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If I remember correctly, you can save trucks and the like for up to 7 days ingame once you've placed them where you want them. Clans, groups of players or lone hoarders tend to gather ALL the vehicles into small areas, usually VERY far off the map, and save them, never to give them up unless someone pops their tires at night while they drive on the roads. I used to have some vehicles, but the server I had them on was moved and by the time it was restarted my stuff was gone. Oh well, no major loss.

30 pairs of NVGS is an exaggeration, we have about 12 and 5 range finders all up which we found at OTHER peoples camps that we had raided earlier. There is a total of 3 Ghille suits in the whole camp and about 30 Stanags spread throughout the tents. I know that you may have a bit of a wild imagination, and everyone likes to stretch the truth a bit to make the story sound better. We have a lot of vehicles that we have been collecting since the vehicle reset, it has been a lot of hard work. Please get your facts straight before reporting "hacks". As for this chopper I had no Idea that it was there, I ran around the camp perimeter on the hills and could not find it. EDIT- READ : http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=23965 A person called Dean has been spawning choppers on NZ9

Check the super far north of the map. Between Server Hoppers and Hoarders alot of the vehicles end up stashed up there where they don't even get used.

So me and a few have my friends bought OA around a week ago and have collectivly logged around 100hours playing this mod and have yet to find a SINGLE vehicle!!! We have activly tried to find them and have literaly visited every known spawn location for ever car, helicopter and truck on the map with no success (while doing this on newly created servers). The only exception to this was that we found another players vehicle hidden in a forest which we promptly flipped within 5min of finding it just to discove they couldnt be reflipped without another vehicle >:(. So i am not sure if we are doing somthing wrong or if vehicles in this game just need a WAY higher spawn rate? This has become insanly frustraiting for us so any tips would be hugly apriciated. Thanks :)

Nothing but vehicles spawning randomly and invisible people happening all over dallas servers.... wtf is going on?!!?! Hell fire from choppers etc....

Gotta love finding random working vehicles. I found a white truck in the middle of some woods north of Kamenka tonight and took a joy ride through Cherno and Elektro. A player was running away from a pack of zombies and ran right in front of me. Ran his ass over and started laughing. Sorry for killing you Nick, wherever you are. Look both ways next time.

How about implementing a system similar to vehicles on the servers. But instead of vehicles, you have randomly spawned parts and must build a boat to escape chernarus (I know there are already boats, but that is not the point). There would be a certain number of parts scattered throughout the land, hull pieces, outboard motor, fuel and tank, etc. Players would have to lug the parts to the beach, assemble them, and then could leave. This encourages cooperation, as each part would take up most of your inventory / pack slots - teamwork would make the process much faster. It could also support banditry as someone could just kill you and take the parts you have for themselves, or simply find where you are hiding them and steal them. Then we just need to add to the leaderboards the number of times players have escaped chernarus.

Server resets often cause things to disappear. I've lost several vehicles, tent locations, weapons, and gear because of server resets. the basic morale of DayZ is this: "Don't get attached to your personal belongings."

Do you have any proof of this accusation? I ask because 40 mins after my friends destroyed your camp and vehicles and killed you who they met on the coast by Berezino I believe while they were trying to link back up with me because I died up at the camp. We logged off of your server 15-20 minutes after killing you to join our regularly frequented server which was having host issues. You were the only one on the coast and you died in a fight. Please show me your evidence of this pvp disconnecting accusation. Thanks.

