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How do you contact an admin without Global / Side? Sometimes servers need to be restarted in order for vehicles to re-appear, We can't tell the admins that the server needs to be restarted because Global / Side are gone!...

Ex1le, the ban was not given for purely and only speaking russian, the things which contributed to their ban were in no specific order as follows: 1 - Disconnecting during combat on multiple occasions 2 - Insulting the administrators and their decisions 3 - Speaking russian on chat even after being asked on multiple occasions to only speak in English/French so the majority of players can understand, considering everyone hears it, this rule is very reasonable. 4 - Spamming chat with absolute nonesence 5 - Collecting a large quantity of vehicles and storing them far outside the map bounds, so that the average players has absolutely no way of recovering them The above ban reasons aswell as a few other minor issues were what lead to their group inevitably being permanently banned from our server. Prior to this we also temp-banned one of their group members so that he could reflect on what he did and then return after the 3day ban to continue playing. But they have gone way too far for our liking and we will keep these bans enforced.

I'd like to start this post off by saying that I don't consider myself a bandit and more often than not I'd rather help a person than shoot a person, but today I ran into an opportunity at revenge I just couldn't pass up. A little bit of backstory: A week or so ago I had broken my legs near the shore around Electro and so my friend Vylent grabbed the ATV from our campsite and made his way to my location with morphine in hand. Along the way he had the misfortune of wrecking and flipping said ATV on a bridge and while he was trying to get it unstuck a couple dudes roll up in their own ATV and pop him in the back of the head and strip him of his gear. Fast forward to present day, a week later. I'm running along the shore and I encounter a fresh player, no weapon, flashlight... ect ect, and he has a mic and so we get to talking. He seems like a pretty friendly guy and one thing leads to another and we end up sharing skype information and forming a group of six. 3 of his guys, and 3 of mine. We're chatting it up for an hour or so when he tells me a story about how he killed some guy wrecked on a bridge in a flipped ATV and after checking some facts with his story I confirm that this guy was in fact the asshole who had killed Vylent last week. This revelation alone wasn't enough for me to want to kill the guy, but then he goes on about merging camps, and "Hey where's your base located" and other shady shit, and It becomes clear to me that this guy and his friends are going to rob us if we give them the chance. So we pretend that we're going to show this guy where our base of operations is. We tell him that it's located far up north about a two hour trip on foot and so he offers to give us a ride in a car he found. We have him meet us a ways away from town for the pick up; north of Berezino and OF COURSE he brings friends and there's not enough room for all of my group in his car, and only one or two of us can squeeze in. Sounds like a one way trip to me. Sounds to me like he's going to shoot us in the back when we arrive and take all our stuff, and how convenient that the number of pals he brought along for the ride matches the number of vehicles I told him we have back at camp. Once the car stops we tell the would-be-bandit that Vylent is low on blood and he needs a blood pack and when Mr. Bandit gets out of the car to heal him I say the code phrase that lets my group know that shit's about to go down: "Vylent can I have that Ghillie suit back?" Instantly my group lit them the fuck up. I pumped a guy's face in the back seat so full of lead that my AKM ran out of ammo and the fight was over before they even knew what had happened. Skype blows up with yelling, you can hear some guy in the background screaming like a psych-ward patient "I FUCKING KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, I FUCKING KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN!", they're shouting real life death threats at us, saying they know where we live IRL and that they live 15 minutes away and blah blah... all the while we're stripping their bodies clean and loading our new gear into our new car. I was laughing so hard that my eyes were tearing up. God I love this game.

Hey all, first post here :) Just wanted to throw in my 2c. I started playing this mod a few weeks back and after several deaths early on I quickly learned not to trust anyone I came across. I also learned the value of traveling with companions and how much more effective two people are in just about every situation opposed to being a lone survivor. I travel in a group that's usually between 2-6 people strong. We kill just about everyone we come across (after scoping the area out, checking if they're alone or with friends, checking for nearby Zed's that may aggro etc, then follow them waiting for them to make a bad move like run through an open field or something.) I've been alive 15 days now and I personally have 8 murders to my name. Between us all it would be in the 20's, and we have taken no casualties yet as we're very careful to engage and will not if it's too risky. There are plenty people we've seen, that haven't seen us, that we've let live simply because its too dangerous for us to kill them and retrieve their equipment.... Now my point is this: Playing as a bandit is in no way "Easy mode". We still raid supermarkets, still check deer stands, still have to find food / water / medical supplies / fuel for vehicles etc. I believe it's just a better way to survive. My advice to you is don't trust anyone you see outside your immediate group, and if you are alone you're most likely going to be an easy target. There was one murder we made at the airfield by getting our sniper to shoot in the general direction of a target he couldn't actually see, and when the target turned to face the direction of the gunfire, that allowed the others to pop up behind them and make the kill without having to worry about being shot at. At the end of the day, It's either you or me....

