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Hello [again]. At around 22:00 GMT I will be spending 5-7 hours playing Dayz, and I am hoping somebody [of any nationality] will be able to join me & play with me. I would also be fine with 2-3 people joining, but as long as i'm not alone, I am happy. I have formed groups like this before, and they generally work out well. If I get only one person with similar interests to mine, then we'll just go with the flow... If we get multiple, we'll all group up, find vehicles & generally explore together. I'm this kind of player; I don't like bug exploits, hacks, abuse, or... 'Disconnecting cuz shit is ard'. I think that removes the whole point of the game, and dragging your downed team-mate through a maze of zombies whilst 2 others are shooting in taking them out, just so he doesn't bleed to death due to unconsciousness... Yes. Risky. Fun. Very. I am quite open minded & generally fine with every thing, I have quite decent gear & so don't exactly want to be charging head first in to players, but i'm very happy to engage players if it comes to it. If you are planning on playing tonight from 22;00 GMT - ISH - Please let me know, regardless of what type of player you are, I don't want to travel the forests / cities alone, i'm cold. Last adventure I had with other players was extremely entertaining, and I now have many stories that my children will hear about. Also sidenote; maturity would be a lovely addition. Despite your style of game play, as stated, I simply don't want to play a lone tonight, so feel free to get in touch. Happy to side with any body, providing we can have a decent time.

I've been shooting anyone I see that isn't my friend in TS and killing them for quite some time. In fact, I hunt players. So... I don't think you're a rarity. Why do I do it? Because it's alpha. Because it's not a real game yet and things change constantly and are always being fixed. Because that gun you have now you can lose to bugs/hackers/anything. That's why. Do I want to work with others in a survivor situation? Hell yeah it's far more fun. The game isn't ready yet or balanced enough to make it mean anything at this point though. So I get gear... and at this point I've had vehicles... any gear I can think of for the most part. and I simply just kill other players for fun. That's about it. Everyone else will do the same when you realize you've gotten what you need.. and the next step is... well.. hunting players for sport.

I submitted a bug report about this, except when it happened to me, all of my tents were still there although there was nothing inside any of them except for the last one (camo clothing, civilian clothing, and a wire fencing kit). Our vehicles were still there and everything was still inside of them.

I would only support this if bikes were more of a transient item and respawned in one of their locations after 4-6 hours of not being accessed. I can understand why vehicles like a truck you had to find 6 tires for should be safe for a few days, but bikes should be around so people can explore.

So it would appear this is a "problem" atm regardless if you are using tents or vehicles. It kind of makes me glad to see others with the same issue, but discouraging at the same time. Perhaps a fix will be on the horizon in future updates :)

Anyone? What is the status on vehicles? I dont get it :S

the aussie + kiwi servers are laggier for 2 (maybe 3) reasons. 1) Generally sub-par datacentres compared to the US (minor) + Results in weird stuff like packet loss to the hive occasionally 2) The cost to rent a server is at least quadruple what US hosters pay (major contributer) + our hardware (ausarama at least) is better/on-par with most US providers, it hardly breaks a sweat running 2 dayz servers. At the end of the day, as long as you have the $$$, you can get US spec servers. It's not like intel ship us different CPUs or anything, it's all the same hardware. 3) Distance from the hive (major contributer) + US server --> Hive : ~20-50ms + AU server --> Hive : ~160-200ms It used to be REALLY bad back in 1.5 or 1.6 (I can't remember, too many builds) where requests to the hive was causing massive desync on au servers when vehicles were getting updated. This wasn't a large issue for the US hosts because they get pretty much an instant response from the hive. We have taken measures to drastically reduce the amount of overhead caused by contacting the hive and waiting what seems like an eternity for a response (from a server prespective that is). You may notice our servers take less time than other AU providers to "create character" etc. We may have some further improvements but that is top secret :)

I get that feeling too sometimes. The one I play where I have no trouble avoiding this "constant deathmatch" that apparently exists to the point where I am able to acquire 10+ vehicles, multiple stocked tents, a small group of dedicated, trustworthy companions and hundreds of hours in-game with only 1 death in the last 40 days. And the one you play where you stand in the middle of an open field in broad daylight taking screenshots of the pretty clouds and get angry when some cretin pops your thinkbag like an over ripe casaba melon for the 100th time this week.

