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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

Hey ya'll, love the mod... Another suggestion that randomly came to me tonight was adding camo netting or a similar item, as a way to hide vehicles or at least hide them better. As clans start taking footholds on their server(s) of choice, the need for protecting the tent cities increases. I feel that a rare (= engine parts) or military only rare spawn should be like camo netting that gets applied to a car, and removed back into inventory. OR like a camo garage tent, that you can park your vehicle in, and will just stand their under the same rules of tents (minus storing gear). Also, I would love it if you could give me a bus, sot aht I may drive the forgotten bus route from berezino to Chernoble, and give everyone rides... for a can of beans per major town crossed of course...

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

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.

Haha, pretty funny stuff bro. Mucking around in vehicles the first time you happen across a new one is always great fun.

I don't know how I feel about adding camo netting to specific assets (vehicles/tents). But perhaps if there were large camo nets (the kind you often see at medic tents/ military bases) that players could construct I would be more inclined. You'd have to find the parts, as suggested, but the net itself wouldn't be applied to a specific object. I object mainly because I don't know how possible it would be to add asset specific camo nets.