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it was pacific time. I would guess around 7 or 8 pm. I did not take note of it. There was a message saying vehicles spawning curtousy of doctor medic. or something like that.

Last night me and 1-3 friends raided one of their camps (7th ops). Got about 6 L85s, 5 FN FAL, Many variations of M4's including the HOLO SD, AS50's, 10+ NVG/GPS, 15+ ghillie suits, etc etc. As my team was loading up a vehicle I watched as a couple of them met up and observed the damage before restarting their server (they didn't get anything back). When it came back up I waited until they left, stole their vehicles, shot out all the tires, ran over their tents with a URAL and got kicked. Now they have a new server message about stealing loot not being in the spirit of the game and how it won't be tolerated. If I'm allowed back in again I'll be sure to fraps it should I find their new camp.

Mine plays it at very high at 1080p with no problems. But even at it's best looking, Arma2 is an ugly, ugly game. Except for the vehicles, they are rendered quite nice. Compare it to Skyrim HD or any AAA FPS and the graphics are pretty low par, but the gameplay more than makes up for the lacklustre graphics.

Same exact thing happened to my whole squad today on Seattle 57, we got banned for no reason and with no message, we were breaking NONE of the rules in any way shape or form. We had managed to aquire two vehicles , which we loaded with gear. All I can think is we killed the admin. THis should not be allowed.... an admin should not be able to ban players who have vehicles and stock on there server for NO reason. This feels ridiculous. Sorry for the vent, any help or recourse would be awesome. For NOW no SEATTLE 57, admin at the time logged in just to ban us, did we kill his friends??? Probably, but this kind of stuff really ruins gameplay. If they can not play fair they should not be allowed on any other servers but their own. ANywho!

Accidently clicked rearm at our jeep and it deleted my Byzon SD. Just a warning to anyone tempted to click the delete primary weapon button. Be nice if the option was removed, along with the eject (suicide) button when ur in a vehicle. Sometimes lag makes u click the wrong one. While we are on the subject be nice if the respawn button was a bit further from the other options ;)

found a heli crash site, fn fal, fn fal with night scope and 3 mags, mk40 with 2 mags. My only problem with spawns is when you drive a vehicle up to any object spawn location(barn/deerstand/house/hangers/atc tower/firestation/church/shacks/warehouse/supermarkets/barracks/hospitals/heli crash sites) NO ITEM SPAWNS until you get out of the vehicle almost 100metres away or further. Then the zombies spawn and bumrush you because of the constant smoke grenade effect vehicles have that attract zeds.... Why can't items spawn if you are driving a vehicle (to) right outside the supermarket for a quick grab and run?

no zombie hordes yes on handcuffs/zip ties yes on upgradable vehicles

If you ever watched rocket's interviews on youtube, he states that he doesn't want his mod to be 100% realistic, just believable. Why couldn't someone repair a generator? Doesn't have to be a large scale power plant. But the main point of this idea is it would take a lot of parts so it could give reason for players to group up to rebuild a community and have lights. It really just gives more stuff for players to do. I've already lived for days, fixed vehicles, grouped, soloed. I like more things to do and keep me busy within a game.

Yes. Also if you got good stuff like vehicles and tents on one server then switching server isn't exactly enticing ;)

I'm sorry it's taken so long to give a reply, but if you would of taken it to our forums it would of been looked into much sooner. Though we try to catch issues on here, our forums are a much more direct way to us due to the volume of usage the DayZ forums see. After extensively checking through logs, there is no evidence of foul play in regards to Kriegar or Mirabeau. I can't really comment further on the mass slaying / mass spawning of vehicles as we're still investigating as far as we can with that. I can understand the frustration caused by this and all I can really say is we're doing everything we physically can to catch individuals who wish to spoil the DayZ experience on our servers. If you've got any further issues or queries then just drop a line on our forums and we'll deal with it.

Agreed, I have a few good ideas for vehicles in my Crazy Idea / Wishlist thread in my signature, check it out. But I like the idea of keys, but I feel you should have to find them via a "clue" system, instead of make them.

