Tent Placement Strategy - Help

[Obsolescence 129]

I have several questions about where to place tents:

How far away do people normally place them away from loot / areas-of-interest? 1km? 2 km? 5km?

Do you need vehicles to make use of tents, because they need to be placed so far away?

What types of items do experienced players normally play in tents? Guns? Ammo? Only rare items?

How much room do people normally have in their inventory when they make scavenging runs? Enough to fit a primary weapon?

As always, thanks for the help.

[g12oome@hotmail.com 6]

With the way tents glitch at the moment, it doesn't really matter where you put them, if they were all working correctly, somewhere as hidden and out of the way as possible..

[h3retic 224]

with the latest patches (as of 1.7.2 i think), the tents that are placed off the map are whipped out on a regular basis. this means that these days, chances are that ppl will place tents all over the map (especially on the edges of the map).

u can easily run all the way up north without needing a vehicle.

most usually, u will find generic items such as med supplies, food, ammo and more rarely weapons (ppl tend to have weapons on them)

i usually drop off all food and a bit of ammo in my tent before actually going back to looting (approx. 8 slots free = that with the 24 slots coyote backpack; one gun in hands, and a 2nd gun in the backpack)

if u decide to place a tent, it might be a pain in the ass because placing tents in this game is not as easy as it is in real life (u can only place it on level ground and u cant put it inside of a pine tree, so to speak)

[patriots20068@yahoo.com 100]

I have several questions about where to place tents:

How far away do people normally place them away from loot / areas-of-interest? 1km? 2 km? 5km?

Do you need vehicles to make use of tents, because they need to be placed so far away?

What types of items do experienced players normally play in tents? Guns? Ammo? Only rare items?

How much room do people normally have in their inventory when they make scavenging runs? Enough to fit a primary weapon?

As always, thanks for the help.

You really don't want your tent close to any high traffic area. The purpose of a tent is to store your precious supplies. Having a tent close to loot areas will just lead to it being found.

If you could get a vehicle, it would definitely make the whole situation better. You'd be able to have your tent(s) way out in the middle of the nowhere, and not worry about someone finding them. But then again, if you had a vehicle, it would basically be a tent on wheels.

I put everything in a tent. Weapons, ammo, food, etc.

When I go on a scavenging run I empty my pack (ALICE), and only carry a primary weapon, map, compass, one food/drink, painkillers, morophine, and a bandage. That way I can maximize my loot intake.

No problem.

[Varadain 3]

I have several questions about where to place tents:

How far away do people normally place them away from loot / areas-of-interest? 1km? 2 km? 5km? Depends, Usually its good to have a tent with basic supplies not to far away to retreat to in your favorite area. However if you wish to store some more important items often times in plain sight works wonders. but often you might wanna find an out of the way area at least 2 squares away from an area of interest

Do you need vehicles to make use of tents, because they need to be placed so far away? Not really no. Tents are great for quick resupply spots if you get used to hiding them, Vehicles *Depending on what you get* are mostly used for mobile storage.

What types of items do experienced players normally play in tents? Guns? Ammo? Only rare items? Primarily only ammo and supplies such as food and drink. Vehicles are primarily used to stash rare items as they are mobile

How much room do people normally have in their inventory when they make scavenging runs? Enough to fit a primary weapon? An empty backpack and at least 5 active slots

As always, thanks for the help.

[g12oome@hotmail.com 6]

You can place tents on uneven ground and trees, you open up the gear, right click, pitch tent, it will give you an error, leave the gear open take a tiny step backwards and repeat, keep doing it and it will pitch, that way you will be able to get it alot more hidden putting it amoungst some trees.

[h3retic 224]

You can place tents on uneven ground and trees, you open up the gear, right click, pitch tent, it will give you an error, leave the gear open take a tiny step backwards and repeat, keep doing it and it will pitch, that way you will be able to get it alot more hidden putting it amoungst some trees.

you cant put tents on uneven ground

what ure doing by moving backwards is just moving away from the uneven ground and trees.

basically u just go to a place where ground is fitting to place a tent

[g12oome@hotmail.com 6]

you cant put tents on uneven ground

what ure doing by moving backwards is just moving away from the uneven ground and trees.

basically u just go to a place where ground is fitting to place a tent

How do you explain all the tents inside trees, on hillsides? couple of days ago my friend put one up where you can actually look inside the tent and see the trunk of the tree.. trust me, just give it a try, you just need to keep shuffling about and it'll work, takes us no more than 10-15 seconds to get them up..

[h3retic 224]

How do you explain all the tents inside trees, on hillsides? couple of days ago my friend put one up where you can actually look inside the tent and see the trunk of the tree.. trust me, just give it a try, you just need to keep shuffling about and it'll work, takes us no more than 10-15 seconds to get them up..

lawl ok

ill definitely try harder next time

but thats exactly what i was doing all the time anyways

i really bust my ass trying to find that perfect spot for a tent

[tiptoptopper@gmail.com 244]

My tent took about 20 mins of jiggling about before I could place it under 2 pine trees and in front of another. (3 pine trees together make the best tent hide.) The first few times I returned to stash some phat lewt I thought it was gone. The low branches cover it almost completely.

I have a bit of everything in there.

[thomas.bowyer@hotmail.co.uk 25]

you cannot place tents on uneven surfaces. however, by doing the above 'step back/fwd/sideways' method, you can hope to find a tiny pixel or two of flat ground. thats how most get pitched.

[amaROenuZ 144]

I keep a tent near the airfield, and one farther out, in the woods. One is for convenience's sake, standard weapons and ammo, food and water, etc. One is full of the rares.