Do you lose all your stuff when you log out?

[mtclipz 31]

Well i guess it is not everytime but I never played the mod so do not know exactly how it works.  Love the idea of this game and the intensity of encounters with others but it seems about 65% of the time when I log on to my server I am a fresh spawn.  Is there something I am doing or need to do before I log out to prevent this or is it just how this game is?  It is making it hard for me to really get a feel of the environment and to find bugs to report when I have to start over all the time when I haven't even been killed.

 

Any light shed is appreciated.

[TracksuitHitman (DayZ) 9]

If you switch between servers too quickly your character will be deleted. It's some desync bug, I suppose.

[Richard III in Leicester 200]

No your gear should stay with you when you log out. Not sure what could be happening to make you a fresh spawn when you reconnect.... Are you staying on the same server or hopping around a lot from server to server?

[mtclipz 31]

Well I normally play on the same server but the last time it happened the server was saying "No message received" with a timer counting up so I tried a different server but I guess the host kicked me out.  When I went to go back on to my normal server my stuff was gone.

 

However other times it was just simply when I logged in after getting home and I was a fresh spawn.  Just assumed Im doing it wrong.