Why doesnt tents nor vehicles show up atm?

pardon? cf: roadblocks, burnt-out vehicles, bodybags, military camps in stary balota and berez, &c

It's already like this.. and not only for tents. I play in team and i can die many times (while in fact im recently doing, since i run around like rambo) .. simply because i have my own gear back minutes after: my mates collect of it, or i just grab it from our "reserve". This is the HUGE advantage of playing in team: you basically nullify the perma-death ... the only hassle is about those 15 minutes to get back to your mates, but if you have the vehicles they can grab you back in a couple of minutes as soon you leave the respawn beach.

I lost 3 tents worth of high end stuff 2 days ago after a server reset. Tents came back but without any of the gear and i made sure to save them before the server was restarted. Restarted it a couple times after and still nothing. I have all kinds of trouble with tents not saving gear and losing everything so I just stick with vehicles to store gear. My problem with vehicles is that on small inclines they like to move down hill on their own and run over tents or bump into stuff and I log back in and they blew themself up by hitting a tree or another vehicle.

So thats why my flipped ATV is gone now :( I was waiting for the server restart :( I still dont understand whats going on with vehicles right now ? :S Can someone clear up ? ps. I also noticed all the actions ingame work quicker and I <3 it. Is it coz of the database clean up? Please leave it that way. Tired of waiting for 30sec for the item to appear at my backpack

So did vehicles in every server get destroyed, or just older servers? Yesterday tents and vehicles disappeared on our server after a server restart. They all reappeared when the server was restarted again, but their inventories were all wiped.

that sounds 1) Really potentially imbalanced 2) Distracting from survival 3) Really difficult to code and test for little player reward 4) Vehicles are ALREADY extremely buggy and laggy. I say no thank you!

so that make you believe, that 90% of nato weapons in ex soviet country is normal? yeah.... ussr was gone for more than 20 years when the game takes place. It´s common in real world so why not in game? I amnot against rising diversity of weapons, i am actually for it. I am against replacing them nato guns with russian counterparts idea, because thats just stupid and ignorant on chernarus backstory. post-soviet countries that has nato guns in military and law enforcement sphere - armenia got $7 million supply of guns from usa in 2006 estonia modernised to nato weapons shortly after they joined nato georgian ground forces got not even m4s but even marpats. They dont use any russian weapon azerbaijan bought recently marauders and because of friendly state with usa, usa is main supplier latvia joined nato and modernised, uses british dpm camo and german HKs lithuania uses m16s and m4s and czech camo for infrantry turkmenistan army partially (special forces) uses arx160 yes, almost all of them are using russian vehicles, so that´s why uaz is in dayz, but im not sure why the land rover is there as well(it is not gaz, its rover). And huey sould be replaced with mi-8/mi-17 , mi-8 has even been used in civilian sector, so it would fit more. I want more russian vehicles, but mot sure about russian weapons...I love uaz, i want some civilian version, include zgrynda from vanilla, add moskvich, lada niva and i would love to see like one new modern age car (every country has someone rich) like lada granta which is cheap car but lets say the expensive cars fled with owners or exploded :D So I am definitely for vehicle russification but no for guns. Add some more but dont replace.

Well i know many of us are spending tons and tons of hours getting vehicles, getting em repaired, securing them, getting loot and saving them in tents. This is incredibly time consuming and yesterday under the DDOS attack i found out how much it sucks loosing this. 10 tents gone, car gone and motorbike gone. I know the game is in alpha, so maybe the game will get reset when it properly launches with 1.0 ? What you guys think ?

