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Helicopters come equipped with vehicle radar and my group has owned two.. so yeah' date=' there's that. :P [/quote'] Are you serious? vehicle radar...sounds trollish are you for real? P.S to the guy who said "find a map and study it" what map? only maps ive found are the yellow dot map and moocow map is there some specific map for vehicles?

With due respect, how would anyone ever provide proof without accessing logs which only the offending admins would have access to? Recorded voice comms can be faked, as can server Side Chat, etc. And screenshots will prove nothing except they have a "bunch of stuff" which they will just claim came from lots of good-ole-fashioned hard work. I won't post the how-to, but come on. Everyone knows exactly how easy it is for admins to duplicate entire tents or vehicles full of items with the flick of a wrist, and I have seen so much evidence of it happening on so many servers it's really disturbing. I've seen admins on 3 different servers happily handing out NVGs and high-powered weapons like they were twix bars, not to mention deliberately disabling their own vehicles when logging off, knowing they can willfully duplicate the parts necessary to repair them when they log back in. It's stupid obvious and there will never be "proof" so we just need to wait for the exploits to be patched or for the team to put up some official servers out of the reach of these self-important admins who abuse their power to no end with no remorse. No, you would be all over the map looking for vehicles you can repair at will with your unlimited vehicle parts, or other players to kill with your unlimited ammo and weapons. I'm not directly accusing you, I have no idea what the details of the situation are, but just "being all over the map looking" is hardly evidence that you're not super-duplicating a ton of items and vehicle parts back at your home base of operations.

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

So lets say i wanted to start a completely new server in order to be able get a car i would still have to wait for a dev to spawn a couple of ruined vehicles some random places? Or would they be spawned as soon as server goes up?

Can I ask what your source is for this' date=' and how old the information is? I can see this being the case for early testing, but now that they rolled them out on hundreds and hundreds of servers I really doubt it remains a completely manual process. That would be unsustainable. [/quote'] The source was a response from Griff to a nearly identical thread maybe a week before the forum rollback. The way I understood it, it's only done once via the hive server, so the actual number of servers is irrelevant. A bit dated, yes, but it's really the only official information we've received regarding vehicles in a very long time.

I hope the trade goes wrong and you end up getting killed. Hoarding vehicles is the reason they are so impossible to find for normal players, and it's very scumbag behavior.

This is exactly what I came here to say. I've been playing on the server for about a week because my friends and I have two vehicles. That being said, we obviously can't move them to another server. I would if I could since there has been no zombies. I would really appreciate if this issue could be dealt with. There was no zombies two days ago, then the server was reset and there was zombies. Same deal as yesterday. There was zombies then a reset happened and no zombies again... I would be more than happy to donate to the server since it's where me and a few friends play.. but these issues need to be dealt with soon.

I did not get robbed, as I said, if I did they would have stole my vehicles and left my other useless items, why would they take lee enfield mags and scrap metal and leave blood bags and cars?

Yeah, I had died but I placed all the tents, and no if they found my tents they would have taken all my vehicles. I placed the medical supplies there and I placed all the tents. I don't know why only the medical stayed and why all my other tents were there, then they were emptied(some of them were just food or car supplies or just basic stuff) and then they all disappeared, except for my medical supplies tent. And that removing all empty tents thing, I lost my tents yesterday. If I lost it because of that when they weren't properly loaded I definitely should be reimbursed for that as it was the server/dev fault for my stuff being removed on accident.

Currently there is noting stopping people hiding helis and vehicles far W and N “outside” the map. This means a group can set up base out of reach of most players, and it is very hard to find these bases without a heli. Easy solution borrowed from Warefare BE. Implement a destruction/kill script with a countdown timer. The map is large enough as it is. There is no need to use the outside.

WTF you people finding this abundance of vehicles? Do you just play a whole lot or are there places on map (or specific servers) that have a lot of them cause ive played this since may and ive only seen 2 cars.

Lol jokes. This mod has taken over my entire life, I literally can not get enough of this mod. If it is this good now [in alpha] I cant imagine a full release. I realize there are ALOT of bugs and server issues i just wish more people could see past that and recognize the potential in this game. Confession: I've spent up to 45 minutes trying to connect to a server, And then 14 hours playing on it, I have lost so much "good" gear and about 3 vehicles but for some reason i keep coming back and trying again. For all those people who are quitting i suggest you find more people to actually play with as it is a blast. My group has had so many good shoot outs, We have been flanked and ganked many many times [we are reckless at times, adds to the epic lolz] but no one has quit no matter how many times we die. I realize there isnt actually a point to this thread but i just got sick of all the qq "Im quitting cause im a baby" threads. For those who are interested in playing with a group send me a PM your more then welcome to join us, But Vent/Mic is a req for communication. [don't bother if your worried about losing your gear, you likely to die at least once if you hang out with us.] Current home server: NZ8 [when we can connect lololol]

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 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.

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

I think it would be epic to see clan wars within day z. meaning 15 vs 15 or more. once a player dies they get kicked. once all the enemy clan players are defeated would be the terms of victory. The perma death makes it much more high stakes. If you survive a clan war, you can really say you survived a fkin war, not like bf3 or cod. because of the ridiculously large map size, it would probably last 5+ hours. And teams would have to send out scouting parties to find the enemy HQ or bring back supplies to the friendly HQ. with vehicles standing by, maybe even a huey. if any clans are doing anything like this, id like to join in.

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?

So me and my buddies were driving down the road in our van, aptly named the 'mystery machine' ( its looks just like the van off scooby doo, well kinda ) Spotted and heli and fixed her up, long story short, the game became too easy. Not only could we spot all vehicles and camp sites with ease ( i'm not against this, but i'll cover that more later ), we could land very close to them 'liberate' all their loot to the heli, take down anyone who came near, and be on our merry way Personally i like a bit more of a challenge, I'm not saying those who like heli's want the game to be easy, because lets face it, flying around in a heli gunning down people in field and chasing down cars is incredibly fun, in fact its down right hilarious. i just feel there a bit too good. Now i've never had a team gun me down in a heli, or find our camp and loot our tent, so please don't think this is a QQ, whaa whaaa, mah loootz haz gone thread, in fact we welcome such things as it give us more things to do, whether it be replenishing our supplies, or exacting our revenge. I just feel that heli's are a bit too good if you know what i mean. Cars are fantastic, you immediately see the benefits, being able to travel at speed around cherno is great with a larger loot store, not to mention the food/drink you save in traveling in a car, and picking up buddies after i may have accidentally shot them during a panicked firefight is great. As for aircraft i personally think it would be better to have a few light aircraft about,. cessna172-esque planes and such, like a little 2-4 seat propped plane. That way you'd still have a tool for recon missions and such to find other groups camp sites/vehicles and such, but you'd have to work in uni-son with people on the ground, either on foot or in a car. also you'd have limited places to land,. the 3 main places being the the current airfields which are conveniently place at the NW, NE and south. still giving to the ability to travel across the map at great speed, but not allowing you to go effective anywhere you like,. i think it would be a nice balance