Vehicles less rare?

[vision1776 42]

Why cant there be a more vehicles in this game that you can repair? I have only once seen a bus. I feel that vehicles could make things more interesting if there were more of them. Im not talking about fully functional ones. Im talking about broken ones in cities that you can repair or whatever. Just add more of them I never see any anywhere. Bicycles, sedans, maybe even a humvee crashed in a tree in a forest with military zombies guarding it. I dont know, Im not the expert here. Just know I have yet to see any moving vehicles because all of them are stashed outside the map or something and there's only like 7 in the whole map.

[platon.khramtsov@gmail.com 0]

I agree with this.

[stielhandgranate 480]

+1

Also odd vehicles like an Ice Cream truck, garbage truck or a toyota Prius. Or baybe even those three wheeled traffic cop mini cars or a segway.

[vision1776 42]

If they implement this they would also need moving vehicles to spawn zombies at cities. I have heard before that you can enter a city with a vehicle and no zombies spawn until you exit the vehicle. Dont know if its true or not.

[Food 309]

There are plenty of vehicles ~20, but the problem is that within hours a new server they are all hoarded off the map :\ . I just got my new server running a few days ago and I saw broken vehicles for about 2 hours, and after that they were ALL gone... It's been up for 3 days and I doubt I'll even get to see any besides the occasional boat which I just blow up in hopes for another land vehicle...

[ApeToe 3]

I agree with this, I think it'd be cool if cars were less rare but I also think vehicle parts should be a bit more rare if this is added.

If they implement this they would also need moving vehicles to spawn zombies at cities. I have heard before that you can enter a city with a vehicle and no zombies spawn until you exit the vehicle. Dont know if its true or not.

This happens when the vehicle is moving at a high rate of speed, zombies spawn in areas when you get near them and it takes time. You don't have to step out of your car for them to spawn, just give it enough time.

[vision1776 42]

Introduce a spawning system for vehicles. Spawn vehicles in each town that you can repair and fix. All I know is that there is a problem here and Im suggesting a quick solution/bandage to the problem is to add more vehicles. Ones that you cant just hop on and drive off the map. Vehicles that make you fix and repair before you can take away. Maybe they should also auto teleport vehicles outside the map back to a town or something.

[FlashHawk4 44]

Or they could actually put boundaries on the map. Maybe physical, or put one of the cheap Haloesque "RETURN TO THE APOCALYPSEFIELD" messages.

All I know is, isn't this place supposed to be quarantined? What if choppers fly in and blow the hell out of you after a certain point right at the edge of the map?

[Crayolacrayon 10]

I agree and they need to fix the off map hoarding too. I've been playing for a couple months and I've only ever found 2 bicycles and one bus whilst never seeing anyone else drive any vehicles on my home server :/

[AntiVi 0]

Let me just say this:

The amount of vehicles has a set amount on a map so they are limited.

The amount of people on a server is like 60.

If it has for example 20 vehicles then its still an achievement to get a vehicle.

But if there are 40 vehicles then everybody can be driving or be a passenger in one and it would be no achievement at all and that would also give bandits no reason to attack people with a vehicle since they can get it so easy.

I don't agree with this idea.

The only thing that is possible is that the respawn time (currently 7 days) gets reduced.

AntiVi

[gosgosgosu@hotmail.com 7]

AntiVi, more vehicles doesn't necessarily make everyone getting vehicles a breeze....

The amount of coordination, time and effort getting together all the gear and repairing the vehicle is the truly challenging part, not finding a vehicle, especially since the vehicle locations are already known on map databases.

It's pretty unrealistic that in an area populated by thousands of people there'd only be 20 repairable vehicles. I highly doubt zombies go around smashing vehicles to bits aimlessly.

[AntiVi 0]

I think the amount of vehicles is good at the moment maybe there should be a few more military vehicles because there are allot of bases.

Also you need to check the vehicles on the road there are allot of them that don't work so those are also in the amount of vehicles on the map.

Adding those to the actually drivable vehicles you get a fair amount of vehicles.

[Ejaculacid 19]

AntiVi' date=' more vehicles doesn't necessarily make everyone getting vehicles a breeze....

The amount of coordination, time and effort getting together all the gear and repairing the vehicle is the truly challenging part, not finding a vehicle, especially since the vehicle locations are already known on map databases.

It's pretty unrealistic that in an area populated by thousands of people there'd only be 20 repairable vehicles. I highly doubt zombies go around smashing vehicles to bits aimlessly.

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It's pretty unrealistic that all vehicles need repairs.. Most would be abandoned in jams/lack of fuel. :)

[vision1776 42]

The point is... I have been playing for quite the while now with absolutely no vehicles ever spotted by me or my team. It would be a cool objective to fix a car if we could atleast find one. As someone mentioned above, it is unrealistic that most of the cars on the map are completely demolished while only a few vehicles can actually be fixed. Just asking that they add some more vehicles to make things more realistic.

Right now Im going to guess that 1 person finds a car and then uses it to find all the other cars and then they all disapear somewhere. Its stupid.