Hello. I just joined 4 or 5 servers i have tents on since the hive was restarted and servers have restarted. But none of the tents or vehicles are on the servers I joined ? Question: Has the database been reset or do server owners need to do something that they are not doing to get the tents / vehicles to appear ? Any form of response would be nice ... thank you BL1P

1. Log out timers. It should take a minimum of 20 to 30 seconds to safely log out of the game. If you lose connection your character should remain in game for the same duration. This would stop people from logging out during combat. 2. All weapons, equipment, vehicles should become server based. Each time you join a new server you should have to start again. This would effectively fix server hopping. 3. Zombies revisions. Two types. Rage Zombies and Horde Zombies. Rage zombies are basically what is in game now (fast and chase you down). Horde Zombies are slower but spawn in huge numbers and can spawn anywhere not just near towns. For example you spend too long in one place a zombie horde might spawn and surround you. Leaving you the choice of fighting your way out, trying to evade them or dieing. Also the horde should be attracted to abandoned vehicles. Once they find one they should attack the vehicle until it's destroyed. This would help balance people from whoring all the vehicles. This would also create an sense of urgency when ever you stop in a vehicle to not take to long. Adding to the overall tension in the game. 4. Unarmed Combat. - you should be able to punch or kick barring that use sticks, lead pipes, baseball bats, whiskey bottles. If you can pick it up you should be able to use it as a weapon. Sticks, baseball bats, whiskey bottles could all a limited life. For example a whiskey bottle would break after one or two hits during an encounter but you could still stab with whats left a few times. Then you would have to look for something else. Sticks may last a few zombies before breaking etc. 5. Crafting. Hybrid weapons created by merging equipment together. 2x4 with a nail threw it comes to mind. Gas with a whiskey jar makes a molotov cocktail. Pipe bombs made from empty cans/bottles and gun powered from shotgun shells. etc. etc. 6. Player made structures. It would great to see the game become even more sandboxy. Allowing players to construct bases/bunkers. Then fortify them with defenses (walls, fencing, gun placements?). Of course everything that could be created could be destroyed. This would add to the metagame by allowing bandit raiders to attack other players fortifications. 7. Destructible deployables. You should be able to destroy anything that you can deploy. (ie fencing, sandbags or tank traps) 8. Becoming a zombie. Basically once you are bitten enough times you would attack your friends or anyone nearby. It could be something that happens over time based on how many times you come in direct contact with the zombies. There is no cure for it besides not letting the zombies get close to you. 8. Servers run by game companies and not by clans. (see conflict of interest) 10. Better hacking protection.

Limit saved vehicle(s) to one-per-person. The vehicles would not stay beyond 5 minutes of you logged out. Create a finite number of vehicles per-map, say 10. If 10 people join the server with a saved vehicle, then no vehicles would be randomly placed across the map. If the server has 11+ people, all with saved cars, upon that 11th person joining, the vehicle that spawns in with them would have something like "a broken break line" that is only fixable by stealing another players working one. The car would have some visual cue to show that its not working so passers by would know its useless. Players could sneek up to another players working car, steal their break lines, then run off into a forest and head back to repair their own car. It's a little far fetched, but its better than having no vehicle.

The problem this creates is that there could end up being way too many vehicles in one server. My advice to you is to find a server you love playing on and become a regular there. Then you can keep your vehicle.

I just logged in to the server and 3 tents and 3 vehicles disappeared, is it possible that the server needs a restart for them to appear again? Thanks for putting your work into this, it is appreciated :)

2012-07-03 * Various improvement and changes at backend in preparation of 1.7.2. * Cleanup of objects: - Removed legacy wire fences, tank traps and sandbags that are older than time itself (before we started tracking their age). In the future we'll start cleaning up unused wire fence, tank traps and sandbags that arent "maintained" in a certain period of time. - Removed empty tents that are older than 7 days. In the future tents will start decaying more quickly (depends on factors such as if the placing character is still alive, if someone has used the tent in X amount of days - this is still subject to change). - Destroyed vehicles respawned using the simple method (will appear on next server restart). More advanced method will be used later (dynamic locations, inventory, vehicle types etc).

"I enjoy hoarding. I don't do it with cars..." I don't think anyone cares then. Loot is infinite, vehicles are finite. Vehicles are also unique fun in DayZ, so peole are hogging all the fun.

So... people hate hoarders because they can't hoard themselves .... ? ( Not talking about hoarding vehicles off the map )