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Firstly just want to say good job to Rocket and the DayZ crew. Have been playing Ofp and Arma for years and am glad it is finally being recognised by the wider gaming world. Now I have heard how people are upset with server hopping and disconnecting and these issues need addressing somehow. Another exploit that I have not seen talked about so much is players hiding vehicles off the Northern and Western edges of the map. This is a serious issues that needs addressing I think. It would be all too easy for a clan to find and fix up a Huey (when they were/are in), fly around finding other vehicles using the radar and then proceed to horde and hide said vehicles miles off the edge of the map in the neverending desert of oblivion that no one in their right mind would want to venture... unless they KNEW they would find something. An easy fix for this (maybe it is in, I have not checked) would be to simply make the edges of the map out of bounds and your screen goes black with a warning message to leave otherwise you will be forced to respawn? Now my prefered answer to this would be... a new map. A map made just for DayZ. A large Island... The real Dead Island game. Would eliminate the problem of people hording vehicles off the map if it was endless ocean. More buildings with interiors, cinema, shopping mall, Large urban area in land, skyscrapers? Forest, scary dark bandit swamp etc. Maybe the Island is quarantined and one is killed by military forces if they venture too far out into the ocean?? Custom maps that I have played that come to mind are Island Lingor, Isla Duala and Tropica (great job map makers) Now don't get me wrong I like Chernarus and Rocket has done a great job transforming it but we all know it was not made with DayZ in mind. A few other things to consider but probably not at all new ideas. Safe/Save Zones To avoid server hopping you can only exit the game safely in certain locations? Would add tension when travelling knowing you must make it to your destination to survive. Sleeping bags? Maybe you need one to survive/save?? Just a thought. Air/Supply drops by the military - An ai airdrop with some goodies for people to find. The how and the why I don't know. Maybe if one finds a radio and deploys some kind of signal from the ground, flares and chemlights (certain colour and amount needed), fires etc. Infected dogs/wolves/mutants?? would be welcome to spice things up I think. None are new ideas but I hope maybe they will be considered. Sorry for the long rambling badly written thread. All the best to everyone and cheers!

Except vehicles aren't spawned on servers immediately and choppers only spawn on legacy servers.

Someone stole one of these out of our camp on NY14 yesterday (as well as a DMR)... I am still crying about it... oh well we got more vehicles on the way.

To the people who are losing vehicles remember to press save if you so much as touch the vehicle. and to Ander the genius who fixed vehicles keep up the good work im looking forward to those helicopters coming back.

+1 if this was the case i'd be able to butcher the vehicles i manage to procure and keep my precious Ural going that much longer. As for the safety thing all you would need to do is take off your wheels when your were ready to log out. 11

You can gather tents and vehicles without duping or locking servers. Obviously. Some people use glitches and park stuff off map, others use hard work, and huge amounts of time and effort.

Dupers and people setting up their server and scouting with the first chopper they most likely repaired before the server was unlocked and moving out all the vehicles off grid are really a sign of dedication and how well people work together. Right.

Good idea to wipe all the Tentcitys :) Our Group also habe few tents but we think *shit happen* its an alpha and we searching again for the stuff we cannot save in vehicles or inventory. Ice

First of all' date=' I think you are exaggerating here.. I doubt it would be even possible for you to get back into the game just so you could see the server crash 30 times in 20 minutes. I was at work, talking on Steam chat with Penox when this thing happened. Penox was quite furious about the first crash while he was still chasing you. And even more furious when he actually got your ural and the server crashed again. Also, that weapon that you mentioned, was from your car. When I get home from work, I will be contacting SOPPA(Our service providor) and I will ask him to post log files as proof that the server crashes were not done by Penox. And some off-topic: We haven't lost any vehicles to players so far, so I doubt you found our "hideout". To be continued when I get home.

Yeah, I can see where you're coming from. But so far we've not had any of our vehicles move during the nights / days off . And back to the main subject, I've discussed the matter with the group of players I got the URAL from and it seems to be okay for now, I think...? I can see the problem in this scenario, I wouldn't want anyone to steal my ride if the servers were acting up for some reason either.

If there was a bicycle on every corner, Chernarus would become very small, very quickly. Best to keep vehicles somewhat rare.

