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So my whole squad was just banned off Atlanta 57 after raiding the admins camp. We stole the vehicles, looted, an destroyed that camp fair and square, and we're all banned. None of us have fraps, but it wasn't a server lock for maintenance or anything. None of us can get back on. We'd all like to know the official reason we've been banned from Atlanta 57. So that we can contest the reasoning.

This stuff has escalated with the game's popularity. The vast majority of vehicles you see on servers are hacked. It takes this much code to spawn a working helo next to an ammo box with full kit inside. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The amount of code that goes into killing everyone on a server is about this long. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx And a retarded 14 year old with a Jr. High Visual Basic Class under his belt can do this with a little research and a helmet.

I'm telling you, it's impossible unless he's a hacker. An admin, alone, can't spawn vehicles. I'm speaking from personal experience here as I'm an admin myself.

Admins can't spawn vehicles. I don't know if you're tripping on a laced joint or if you've managed to get on a pirated server with all sort of shady shit.

glock is european (austria) and widely exported, lee enfield is european (uk) but too old to be so common (as well as winchester) and I would make them less common and/or replace them with some russian alternative. But rest of the weapons, I dont really see problem. Include more CZs like CZ75 which was really favourite in eastern block, CZ805 Bren, Scorpion etc. those guns fits in but I dont see fitting with historical american gun like winchester. But lots of guns you mentioned are european (m1014 is italian, m249 is belgian, m9 is in fact italian and exported incredibely etc.) or heavy exported american (m16s, 1911, remington, m24 etc.) but mainly used for law enforcement and/or military in eastern block. It is a incredible stereotype that every post soviet country is now equipped with AKs and RPGs. Czech republic always had its own weaponry - CZ, bulgaria uses HK/steyr and AK in their arsenal, ex-yugoslavia (where is chernarus, i believe) uses mainly nato guns and russian vehicles - like croatia, bosna etc. I mean Chernarus is not Iraq... its copy of montenegro (Chernagora in russian). So I believe that guns will be fitting if you reduce those historical lees and winchesters. CZ 550 is hunting weapon so i believe its ok that its there. I would love to see more CZs though, especially 75 and 2000 ;) I am slav if you ask and I live in europe so I have first or second hand experience - I travel to ex-yugoslavia a lot. Buthey, i am no rusophile so maybe thats why i would restrict this idea a little.

It is 3:48 am 7/3/2012 Tonight me and some friends learned from side channel that a player had acquired a medic truck, at first I thought this was a van the player was calling a medic truck. We located them at the airfield west of churno, we watched from the tree line as some players ran around the truck and went about looting. Then a helicopter came in, we stayed back and moved on the ambulance. Once it was clear of the chopper I had thought Ed the admin didn't take sides, so we left him and the chopper alone. let alone the thing fired missiles so after running down Player (L) and hijacking the ambulance we were informed in side channel that Ed had spawned the ambulance and entrusted it to L so he could be a little medic. at this time we came under fire from ed's missiles and thanks to his poor aim made for the trees and spread out. we considered this fair and tried our best to make a run from him splitting up and going separate ways. after offering to return the medic truck if ed asked, as L informed me was his truck, We continued to try and regroup. the medic truck stopped some km away when we heard in chat the heli crashed, at this point we attempted to regroup. a few mins later ed shows up at the truck and guns down the driver. this is all in the pitch black of darkness btw, ed, the admin, gets in the medic truck and returns it to Player L. some comments ensued where one of my players who was banned, named street, stated "I wish i had a admin in my back pocket" to which ed replied "STFU". street answered back with an "FU" which I already knew where this was going and was then banned from crazyuncleeds server. I'm here to find out if this is allowed and how an admin can spawn tanks, medic trucks and heli's that spew missiles and claim not to take sides. And replies to us when told his admin abuse will not be tolerated "This is My server I don't Go by rockets Rules". the game logs from the admin side will show all this and the entire conversations. I ask for them to be presented and the ban repealed as we enjoyed the server and were told we could engage in combat with players. Server Address Crazy Uncle Ed's DayZ Server Peace Syrus

