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Okay, I might have some good news. I wanna say that Rocket has explicitly stated that repairing vehicles is far too easy in the current alpha of the game. Obviously, at least a little bit of this can be traced back to the ArmA vehicle damage modelling (it's hard to simulate repairing a vehicle when the only parts that can take damage in the first place consist of "engine", "wheel", "fuel tank", etc...) Anyway, most of us would like it to be harder, but we don't want something artificial like a class system where you have to check the box marked "Mechanic" if you ever want to fix a car in your life or a book system where you HAVE to read the magic manual to instantly master the skill. Therefore, the best way to include this is (in my opinion) making the actual act of fixing a car more like what you as a mechanic would actually do. Maybe not "here's a list of 46 parts that are broken on this Jeep, good luck", but more like "it's not turning over and it's making this really specific funny noise, I'd better ask my buddy who's good at this to see what's wrong with it". Obviously that puts more of an incentive towards teamwork, since not everyone knows how to diagnose a car's problems and then set them right. Just my two cents.

...For the quiet(er) destruction of vehicles/materiel and burning the crap out of other players who are too close? The downside could be a highly visible light at night. My first suggestion...my apologies if it's a crap one. Edit - I see it has been mentioned before. Should have done a search first, sorry. :facepalm:

Ceasefire - No PVP - Friendly & Active Admins - 300+ Vehicles you should meet the guy that owns the server atleast he claimed to be the owner not sure but he's a admin atleast its a real mature guy (around 14 years old) named {Bambi} JOSH a nice guy <_< that ban people for no reason had that honor to meet him tonight spamming sidechat with his voice thinking he's funny meanwhile i cant talk with others in direct chat so i tell him to shut his mouth because it aint allowd in the server (atleast thats what the admins telling to others) so he does what all good esamples do he stop talking and lifes by its own made up rules(oh wait he said im the owner of this server bye bye) so i got a nice mature ban message saying: scratch my balls <---- Friendly & Active admins conclusion: dont join its a waste of time its privit hub so everything will be useless because there will be some 14 year old server owner there banning people for no reasons ps @ {Bambi} JOSH of server 5.63.147.156:3272 dont make rules you cant handle youreself greetings from janos

UPDATE 2/18/2013 5:08 P.M CENTRAL TIME- -HELI CRASH SITE SCRIPTS ADDED -CUSTOM PLAYER SKINS HAVE BEEN INTEGRATED -ADDED BASE -400+ VEHICLES AND HELICOPTERS -24/7 DAYTIME -Auto refuel (no need for jerry cans anymore! You can just pull right up to the pump!) We are slowly getting bigger and adding in more features to our site and server. the website is kind of bare right now because i just made it a few days ago. I am also looking for help with admins. So if you have experience in server and website administration sign up on the site and put in an application to the forums at the link below. YOU MUST HAVE A MIC! I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. http://www.dayzampclan.enjin.com/forum

So Natural Disasters! Like heavy storms that last a long time, maybe you cant fly choppers in heavy storms? + Get infected cause your wet and cold, hurricanes and twisters (i know quite far fetched but possible) that damage vehicles and stuff, flooding (coastal areas) that make it harder to travel along the coast, maybe more boats would be needed? would be huge fun!

Hear me brothers and sisters! We have neglected praise for the Gods of the almighty Loot! We have forsaken them, and In our time of need, when the Dark Ones cursed our race with the Infection of Anger and Stupidity, they had taken away our Antibiotics! We curse them further and they weep, their sorrow rusting away many of the vehicles we once had! We curse them again, and turn further away, turning to the Blood Gods and the God of Plunder! Killing our own brethren just for a simple can of beans. Further still we devolve to servants of the Blood Gods, killing for no other reason than to sate their thirst or amuse them! But I have seen, oh yes. I. HAVE. SEEN! In a moment of great hardship I bent knee and prayed to these forsaken and forgotten gods. Surrounded by the children of the Dark Ones, unarmed and alone, they provided me my SALVATION! After slaying the beasts that were once us I cried to the skies and thanked my saviors. Again I found myself in need, and the Gods of Loot provided in their strange way. They provided an abundance of tools and, perhaps not by chance, thous lacking tools had crossed my path. Had it not been for the gift from the gods I may have very well be sacrificed to the Blood Gods. These are just two examples of the many gifts and blessings of the Loot Gods. I'm sure you will have your own, and I have made it my mission, nay, my DUTY to make thous of us fortunate enough to avoid the curse of the Dark Ones, and perhaps convert a few followers of the God of Plunder to once again belive in the Gods of Loot! You can help now by constructing shrines in their honor and praise them. When you come across an abundance, erect an shrine in an easy to access location and leave the abundance within it. Others in need will be blessed by your kindness and in turn will perform their own. The Blood Gods and their servants will block us at every turn, loot the shrines and destroy them with their Urals, or even set up false shrines in order to lure us to our deaths. Fear not, we will be rewarded in the end. When the Promised Time of the Standalone comes, I shall construct Temples to the Loot Gods' honor and maintain it against the Dark Ones' Cursed, the followers of the Plunder God, and the Servants of the Blood Gods.

