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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.

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

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.

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.

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

Hopefully it works out that way. my tents didnt disappear' date=' but they did duplicate a couple times, even the stuff inside them was duplicated, plus i got about 4 free tents lol [/quote'] That is so damn fortunate. UPDATE: TENTS ARE BACK! Everything in my tent is back too. Not sure about vehicles though.

There's a hack around that doesn't get discussed too often. It's a hack that gives players the ability to see name tags of all players, vehicles, tents, and zombies by simply pointing in a certain direction. It's configurable by range. i did some research and the authors are selling this product and claiming it to be undetectable. I was just curious what (if anything) is being done to stop this game breaking hack from continuing to run rampant. Makes it even more dangerous to store items in your tents/vehicles. Also, a way to combat this would be some sort of time delay on looting items from tents unless you have the password/key or something. Similar to how Eve has their Sov system working. Any thoughts comments appreciated.

Well I'm sick as all fuck of having my shit vanish. I know the game is in Alpha but this is an issue and it really does need some serious work. For my personally I see no point in playing a long game now because every tent I have ever set up has been wiped, not robbed, not run over, wiped. It's really annoying, maybe tents should be tied to a master server so when the server goes down the master server can tell the server what was in it. What I don't get is why the tent is still there like all my vehicles but all the shit in it is gone :|

Our group lost some vehicles too. :)

is that fully confirmed? all vehicles and tents are gone on all servers? are the vehicles going to respawn at their original spawn locations when the server restarts next?

So I am playing with my brother and decided to go deep in a forest to place a tent so that we can hide a bunch of medical supplies we got from a hospital run. As I am about to place the tent the server is restarting and we get kicked. We connect to a different server and when I turn around I see someone elses tent! So I go investigate and there were some meats, ammo, map, morphine and a few other things we stole (sorry). We decided we better go to different server to place the tent so when that person comes back they won't find us. When we reconnect to the new server we place a tent and put a bunch of items we don't need into the tent and decide to go back to where we came from. After running for a few minutes we come to the conclusion that we are lost and we see a bus... Holy crap we are lost and we find a bus? Certainly this must be our lucky day, but our luck was not done... So after checking the gear in the bus we find a m14 scoped, Dmr sniper rifle and ammo, other gear and items that will prove helpful. BUT we are still lost in the woods not knowing where we are going so I decided to run to the top of a large hill and see if I could find where we need to go. After seeing an opening in the trees I am running down the hill and spot another tent... Inside the tent is 4 water bottles and NV Goggles... Wow So on our way back to where we thought was the correct way to go we found an ATV before the end of the woods.... Never thought I would find 2 tents, 2 vehicles and NV Goggles accidentally all within 2 hours. Thought I would share my lucky day and see if anyone else came across anything like this accidentally. P.S. To anyone who hides their vehicles and tents off the map... They aren't safe. Lol

Hacking existed in Arma long before DayZ. Unless they are blatantly spawning mass amounts of vehicles, vehicles not available in the mission or carpet bombing it's very hard to spot because of the distances involved.

Hi there, i live at Brazil, and i have been playing this mod for a week or so and im getting tired of playing solo so if anyone want to group up im up for it, i was aiming to get a camp on some server, but i'll be happy to just run arund and loot stuff xD About my gameplay, i play mostly nights and for extended periods of time, i am on a gmt -3 time zone, play as a old school survivor, stealth, silence and a lot of looting, but when i got plenty of ammo and time i like to play the bandit hunter around the big cities. i got a crush on scavenging vehicle parts and repairing vehicles and seting up camps, i think i already build 9 or 10 camps with 5+ tents and 2+ vehicles. Well i guess thats it, if u guys want to play just add me on skype: hvizeu

We lost a UAZ because of a server restart and we didn't save it. We spent the afternoon to search for vehicles parts (4 damn wheels!) to repair it. Another one, we were 3 in a van and we were going through Zelenogorsk and we heard shots in our direction and the driver panicked and at the first intersection, he turned left and crashed directly, he managed to get out alive but died from wounds afterwards and we burned instantly with the other ahah.