1. Possibility to track other players. --> footprints, broken branches, waste (human waste / empty tin cans (from eating or drinking)). ---> footprints would be hard to see if its dry and hard ground but after rain they would be easier to see because the ground has been soft + there would be muddy footprints on asphalt etc. ----> These footprints and other marks of player should stay only 5 to 15 minutes on ground. After that it would be too hard to track + servers would overload. 2. Friendly (for real). --> Something to improve allies between random players: An ally contract what would make friendly fire impossible between random players. If other one resign from it they would have 5 minutes time to run away / make new contract. ---> Also a "trade contract": Promise to trade something without shooting another one. If still deside to shoot, then he would get some penalty. (Any ideas guys?) Pros: Easier to swap guns / ammos / food. Easier to trust people. Cons: No friendly fire, no thrill. Easy to trust someone, no tension if risking life for trading. 3. Batteries for everything that uses them. --> batteries for NVG, flashlight, GPS etc. NVG batteries rarety: very rare (nvg rarety could be raised when they need batteries). Others: rare. 4. Harder to mainetance vehicles. --> Fuel tanks would only have randomly 20 - 80 litres of fuel (So you just cant drive around the map until some one shoots you). ---> Tires would brake while driven over glass or if driven a lot. (You would always be prepared for broken tire.) 4.1. Spike strip --> What would be more cool ambush than spike strip (or something very close to it, like borken class in the road and hope it brokes the tires)? With this you could ambush a car without destroying it so you could also steal it after ambush. 5. Motion sensors and telephone (to monitor them). --> Motion sensors (very rare and only 1-5 could use at the same time. And once again, they work with batteries). If someone/something goes by your sensor, your phone would beep "Sensor number 1 - ALERT" -Do I even have to hype these? Think the possibilities with these! (Base defence, car ambush etc etc). For admins/server owners: 1. Log for disconnects and log ins with time and name/player ID. 2. Rights to ban and report Alt+F4 abusers and cheaters of course. (I hope this would make those cowards stop doing that.) Comments: 1. Really would spice things up if you could trace enemies, or some one is tracing you! Never stay still for too long, even in the woods. But this needs a lot changes to the game and I don't know if its even possible. 2. This have it's pros and cons but if you (forum ppl) improve them, those would be nice extra for beginners + others! Like what would be big penalty enough that you wouldn't kill that another player? -11000 blood and broken legs? 3.This improvement is only realistic and would makes things a bit more complicated and intresting. And if NVG would be more likely to find, you couldn't use them much. Only minutes if you have low batteries. 4.We have our own server and we have 4 vehicles atm. We just drive around them cause they are invinsible against nature. Only another players can stop them. Its zombie apocalypse and you can find gasoline EVERYWHERE. Realistic? (Yes it's fun, but not realistic.) 4.1. Well I think its impossible to find spike strips if there is 0 police station. So those broken class and other spiky things would do it. 5. How awesome would motion sensor be? Just think the possibilities. Let your imagination do the rest. --- LAST WORDS --- Long post, I hope you had time to read those 5 ideas. If you like them, please comment and improve them freely! [ :exclamation: More comments = More likely to become true :exclamation:]

So I stored my land-rover on NZ2, and whilst waiting for a mate, I thought I might just jump accross to NZ9 to look for some camps. As soon as I spawned, I turned around and saw several vehicles and tents. Inside these tents and cars, there was roughly a total of 30 NVGS, around 20 Ghillie Suits, roughly 200+ STANAGs, and various other things such as 30+ rangefinders. I didn't take the time to look inside the other cars and stuff, however obviously the clan or whatever that owns these things are hacking. They had about 10 vehicles in total. As I was quickly looking around, I heard a guy spawn in (the sound of someone crouching.) I turned around and saw him on my thermal scope and killed him, the only pat of his name that I remember is that it had an [iRON] clantag at the front. I didn't see anyone else. After I killed him, I ran south to get away from all of it in case more came back, as I stumbled down the hill, I found a Wildcat AH11 which is obviously not in the game. Before I disconnected, I had a look inside, screen shot attached. Note that I didn't take any hacked items. Again, the server was NZ9 which is hosted by ON3 Network. [attachment=1603]

I like the sound of this, Military vehicles could drop ammo and only ammo, as weapon spawns are already common enough to fill out their rarity levels, in my opinion.

