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Was playing on DE 6 (DAO.nu server) yesterday and stumbled upon some clan's camp in north. Packed with tents and 2 offroad jeeps (UAV correct name..?) ATV and motorcross. I took UAV and ATV and drove them away during my couple trips I made to the camp. Didn't take much from the tents, only M14 and few bloodpacks. While i was driving away I went by my tent and took all the stuff inside and saved them inside the UAV, packed the tent and placed it in my inventory. Drove to safety and saved both vehicles. Now, I got back this morning to only find that both vehicles are gone and I thought Ok, someone could have found them and took them somewhere. I run my way back to the clan's camp only to find my old tent (which i packed) in its original place with all the stuff inside when i saved it. Then I run to the camp and its been cleared, all the vehicles that were there are now gone, tents are still there but only with trash loot. I'm not saying for sure that admins on DE6 reverted back, could have been some other weird reason, but after reading all these posts on these forums it just seems to me this kind of behaviour occurs too often , that after well equipped camp gets looted magically things revert back to what they were before looting took place. Like I said, can't really proof anything since I didn't record any ingame video of the events (will do so from now on), but maybe if other users on DE6 has experienced the same they could make their voice heard here.

We don't own any vehicles, a hacker blew our camp up along with using a map hack and stole our remaining vehicles. Server is getting updated at the moment.

I think it's mostly because vehicles lag the server. Especially when they get damaged.

Based on my in-game experience thus far (and correct me if I'm wrong) I'm assuming that: 1) Vehicles will no longer spawn on a server once the 'cap' has been reached and they've all been fixed, taken, and hidden. 2) Vehicles can de-spawn if they're destroyed (thus putting that vehicle back into circulation and re-spawning in another spawn point across the server). So, in theory, an 8+ member clan could easily monopolize an entire server's vehicles and hide them in remote areas making them almost impossible to find (especially if hidden in the debug area outside the map). That being said, here's my questions: Q#1: What's the "official" word on players going into the debug forest? I know Rocket made a thread about it being against the rules to kill loading players there. But, in general, is it off-limits? Is storing vehicles there "legal"? Q#2: This is more of a suggestion, but I think it would be wise for all servers to reset the vehicle cache (say once a month?). That way it'll give solo players a fighting chance to claim a vehicle before an organized group takes them all and hides them hundreds of kilometers outside the map.

I dont get why there are so few vehicles anyway. Raise the cap.

its really not that hard to find vehicles so long as you arent tied down to one server. when i want to go cruising in dayz i head to cherno with a buddy. we get geared up with car parts, go to a spot where a car spawns. and check all the servers till we find a car spawned there. usually doesnt take more than 5 minutes to find a server with a car there. the key is knowing the car spawn locations

What toss. Vehicles are handy but far, far, FAR from being essential to playability.

Been to almost all possible heli spawns within two days of the server being up and found nothing. Vehicles are there and do respawn, too. Or spawn again kind of where they got destroyed, still haven't figured that out.

I agree with OP limit 2 vehicles for person to own and respawn new vehicles every day. vehicles make this mod actually playable.

I agree. If they were to disable vehicles from being allowed to save outside the map, then resetting the vehicle cache wouldn't be a necessary measure to prevent hoarding. Thanks for your reply.

A vehicle reset every month is a silly idea. Someone from the dev team posted that they would recommend Rocket to make vehicles/tents unsavable outside of the map boundaries so that stops people from hoarding them out there where they will never be found. Will people hoard them inside the map boundary? Yeah of course, my clan does it.. but the fact of the matter is that the map is only so big and there really isn't any "safe" spots to hide them so they are findable.. it's even better than you finding it at it's spawn point because it will already be repaired and full of loot for you! Also, the debug forest is inside the map boundaries and is quite close to a town and players sometimes have their location reset to it so hiding vehicles around it would be a terrible idea.

