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Hey i was wondering if your vehicles despawn at every map reset. I know that vehicles are stored server side so it won't be on other servers, but do they vanish at every server or map reset? I heard that you can "save" your vehicle but how?

Totally agreeing with you here' date=' am all for making the game so hard that every casual undesirable ragequits but apparently saying that stamps you out as "hardcore realism maniac who doesn't know how to have fun". Anyway, I agree with that opinion. I dont, I want those gone, dont get me wrong. That sounds like a really boring way to play the game. My last two survivors have been alive for 15 days and 11 days respectively, and I haven't been to the NWAF on either character. It's the Cherno of the north at this point. I get all the weapons, supplies and vehicles I need elsewhere. Again, yes, it sounds boring to you, it sounds boring to me too and am not saying I do that. I just sort-of understand the reasons it's so common and happens so often. I did my best to elaborate the said reasons. That's the great thing about DayZ. You don't have to care why other people do what they do. The presence of rampant PK and unrestricted PvP, regardless of the motivation, makes everything else you do in the game more interesting and dramatic. I don't "hunt" other players though I will absolutely kill them if they wander into my territory. I've had ~6 murders in the past 30 days. By no means a lot. But everything ELSE I've done in the game - every vehicle I've built, town I've looted, trip I've made etc. has been far more intense and interesting because the whole time I knew that at any moment I might come under fire from a homicidal maniac. The game is more interesting when there are people trying to kill you all the time. Who cares WHY they do it? Again, yes, the constant fear adds greatly to the game. But like every good thing it can be overdone and _at the moment_ there's too much blatant killing. So much actually that you don't even have to go through that little internal debate to decide whether to shoot the guy or not. Contrary to populary belief noobshore, cherno and elektro are actually safest places in the world and only places where you can actually hope to meet people who don't instantly shoot you. If your goal is not to survive, there's no incentive to DO ANYTHING. What do you expect the game to do, play itself for you? I don't even understand what you're lobbying for. That's bit old argument tbh. As I already stated in my original post survival is piss easy in this game. Just find basic tools and water bottle and head off to wilderness. You can die of old age there but there's no fun in it, even to most hardcore survivalist I'd bet. Survival is bonus, real goal is to find stuff, get into thrilling situations and all that stuff. Am not lobbying for anything really, I just understand why such a big percentage of the player base has no interest in general survival and insteads chooses the FFA sandbox which I personally despise. Personally I mainly mind my own business, trying to survive but occasionally taking needless risks when I feel bored. My char's survival is not really a factor then. At the moment I'm just roaming the noobshore hunting for those FFA-lamers with my relatively high-end gear. I naturally don't want to lose it and that's my main motivation to survive but I'll still try to do my little bit to slightly improve the overall experience for all the righteous :p Anyways, footie time now, match has begun. Hope my main point came thru.

I only had one car and a Bicycle outside stary sobor. How you hide ur vehicles? On a open field? I hide them behind trees, sometimes its difficult to find them even for me. 2 of the vehicles werent even in stary sobor.

BUS DRIVER'S UNION MEETS BLOODY TRAVELS CHERNARUS - Two members of [bUS] met with an unfortunate fate last night as a routine vehicle scavenging run became anything but routine. Travelocity, co-founder of the Bus Driver's Union, accompanied with navigator Driver, was engaged in a daily route to Vybor, a known bus spawn location. ►As the Union members exited the Northwest airfield towards Vybor, a hostile group of five bandits emerged from the nearby brush and immediately opened fire on the neutral vehicle, a [bUS]-owned S1203 van. In response, Travelocity made great efforts towards evading the attackers but their shotgun and assault rifle bullets proved too much for the fragile civilian-vehicle hull, ultimately stopping and exploding the van and its passengers. ►"It was unbelievable. We were just on a regular run in normally peaceful territory, looking for engine parts and repairable vehicles to add to our fleet, when out of nowhere came these heartless raiders, intent on taking our [meager] supplies. Sadly, we lost the numbers game in that confrontation, as five guns beats one paper-thin hull," said Travelocity. ►Travelocity was immediately vaporized in the fiery combustion, but Driver was able to escape the wreckage within a mere inch of his life, and bandage his wounds in the nearby barn. With nothing to lose and a friend to avenge, Driver took to the offensive and crippled the bandit regime with clever use of the surrounding terrain and the long-range combative capability of the AK74 KOBRA, a gun passed down from previous [bUS] members who were lost in similar bandit raids. ►"The KOBRA was the favourite weapon of the deceased co-founder, Andrew, who met his end at the wrong side of a sniper rifle, in the uptown apartments of Chernogorsk. We kept it in our [bUS] coffers until the day I decided to do his legacy justice and put down those who would choose to interfere with the everyday business of the Union," said Driver. ►After looting the beneficial tools of his fallen antagonists, Driver fled to the secret [bUS] Depot to recoup the organizations' losses and prepare to meet future members of the Union, who, along with a reborn leader, will continue to not let ruthless attacks destroy the will to drive hapless survivors from the forests of Kamenka to the mountains of Olsha.