[RunningScared 4]

Why cant there be a more vehicles in this game that you can repair? I have only once seen a bus. I feel that vehicles could make things more interesting if there were more of them. Im not talking about fully functional ones. Im talking about broken ones in cities that you can repair or whatever. Just add more of them I never see any anywhere. Bicycles, sedans, maybe even a humvee crashed in a tree in a forest with military zombies guarding it. I dont know, Im not the expert here. Just know I have yet to see any moving vehicles because all of them are stashed outside the map or something and there's only like 7 in the whole map.

I have only found a bicycle, two actually, and me and my team quite enjoy them, we search for cars alot and have yet to even see one, except for the guy in the jeep that ran my friend over right when he started the game for the first time.

That being said, vehicles are rare, I like it that way, that means having one is that much more enjoyable(only had a bike but I can imagine), and losing it is that much more depressing.

I love this game because it toys with my emotions like no other.

Leave it the way it is I say.

[vision1776 42]

I have only found a bicycle, two actually, and me and my team quite enjoy them, we search for cars alot and have yet to even see one, except for the guy in the jeep that ran my friend over right when he started the game for the first time.

That being said, vehicles are rare, I like it that way, that means having one is that much more enjoyable(only had a bike but I can imagine), and losing it is that much more depressing.

I love this game because it toys with my emotions like no other.

Leave it the way it is I say.

vehicles are unrealistically too rare. Besides you dont keep them. They stay in their servers anyways. We arent asking to make them super common, just make them more of a factor in realistic terms.

[RunningScared 4]

vehicles are unrealistically too rare. Besides you dont keep them. They stay in their servers anyways. We arent asking to make them super common, just make them more of a factor in realistic terms.

I see lots of cars everywhere, they are all destroyed beyond repair though, the few cars that are still fixable are rare, isn't that real enough?

[snafuu (DayZ) 30]

Vehicles don't need to be more common, but something needs to be done to discourage or disallow the current degree of hoarding. No one enjoys it like this, not even the people with 15 vehicles to rub together and no need to use more than three of them.

Of course, I don't know what should be done, and once again, more important things...

[RunningScared 4]

Vehicles don't need to be more common, but something needs to be done to discourage or disallow the current degree of hoarding. No one enjoys it like this, not even the people with 15 vehicles to rub together and no need to use more than three of them.

Of course, I don't know what should be done, and once again, more important things...

I don't mind the hoarding, because now I have started searching for places on the map that would make good hiding spots for vehicles, crannies in between rocks, groves of trees, one thing that needs to be done is the edge of the map needs to be cut off, you should not be able to hide vehicles out there, not sure if you still can, it would also fix the problem of someone teleporting me 10 miles out into the ocean...

[Lapis 4]

I'd agree with more small vehicles, More dirt bikes and pedal bikes. Dirt bikes aren't top priority if you think of the amount of cars trying to leave chernarus since you cant pile your stuff into a dirt bike like you can a car.

[snafuu (DayZ) 30]

I'd agree with more small vehicles, More dirt bikes and pedal bikes. Dirt bikes aren't top priority if you think of the amount of cars trying to leave chernarus since you cant pile your stuff into a dirt bike like you can a car.

More like scooters. You're not thinking Chernarussian enough. Moot point, though, because adding vehicles is neither a priority nor would fix the current scarcity.

[batcaveslimer 12]

I have found numerous bicycles, a couple of ATVs, a bus and once saw a Ural needing repair. Only vehicle my group has ever got going was the white 2 seater 4wd, which we had for an hour before server crashed and it was grabbed by someone else in the meantime.

There are 4 in my group and ATVs and motor bikes are no good for us as we need to travel together. I have not seen any 4+ seat vehicles to be repaired. There does need to be more. We've been searching for weeks with no luck.

Should my team spend a few days searching for camps on the edges and steal someone else's?

What about the idea of having vehicles that respawn to a location once every 24 hrs? Like a rental system. People can't own them (or hide them away) as they respawn every 24 hrs. But allows groups of players to go cruisin'.

Please more vehicles!

[RunningScared 4]

Should my team spend a few days searching for camps on the edges and steal someone else's?

Yes.

[Powell (DayZ) 734]

Beans for you. I agree

Edited July 27, 2012 by Powell

[Capercaillie 16]

I find the suggestion extremely interesting.

If the vehicle limit on a server actually is 20, then that seems fair enough, considering the max number of players on a server.

But that 7-day respawn time seems a bit exaggerated (implying I understand when the respawns happen: vehicle gets smashed? any other reasons for respawn?)

I'd feel more like 24h max.

I doubt the servers would get any traffic jams, simply because isn't it a challenge itself to fix that broken vehicle and find gasoline?

So far my only experience from vehicles has been an ATV with no gasoline (was playing with a friend, we decided we'd rather focus on survival than getting the atv running)

and a fully functioning tractor we found off some players camp (my friend drove it, he crashed a tree with extremely low speed and the tractor went boom. Friend barely made it after a quick bandage->blood bag->adrenaline)

Only 2 vehicles so far, and I have played this game quite alot..

Edited July 27, 2012 by Capercaillie