I think once you start having Saves in this game it changes the dynamics completely. Death should strike fear into the player - that disappears once you can go back 5 minutes to a previous save and start again. If you could Save pretty soon you will have all the best weapons, vehicles and gear. After that what would be the point? To be honest i dont even like the idea of being able to get your equipment back once you die in the current DayZ format - running back and looting you old characters body or having your mates grab your stuff. Turns Perma death into semi-perma death. I can see single player being an option in the future, however. Lets just hope it doesnt get dumbed down too much for the masses.

So after the tent wipe I thought I read vehicles were going to be reset. So I set off on my motorbike driving all over the map to see if I can find all the vehicles. None in their spawn. None nowhere on the map. This being said. I know the rest of them are somewhere off the map. I was expecting to have the motorbike reset, it didnt. So I can assume there was not reset and that now everyone must wait 7 days until the hoarders bring them back onto the map or not use them. Nothing against groups or clans hoarding anything, its their work and effort, but 7 days and off the map? Seems a bit extreme. Do they even need to drive them or do they just need to log on and access them? Should I spend all day driving off the map looking? I don't even really want another vehicle, but I sure would like to see one.

LOL at this thread and the OP, I am the person with the youtube video just posted by Zero, I asked him to post it as that is what happened last night around 530PM EST, here is the time line of the 3 attacks I have witnessed on my server, in ALL 3 attacks our clan mates including me get killed off, so if you think it's because we are doing it on purpose you are an idiot. In 2 of 3 of these cases it's either instant or within a 20 second time frame, that is not enough time for Zero to log out of the game server and remote desktop into the admin console/server host server. Case number 1: Whole server getting nuked. I thought this was a bug and not a hack, later int he night we found out it was a nuke hack, a 3rd of the people on that list are Wolves of War members: Zero was AFK and it wouldn't of mattered even if he was around, how do you stop something that takes 1 second? Case number 2: This was LAST NIGHT at around 530PM EST time, maybe 6ish, the vehicles spawn, and within 20 seconds we are all dead, Zero did not have enough time to switch over and shut the server down until it was too late, he then went into admin chat and found other servers being attacked. Case number 3: Think it was just DayZ issues last night? WRONG, the co-op and normal multi-player servers were under attack as well, I joined a fresh co-op game waiting to see what was going to happen with our dayz server and this shit happened: BTW: I stream on twitch when I play this, so quite a few people outside the clan witness and hear everything we are doing, when this BS goes down, it hurts us, we don't like it and there isn't much of a defense to it, all we can do for now is suck it up and wait for the ARMA guys to put in a patch to fix the security holes. It's not the admin's fault, or my clan's that this game has security measures like a screen door on a submarine.

I'd like to one-up your idea. Clearly in an apocalyptic situation, there would be no one to run the power plants, and as such, no electricity on any large scale. What if power plants could be repaired and fueled? Much like vehicles? Generators would obviously create a lot of noise, and therefore attract zombies galore. The power plant would also not run at full capacity, meaning it would only provide electricity to a specific radius (whatever that may be). But here are the pros i can think of. 1) A good end-game goal (rocket has stated that these are lacking and he intends to create more) 2) A good team cooperation goal (there are few of these, other than now we have extra meat-shields!) 3) Cities that have been powered would be night-playable (though not impossible now, just terribly difficult without NVGs) 4) ???? Suggestions? Cons: 1) perhaps not possible to implement in arma2's engine? 2) ???? Suggestions?

Hello, I am really enjoying the US70 Server - Hosted by DrTyWords. However, there are a few game settings on the server that annoy me and I'd like to see changed. These settings are: 1. Being able to see yourself, others & vehicles on the map. This setting feels like cheating, I always know where I am and removes any excitement of figuring out where I am. It also renders the GPS useless. Having some kind of sonar around you that shows any nearby players or vehicles is also really dumb, imagine being killed by another player only because he saw your icon on the map. screenshot of this: http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/184/arma2oa2012062122395128.png (left: my position, right: set waypoint visible in screenshot 2) 2. Setting waypoints on the map, telling you exactly where the target location is and how far away it is. Again, takes away all the excitement of finding out where you are. Should be removed. Screenshot: http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/6724/arma2oa2012062122393194.png 3. It is also possible to see the "black X with a circle around them" markers that other players placed on the map, this allows players to communicate while it shouldn't be possible. global chat was disabled after all. I don't know if it is possible to disable this setting, but if you can it should be. Everyone who likes to see these changes happen on US70 (or not) please reply in this thread, starting your post with either YES or NO. I've got confirmation of the server admin he will read this thread and might change the settings if we get enough votes.

