Basebuilding // Sky Base with Ground Garage // Problems=Solution

[Scar]

Hello people,

 

i just signed up here cause i was looking for a place on the web to share informations about the Epoch Mod on Days in Arma 2.

 

I've got several questions where i was not able to find solutions for the last 3 hours on the web, so i still hope i can get the answers here.

 

Me and my mates were playing on an DayZ Server that shut down 2 Weeks ago, now we are on a new server, builded up an Base that was like 6x6 Metal Floors on Size and 5 Cinder Walls High. It was like a giant cube with Airfield on the top.

 

Unfortunately the Server Admins were not able to fix the Base disappearing problem due to Plotpole System. So we lost all our work now.

 

Now here are my questions:

 

1) Nobody knows whats going on with DayZ in the Future, because GameSpy shutting down.

The Admins of the Server we are acutally playing on shut the Server down yesterday, because their host is doing several updates. It is not clear when its able to come up again. My Question is, what do you know in Detail, will change due to GameSpy shut down?

 

 

2) I have built up 4 Bases now in the last 4 Weeks and everythime that i was forced to start over new (with given material as compensation) i tried to improve.

I would really like to create an 4x4 Metal Floors size and 2 Cinder Walls high Cube as an parking Space for about 2 Trucks and some Cars for the ground level.

I wanted to build up in the air but nothing like a tower with ladders or such a thing worked well to get some hundrets meter high.

I've now seen that video: 

 

In the last second the guy says that vehicles are despawning above 1500meters high.

 

I would like to do the same but stick to about 800 meters high.

 

Do you have any advise you can give me for my building idea?

In the air should like the Mainthing with a space for helis like about 3x8 Metal Floors for the Helis and 4x4 metal floors for a building with 3 cinder walls high with 3 stages.

 

The Main problem about the old base was that often plot pole said too many objects. Curiously after every restart i was able to put on about up to 10 new things. But we got spawning ressources for building around or base then... but no disappearing things.

 

I would start putting Plot pole at the ground level and built up the Garage thing with Fuelstation (Truck).

i would put some mozzie on the roof of the Garage so one can easily get with that up on the Airbase part.

 

in 800 Meters High i thing i need to put up another plot pole first and Then just start with a floor to stand on...and built on until its finished.

 

 

Main Question:

What problems will i be faced with? Some ppl said i need fireplaces in the air otherwise i die really fast.

Vehicles will despawn in the air, what about that?

 

 

 

Our dream is about having a ground base (as little as possible, as big as it is needed) that we can defend and easily access with a fuel station and a little room.

We also need to find a solution how to refuel airvehicles like helicopters.

 

Last try at old base was a running fuel truck above it 1 cinderblack wall high (really close) metal floor. Landing heli on the floor shuttig down engine did not give option to auto refuel (like cars were able to / helis can do that at normal fuel stations)

 

Its not able putting a truck up on a roof cause it always falls trough the metal floors..

 

 

Ok i thing u got the situation now, we would really like to start over until Server is back online so i hope i can find some advise and support here =)

 

 

Greetings to eveybody, have a nice day / week =)

 

 

// I really hope that you dont mind my mistakes in english, cause its not my main language=)

[Scar]

nobody?

[FJack]

Ok i'll bite but can't offer much help...

1) not much apparently

2) hundreds of meters high??? For what?

Problems: temperature, altitude, confinement, symmetry, concealment, air traffic, lightning, etiquette, to name a few.

Vehicles despawning: news to me.

You have my full unwavering support! Post a screenshot when it's complete. We'll all come visit :)

[Scar]

temperatue hmm, i could craft some fire barrels, so every room got 4 of them so its warm?

altitude? what problem with that? ok, Air vehicles could crash into it.. something else?

confinement? i will have a ground station with mozzies to enter the station in the air. This thing should work as sniper spot to overlook the area and ofc as storage platform for helis and stuff we loot and bring with the helis. i am actually building the ground station, isnt that well organized but its ok. Like a big room for trucks. I am on a new epoch server, i helped the guys pout to solve the disappearing bases problem. They gave me building supplies for that, so i started. 

symmetry? Snapping objects should work fine, i will create it as an 2 floor cinderblock cube with large metal floor roof.

lighning? Could that touch me?

etiquette? The guys that own the server were impressed by my plans, they love it :D

 

i would really like to get an answer to my things i wrote here and maybe some other problems that could get me, cause i wont start the air cube when it will get impossible due to die during seconds cause of something high up there..

 

 

thx 4 reply so far =)

[Ganja]

Quite some time ago I built a floating base up at the NWAF, Loved it.. was great for taking out the Ai in the area and great for scaring the crap out of the campers camp'n the players that went there. Only a couple issues I had encountered, #1 Make sure you have a few extra helis/mozzies up there to get down with case something happens, you don't wanna be stuck up there. #2 well i'll let the video below explain. I built this before i became an admin, but if you want a land vehicle up there for air support (armored SUV has a great rotating gun for air defense),use the elevators or just get an admin to TP you up there while your in the vehicle. Temp wasn't an issue for me, as i was always on the move. Since then I have moved to the NAPF map and decided to make a floating base at the SW corner of the map above the ocean. problem was it's so damn quiet that when the paratrooper heli's spawned in (yeah they spawn in at the SW corner as well), you get the crap scared out of ya by this CH-47F suddenly hovering below ya. I have since moved this the NW corner of the map. so far things are going well, but cold is a huge factor. not sure yet if a building with walls and roof would keep the warmth in, as i'm still making the huge platform to house everything on. 

How did I get a start on making this floating platform 200M in the air above the ocean? I used an amphibious Pook and the elevator mod.

also made an impound yard in the center of the map for those that leave their vehicles in the trader area for too long.

 

http://youtu.be/Wz98jUlet2E My first floating base at 
NWAF