Although there are a large amount stuff in DayZ already, but why not have more? Weapons: VSS Vintorez - This rifle is already in ARMA II, and it's a Russian-made firearm, which makes sense due to the fact that DayZ takes place in Chernarus. PKP Pecheneg - Another firearm in ARMA II and a Russian weapon, this should be more common than the other LMGs. SCAR-L STD EGLM TWS - From ARMA II: OA, this should be the rarest weapon in the game, compatible with M203 Grenades, Nightvision scope, and a muzzle suppressor, hiding the flash. (1/1000 chance of getting it) SCAR-H STD EGLM Spect - From ARMA II: OA, this is another rare-find weapon. Compatible with M203 Grenades and a Rifle Scope. SCAR-L STD HOLO - From ARMA II: OA, this is a bit more common than the other SCAR rifles, but still pretty rare. Includes a Holographic sight. Skorpion: From ARMA II: OA, this should be more common than the PDW, due to the fact it is of Russian origin. M110 NVG EP1 - Another rare-find weapon, only Sniper Rifle to have Nightvision. (Very Rare) XM8 Carbine - Again, a rare weapon, just decided to throw this in for the hell of it. RPG-7 - Next to the rarest drop, it has very rare ammo drops. (Plus, it's Russian-made.) Wieldable Hunting Knife - Because, why the hell not? Lead Pipe - Why the hell not? Chainsaw - Requires Fuel, and it emits a lot of noise, attracts zombies. Wooden Plank - Can be used as a weapon and to barricade doors. (Very weak and common) Baseball Bat/Cricket Bat - Why the hell not? Taser/Stun Gun - Tasers are short range and knock out targets, but more rare. Stun Guns require melee distance but are more common Tranquilizer Gun - Useless on Zombies, but they knock out players with 2-3 shots. (Makes it a bit more balanced) Cattle Prod - A Non-Lethal melee weapon, has a chance to kill. Models: (I'm not even sure if you can even do this, but using more models will help make other players distinct...) Link to the list of models: http://www.armatechsquad.com/ArmA2Class151656165165341654165165165165f/A2/Units/Civilian_Women/ http://www.armatechsquad.com/ArmA2Class151656165165341654165165165165f/A2/Units/Civilian_Men/ Items: Splints - Used to treat broken bones instead of Morphine Morphine v2 - Used to resist pain for some time. A bit more rare to find. Anti-Biotics v2 - Make it a bit more common. Stationary Turret Kits - Very rare to find these, find these kits to set up LMGs, used for defending buildings or camps. Can be saved and picked back up. Takes up a lot of inventory space. (Ex. http://www.armatechsquad.com/ArmA2Class151656165165341654165165165165f/A2/Units/Civilian_Men/) More Soda Skins - Fanta, Canned Lemonade, Sparkling Water. Mountain Dew v2 - More Common Water Bottles - I mean those common ones, not the canteens. Like, Deer Park or Dasani. Water Canteen v2 - More rare, and Water Bottles can be transferred into an empty one. Also, canteens have 2 uses per filling. Energy Drinks - Allow you to sprint faster for a longer period of time, lasts 2 minutes. Rare. Ex. Monster Energy, Red Bull, etc. Wooden Plank (Part 2): Used for barricades. Requires a Claw Hammer and Nails Nails - Used to modify the Baseball bat/Cricket bat Hammer - New Tool item, used on Wooden Planks, removing and replacing. Keys - Used to lock doors, locked doors can be opened with a Crowbar. Radio - Used to communicate with the playerbase/group Laser Designator - Allows you to pinpoint targets for your group, useless for lone wolf players. Ammo Boxes - Entities that are VERY rare to find, contains 2 clips of various kinds of ammo. Up to 4 ammo variants. NPC: Wolf/Wolf Packs - Fend off these packs using flares to scare them off. (More common at night) Bears - Takes a lot of ammunition to take these down, bears can knock you out with a single hit, but they're rare to encounter. Fox - These aren't really hostile. Deer - These are hard to catch, once they hear you, they'll run for it. They stand still if a light is flashing in their eyes. More Zombie Variations - Female Zombies, Walking/Fast Walking Zombies, Fast Zombies are rare. Birds - Hunt birds for their meat. Vehicles: Make vehicles a bit more common, I mean, it's hard enough to acquire parts. M1 Abrams - The 2nd rarest Vehicle to find, ammo is required for these and are extremely limited. C-130J - The rarest vehicle to find, requires an ungodly amount of fuel and scrap metal to fix. (Only spawns on Airfields) An-2 (TakAir) - A Civilian plane, more common than the military planes, spawns in Airfields, requires a high amount of fuel and Scrap Metal. Mi-24D - Russian Attack Chopper, extremely rare spawn, only spawns in the Airfields. AH-6J - More common than the other Military Air Vehicles. Spawns in Airfields. HMMWV - Military Multi-Purpose Vehicle, hard to find. Only spawns in Military areas. (Two Variants, Desert Camo and Woodland Camo) F-35B - The 2nd Rarest Vehicle, the fastest Vehicle, only found at the Chernarus Internation Airfield (NW Airfield). (I would make this a bit more easier to read, but the fonts and all those other utilities are bugged.) I'm not forcing/raging/yelling at the DayZ developers to add these, they're mainly just simple suggestions. Please, no comments such as. "You're an idiot, this is way too unrealistic." "TOO OVERPOWERED U NUB!!!11" "Pizza."

