Question about camping tent duration, need answer. Also poll.

[BloodFreak 0]

Hello,

I've been playing DayZ for a while and I never really use a camping tent. My group started to think about a more stable base and our first guest was a tent.

The problem is that we don't really know much about them. I read the wiki and it said things that worried me. Here are some of the question I have.

WARNING as of patch 1.7.1.5 tents will often reappear empty after server restarts regardless if the save command was used.

Is it really that bad? If it gets wipe everytime tent are kind of useless.

For now you have to use the "Save" command from the mouse wheel menu in order to properly save a tent although there still is a chance that a server will eat your tent no matter what.

Once again, is it common or not?

Tents disappear some days after you have died; you can make a new tent after your death or reclaim items from the existing one, however you cannot take it even if you own it. In 1.7 it appears that tents last much longer after death.

This is the one that worry me the most. What do they mean by that? Those that mean that if I die after having install the tent I only have limited time before it vanish? I mean the tent is suppose to be use to store good incase you die. Wouldn't making the tent vanish after a while negate that purpose?

When I will die, will the tent vanish after a few days with all the items in it?

It's really important that someone tell me, because I really don't want to spend time working on supply just to see it dissapear out of the blue.

Tent should permanent until someone destroy it IMHO. What do you guys think?

[BloodFreak 0]

I sure did get a lot of vote, but still have no answer to my question :S

Come on, surely someone must know the answer to my question.

[Quagmire (DayZ) 119]

If the tents didn't disappear after you died imagine the amount of tents there would be all over the map. The tent loss on death is nescessary however I would say let it stay there for 1 hour after you die so you could retrieve gear stored, since that is their purpose I suppose. That's just my opinion anyway and I haven't even found a tent to set up yet.

[Outlawled (DayZ) 27]

Storing items in tents to go get after you've died to re-gear yourself is not their purpose. That goes against the whole concept of the game. I think tents should be destroyed within 15 minutes of your death at most.

Edited July 14, 2012 by Outlawled

[BloodFreak 0]

So they really do vanish a little while after your death. I can see why some people are agains't the idea of been able to keep item after death, but I have some argument for that.

1. Having tent be permanent would give players a goal, they would have something to work for.
   
2. This will add something extra for bandit, because they could find, loot and destroy your tent.
   
3. It would increase players map exploration. Right now people stay in pretty much the same spot, adding permanent will make people go off the path more often.
   
4. Allow you to have a place you can kind of call home without it being safe. (your far from safe and even more likely to get raid and kill.)
   

This are just some fast argument that I think makes permanent tent a good idea. You can't really just pile loot near a big city to attack every hours, because more than likely, if you hide it porely people will find it.

[Xrinaphobia 10]

I haven't got round to setting my tent up yet.

But I think it should stay for 3/4 days to give more than enough time to get back to it.

[athrins 39]

I don't want tents to be storage units in case you die. I want them to be reliable for setting up a camp while alive. If you die, you die, and your newly spawned identity shouldn't have any perks such as stored gear from your old identity.

I just want them to be reliable :( I have no room for supplies because of all my back-up weapons. I also have way too many NVG's and so on. Good thing I didn't put them in my tent before it was wiped.