Inconsistent starting conditions, how is this supposed to work?

[entelin 13]

Server 1: The first character I got reasonably far with, I had a bus and a tent in the north east part of the map. The server now looks to be down permanently so I started trying others. As a side note, two of my friends I was playing with, after they disconnected and reconnected got rolled back about 3-4 hours, though I was unaffected.

Server 2: I started fresh (on the coast with no items) however it did not prompt me to select between male/female, it was marked as hive enabled. So I assumed that my last server simply wasn't hive enabled, and thus I wasn't going to get my stuff.

Eventually died and restarted on this server again, however instead of starting fresh I got rolled back before my death by about an hour. Played some more, eventually getting killed, restarted, this time fresh again on the coast with no gender prompt again. Decided to try a different server.

Server 3: Logged on to another server, also hive enabled, and now I had all my stuff from the original server (server 1), minus the bus and tent of course, but with everything I had before on my person, and where my campsite was in the north east. ???? now I was confused, so I decided to try some other servers as well.

Server 4: (again, hive server) Started fresh, with gender selection.

Server 5: At my camp site in the northeast, but with no gear at all.

All of the above servers were running the same beta patch as I, and the same dayz version. Please educate me as to how any of this makes sense....

Is there something I can do to verify/force my save?

Thanks

[Jasmer 77]

o.o no idea i always thought loot was locked to a specific server this is news to me

[Disgraced 1123]

Vehicles and tents are server specific.

Gear that one carries should travel with the character.

I would say that how it works... is right now it doesn't work.

You will hear it time and time again, this is a beta test of a mod, and things like this can happen.

I can't say that I've seen this specific issue, but given the flood of 'me too' posts and redundant 'bug reports' going up, I've stopped really paying attention.

I suppose that the main question would be when you say the same version, are you talking about the experimental one (1.7.2.1), or the last released set of files (1.7.2).

If it's the latter, I would not expect any level of consistency or real playability. That's being fixed now but it isn't yet.

So it is probably frustrating, but we just have to ride it out.