VEHICLE UPDATE (database side): 2012-06-16

[Braeburn 7]

Great update' date=' thank you for ruining our weeks of collecting vehicles...

Missing cars:

2 Pickup

2 UAZ

1 Offender

1 Ural

1 ATV

Current cars:

2 Pickup

1 Bus

1 Offender

2 Cars

1 Helicopter

1 Dirtbike

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You poor baby.

[okano666@hotmail.co.uk 81]

Great update' date=' thank you for ruining our weeks of collecting vehicles...

Missing cars:

2 Pickup

2 UAZ

1 Offender

1 Ural

1 ATV

Current cars:

2 Pickup

1 Bus

1 Offender

2 Cars

1 Helicopter

1 Dirtbike

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You poor baby.

ALL hidden well off the map no doubt. Good ridence to you car collection.

[RachetSmurf 2]

Vehicles was only reset this ONCE.

That means it would only respawn to original place after 1 server restart. Not further restarts.

If your offroad is missing but none other' date=' then someone probably stole it.

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Wait... Vehicles only reset once? Which means futurue server restarts they won't respawn if otherwise destroys or not claimed? I really hope that is not the case.. it's hard enough to find vehicles without everyone who plays 24/7 with no jobs or lives stealing and hoarding every vehicle in the first 5 hours they appear.

Please tell me that if they're destroyed or ignored they will respawn in a different location.. otherwise what is the point of even trying to find vehicles.

[sexacutioner 1]

IMHO' date=' don't let anyone save anything outside the map. Just destruct the items and let them respawn when the normal rules apply. (As mentioned in post)

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That's something that will be adressed aswell, that's for sure. But currently it has nothing to do with server stability (though, who knows), the mod running itself or playability. I'm sure, the more people leave the map to look for stuff hidden behind those boundaries, the faster rocket will do something about, like placing a minefield around or a very large fence with automatic cannons to kill anyone getting to close.

Patience, everything will be fixed more or less.

Minefield/guns/etc seems like a cheesy game trope ;).

Other than that, I think if people aren't allowed to place vehicles in no-mans land there isn't a need to have an expiration date on them. All locations on the main map can be searched by someone eventually, so besides outside the boundaries there is no real way to hide your vehicle for good.

I believe leaving the vehicles permanent works better than moving them back to the spawn. Instead of having to come up with random spawn locations to prevent spawn camping, it works itself out by vehicles being hidden/changing hands/hidden again.

[Ander (DayZ) 530]

CLARIFICATION:

Vehicles respawn if the following conditions are met:

- Unused for at least 7 days. (subject to change and my whims)

- Fully destroyed

WHEN: random / secret times (less often)

VEHICLES at risk (will be respawned / reset):

- Vehicles hidden in "green acres" (aka out of bounds area)

You can drive there, they will save but there're NO GUARANTEES that they will stay there for long. Same reason you cant place a tent there either.

- Vehicles containing illegal items.

WHEN: random / secret times (more often)

About helicopters:

- NEED MORE TESTING before full roll out on all instances.

- Only old legacy servers might still have some (does not respawn).

If someone corners the vehicle market. Good for them, now go steal their cars.

[RachetSmurf 2]

CLARIFICATION:

Vehicles respawn if the following conditions are met:

- Unused for at least 7 days. (subject to change and my whims)

- Fully destroyed

WHEN: random / secret times (less often)

VEHICLES at risk (will be respawned / reset):

- Vehicles hidden in "green acres" (aka out of bounds area)

You can drive there' date=' they will save but there're NO GUARANTEES that they will stay there for long. Same reason you cant place a tent there either.

- Vehicles containing illegal items.

WHEN: random / secret times (more often)

About helicopters:

- NEED MORE TESTING before full roll out on all instances.

- Only old legacy servers might still have some (does not respawn).

If someone corners the vehicle market. Good for them, now go steal their cars.

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Thanks for the clarification. That's a relief. :)

[Griseus 0]

* [NEW] Vehicles left unused too long (hidden' date=' placed in unreachable locations, bugged) will be reset after a minimum of 7 days - this exact time of respawn is also secret.

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IMO 7 days in a game with average lifetime of 30 minutes is a bit too long. 3 will be OK

[Magnum Opus 26]

I think that's the average life of everyone that runs around Cherno like a headless chicken.

7 days is fine, I don't want to depart from my vehicles to soon.

[Griseus 0]

7 days is fine' date=' I don't want to depart from my vehicles to soon.

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Come online and save them every 3 days. You are not the only one who wanna have a car.

[baN (DayZ) 3]

Happy to hear this is being addressed, but I haven't noticed much difference yet in reference to 1.7

[NecessaryEvil 3]

VEHICLES at risk (will be respawned / reset):

- Vehicles containing illegal items.

Is there an official list of what items are illegal? I just don't want my car respawned because I found a cool gun and put it in the trunk.

[Yes.ImP 1]

VEHICLES at risk (will be respawned / reset):

- Vehicles hidden in "green acres" (aka out of bounds area)

You can drive there, they will save but there're NO GUARANTEES that they will stay there for long. Same reason you cant place a tent there either.

how long vehicles can stay in "green acres"? 1 hour? 1 day? untill server's restart?

[Merc4tor 11]

Have vehicle spawn locations changed? I can't find the UAZ that's supposed to be at Black Lake on ANY server. But I find a ATV that's not supposed to be at Black Lake on EVERY server.