That sounds like a really boring way to play the game. My last two survivors have been alive for 15 days and 11 days respectively, and I haven't been to the NWAF on either character. It's the Cherno of the north at this point. I get all the weapons, supplies and vehicles I need elsewhere. That's the great thing about DayZ. You don't have to care why other people do what they do. The presence of rampant PK and unrestricted PvP, regardless of the motivation, makes everything else you do in the game more interesting and dramatic. I don't "hunt" other players though I will absolutely kill them if they wander into my territory. I've had ~6 murders in the past 30 days. By no means a lot. But everything ELSE I've done in the game - every vehicle I've built, town I've looted, trip I've made etc. has been far more intense and interesting because the whole time I knew that at any moment I might come under fire from a homicidal maniac. The game is more interesting when there are people trying to kill you all the time. Who cares WHY they do it? If your goal is not to survive, there's no incentive to DO ANYTHING. What do you expect the game to do, play itself for you? I don't even understand what you're lobbying for.

Hmmmm, I think this would probably be difficult ot implement. I think way too many vehicles are already hidden by people. The keys idea is fucking lame as fuck.

Yeah wow, this game never ends dude. 1. Assault a town 2. Recover/Repair vehicles 3. Move your camp 4. Take someone elses camp. 5. Look for downed helicopters. 6. Find new and inventive ways to travel. 7. Respond to bandit reports and defend survivors. Any number of ways to play it out.

There really aren't that big benefits for your average dayz'er tbh. Keyword, average. The most commonly noted benefits are better protection, blood bags, more carry space, easier to fix up vehicles etc..But your average dayz'er wont give rats ass for those. Why bother hiking all the way to NWAF for meagre chance of finding moderate loot with high chance of dying when you can just find the nearest low end gun and start popping everyone you see. If you die you lose nothing really, you can find new gun easy enough and start over. Persistency and general sandboxing appeal to some but not all and while I agree that those undesirables should find another game to mess around there'll always be griefers who pull the sandbox -, "survival of the fittest"- or other lame card when you question their actions. And this is just the griefer dudes, big part of even the more sensible playerbase (I'd say at least, dont quote me on this) don't want to bother with grouping, vehicles and stuff because it simply doesn't appeal to them. I mean vehicles, just why? It'd take you way longer to fix than actually hold since the vehicle stays on server while you're offline and even if it remains magically unstolen server might eat it anyway. AND even if you manage to keep it there's seriously little you can actually do with it. Driving around in arma engine is everything but fun, especially when your average car burns through gas at obscure speed. Now if you don't care about how long your specific life in dayz lasts (I honestly dont, it's a nice detail but I've no real interest to survive for eternity, especially as it'd be a no-brainer with bunch of basic tools and water bottle) there's really quite little incentive to group up and there's awfully little that can be done about it. Anyway, I know why many often say that there is huge benefit in grouping, it's true in part but only applies to players with certain attitude and some caring for that number stating how many dayz they've survived. For the rest, the incentives are quite non-existent and interacting with other players is only an unneeded risk.

I'm not raging. I never raged. It's a really weak ad hominem (as per the stupidity of my adversaries). I'm having fun and getting revenge because you guys invite people to join your group, so that you can kill them and take their stuff when they get there. You can't betray someone and then expect them not to retaliate. I've even gone around to inform people in Teamspeak servers and various anti-bandit groups of your operation. (Hence the increase in people on your server). That's why government do cover-ups and don't throw people under the bus. Now everyone knows Atlanta 31 is a bandit clan server. That you guys have four vehicles. Look for them around the NW airfield! They have a Jeep, a bus, and a few other vehicles chock full of weapons and equipment and are most active when it gets dark out. I'm looking for their base right now. Add me on Steam "coverfirehero" if you want to help hunt griefer bandits who try to appear as normal human beings on internet forums, but are a figurative facsimile of the cannibals in "The Road." Oh, and if you haven't noticed I'm already attacking you in the game under various pseudonyms. I would've had you all last night but then it got dark out and I lost track and got killed by a glitch a shortwhile after. Nice try with the decoy flare though. As soon as my friend Nick gets the game, you guys are toast. He's a sgt. with two tours of Iraq and Afghanistan and mad fps skills.