Pfft, you make it sound like finding vehicles, helicopters and gear is difficult or something. It's a grind and that is all it is. There is no fun in that... But yes, considering every vehicle and helicopter i have ever been in possession of has been used for shenanigans (and inevitably exploded in big fireballs etc) and i am still alive with my fully geared -60,000 humanity 24/7 PvP bandit of doom... I am looking forwards to starting over. In fact i am urging everyone on the server i play on to kill me so i can start anew. Not because i am bored if having it all but because i am bored of the lack of action i see still. Starting over means i get to use such lovely weapons as the makarov, Lee Enfield, Winchester and whatever else again. Though it probably wont take long before i kill another "try hard hoarder noob" out in the middle of nowhere and take his stuff. EDIT: Really, spending hours upon hours building bases, gathering vehicles of all sorts etc... What's the bloody point? Just grab a weapon. Any weapon and go do PvP instead.

I had a few ideas about this but just got another which could be the best possible solution... I'll leave it for last. First one would be that you could for example take a vehicle or a camp to a different server, but only if you disconnect while inside the vehicle (or near a tent) or something like that. So you could only do it for one thing at a time... but i'll just stop here because it would cause chaos pretty soon. Just imagine 150 players joining a server and they are all in helicopters. So, no. The other one would be that you would gain some "out-of-game points" by being alive longer and by gathering enough points you could get like a perk (I already hate it but lets go on) which would allow you to save a vehicle\tent\whatever with you once per life. This could actually bring some good stuff if the game would take away a great deal of those points if you die, so that would be one more reason to fear death, also it would reduce suicides. If you just died and lost half the points you had, and then spawned in kamenka you will think twice about committing suicide so you can get a better spawn. But then again this could get pretty complicated, and would require some good mathematics and lots of testing and too much work for something, obviously, unimportant (still can't believe everyone here has all the time in the world for games :|) The best thing I could come up with is something like this: Some new type of server option. Lets say the server restarts every 24 hours (i think some restarts more often but that could be in between so it's not important), and every time it restarts it saves a state for that day and starts another for the next day. But the next week for a first day it loads the state that was first saved and goes like that in circles. (ok read that line again later, it's probably too confusing right now) So basically you join on monday, play for 24 hours, server restarts and all is gone, no vehicles, no camps, nothing. But you if you joint the next monday it would continue where it was before. Now that doesn't mean you would only have to play once a week, in between you can go to regular server, gather loot or things like that, or maybe you join the friday server and do some other stuff there, but when monday comes you continue where you were (your stuff on the server, not the character. you could have died on friday and spawned in kamenka:)). Players who have less free time can plan in advance when they will play and can cancel seafood dinners with mothers of the players who have free time (or maybe just not call them:)). Or if you skip you monday server it would not be a big deal if you hid you stuff well, if someone can find it in 24 hours he deserves it. Other great things come out from this.. Lets say two clans find themselves on the same sunday server, and they get into a fight... no matter how it ends they will be on the same server every time, and after a few encounters they could actually start a war which could go on forever and the server can become famous (like, "don't go to DE 871 on fridays or you'll be caught in a crossfire!") or maybe a third clan wants to get there and try to reason with them (yeah right :)). Also imagine a guy running a radio station at green mountain every wednesday. If he's cool you could roam chernarus with some great music coming from your radio or if he is boring you could go there and shoot him (which could all be heard on the radios of every player). It would be much easier to organize events. Remember the Last Church of Elektrozavodsk? now ti could be organized much better. prepare everything saturday night (some decorations or whatever we would be able to do in standalone ...not satchel charges:)) and then spend a week building a hype on the internet and everyone will know when and where to come and you would not get there just to see that the church is destroyed. All in all it would force the people to be creative and think of a new "endgame" ideas. Now I said 24 hours periods so it would be easier to follow but it could be any time period for that restarts whatever turns out best. Or maybe have a 5 restarts for five working days and one 48 hour server for weekend. this could be expanded even more (same server on tuesday and thursday or something like that, lets say admins could set that). I could only think of one "negative outcome"(which imo is not really negative) and that is Mr.Dallas here can keep his loot on a tuesday server and roam regular servers every day killing people and still keeping his loot safe where no one can get it, but the thing is, not even Mr.Dallas himself can get there before tuesday, so i guess these cancel each other out :). I actually think that this would be technically possible even in a mod. Never ran a server but if it can restart and have everything where it was it must have saved that state somewhere, it just needs to store 7 different states. Or maybe a server like that already exists and we just didn't figured it works like that :D And whether this gets implemented or completely ignored by developers you have to admit it's a legit solution for this particular problem. :) also I would like to hear some pros and cons if you think of any

