Vehicle Respawning?

[Braxton 3]

So I heard on IRC that vehicles do NOT respawn on a server. Meaning your server currently has X number of vehicles that the hive populated and then left alone. So if that shiny flatbed goes BOOM it won't ever come back, or be replaced by something else random?

Not sure if this is true or not, but wouldn't it be better to simply wipe destroyed vehicles on server restart. Then, have the server do a check for the # of "functional" vehicles on the server, and then add/respawn new vehicles based on what that search returns?

ie: If ServerA is spawned with 15 vehicles, and 3 are completely destroyed. The next day when ServerA restarts 3 more vehicles are randomly placed on the map?

Or, someone was talking out of their bum & that's how it already works "roughly" :)?

ps: Any thoughts on adding those military "training" jets (Viper) from Arma2OA into DayZ without weapons, or the bi-plane with machineguns :3?

[jTw1n 0]

Yesterday my group found a new truck spawned right near the building we spawned out in directly after a server restart. My understanding is it a vehicle is completely destroyed or not saved ever it will respawn at a point following a restart. We were ingame up until the server shutdown and kicked us. As we logged back in a minute or so later the truck had appeared. a Respawn seems the only likely explanation.

[Braxton 3]

Yesterday my group found a new truck spawned right near the building we spawned out in directly after a server restart. My understanding is it a vehicle is completely destroyed or not saved ever it will respawn at a point following a restart. We were ingame up until the server shutdown and kicked us. As we logged back in a minute or so later the truck had appeared. a Respawn seems the only likely explanation.

Well, the "unsaved" part seems true, but what about destroyed vehicles? Is there a vehicle "cap" for unsaved vehicles on a map, and what happens when someone /saves a vehicle? Does it get emptied from the total-vehicles per map, or is it only replaced when it is destroyed?

I can foresee a problem with bandit clans, or trolls, gathering up all the vehicles on a map into their own "camp" thereby removing any possible vehicles for people on a map.