This is neat... probably only to me... because I looooove the idea of maritime rutters. See, a rutter was a special map and/or log that a sailing captain kept. It had all his personal shortcuts, observations, finds-- it was essentially his own personal cheat sheet to smooth, efficient, safe, and rich sailing-- often, during the age of exploration, it guarded state secrets in terms of navigational routes to colonies and trading ports. It was protected as a priceless treasure. When a ship was sacked, one of the first things sought was the captain's rutter so that new trade routes or intel could be gathered. Imagine if the map auto-logged all the major things you discovered or placed-- tents, helicopters, vehicles. Then it became your own personal rutter. If you got shot, it would be a cool bit of loot to discover for the next guy.

Summary: Players must repair a vehicle and drive it off the map to "win". You must cross the map with a full fuel tank and at least 90% repaired. You must cross the map on a road A vehicle may rescue as many survivors at a time as there are seats. If you and 4 of your buddies fix a car and drive it off the map, all four of you "win". Only motorized vehicles are allowed. No bicycles. A reward is given for successfully escaping Chernarus. This reward rolls over to the next survivor. Pros: -Promotes teamwork by giving players a common goal to work towards -Gives you something to do with vehicles besides drive them around for teh lulz -Encourages exploration Cons: -Possibly exploitable by large groups -You tell me

An item that should be added to the game is a camo net/tarp of some kind that you can put on vehicles to help them blend into the wilderness. This will help from cars being stolen when you stash them in the woods.

we went 1/2 way across the map then a 1/4 way to a diff spot after they magically marked our new camp right after we dropped off our vehicles.

they say on some server gives it to fly even helicopters. they can tell me what is the map.pbo. We would like to use this for our server. with us there are now only to cars. but no helis. quote Known issues: Helicopters are still very dangerous to fly due to desync issues. These type of vehicles will only be available on some very old servers until this issue is fixed. Your safety as a pilot or passenger is NOT guaranteed. (hopefully fixed with release of 1.7.1, need more testing) I breucht this maps for our server EU75. is the possible I would create it with mission generator Dayz mfg EU75 server-team sorry english is not good

There is people using hacks map hacks its on youtube and today we just proved it. We had a camp get raided luckily we logged in right as they were there and killed them all. They only ever raid when we offline so its kinda... Anyways today we were watching the map after having been raided and noticed a marker on our old camp... We hopped in our convoy and took off across the map. We made just to keep an eye behind us and make sure we were not followed. Anyways we finally pick a new camp seconds after we arrive we look on the map and they had marked our new location on the map after getting there... So we figure maybe one of us did it on accident and we move camp again just to be safe. Lo and behold no problems BUT as soon as we all log off tho I wait around for about 20 minutes offline not logged in. I log back into the game at our camp and supply truck and jeep is gone along with all our loot and tents were run over. Is no way they coulda followed us without vehicles and we left sentries to make sure nobody did.

My group and I have been using DE #46 as our home server, and had found and repaired a few vehicles. Right as we were about to go set up a base the server either crashed or was shut down by the admins. Every time anyone tried to join they just got stuck at an infinite loading screen (I have a video of this I can upload if necessary.). The good news was no one was able to connect, as you can see from this link: http://arma2.swec.se/game/data/5124017 However, when I start my game up today I of course try to join the server, but instead I am kicked instantly. I go to the same website again, and I see that the only people that have been able to connect to the game are members of the AMG clan: http://arma2.swec.se/game/data/5129204 The have been apparently kicking everyone that joins the server, including me every time I have tried to join. Here is a link to a screenshot of the admin I that I believe is abusing his powers. http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/n594/Brett_Pfeiffer/dayz.jpg I have video of me being kicked from the server multiple times as well, but this website is not letting me attach anything. I can upload the video to youtube if necessary, but there is more than enough proof already to show they are abusing their admin status by running a private server.

1- Tents placement are indeed buggy, if you really wanna place a tent somewhere just run around with your gear open spamming the 'place tent' button (right click and keep spamming it). And no, they don't disappear after server restarts and they stay only on the server you place them. 2- Well, stash them somewhere safe, in the woods, preferably in a place where you know how to get to. They're not really rare, you just need to go to their spawns, and depends on the servers, some old servers people already took and the vehicles for themselves, which means they're hidden somewhere. Use this map for vehicle spawns. 3- This system is kinda buggy, I think they're supposed to stay there for 15 minutes, but sometimes someone found it first and hid it or they just sank after a while. In case you have a friend guarding your body, tell him to get your stuff and drop on the ground, it's a lot safer. 4- They change after server restarts I think. Well, not sure how long does it take for them to respawn, but if your remove the loot of it's spawn and put them far away from it (I.E.: there's a bunch of tin cans on the ground, you take them and drop them somewhere else, like 10m away from it's original spawn) it's gonna respawn faster I think, that's what I usually do. 5- You can use the DayZ loot sheet to see where they usually spawn, to be honest I always find them all over the map, in Grocery stores, Houses (mainly houses), etc.. I'd recommend using the loot sheet. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask them, I'll gladly help you out buddy! :D