after i have read the last 5 or 6 sites here and maybe 2 weeks experience: my thoughts about this pvp thing: first thing i mentioned was that i expected more coop... till now i only met twice a friendly person: the first died in front of me because he aggroed zeds after writing "hey" to me. second did after 15 minutes or so... Then i was shot maybe 3 times by snipers. ok this IS annoying at first of course BUT: since then i thought about it and became really careful, not to say paranoid. u know it... avoiding open fields, checking each single corner of a city before going into it, much sneaking etc... and what happened? no more shots , mostly deaths becouse of own stupidity. Right now i'm in a "ill give it back to them!" mood... and i did and i do. and yes shooting on sight too. but what do you expect? as i wrote somewhere else there was a totally new survivor who joined our 2-man group, really friendly in voicechat, no problems. when we went into a house we let him pick up a shotgun and he shot us from behind at the next situation... so even being friendly for maybe 30mins doesnt make friends... lucky who has a good known friend in ts... but this is it what makes the game special and so great for me. you will have to get along with snipers, bandits and other survivors, even if its "unfair" or whatever. never ever implement pve/pvp areas! dont punish bandits for murder. if you cant manage to avoid them this is also a thing of skill as many others here said too. if you really want to go safe with a group, i guess you can first ask "reallife" friends or search forums for existing clans/groups! still i agree with those who want a bigger survival part. after quite a short time you can get all u need to survive (eat and water) without going into cities, by water bottles and hunting knife/matches... ok you can search for vehicles but this could be far more "high end" and also harder over time. dont know how ;( one short thing about serverhopper: why not give serverchanges a cooldown? like each new connect takes 10 minutes more for one hour for example... this hopping and disconnecting in fights is far more annoying than every bandit...

Today on NZ10 my friend and i went to pick up our other friends in a bus at Cherno, when we got outside the town we saw two cars next to the north-most hospital (they respawned the cars later on) so we decide to check it out and hopefully steal them. We encountered 3 guys, fully decked out with Nv goggles, rangefinders and high powered weapons. We didn't think anything of it and just thought they were decked out. During the fire fight they exploded the vehicles but we managed to get their gear. After the fight some of us waited for our friends who died to get back and hopefully grab some gear, when all of a sudden what seemed like an artillery strike blew up the hospital, at that moment we decided to leave. As we were leaving we found one of the hackers called "Enigma" sitting in a field spawning ammo boxes, we managed to snipe him which is when we saw his name (Unfortunately no screenshot of it). He instantly spawned back in and shot me (I had no gear) but I managed to pick up his gun, a MK16 I believe, He then picked up all of his stuff again and blew it up, which I managed to see as I was running back. He then killed me again. We think "Mr Anderson" may be one of the hackers but we are not entirely sure. http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/918982156780540759/5BD7E6513CF3E0BC18A5C3C82183E2FD39D90ABE/ http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/918982156780450677/88AAD9A24A50D866EF51D8EBF8B2854F8CED5716/ EDIT: Found the same car they spawned in 30-60minutes later in the field close to where he spawned the ammo crates flipped. http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/918982156780922328/EB01C58FD9555F146E223A427283E9CB9B9E11FE/ EDIT 2: updated post about the flipped car, alt-tabbed back in and turned around to find it gone at 5:48 presumably he re spawned it.

How's the vehicle count doing? All hoarded? Ruins the day for me when a set of group got ten vehicles when they barely use three. :P

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

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?

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.

Server(s):3 unknown servers, 1 connected to the hive Time(EST): 2:00PM-4:10PM What happened:The broadcaster went to multiple servers, spawning a weapon crate containing every item in DayZ(maybe even more). Later started spawning vehicles in an unknown server. http://www.twitch.tv/apbdoobie Here's the stream, this guy looks moronic enough to actually stream it. EDIT: He has now deleted/hid all of his past streams, there's no longer any proof, except for members that witnessed it. EDIT-EDIT: He's broadcasting again

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.