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I've driven and fixed up a lot of vehicles, and I've ran most of them into various random objects, including cement walls, stone walls, fences, road blocks, rocks, and trees. They've all saved through resets, and not once has one ever exploded.

The screenie is coming, just have to move some vehicles around n get them to fit! In the meanwhile, we're still very much interested in trades for these fine shiny post apocalyptic wheels!

So if a server restarts and vehicles have been destroyed they still wont respawn?

Vehicles don't respawn once destroyed. They are spawned it by the devs at their discretion (for now).

Vehicles respawn after they are destroyed and the server restarts I believe.

I have had reports from players on my server that people are walking into there camps off the edge of the map and driving/flying off in there cars/helis/trucks the players doing it seem to walk directly to the camps rather than searching. I have also herd reports from people that use some of the SE server that they know of a maphack currently in circulation that allows the user to see the location of all vehicles on the server. Has anyone else had reports of issues like this or herd anything about these maphacks ? I am keen to find if its something that we can detect with BE as its causing havoc on UK3 to the point now where i have had to shut the server down until i can find a solution. The rage messages from players is getting out of hand.

What I mean is, like if I found a car, fixed it up, parked it in the woods, and forgot about it. would it stay there forever if noone found it?

So, I tried to find some vehicles in debug forest and found an apache. Of cause I took it and then I got banned. I didn't create it or something like that. Can you unban me?

I did a search and theres no topic on this so thought i would make one. I have noticed there is no ingame preferences in DayZ for admins to change. So how about we get a list together for the dev's to think about adding some. There are many server that when clans or people want to play, mainly in the evening, its dark or dusk on there server and the only way around this is changing the server clock time or playing on a server in a different time zone. so having a ingame preference can help. I know the servers have to be based on real time, so we are going to be limited on what preferences can be added. So some preferences examples. 1. Changing server time. 2. Changing the amount of zombies on the server. ( Min amount must be set to stop servers turning them off. ) Also could be based on the Server skill lvl. This also depends on server load and the spec's of the server. 3. Changing the weather. (clear, cloudy, raining, dynamic.) 4. Vehicles (None, Ground only, Air only or Both.) Again depends on server load and the spec's of the server. 5. Cross Airs. (on, off) 6. First person (on, off) Any other that I think of I will add. But feel free to suggest your own. Comments welcome.

Hello, I found a cheater, he spawn vehicles: his nickname strom

I only played dayZ 2 weeks due to these issues. last time I found a decent server (at least it was decent for a little while).. then admin formed up a massive clan bcoz there were other clans starting to join this server regularly but server was still fine you know. 3-4 guys camping on airfield all day and I dont care about it. anyway, the day vehicles enabled on server I was there. there were 5 restarts in a hour. the first was legit they warned us from console "restart in 5 minutes to enable vehicles".. when server was back, we played like 20 minutes. everyone was repairing or finding a car, we all communicating thru sidechat like happy kids etc. suddenly ppl started to hear chopper sounds and asking "whos chopper is that whos chopper?".. restart came in without a warning. then there were 2 choppers flying. ppl went crazy talking in side chat etc asking "did u see a chopper there? I got one top of my head" after some other restarts that day, we eventually learned admin and his clan get all those choppers. then days after vehicles enabled, some guy from admin clan tells in chat " I have 5 cars, 1 quadbike, 1 chopper :p" .. I mean how gay is this? I simply left that server and didnt played dayz since. Coz the only way to play this mod right now is become a douche bag server admin and form up a team of knuckleheadz like them. I had all the screenshots, vids of what happen but I just decided to delete them and I know what would happen If I try to say something or show some proof about things: simply nothing. Im only 1 guy and they have 10ppl and some other ppl kissing their asses regularly.

Wow, this must be the dumbest suggestion ever. I am not suprised you didnt name any mods you claimed to have made. Lets think for a second what made this mod so successfull. What brought all those people here, what made them buy arma 2? Its definetly NOT just the chance to rush to the beach and kill people for beans. There are plenty other games out there where you can just shoot people (and a lot of them are better optimised for it). No, what brings people is the premise that this game is fucking HARD! That its harsh, unforgiving and that you can loose your shit in a second. THIS is the difference that sets this mod apart from the countless shooters out there. And as far as i know it may be the only difference. Left 4 dead has more zombis, less lag. Battlefield has instant vehicles, less lag... So if you make this game easier (by introducing selective friendly fire, nerf guns for bandits, spawning magical shields for beginners, whatever..) would turn it into just another shooter. People argue that it is a shooter already. Maybe so.. but its the harshest shooter out there. Where even a bean carrying noob with a macarov can headshot a fully equiped bad ass bandit with assault rifle.

No worries OP, they banned me a little while back after I stole one of their vehicles and killed 3 of them whom were afk at the camp. They abuse the rules of running a DayZ server everyday, just like hackers..they'll get what is coming to them.

On my server all the vehicles seem to spawn at our camp... LoL

Hi, I sometimes come across servers where there is very little loot in an area (because someone already looted obviously) so i was wondering how often loot spawns? Also say the server crashes does it continue the loot loop where it was before or does it reset everything?`Also i heard vehicles only spawn once on a server. Like if you take the chopper its gone for good. Does this mean after a server crashes aswell or would it respawn? Regards

Implementing game mechanics that encourage players to play together sounds good on paper, but isn't a good idea. If game mechanics were implemented to "encourage" players to work together nothing will change. Players that kos, will still do so. Players that try to be friendly to people will still do it. Why? Because no game mechanic will make strangers trust each other. It will mainly benefit the groups of players that have already been playing games together before playing dayz. These groups of players are already reaping the benefits of grouping together. When working with a group: it is easy to get geared up. it is easier to control vehicles. it is easy to control towns to farm them. it is easier to survive. when you die, chances are you'll get your stuff back. it is a lot more fun to play. The benefits go on and on. The people that work together are already owning servers. Why give them more advantages?