EDIT: I dun goofed and put this in the wrong sub-forum, and can't seem to delete it. Correct thread is in ban appeals. But yeah. Sorry. So my whole squad was just banned off Atlanta 57 after raiding the admins camp. We stole the vehicles, looted, an destroyed that camp fair and square, and we're all banned. None of us have fraps, but it wasn't a server lock for maintenance or anything. None of us can get back on. We'd all like to know the official reason we've been banned from Atlanta 57. So that we can contest the reasoning.

Hacking is now rampant on nearly all servers. Hacks commonly include vehicle/player ESP which locates all players and vehicles on the map and also the ability to teleport to that person or player. It could be this. Helicopters are suppose to be rare as virgins in LA. Four days ago I switched servers 3 times to find helicopters flying around within 10 minutes of joining on all three servers. One server was my clan server where we killed the helicopter hacker and reported the chopper. The second I spotted the helicopter within 2 minutes of logging in, and didn't have to change positions. I shot the pilot and disabled the helicopter with an AS50 at standoff range as he was landing to pick up a second party. The second party jumped in, and I shot him also. Both did not die. Helicopter turned off. The two disappeared in the woods where 2 min later another helicopter occupied by two guys emerged from the very same location and left (the script injected it right there). The third.. I logged into a different location on the coast and another helicopter was spotted minutes later.. If your camp got spotted by a helicopter 95% it was probably a hacked helicopter. Or....as you will find, people go to obvious hiding spots on maps (far NE, Far North West, North of Devil's Castle) and they server hop looking for camps. This doesn't count people randomly finding your camps as they are moving about. I find camps accidentally every day. As it stands there is no way to fortify a base, no way to hide a base in a way that foot or ground vehicle traffic won't find it, unless you have use of a helicopter which allows to go to the edge of the map...not the "edge of the map" but the actual edge of the map. Even then people with hacked helicopters will go to the remote places and look...then switch servers...spawn helicopters, and look some more. Not because they can't just script inject the items that you have, but because they want to take yours. Bet you didn't know that if you fall off the edge of the ocean you fly like superman? Persistence bases in this game at this point are a joke. Even without hacking....mass server hopping of ideal hiding spots with no penalty magnifies the impossibility of keeping your shit safe for more than a day. Furthermore even if you fortify your position people can just pinpoint your tents position, switch servers, move there, and then log inside of your concertina wire. (or toolbox since they spawn again lol) Furthermore without a friends list / Eve-like fleet system / or friendly name tags generally someone can walk into your tent area and before you can get an answer from everyone on teamspeak (if you have TS lol) as to who just walked up, the guy has already fragged everyone. This is an alpha. The persistence is an illusion. Just grab some guns and food, loot a couple downed helos, grab a vehicle if you spot one, and go kill some people on the coast until you lose it. Rinse and repeat. (there are some large clan groups 20+ that can manage a semblance of order and stockpiles but that is not the norm) blabla u know that its really more easy to find vehicles rided before with thoose hacks ? so it all depends where they are placed? lol ? u seem to know nothing about the hacks goind around....... @Aoridian i would advice you to find maybe a better server if there is no direct person hosting it or care for updating scripts for battle eye then u really can have much problems with thoose hackers. my clan will also went on another server wich is hosted and maintained most time until we have our own server. greetz kabs It doesn't really matter if someone is updating battle eye or not. Yes it helps, but all it is doing is stopping the hacks that have been working for a long time. All the hackers have to do is change the wording of the script to do the same thing but look differnet, and battle-eye does not catch it. An admin really has to be proactive (membership on hacking forums) and run his own tools that monitor script injection (engine hacking, or packet hacking) or at the very least look at this logs after every day and manually identify who has been getting around battle-eye, ban them, and put them on the global ban list. Even then....there are so many vulnerabilities in this game because of the fact that is it an alpha mod, that all of this is just a retarded Dutchboy's finger in the dike. Nearly all of these hacks involve using Arma II features that already are coded into the game, and soft disabled by Dayz. GL