I've made this suggestion a few times within other threads but I felt I should add it to its own. Much like heli crash sites I always thought abandoned grocery vehicles with tinned food and drink, ambulances with a few medical supplies, blood bags, morphine and the like and military supply vehicles with rare munitions for bizon and fal among other things, would be a nice addition. Very rare probability of these appearing just like the downed choppers randomly dotted around the map. Again like the choppers surrounded by zombies. I have to say I love the idea of stumbling across items this way. It adds a real element of excitement. We all know the feeling of finding a downed chopper. Its like being a kid on Christmas eve again.

You weren't banned for killing the admin. You werent banned for looting an entire camp. You werent banned for destroying a base including vehicles and tents. You were banned for disconnecting during a firefight when we had you and your clanmates surrounded on the coast and it wasn't until after you guys took multiple shots and were bleeding did you decide to disconnect. Please find another server as cowardly acts such as disconnecting during pvp is 100% not tolerated on my server and is a bannable offense. It's written in the motd and displayed every so many minutes.

Cool' date=' well done, but that's still not in the suggestions thread. Thanks for bumping the topic though ;) [/quote'] It also has nothing to do with giving us an easy visual indicator of how much space we have left in our tents and vehicles =P

Just like the backpacks...Please give us some indication of when our tents and vehicles are nearing capacity. Thanks!

Think of it this way... Lets start with the assumption that in Rocket's vision of the DayZ backstory is one n which there are few working cars to be seen. For that he has two options, either limit the number of vehicles or limit the amount of gas/petrol (I'd say that this would be the real limiting factor in any zombie plagued disaster) Since it seems that working gas stations are always full, or will simply refill on server restart, it makes sense to achieve the same [/align]effect by limiting the number of cars. Now unfortunately, this means that certain groups may have the advantage in repairing and hoarding vehicles, but that might be addressed in the future. This far into the storyline of DayZ, the incessant sound of engines should have been replaced by crickets, desperate gunfire and the sound of flatulence from all of the beans being consumed...

I agree that something needs to change to encourage people to use their vehicles instead of hoarde them off map. I would definitely want off-map entity's positions to not be saved. That seems like the most obvious thing to stop vehicles being hidden in a place they can never be found. I'd probably increase fuel consumption (or lower fuel storage in each vehicle) as well so you have to make frequent trips to a gas station. It may also be a good idea to make vehicle wheels take slow periodic damage based on distance travelled whilst they're offroad or in a forest. Make the damage less if it's an off-road vehicle like the ATV or land rover.

I'm all for regular database wipes. As long as everything goes, including vehicles, tents etc. (Not sure if servers would need to do some form of reset to remove tents etc?)

Hello This has probably been suggested a lot, but what about camouflage netting to hide tents and vehicles? They would be much harder to spot and people would not have to put their tents outside of the map (I don't but some do). The downside of them is they are very rare, a military only spawn, and require a long taking the netting off animation when you want to drive anywhere in a vehicle. Thanks for listening to my idea Cheers

Is there no way to find the last played servers? explanation: first time i found a ATV but it needed gas, so i read on forum that you had to disconnect to reinterract with vehicles spendt then 2 hours to find the server again, but had to give up :-/ second time i was on my way to me dead body to get my gear back but my game crashed and again.. no way to find the server again.. if there indeed is no favorite/last played servers then there really should be

the vehicles are gone though

It's a known issue by the admins. Apparently there's a hole in the arma 2 engine that allows cheaters to run any script you can imagine, which leads to the most common hack: spawning vehicles and other things from arma 2 into dayZ. Like a Battleship: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=23386

To clarify this, the chopper is now in the possession of the admins, but they are holding off joyriding this bitch around until we get an answer. The chopper is the correct model (2x 240, green) of the huey that *should* be in the game. The server has not been up long enough to have helicopter vehicles EVER spawned historically. This is why we are leaving it, we do not want to be seen as abusing any rights etc, until we know this is legitimately spawned in.

Yep. Sometimes tents bug out even if they are saved and pull a houdini after a restart. And Vehicles always despawn after a server restart so never store anything you really want to keep in vehicles. Unless you are the server admin and you control the restarts.