr: Creating groups/clans/guilds would be a smart first step towards cooperation. Also, the ability to talk to survivors over a much longer distance might help as well.

And to the guy that asked about vehicles. I found one ATV today' date=' on it's original spawnpoint, don't know when it spawned, but I had to repair it and I took it home, back to my V3S Civilian truck, so yes, vehicles exist and they can still spawn (I think, the first time I checked this spawn). [/quote'] Would you mind telling me what server this happens to be? I cannot find any vehicles on any server. We have checked a good 60 servers since last night.

Actually it won't despawn, it will just turn around and then be on all 4 wheels, I had this happen twice already. One time I had to wait many many hours until server got restarted because of new beta patch and the other time it took like 30 minutes (luckily) and server got restarted, then it was back up again and you could ride. Yes, I'm a bad driver with those, any little stone will make you fly. And to the guy that asked about vehicles. I found one ATV today, on it's original spawnpoint, don't know when it spawned, but I had to repair it and I took it home, back to my V3S Civilian truck, so yes, vehicles exist and they can still spawn (I think, the first time I checked this spawn).

a·buse 1. To use wrongly or improperly I don't believe they made a restart function to get your gear and vehicles back, thats why I call it abuse.

btw. its nice how you posted those screenshots Jemoeder. it cleary shows you how you abuse the refill ammo glitch lol. btw, a server restart which might has happend due to auto restart. doesn't give the SoH their gear back. nor does it give back the vehicles. also most of the gear SoH had is in our camp and not in SoH camp. so why would they be frustrated with only losing 3 cars lol. also auto restart doesn't give a warning, it just happends. btw. its funny to see 50% of all your posts are about hacking/abuse/cheating

You have to find the "sweet spot" much easier with smaller vehicles I found. With the army truck it can be a few seconds to find where to save it, with the white off road truck its just at the door and with the ATV it's instant. Found it okay on the hippy vehicle, just keep scrolling until you have it. Dang it, then it probably despawned. I hope it showed up where I found it so I can take it again, now that it's night it might be easy enough. Thanks for the reply though, atleast now I know