1715 patch introduced random spawning and random location spawning of vehicles but with a few twists. 1) the number of vehicles spawning is random and there is a cap a server will spawn, so if you see 3 boats in the ocean, feel free to destroy them this will free up slots for land vehicles (hopefully) to spawn. 2) the spawn of vehicles isn't completely 'random'. Trucks and offroad vehicles do not spawn randomly in a forest, but more likely you will find an ATV or a bike at the end of an obscure road. Use this map as a rough reference www.dayzdb.com/map 3) Best bets are to search the entire corners of the map meaning from Coords(XXX:YYY) would be: 000:130 and 000:153 meaning the entirety of the top left corner of the map to the bottom left corner and the top left corner to the top right corner in a 1 km distance from 000X. If you still can't find any vehicles or camps that hoarders vehicles then most likely they are stashed outside the map. Good luck searching for them there without at least a bike and a compass/gps to traverse the great unknown

Look, all the vehicles that i found in dayz, totalizing 3 and 1 bike, i founded hide in the forests , its harder to see a vehicles in their spawn so if you are going to search for vehicles try in forests in the way Cherno or Eletro > Airfield, thats the location that i founded that vehicles in DayZ.

screwing around on a private server to get the hang of how the game works as far as item usage and the zombie AI is concerned, and was wondering, I see many guides talking about vehicles, but my friend and I must have hit at least 10 vehicle spawn locations only to have no luck. Is there a trick to it or something? or just pure bad luck? Its honestly getting a bit frustrating to travel across the map to where a vehicle is supposed to be only to find nothing but zombies along the path. Any help/knowledge would be greatly appreciated

I have to ask, since I also play on this server, are you part of the group that hoards all the vehicles? :( Because the most my friends and I have seen were a couple atvs. Also were you in the group of random ghillie suit dudes who were near Grishino the other day who killed my friend and I? Because I miss my loot :(

I don't think it's a question of allowed.. people can do whatever they want. However, 7 is a bit overkill especially when servers only have so many vehicles on it.

New vehicles should be added where you can fire your weapons from the passenger areas. Or if possible modify the current vehicles to allow it.

IBT inevitable flood of morons who think you shouldn't be allowed to have that many vehicles.

You should have stayed in the back seat of one of the vehicles. In a hidden spot. When they start driving off with you, say something in direct channel voice chat.

Be patient specsniper and never give up, people are seeing this. Personally I,d just stay away from us23 Find a server where your camps stay for a few days before being found. But rest assured camps and vehicles are never safe. For me us23 is a dangerous place these days but there are a wealth of servers to choose from and many with good proactive admin.