Yeah they do spawn in other locations i.e. Rog castle roof and Cherno north hospital although they're normally gone pretty quickly when vehicles reset

I think a way to add immersion into the game and to make players more reliant on each other is for there to be a choice for a player's occupation when joining a server/spawning. These would have subtle and not required affects to the gameplay but give a real incentive for others to group in a realistic way. For instance: Doctor- the ability to bandage much faster, and also get several uses out of one bloodpack when other people only get 1 use. Also, if a player passes out for whatever reason but still has any blood left, they can get them back on their feet in a jiffy. Soldier- Better gun handling, ability to shoot when running (great loss in accuracy of course), faster reload speeds, and can carry more guns and ammo. Engineer- Anyone can get vehicles running, but if an engineer does it, it will be in better condition, drive a bit faster, and consume less fuel. Scout- When he places a tent it is a bit larger and can hold more items. Has similar improvement like the soldier but for crossbows, has a quiver, and can make arrows out of piles of wood. etc. etc. etc. Just some ideas for some of what the classes could be. But, I think this is needed cause any player can still survive just fine without these abilities from other players, but it makes the survivability much greater and opens new avenues for players if they group up. No roles to the effect that they had in TF2 or BF3, just slight changes that enhances the gameplay for everyone in a subtle way that offers a real life incentive. Something I am unsure about but is worth mentioning also anyways.... What if these players in these roles became more and more effecient the more they used their specialities in some way, making death for them and their group a very big deal...because they will lose all their effeciency in their role completely or to a strong degree if they die. This also enhances PvP in a lot of ways, cause some targets when in a firefight will be more important to take out first adding a stronger strategy element. Plus, its realistic and I think healthy for the game experience to have these roles...I mean...like we all were born when the zombie apocalypse occured and have no previous occupations or specialties that others can benefit from? Please, tell me what you think everyone, I hope I am onto something here. *PS* If not obvious, just to mention, players' appearances would reflect their occupation... Also, the occupation choice players stick with until they die.

1: Makes the game more challenging 2: ^see #1 3: ^see #1 4: ^see #1 5: I agree actually. Thats a shitty mechanic, and I think everyone pretty much hates that. 6: ^see #1 7: ^see #1 8: they didn't. There are plenty of good vehicles out there, you just have to find them and fix them up. 9: ^see #1 10: ^see #1

yeah please can we have these put back on the servers, i was under the impression when the vehicles were added last week, the helicoptors were there as well.. thanks

Server: LA 4 Incident Time: Approximately 12:25AM Pacific Time (GMT -7) Incident: I am the admin for LA 4. I logged into the server and heard a helicopter(AH-6 Little Bird) flying around Cherno along with rocket fire. In addition to this, I also saw people running around in non-DayZ uniforms as well as various unconfirmed reports of planes flying overhead. The only name that I was able to get was the helicopter pilot who had the nickname of Marco. I proceeded to ban him on the spot and then restarted the server in order to end this silliness and prevent a mass server kill. I don't know the names of his compatriots but I will post the log from the rcon console that has a list of various players and their GUIDs. Maybe someone can use it to figure out who they were. For any questions or further concerns just shoot me a PM -AthrunX LA 4 Server Admin You can add NoGGano to the list of hackers. After server restart, caught him flying an F-35 around Cherno. Banned him on the spot. His guid and relevant information is in the above screenshot. In addition killed a guy on the server named egg whose GUID is also listed there with an M4A1 CCO SD and a Makarov SD. Pretty sure both of those aren't in the standard loot tables. I accidentally picked up the M4A1 CCO SD in order to determine if its the M4A1 Camo SD, apparently its not. I am not sure if he is in league with the other hackers but another thing to keep in mind. Also is this even the right place for this sort of thing? Also how do I remove the hacked vehicles from the server?

We had a pretty good Gamenight today! 7 of us playing and found 2 vehicles (1 exploded :[) But it was lots of fun! So, if there's people still looking for a gaming community to play with, join us on our Teamspeak! :D

A solid and marketable price would probably be $30 or maybe even more depending on the content/features/polish. I would gladly pay a full price of $50, but that's because I already know how much I enjoy DayZ. Minecraft is cheaper, yes, but that's a fairly basic engine for a basic game that can be sold to a massive demographic of casual to hardcore gamers who have no problem shelling out the 15-20 bucks for it. DayZ is a hardcore game, and realistically it probably won't sell like Minecraft. The type of player who would enjoy DayZ is the type of player who regularly puts out 40, 50, even 60 bucks for quality games of their favorite genre. Also, the higher the price of the game, the less hackers there will be since they lose more money when they get banned. One possible idea that taps into the F2P model but without fully divulging in it is to have a demo version where your character can only be played for X hours. After a certain amount of time, you have to pay for the full version to allow the database to fetch your character for you. Sure, you could keep starting a new character for free, but I would bet a lot of players would upgrade to have their character live longer than the demo allowance. Obviously you won't kill their player if it's free, just don't allow it to spawn and say "you need full version to continue playing this character, upgrade now and you can continue or click here to start a new demo character". Maybe even limit certain features that new players probably wouldn't find/use anyway (vehicles, tents, etc.)

LAND vehicles were enabled on all servers. The vast majority of servers still have not had helicopters enabled on them. What I'm trying to say is that there's no way for them to "come back" so to speak because they were never there in the first place.

Save you tents properly. We tend to run around 3-4 times (2 different people) saving the tents before we move off. Also, when you only had loot left in one, was it all junk? You probably got rolled. Also; we normally have to restart the server twice after a crash to bring tents and vehicles back.