**** WE'RE GOING LIVE ON THE NEW SERVER FROM 19.02.2013 @ 14:00 GMT **** UK#10 - ZombieWorld.eu - Chernarus #1 - WhiteList Private Hive - Extra Weapons - Extra Vehicles - 6 Heli's - Hacker free, Safe games, Play here!! 188.165.222.39:2302 DayZ Mod = 1.7.5.1. ARMA 2 Beta = 101480

Hello, I want to test out some things in dayz, but it would be to difficult and stressful to test it out on an actual server, so I want to host my own server, pretty much just for me to play on. What i want to be able to do is spawn items in so that I can test out what I want to test out. Now my question is, if I host my own server will I be able to spawn items in? items like barbed wire fence kits and sandbag fence kits, vehicles, etc. My intent is to find a nice place to build a base, build a good layout, then move to an actual server and begin finding the items to build that base with a couple of friends. This might sound stupid, but it makes sense to me. Anyways there is two things i need help with: 1) obviously my question in the block of text above was "if i host my own server, can i spawn items in." 2) I have very little knowledge in hosting a dayz server, and I imagine it is more difficult than the countless number of minecraft servers I've set up, so can anyone give me some direction in setting up a server, or give me a link to a page that describes how to do it? I've googled it and most of the time the instructions i have found are incomplete. I appreciate any help, and again thanks.

IT happend to me too. I didn't understand why it's hapenning, untill i read the bug list ... lost 3 tents full with gear i spent much time to collect all the gear and it's just gone.. They really should fix that, the only way to save gear now is vehicles.

check you tube theres a tutorial on there that shows you how to set up a server that is dependant on your pc and it has a download for the files you need it also comes with a mod to spawn vehicles and items. then you can connect and play with your friends using hamachi.. im on my cell phone or i would give you the video link

A friend and I frequently play together as "heroes" generally... We gear together, find vehicles and repair them, kill bandits every so often, yadda yadda.. But our quests always seem to end soon after finding our helicopter. We will fly around Chernarus after fixing up the helo, giving new spawns rides to NWAF, NEAF, Stary Sobor, etc.. Anywhere really, acting as a taxi for people. It's actually good fun helping people. We like taking the risk of playing with complete strangers, and some people actually turn out to be pretty friendly. However, sooner or later, some tragic event unfolds and we lose the helicopter, one of us dies or we lose a bunch of gear, and it leaves us sort of "half the men we were", so to speak. So in the end, we decide instead of just finding maybe a gun and a ghillie suit along with a car to be right where we were at, we're going to just jump in a crowd of zombies or jump off of the firestation roof, spawning new characters and have the fun of building up anew. A lot of people hate the whole looting process up until you get your end game loot, but I actually kind of enjoy it. It feels nice to start fresh, taking things slow, and not excessively worrying about "Who is going to steal my UAZ this time".

So you dont like it cos it makes it harder and more realistic? It probably would be quite difficult to refuel a car.Zombies spawning in vehicles is much better. If you fired a handgun would you hear it 15m away?Yes.Pistols are audible from 80m. Combat logging on zombies?You suck. I dont need to carry on.I think your playing the wrong game.

People tend to drive them to the NWAF and leave them there - I've seen dozens of vehicles across several towns in the last couple of days. They're there. I respawned a few just to be sure that we aren't missing any though.

Mortars would be found on barracks and mortar rounds will be scattered around the are. Mortar rounds can be thrown. You have to manually reload the Mortar when it runs out of ammo. It can easily knock out planes and vehicles. The ammo is beyond rare and only responds at random times.