How adorable' date=' a hoarder comes in to gloat. :rolleyes: Are you also the type of clan to lock your server after a reset, or crash it upon someone successfully robbing your camp? [/quote'] What is wrong with a server being locked after a reset? You do realize that this is sometimes required to allow vehicles to spawn when servers are being hammered by people connecting straight after a reset/crash... right?

Yeah like I said, that was my 1st thought that they had found the vehicles and took them back. But still doesn't explain how my tent which i packed the 1st time and placed in my inventory had suddenly appeared back in its original position, unless there is a bug in how the servers save tents and stuff. If it wasnt for the tent issue , I wouldnt even have bothered making this thread. I did not say admins on DE6 were cheating, I just stated the facts which happened and seemed a bit weird to me. Also you answered to my question that rollback is impossible so thats enough for me, thanks.

As of right now they are not needed and are not spawning. Iirc the new 1.7.1 patch will enable them again and they will be required to fix vehicles.

For the last time... Admins of a server cannot rollback, revert or whatever you decide to call it to a previous state... Maybe what happened was, that they noticed the 4 vehicles missing, went hunting for them and moved them to somewhere else along with there camp.. I'm seriously getting fucked off with uneducated people coming onto the forum and accusing admins of cheating constantly.. No, I'm not the admin of de6, but I am an admin... Please do a search before you accuse someone of cheating... It's open fucking warfare on admins in here, and I can see a good few people leaving because of it...

Looks like destroyed tent restored guys. Your camps are fine too. Bad thing - I didnt saw your vehicles.

Because.. Batman, I haven't seen shit. I've checked damn near every vehicle spawn point on Dallas 42, and 48. I've checked countless spawns on NY servers as well. I'm beginning to think that it might just be a better idea to start just going around the outskirts of the map where textures are sloppy looking for group/clan camps. Do vehicles stay in the server when one logs out? Or do they only appear when you log in but are tired to the server? I've found a tractor before and found gas, but was in a group and didn't want to leave anyone behind in my tractor dust.b So what are some of the best spots to find vehicles, preferably one with 4 doors but whatever. Even a damn bicycle would make my day. Any screen shots? Also, can some servers actually disable vehicles from spawning?

It's a struggle, and as we lose cars we learn what works and what doesn't. We have things all over the map. We actually USE our vehicles, though. Not just keep them to say we have them.

Ive been coming across lots and lots of pieces for vehicles, but whenever i go to pick them up my character just crouches over the top and them and doesnt do anything, and yes i have plently of room on my inventory.

theres vehicles on us77 some i just have to leave around coz ive already got a few, dont need more.

i hide my vehicles in trees, i have a hilux, lr, ural and two tt650's. Still waiting for a chopper ot spawn though.

In the last week alone I've gotten my hands on and kept/had stolen/ or destroyed a S1203 Van, GAZ, 3 Motorcycles, V3S, a Ural, and god knows how many bicycles we've found while traveling. This has only been across 2 servers since we try not to server hop a lot, specifically when we have vehicles. It is just luck. this was a mix of fresh spawns and randomly running into hidden vehicles.

Have seen a few cars but nothing unoccupied in about 3 weeks of play on dozens of servers and covering every inch of the map. I had a chance to steal a car at a gas station when a car rolled up with 2 guys for a refill mission, but blew it. It seems to me the organized groups/clans/server owners have all the cars off-map and the rest of us are out of luck to find a "new spawn". I've also heard there are only about 50 servers with vehicles and the devs aren't adding any new servers atm. So my suggestion if you want a car: Play on older servers (lower numbers), camp gas spots near the borders, and explore off-map.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=11573&pid=116545#pid116545 Link to someone talking about checking an RTP file in the server config to check the code to see which vehicles are spawning. I don't know how to do this, however. Grim's server and mine are the same one. It is an instanced server hosted by HFB. Can we check this file somehow?

I know of clans with 10+ vehicles, clans have no place in this game, they ruin it, imo.