Hey Reo, The problem will reside with your ISP. If you want you can add me to skype and i will run through a few things with you to ensure you get connected. @DutchMike 1. Does the rented server require anything (harddisk free space, etc) from my pc? No nothing from your pc is required 2. Am I abled to enable vehicles? (Especially helicopters) Vehicles are automatically enabled but as for helicopters this is down to the DayZ devs, if your server is extremely popular i cant see why they wouldn't enable it. 3. Am I abled to change the time of day? We will change the time for you if required, most server owners find that sticking to the local timezone is fine for them. 4. Am I abled to ban players? If you have correct and proper proof, yes you can ban players. You can not however just ban players for any old reason as i am sure you are aware. 5. Is there anything I need to know before hosting a server or while hosting server? Not really, You will get provisioned a server, then once your server is only you can play and enjoy. 6. How much control of the server do you have? You get full 100% control over the entire server, however we do not condone anyform of cheating etc.... as i am sure you are aware. Best Regards, Lee

Wow. 8 vehicles? In over 140 hours of playing DayZ on many servers over the past month or so, I have seen only 1 vehicle in motion. Actually, I heard it at night on some server going down some road North of the North West airfield. Only seen it for about 4 seconds as it passed me by. Tried to type in chat "hey hold on, friendly here can you pick me up?" But it was too late, and the driver didn't give a shit to respond. Oh wait..I did see a bike. That was my brother, whom I've been trying to meet up with for about the same time in the game. He rode the bike all the way from Elecktro to Polana where I was at. I spent about 50 hours finding gear for him. By the time we finally met up, the aggro of the zombies caused the framerate to crawl. I ended up dieing because the zombies were also coming through the walls (no-clip issue) of the building I was in. He came back and collected my gear and we logged off. The following day we were finally going to try meet up again. Soon as he logs in he get's sniped by a bandit. Moral of the story? Nerf bikes. Add trains. And there should be molotov's to burn zombies and bandits to hell.

i fcking want to add one to our 8+ vehicles group. We have been collecting about every vehicle we found. But never this one. What is it exact location?

Oh man, I acquired a tractor, fully repaired it, stuffed it with awesome loot and then stumbled on someone van, full of stuff and fully repaired. I relocated both extremely far into the forest.. start cooking some meat and someone came out of the middle of no where and shot me in the back with a handgun. Lol! It was fun while it lasted.. not sure how he found me, but he's enjoying a lot of gear.. Guess that's what I get for Soloing haha.. oh well time to start again. Hope whoever was on US125 enjoys that stuff. It's a regular server.. so at least now I can go to a vet server.. vehicles kept me tied down. Didn't really like name tags.. might be how he found me. Good times Btw, if you want to prone without making sound, do a circle straif type motion. Example: Up/right same time or up/left same time. Seems to work Also Hugging buildings appears to greatly improve your visibility (or lack there of)

