Tent City

[Gth 18]

So, is it me, or is Tent City (or, as some other players call it, Myshkino Camp) always inexplicably deserted for what is one of the biggest military spawns on the map? On my server, which admittedly is only ever at about 30 players max, I've literally never seen anyone go by the place. Even I didn't know about it until I was hunting for player camps and just came up on it one day, and now its become my number one place to get geared up, as you can literally get everything you need from the spawns at this place short of vehicle parts and some other industrial loot. 

Case in point, I was moving my VS3 through the area when my internet dropped out right as I was passing the front of the camp on the road and I was unable to get back on the game for about 3 days.  Naturally, I expected the truck to be gone or at the least looted. But nope, come back, everythings in there and it doesn't appear as if anyone actually touched it.

There was even a naked VS3 sitting in the area that I had left a couple tents in for weeks at a time before I finally took them back out for my own purposes. Honestly, the place is so deserted that if it wasn't for the fact that it is such an attractive place to loot I'd set up camp there.

So what's your guy's experience this place? Well traveled or deserted? What other places have you found that are like this on your servers?

[[DGN] Johnny 115]

I love Western. All the pleasures of NW Airfield, minus the probability of TTSKO and the tripple Helicopters but without nearly as much traffic. You can actually overwatch the base before you move into it, unlike NW Tent City. Being overwatched while in it, isn't necessarily a death sentence unless you're doing crazy stuff. Water and Food issues take a little more planning but meh. Lots of natural zombie spawns, so it's easy to read the base.

In two or so months, have never found a player there. Just differing degrees of player boldness on building close to that camp. From as blatant as building 6 tents right beside it, to using the valley in the treeline north of that base. Easily one of my favorite locations, just feels...right. ^.^

[Ultimoses 110]

I bump into other players nearly every time i'm there. Maybe it's just bad luck, but it has proven necessary to set up a watch in the forest and let the other squadmates loot the base, so that they'll be warned when another group/ guy moves in. It just happens so often to us. When we are looking for some PVP, we preferably move to Myshkino tent city now. 

[Funkmaster Rick 373]

Oh, you can bet your ass there are players going through there. Nobody I've run with in DayZ hasn't already known about that lootzone. Anytime I loot it, I've got a good chance of hitting all the ground-level spawns before anyone shows up, but there have been many times I've run across unexpected survivors.

With the way the base is laid out, you really can't see outside of it to the North and South all that well without being on that edge of the base. To the West there's a bit of a trench before you hit the hill - the top of that hill can be a bit of a pain in the ass to navigate, but it gives you some truly beautiful angles for scouting and covering the base. The Eastern hill offers fewer really great shooter angles but a safer retreat.

I think the biggest issue with looting or living near the Myshkino tent cluster is that it definitely attracts somewhat more experienced players; it's not near the coast, not right next to the NWAF, and makes a somewhat terrible place for hiding your camp given that it's a huge military loot zone. Most of the players you encounter there will probably have some idea what they're doing. People heading straight to NWAF, via the milbase near Pavlovo, will often detour through the tent cluster, and you can expect them to already have at least a pistol from their earlier adventures.

That being said, I've put bases in that general area and seen them untouched for weeks at a time, so who knows.

[emuthreat 2837]

It is hit-or-miss in my experience. I'll often run through there on western spawns, and never see anyone; but I also go there for PvP and rarely have to check more than two servers to find some action.  I used to like to run through there before work in the summer, on known-duration loot runs.  One morning, I was looting about and saw another hapless survivor stop and fiddle with his inventory in one of the Hesco pillboxes with netting, while standing up; so I took the headshot and filled up my remaining inventory slots without having to look through the other half of the base.  The next time after that, I looted south to north through about 3/4 of the base, before hearing those ominous grassy footsteps outside the tent, and getting carefully shot through the window as I turned to see the attacker.  It was apparently skilled player who must have seen me systematically loot the base, and then crept down to wait for me in a well-covered nook.  I covered the base for a couple minutes before moving in, and he must have done the same.

If anybody has any insights on the cost-benefit analysis of scouting the base beforehand vs. running through; and making a slow creep through the base while constantly surveying the area vs. madly rushing along the lines of tents in the most efficient path possible; I would be interested to hear about those experiences.

[Stinoffski 1]

I also find it hit or miss all depends. I've sometimes spent a good while looting there and not seen or heard anyone other times I have had full blown shoot outs there.  I think on more populated servers people tend to stay away stuck in the mindset its going to be full of geared player and nobody ends up going there.  great loot zone though good chance  of a tent drop in the baked bean tin as well.

[pilgrim* 3514]

Most clans on the public hive have a kick-server for looting up, so they don't go to other servers to loot, only to PVP.
Now there is generally not as much action in high loot areas as there was when the clans were honest players.
As well as the server-exploit there is the famous duping exploit. These two together mean much less movement in high loot areas.
 
And if you play on a private hive you don't get many surprises about who is where.

 

Edited February 28, 2016 by War Reporter

[Irish. 4886]

I find the entire map, and further more game, to be just like this. ;)

[Just Caused 423]

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Greetings from Miskhino.

 

Edited February 28, 2016 by Just Caused