Vehicles are being exploited. First come, first serve.

[deviantdigi 22]

Greetings,

I think the vehicle's spawn mechanic needs a balancing. To my knowledge vehicles only spawn on server resets and if the vehicle was destroyed. I'm sure there's a timer and a probabilty aspect to spawning but that doesn't really affect the issue. Now I think this is a nice realistic mechanic, but I do not bleleve the majority of the vehicles on a server are being used as they're intended by Dayz.

Now this creates an problem, as players that are new to a server are most likely never to find a vehicle at an orginial spawn location. Now you don't want vehicles to common occurance in a survival game. But as the game is currently being played, vehicles are being hoarded and hidden. Usually by shady means like by the server admins and or being placed on the edges of the map.

I've been playing this game since v1.7.5, a few weeks. But I've done a lot of traveling, running. In the laps I have done around Chernarus I have only found 2 ATV's on a low pop. server.

Its hard to make a suggestion as changing the current vehicle's spawning mechanics would require some serious tweaking. Tweaking that I don't have a clue about nor resource restraints. Don't get me wrong, make your fort. Keep your vehicle. But I'd imagine it would involve a way of anti hoarding or spawning a new vehicle after such vehicle is gone for such time.

[richard_b 15]

Agreed, too many jerk offs hoarding vehicles and never using them. Seriously, all you need is 3-4 vehicles. Not every single one.

[ZedsDeadBaby 2287]

Agreed, too many jerk offs hoarding vehicles and never using them. Seriously, all you need is 3-4 vehicles. Not every single one.

Then go take some of their vehicles?

What's stopping you?

[poMONKey (DayZ) 16]

Agreed, too many jerk offs hoarding vehicles and never using them. Seriously, all you need is 3-4 vehicles. Not every single one.

what Zeds said ... bitching about the fact that you dont have a vehicle is ridiculous.

we use all of our 6 vehicles all the time for raiding, looting, picking ppl up on the coast, storage, etc etc etc ... no sure how you think/know ppl are hoarding their vehicles ...

[oliverdesousa@hotmail.com 35]

Well maybe you should look harder for them then, or do what me and my friends did, create an ambush, we got a GAZ ( Grey ) Which blew up in the ambush and a UAZ ( Red ) from it, and we have about 9 vehicles which we use for storage, collecting loot or to get around

[KWilt 157]

Oh, I'm sorry. The time and effort I put into the vehicles I find isn't enough for you?

I'll be sure to make a heartfelt apology in this very topic every time my group finds parts, fixes up the vehicles we find, and take them back to our camp. (Which isn't even off the map, so don't even try pulling that bullshit.)

If you want a damn vehicle, get off your ass and find it. Sure, there are the fuckers who park a mile off the map, but then there's people like my group who don't.

[m1lkm8n 61]

Greetings,

I think the vehicle's spawn mechanic needs a balancing. To my knowledge vehicles only spawn on server resets and if the vehicle was destroyed. I'm sure there's a timer and a probabilty aspect to spawning but that doesn't really affect the issue. Now I think this is a nice realistic mechanic, but I do not bleleve the majority of the vehicles on a server are being used as they're intended by Dayz.

Now this creates an problem, as players that are new to a server are most likely never to find a vehicle at an orginial spawn location. Now you don't want vehicles to common occurance in a survival game. But as the game is currently being played, vehicles are being hoarded and hidden. Usually by shady means like by the server admins and or being placed on the edges of the map.

I've been playing this game since v1.7.5, a few weeks. But I've done a lot of traveling, running. In the laps I have done around Chernarus I have only found 2 ATV's on a low pop. server.

Its hard to make a suggestion as changing the current vehicle's spawning mechanics would require some serious tweaking. Tweaking that I don't have a clue about nor resource restraints. Don't get me wrong, make your fort. Keep your vehicle. But I'd imagine it would involve a way of anti hoarding or spawning a new vehicle after such vehicle is gone for such time.

Sounds like someone's upset they can't find vehicules easier. I've been playing for a while now and all the vehicules we've found we stole outta other people camps. Quit winning and go look for them. They can no longer be left outta the map so thier out there somewhere

[sparta436 46]

Quit bitching. You can easily find vehicles by running across the western and northern border. My clan has had our shit stolen upwards of ten times in the last two weeks, at one point losing 9 vehicles. You can easily acquire a vehicle stockpile if you know where to look. Yesterday I found Ural, VS3, a tractor, and two ATVs, just by crisscrossing the entire northern border on a bicycle.

Vehicle hoarding is the result of teamwork. Find some friends to play with

[sparta436 46]

Well maybe you should look harder for them then, or do what me and my friends did, create an ambush, we got a GAZ ( Grey ) Which blew up in the ambush and a UAZ ( Red ) from it, and we have about 9 vehicles which we use for storage, collecting loot or to get around

I have the same exact situation and the same things have happened to me. You shouldnt punish players who scour the map for vehicles and parts and vehicle stashes. Unless they used scripts to locate them, people who have nine vehicles and shit earned them. Those who complain have never spent hours with their clan looking around the entire map fir vehicles. Your 9 vehicle stash is obviously the result of hours of hard work (unless you used scripts, in which case FU).

[Guest]

I've only found two tractors.

Then again I've only played for 3 days and I don't really know anything yet.

[antiskub2.0 17]

well, clearly we don't want tons of vehicles on the map, it would ruin the sense of accomplishment you get when you manage to find one or put one together.

That being said. On all the servers I've been on, and all the weeks I've played, and all the searching I've done. I have only actually seen 1 vehicle in actual use and have never run across any in their natural spawn locations.

A possible solution may be:

Randomize the spawn locations more. Say, If a sedan spawns in elektro or whatever, have it's actual spawn loaction inside elektro be in 10 different spots. The spawn rate would be the same but people would still have to search them out and not know where they are going to be.