[rincewind (DayZ) 1]

* [FIXED] Unable to repair helicopter fuel leak (repair all parts to 95% or above and fuel leak will stop)

Now whats about enabling hueys?

[codeine 3]

* [FIXED] Unable to repair helicopter fuel leak (repair all parts to 95% or above and fuel leak will stop)

Now whats about enabling hueys?

Needs more testing is the latest.

[echo5rom3o 8]

So this may be already answered somewhere and I apologize if it has and I am repeating a dumb question, but what happens when your finally fix a vehicle completely up and are driving around when the server dumps? Spent about 2 hours looking for it after being re-spawned back at the last spot we stopped with no vehicle insight. However when we went back to where we had originally found the vehicle it was there in a repairable state... does this mean we must start the process over again? Thank you for any replies and again I apologize if I am asking a question that has already been answered...

[x_vovka 2]

I found old bisicle, his name was RED but when i seat as driver all thing were totaly green. So i drive it and one zombie hit me, wheels and hull became RED instantly and I had to run by foot. When i returned to this bisicle in 10 minuts and seat as driver it was totaly repaired again(green). (BUG?)

[Furbz (DayZ) 9]

Feel free to ignore but I noticed when hitting things or bouncing around with 2 people on the one ATV or something, hitting a fence etc would send one person flying in the air and the other having a totally diffferent response. This just lag between players or lag between players and server and the physics of it all?

[=RK=Achilles 31]

So basically vehicles are useless now since servers restart so often. I've fixed up or found around 5 different vehicles in the past week only to have them ate by the server before I got to put them to use.. I realize its alpha but making the vehicles reset on server restart makes it not worth the work and time to fix one up...

I had a truck already to go for the night. Was leaving it parked until my buddies could get on and ride around with me and loot places. My buddies logged on and literally 2 minutes later the server restarted and no vehicles...

Same thing has happened a couple more times now so I see no point it even trying for a vehicle at this point... I know its alpha but man it sure ruins a LOT of hard work, especially if you are playing solo.

[Magnum Opus 26]

Wait for the next reset, it'll appear again, I had the same happen just now with 2 military off-roaders, ATV, van and a UAZ.

All of our tents disappeared as well.

[alienfreak 6]

Our military Jeep also disappeared instantly with a server restart.

And its rather unlikely somebody stole it without us noticing it ;)

[eFFeRR 0]

Just had our camp wiped that we worked so hard on..

We had 2 UAZ's and an ATV that took us all night to fix up. We had previously had about 6 tents up but decided to finally make our base feel like home by sectioning it off with Barbed Wire, Tank Traps and Sandbags.

It's not fun at all when you spent 6+ hours on this only to have it wiped (in our case.. the next day)

I don't care if this is an alpha game, theres been over 2 months to get things right, vehicles and tents should of been one of the first things ironed out.. instead we are getting stupid updates like temperatures, skins and melee weapons.

[Braeburn 7]

To the people whining about tents, that was an intentional wipe that everyone was warned about in advance. It's posted right here on the forums in this very section.

To the people whining about their vehicles. This is an alpha. If your vehicles were parked in the "green acres" part, then you can't really complain. They said it was a risk. If you had vehicles placed elsewhere and they disappeared, then that sucks, but remember. Alpha. Alpha has lots of bugs. Bugs and alphas go hand in hand.

And eFFeRR. Really? Adding features to the game is stupid? It's sad that you don't care that this is an alpha, because you obviously don't understand what happens in the alpha stage of a game.

[EmotionalFartBlender 2]

I really enjoy all the whining i read here and on the tents thread. Same goes with new builds. Someone always has to come whine and complain how the game is ruined and shit. It is obvious that some days the mod will not work properly due to new bugs. I even thought it was unplayable at one point, but there is no reason to come here and agro about it. Unless you are willing to give constructive feedback, just suck it up and whine to your dog/mom/friend/whatever.

Also, Rocket has added a remark on all of his newest post, that he dont want you to post abusive or supporting posts. I think he already know you guys love him and most of you are willing to change sexual orientation because of him. I think he want people to post useful stuff there. It must drain a lot of his time trying to read trough all of the off topic posts for the good constructing input. Even if stated it with BIG colorful text, most seem to not read it at all.

I took the advice of Ander:

Help a noob. Blow up a car!

(they will respawn at the original spot later)

We found a car park in the north. Stole one and blew up the rest. Military jeep, minivan, hatchback, traktor, bus and a pickup.

Enjoy.

[alienfreak 6]

To the people whining about tents' date=' that was an intentional wipe that everyone was warned about in advance. It's posted right here on the forums in this very section.

To the people whining about their vehicles. This is an alpha. If your vehicles were parked in the "green acres" part, then you can't really complain. They said it was a risk. If you had vehicles placed elsewhere and they disappeared, then that sucks, but remember. Alpha. Alpha has lots of bugs. Bugs and alphas go hand in hand.

And eFFeRR. Really? Adding features to the game is stupid? It's sad that you don't care that this is an alpha, because you obviously don't understand what happens in the alpha stage of a game.

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Well the vehicle was parked between 2 trees well inside the map.

Its a bit sad to instantly lose your vehicle in which you packed a lot of loot just because the server restarts and it is buggy. My poor DMR :*(