Eventually, your luck runs out. No matter how good you got it or think you got it something goes not according to plan. We had a nice little base setup between Vybor, Airfield and Starry. Noone had found it for weeks. We made the mistake of playing on a server with the Dots enabled to see Zed's and Vehicles. Someone ended up seeing our vehicles and well... Let me tell it below. Our day started out pretty well, Killed a bandit with an AS50, then we came back to Starry to find a bus parked at the top hill hidden behind some bushes. We camp it out and end up killing one bandit who is driving and then his friend instantly logs out before we can kill him. We blow up the bus and get out of Starry. Heading back to camp now we recovered it for the most part. Five tents now, truck, car, and a motorbike. We decide to take an hour break and come back. LORD and behold thirty minutes later Tesumia is spamming our steam chat. "EMERGENCY VEHICLES ARE GONE." Hops and I rush online to find our cars missing, but none of the tent items missing. The barbed wire around the sight run over, we assume they took the cars and got the hell out quick. We spread out a bit from camp to see if we can spot them. After a minute of silence, Hop says. "H-hey, I heard them. Get into cover!" We all break off from camp and get ready to ambush them. The guy in the truck comes barreling over the hill, Nearly running over Hop's. He fits RIGHT between the wheels of the truck and gets undamged. The guy was aiming for our tents! He crushes one of them and throws the car in reverse. Getting pissed we all unload, AK Kobra, two silenced M4A1's, we light that truck up. My poor baby. The truck is smoking by the time the guy gets out dead. Sudden sniper shots ring out, killing Hops. I dive behind a stone wall and Tesumia takes a few hits, falling back into the trees. I roll behind the stone wall and try to peek out, but the sniper kills me. Tesumia is blind as a bat with less than 5k blood left. For some reason, the remaining bandits only grab the truck and dirtbike, running away, not looting our corpses and camp. That's not even the FUN part... Hop's and I spawn RIGHT next to Chenro, with LOTS of sniper fire coming inside. Our adrenaline running high we simply BOLT into the city, I am on the west side, he is on the east side. We spend maybe five minutes inside of Chenro... All I remember is bolting in, shouting. "Okay Hop's, inside firestation, Lee-En in here, Going to church." Sniper fire trying to hit me I dodge and run around a survivor with a pistol, he seemed to be trying to aim at me, but like in a bad movie I see a sniper shoot him in the head, he drops dead. I circle back around quickly, his leg is pointing out of the wall, I loot his body, picking up his backpack. I round the church and quickly scrap up some equipment. Some guy run in with a pistol, I quick swap to the Lee-En and roll behind a few chairs with a ton of shots smashing into the wood over my head. I hear the gun click and I stand up as he is reloading, I can tell the guy is panicked as he tries to run back outside. I gun him in the back. I rush back out of the church, now with a compass and map, swing by the firestation and Hop's and I regroup. Keep in mind this ALL happened in five minutes. We run due North of Chenro, sprinting back up. Jenkins logs in to tell us they left the red car on the hill and he collects some of our loot, picking back up our M4A1's and NVG's, scrapping up the gear. Hop's and I take one second to cook up some meat when I discover inside this guys pack is a ghillie suit. The damn chances of that? Why didn't he put it on? Oh well. I look like a noob with a Le-Enfield and Ghillie. I laugh and we continue to run. We manage to make it up north, grab the car, turn it to the road and drive AWAY from the old camp, looking back at the fond memories of the amazing camp we drive off to refuel the car and drift down to find a new camp. This time less likely to be stumbled upon. We lose only a set of ghillie suits, our truck and motor bike. Five tents and a few hours of food.

What a fearless man - bolting up to 6 dudes with vehicles and automatics with an axe, going absolutely all out. Props to you, Unknown Hero.

So yeah we had both trucks then they reset vehicles we have the blue one back

This is a team of morally depraved sycophants. They're completely devoid of intellect and inept skillwise. If you enjoy fart jokes, racist bigotry, and general stupidity, this is the team for you. If not, log into Atlanta 31 and please kill them. They have the clan name -TS-. They have it say their server is running a lower version so people do not join their server, but its actually running the correct version. Right now, they're gathering vehicles and stocking up on gear at the NW airfield. Their plan is to raid Dallas 11.

We've collected / come across many vehicles in the game. Not seen this beauty. Doesn't mean she's not out there somewhere.

Can server admins see where all vehicles are on the map?

Suggestion; Easy night time fix, give us light sources in the game world. Current Light sources such as torches, white chem/flares and vehicle lights could be adapted in a few instances to be static street and select building lights. It could then be taken a step further and linked to power stations. Have power stations repairable (like vehicles). Repair power stations and with night onset a city/town/road way gets partially illuminated. Repairable power stations also give the player base a common goal & reason to unite, its a grouping incentive.

Okay so here is the deal, playing solo is fun but risky and you are very limited. So i want to gather a small squad/team of 5-6 people maybe more. I wanna do this cause it would be great to always have someone to go with and make new friendship ofc. So the goal with this team is to actually to move to get the really good gear, raid more dangerous places and get vehicles etc. I prefer some mature guys 17+ or so, need voice chat and to speak english at a understandable basis. ^^ My steam is: secreth92 add me there if u wanna chat about starting a team. So reply here or give me a pm if you are interested hope to meet some great and fun people to do some scavenging and surviving with, Peace!

Let me recap then Sean. The FoG server was getting bombarded with requests to join the server, this resulted in the server being periodically locked, which I myself experienced. Nasir feels like he has irrefutable proof that the admins locked the server so that they and their group could make a rush for the vehicles...thaaats about the jist of it. Double tab Enter about 5 more times and I got in so I do not know what his problem is.

Negative, nyxe; there is currently nothing preventing you from flying outside of the map. Many people hide tents and vehicles out there.