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.

Anyone know what's going on with it? It's my usual server and I have some tents/items/vehicles invested in it. Do you guys (Admins) have a twitter/website to check availability/status of the server? Thanks, Manny

Serveradmins started to stop/start their server in order to save their stuff like bicyles/cars from other players. They stop their server as soon as they leave the server. They started this 2 days ago. I wittnessed it in their TS3 server. Today i tried to move my stuff of the vehicles to another server but i just cant finish it. I even wittnessed kicking or even banning a player for using iname Voice Chat. First they just kicked/banned players using accidental double Tab. But they never stopped there. Im annoyed of the fact, that i didnt move earlier when they started that behaviour. Now i hope that the dayZ guys have a look into this. I really hope to tranfer my stuff from that Server.

We play for fun, I am on that side, but beyond those of us who just play for fun, whether that's killing zombies or players or just stealhing, the question is really, why cheat, why hack, why move outside the game to get things in it that aren't real, aren't going to last? I've been on a server and people have mentioned items that were hacked into the game and stuck in tents, I've seen videos of vehicles that aren't supposed to be in the mod, and people were moving things off of the map to keep it from other players. Sounds like a weird way to have fun. Yeah I found a jeep and a car and a land rover and an ATV and I parked them where they can sit and look pretty. What? Explain that bit. It's not like they're real, and not like you're getting your team loaded up and attacking a town like it's a Road Warrior movie. I suppose that my withdrawal has me asking sillier questions by the day.

Well the camps would be per-server so it'd be more server-side (I'd imagine) than network side. Like vehicles. Also there would be a limit for instance if no one was logged on (sleeping) people could raid it, you'd perhaps have some sorta lock mechanic.

hi! today i put two filled alice packs in the trunk of my car. after several hours i came back to my car but the allice packs in the trunk were both empty then. is it generally possible to store completely filled backpacks in a vehicles trunk?

haha yeah blame the illuminati they are conspiring against us! Yeah I took one of the hackers choppers, I doubt they will ban everyone that took one of his vehicles and I was desperate to try get my truck of guns safe.

Hmm. Strange. Maybe the guy who emptied out your tent forgot/didn't know that you can put stuff in vehicles? It happened to me once, I had found a bus which I then drove around in a calm and responsible manner. When I was done I left and walked halfway across the map only to realize that you can loot those things. It still doesn't explain why the car is still there though.

So I had this idea a while back and I'm not sure what the limitations of the engine are regarding map size, but if it's possible it'd be great to see the chernarus map expanded north, northwest and west. From what I can see, each of those three sectors have an area the size of chernarus in open space (on the player map if you fly way out there). The map would have more dense wilderness, less settlements, and overall become more remote the further you travel away from the cities. Not only would this solve the off-map hoarder problem, it would make for a much bigger game world for players to explore, and solve the problem of nowhere being truly remote enough to really set up a settlement. This brings me to my next point: End the off map hoarding. The only reason those camps are safe is because the off map is too barren and devoid of supplies for anyone except people with offroad vehicles and aircraft to reach. So I propose this solution: Tents cannot be placed off map. Vehicles parked off map will be moved to the nearest border at server restart (regardless of recent use or save status). With the above said, the off map solution should happen regardless of any expanding of the size of the playable map area. There is no reason for people to be able to have hoards of great weapons, NVGs, vehicles, ammo, etc etc, and be able to leave them undefended. If you want to have a hoard, you had better make sure you're organized enough to have people pulling round the clock guard duty. The way the system is set up now, it's game breaking, because I think I can safely say that rocket never intended for people to have invulnerable unreachable camps.