Okay this topic is a lie, to not listen to it. It actually has waaay more then 100 vehicles, dont let them lie to you!

Try us out, we do not have a crazy vehicle count, however each night I respawn any destroyed vehicles. No-hacker problems, no abusive admins (I'm the only 1 and I never play ingame). Its based in US but ppl from all over the world play here with no lag and decent ping. You will need to apply for the password, but I've made this process very easy. Just go here http://huntersden.forumotion.com you can check out the forum and see if we are what you desire. all types of players call this server home: heros, new players, and hardcore bandits

I'm tired of seeing all these shit ass servers that have 400 vehicles with starting gear comboed with bad admins and side chat. Do any private hives exist where the game is actually hard and there are people playing all the time?

I'm a new Dayz player who's looking for a server. I've only just tried the game out and I like what I see, but I can't seem to understand where to find info about server restarts and why some servers have 2-3 hour nights, while others follow authentic time via selected timezones? I would prefer a server with full lengt days and since I'm from sweden (GMT +1) and will be playing evenings and nights mostly, I would prefer a server with daylight during that time :) I don't want to sound too picky after 2-3 hours of gameplay, but I don't think I would enjoy too many vehicles and equipment in abundance. Seems to me that a part of the charm is to start out small and try to build from there. I've always enjoyed a little bit of RP, so if there is anything like that out there, let me know :) If anyone has some tips in general or a good idea of a suitable server, I'm all ears. Thanks in advance.

Having the same issue and been trying to resolve it for a while.. it's Bliss related and the only information so far I can find is from this thread: http://opendayz.net/index.php?threads/some-tents-are-in-read-only.6624/ which is showing the same behaviour as I'm seeing with some tents (but not all) I original thought it was an issue just with pre-1.7.5.1 tents and then jsut an issue with tents placed on the map boundaries/under tress but further testing has shown that this can happen almost at random to any tent where it begins to reference the wrong deploybale ID. Other tents work fine. I have also had a few tents/vehicles that have worked for a few days then suddenly stop updating and keep refreshing their contents on every restart - basically meaning some ppl have an inifnite dupe machine, and others have no place to store anything. If we had access to our hive logs I could provide more info, currently all I have are errors from arma2oaserver.rpt. Highly frustrating as it's slowly killing off any high-end playerbase from my server as creating any sort of "base" currently is totally pointless as the tents will simply pop up empty after every server restart.

German IP: 91.121.31.20:2302 Map: Chernarus Neustart: Alle 4 Stunden URL: www.bonsai-site.de Regeln: Kein Cheating, Duping, Bugusing Keine Nutzung von gehackten/gedupeten Items/Fahrzeugen Kein Combat Logout Kein VON im side channel Keine beleidigende/rassistische/sexistische/religiöse Bemerkungen Keine Werbung English IP: 91.121.31.20:2302 Map: Chernarus Restart: Every 4 hours URL: www.bonsai-site.de Rules: No cheating, duping, bugusing Don't use hacked/duped items/vehicles Don't logout during combat Don't use VON in side channel No offensive/racist/sexist/religious remarks No advertising

This is my topic to advertise my dayz server, we nedd more players on it tbh, i have 250+ vehicles and 9 helicopters ALL UP FOR GRABS. there is also hidden tents around the map with gear inside of them, also 6 bases around the map, our ADMINS ARE VERY FRIENDLY. Hacker free server. SERVER IP: 185.2.138.28:3323 :beans: Just a small clip of 1 of our clan members anialating some bandits on fallujah

DayZero Private Hive Map: Chernarus Arma Version : 97771 Crosshair : OFF 3rd Person : OFF Waypoints : OFF Side-Chat : OFF Max Players : 60 Vehicles : max 40 atleast 2 hellis Server Time : UTC -3 Automatic Restart Every 6 Hours 2 Main rules No Cheating or Glitching NO disconnecting from combat http://www.reddit.com/r/DayZero/ Visit the community and Apply for whitelist Mumble server: 46.59.9.244:64738 In Mumble, right click your name and click "Register" to get join rights in members channels.

So before I really anger some people me and my team have found several player camps around 10 tents and vehicles to be exact is there an unwritten rule about looting camps or is it fair game especially because they placed them in obvious areas like north of the dam... Of you honk that no one will go up there your all wrong cause everyone knows that's where people are guns tried to hide camps. So what's the etiquette.