This post is very informative and thank you for taking the time to compose it. I agree with everything here although I do find one part of it to be slightly misleading. Within the current game mechanics, It is entirely possible, ( despite wether or not it's intentional) to roll back a server by restarting it. This may not prevent you from death but It can cause items and tents to be duplicated, vehicles moved to a previously saved position, items recently aquired to not save to the players inventory, and distance traveled to be reverted. This may of course be a flaw in the the way information is saved to the hive server. ( I don't know the reasons... I'm no a dev or tech expert) Finally before anyone attacks me for this post, to sum up my point, abuses of this nature have and do occur and it may be extremely hard for someone to gather up evidence against someone who has done so. I know it wasn't your intention to defend every admin good and bad, but let's not overlook the fact that admin abuse does occur, (mostly because of current design flaws) and they go largely unnoticed. Again thank you and I personally think there are bigger fish to fry then his whole topic in general, especially after the server I was playing on last night was nuked.

A place where I was taught the difference between "your," and "you're." An analogy is a comparison between two things that are somewhat the same, to a degree. How did inventory slot display, and my opposition to such a feature, warrant a comparison to remove vehicles completely? It's incredibly ironic that you ask ME, where I received my education, when you don't even know the definition of a simple word with only 4 vowels.

We were obssessed with vehicles XD also we kinda liked making a landmark for this server This is just one of the sidestories tha happened in that couple of hours :) Lots happened in that short time. someone trying to steal our vehicle, rogue sniper, etc

I laughed at this entire thread. It is so funny how most of the posts were about what would happen in real life and in disasters. How do you compare what would happen in a zombie apocalypse to what happened in history or in natural disasters? The way people would react in a zombie apocalypse would be completely different. In wars (of any kind) you have one group of people killing another group. In disasters you have people being killed by obviously a disaster, accidents, occasionally other people. In a zombie apocalypse you would have people being killed by other people, accidents, starvation, dehydration, disease, and either zombies or an ever increasing amount of zombies. (No one is going to be taking the time to keep electricity and other things working) Considering not a single person would know what a real zombie would be like. (Can they run, jump, use things (weapons/vehicles), do they kill and spread the virus with a single bite or scratch, is the virus in the air and if anyone dies they are going turn?) Or why don't you guys just say, hey zombies are just something made up they are not real so none of this is realistic anyways?

Sniper Rifle : AS50, it's basically a better version of the M107, with reduced recoil and a reduced sound (I'm talking about the actual sound being played from the audio file when a round is fired). Vehicles get absolutely destroyed when getting hit by AM (anti material) rifles. Only downside is that it can't be used with NVG. It should also be noted that the AM rifles can shoot through certain objects such as doors, might even be able to penetrate buildings. Assault Rifle : L85 TWS hands down, it uses common stanag ammo, has zeroing up to 800m and best of all the thermal sight. If used properly it will grant the user a MASSIVE advantage, nobody can get near you without getting spotted! SMG : MP5SD, the most silent weapon in the game. When fired you will only hear a click. One of the downsides is that is barely has any damage, so your shots will have to be accurate. The ammo of the MP5SD is quite hard to get by aswell.

This is one of a story that happened in Cap Golova military barricade. we were a group of people looking for fun, so we started to build this military barricade. our initial purpose? KILL EVERYONE. we built this so we could easily steal vehicles and collect them.(we had about 15 by then) We built the barricade, stationed in each outposts, waited for an unlucky prey to come by.We were an evil bandit group eager to dominate the whole server. As the sun rises, and we were devilishly waiting for a survivor to comeby and turn into a beehive. As we looked forward for an evil fun that will come, one of our sniper sees a movement. Finally, our first victim coming from elek then... we saw this survivor.. he was running for life from the zombies.. he was unarmed and was desperate. at first i though our group would just shoot him in the leg and make him suffer.. but nobody pulled the trigger. we realized there was no point of shooting him. We were all same people who wants to survive from this apocalypse..The apocalyspe should havebeen the real threat we had to fight back, but all we were doing was shooting each other. as these thoughts passed by, we heard a gunshot.. series of gun shot. it was our member shooting the zombies trying to save this poor fellow suddenly everbody started to shoot the zombies.. Since then, we tried to save survivors, give them rides, help them if possible. This unarmed thingy, is really a big deal

Go back to where you found the jeep and destroy the rest of those people's vehicles. Hoarders suck.