For the record, i just started playing 4 days ago. This is by far one of the best games i have ever played, and cant wait to see the final product =D. OK now for questions, i tried to look for answers but no luck. Hopefully you guys can help me. 1.Tents -I found a tent, but for the life of me could not place it. I tried object free flat areas. Is their a trick to this? -From my understanding if you save your tent, the tent only shows up on that particular server? Does the tent also get deleted after a server restart? 2.Vehicles -I have yet to have any in this game, but if i were to find one, how would i secure it after i log out? -Ive yet to see a vehicle, are they super rare? 3.My Corpse -How long does it take for your corpse to decay? Recently i died so my buddy guarded the house my corpse was in. It was a LONG way out so by the time i got there, i went in the house and i saw no body. I heard flies buzzing around, was my body just bugged out, or did it decay? 4.Loot -I heard different things on this. Does the loot change once per hour? Does it stay the same until a server restart? If it does change once an hour do i have to loot whats their already for it to change? 5.Maps -Can never seem to find one, is there a particular place to find them? Thanks in advance for taking the time to answer these questions :)

vehicles are really buggy for now, i dont even like to drive over objects, trash on the ground, not even bridges (they are buggy as hell).

Yes, per server, same as vehicles. Loot spawns could remain or not. Nothing to stop server admins taking best buildings, or anyone else... all clearing would do is to remove zeds from spawning in or near that structure. And the deployable item that creates the claim & clears the spawn would need to be maintained & protected from others or wandering zeds from other structures. You could take back a town, & stem the spawning zeds but only as long as the claim item/deployable remains in place with hitpoints. Just an idea, seeing I read somewhere much earlier about an end game idea about reclaiming & protecting towns as a survivor.

Some guy came up and started looting it. He was killed. Another dude logged right into our camp but quickly disconnected afterwards. So I'm like "Okay we have to move camp." We move out and set up camp in an area with nothing of interest, in a spot that you could only see if you were going to end up running straight through the camp in the first place. It's night time, the server almost always has 0~4 people on at night and we're tired. Wake up in the morning, everything in the tents, and all but one of our vehicles are gone. I don't even know what to say.

LOL yeah okay that's why 90% of the vehicles in the map where sitting in one spot..... ohh and locking the server down cause you are all worried of ur shit getting taken.... yeah ima say you were beaten and got butt hurt... but tell your self what ever you like to make you feel better... PS thx for all the shit you guys really made my day

Hi there, i've checked the situation, and to be honest, i am not sure why the server is locked. It shouldn't be, not only because it's forbidden to do it (for long time), it's also unlogic because so less player are on the Server. I can only image that "B.E.C.", a tool which i am using to prevent the server from being 'bombarded' by mass join/connect tries, forgot to unlock the Server. But i am not sure so i have to check the Serverlog files before i blame someone else for this failure. For now I've unlocked the server manually and now ppl are joining again. So sorry folks. P.s.: There are only 2 Situation why the Server is locked by purpose. 1. The Server gets locked if i will restart it within the next 5 minutes. 2. Or because to much People are in lobby (greater then five). - To prevent the Server of being locked forever because to much Player are in lobby they get kicked after 300 sec if they stay at lobby. @Gichtenstein, With the release of Vehicles on most Server, huge problems with lags came too. This isn't a issues which can be killed by plain RAW Power, it had to be addressed by the Devs. Thanks to the last two patches the Situation got better and better , so i can try to raise up the player count little by little and check if the Lags are under a certain level. But never forget, "Quality while playing" is more worth then the "Quantity of Slots", at least for me. If Lags are raising to high, i will drop the Slots again.

Really? Weird...we're rocking the UAZ Offroad and I can't say we've taken any damage from running over players/zombies. One night we even ran over a good sized horde...probably 20 or more in one run, after we had to bug out of a town. What vehicles were you guys using when you took damadge?

Thanks for uploading it. But another question: What to do with the file. If I take the folder @DayZ inside the DayZ - 1.7.1.4 folder, I will get an error upon trying to join the DayZ - Canada 2 server. Missing DayZ_Code, weapons, equip and vehicles. As in, if I replace the @DayZ inside C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead With the one in the folder. Any idea?