Planes stopped spawning on our server.

[Wikidd]

At the beginning of 0.7 planes were spawning at the designated areas like they should. A couple players actually managed to secure several. We also went though a phase where mechs would just blow up the planes as they spawned. Planes now will not spawn at any location. We do have our vehicle settings at 0 for all other vehicles except bicycles and wheelbarrows and planes. The other vehicles must be purchased through the traders if this matters. Planes were initially set at 5 for the server but when they stopped spawning we though that might have caused a conflict so we set it back to the default of 2. We've since repaired the server and still have no planes. This is a gportal server.

[Brada]

Are any planes present on the map at all?

[Wikidd]

Originally posted by Brada:

Are any planes present on the map at all?

No. Once the last one was crashed they have refused to spawn. I've checked through the admin commands for spawned vehicles and vehicle location and info. Curious even though we can buy vehicles still through the traders have we hit some sort of vehicle limit that we don't know about? Server is only 25 slots with generally 15 people or less. I think with all the spawned boats, paddle boards, wheelbarrows, and bicycles in addition to the purchased vehicles the map is sitting at 95 spawned vehicles total in game.

[Wikidd]

Originally posted by Brada:

Are any planes present on the map at all?

I was watching in drone mode tonight as I am an admin on this server. There were no players in the area. In fact they were all in the southern part of the map. I managed to capture this video. The mechs are blowing them up for no reason other than being spiteful :D

https://youtu.be/y0VoJykWyig

[Wikidd]

Sorry to spam oddly enough B2 airfield wont spawn any but D4 will repeatedly spawn them but you have to leave the area after they are blown up and a new one will spawn immediately until the mech makes its next round. Again no players in this sector at all

https://youtu.be/trWzTDo1MzI

[CheeseKing]

Hey Wikidd, so in order to find out what happened here we will need your vehicle serversettings.ini configuration and we will need your EconomyOverride.json file as well. Since we don't know what your server settings/economy settings are set to we can't help you. Basically what we did with serversettings vehicles and with the economy vehicles is that you have spots for the server vehicles and for the economy vehicles. So in the EconomyOverride you can set how many vehicles you can buy (if you destroy a vehicle you bought you can buy another one in that slot, lets say a pickup). While in the server settings you can set how many vehicles will spawn on the map itself, the airplanes should spawn in B2 and D4 airports, since the default settings on the server is set to 2. After you take those 2 from the spawning spot they will no longer spawn unless they are destroyed. If you put the airplane spawn to lets say 10, you have to move the 2 that are spawned from their spawn area and then 2 by 2 will spawn.

[Wikidd]

Originally posted by CheeseKing:

Hey Wikidd, so in order to find out what happened here we will need your vehicle serversettings.ini configuration and we will need your EconomyOverride.json file as well. Since we don't know what your server settings/economy settings are set to we can't help you. Basically what we did with serversettings vehicles and with the economy vehicles is that you have spots for the server vehicles and for the economy vehicles. So in the EconomyOverride you can set how many vehicles you can buy (if you destroy a vehicle you bought you can buy another one in that slot, lets say a pickup). While in the server settings you can set how many vehicles will spawn on the map itself, the airplanes should spawn in B2 and D4 airports, since the default settings on the server is set to 2. After you take those 2 from the spawning spot they will no longer spawn unless they are destroyed. If you put the airplane spawn to lets say 10, you have to move the 2 that are spawned from their spawn area and then 2 by 2 will spawn.

Thank you. Let me contact the server owner to see if he can get those files. In the post above the planes actually did start repawning in D4 and as you can see in the video the mech was blowing it up every single time it spawned. This issue has been noted and a couple developers have stayed that mech path will be fixed in the next hotfix.

We still are not getting spawns in b2 as far as I know but let me talk to the server owner for those files. I appreciate your help!

[Wikidd]

Originally posted by CheeseKing:

Hey Wikidd, so in order to find out what happened here we will need your vehicle serversettings.ini configuration and we will need your EconomyOverride.json file as well. Since we don't know what your server settings/economy settings are set to we can't help you. Basically what we did with serversettings vehicles and with the economy vehicles is that you have spots for the server vehicles and for the economy vehicles. So in the EconomyOverride you can set how many vehicles you can buy (if you destroy a vehicle you bought you can buy another one in that slot, lets say a pickup). While in the server settings you can set how many vehicles will spawn on the map itself, the airplanes should spawn in B2 and D4 airports, since the default settings on the server is set to 2. After you take those 2 from the spawning spot they will no longer spawn unless they are destroyed. If you put the airplane spawn to lets say 10, you have to move the 2 that are spawned from their spawn area and then 2 by 2 will spawn.

Sorry if this is a silly question but where is the serversettings.ini for multi-player found?

[PissedHippie]

I'm seeing a similar issue with a private server. I thought it was because I had a bugged plane in a trading outpost that I couldn't destroy. After I respec'd the safe zone to allow damage to vehicles and explosives, I was finally able to clear the whole island of planes. I set the Max Spawns back to 2 and have sentries enabled. I'm not seeing any spawns still.
I'm on a PingPerfect server and haven't modified the economy.

[{AZC} ArgulKit]

Hey, any news? On our server we got the similar issue. :( G-portal server.

[PissedHippie]

Yeah it would be great to figure this one out. I saw on Gamepire's Discord channel where some say it has to do with vehicles within a certain perimeter of the hangars prevent spawning, but the tests I've run on my server don't seem to that same conclusion.

[PissedHippie]

I guess it does indeed have everything to do with other vehicles in range of the hangars. After relocating or destroying a mountain bike and then a motorcycle in the airfield, a plane spawned. After I flew the plane out of there, the same cycle repeated. My server has some vehicle counts pretty high so that makes sense why some servers aren't reporting the issue. Kinda sucks though, since most players won't know to destroy or steal the bikes and stuff near a hangar to keep the rotation going, since the plane is pretty much what they come here for.

[{AZC} ArgulKit]

Originally posted by PissedHippie:

I guess it does indeed have everything to do with other vehicles in range of the hangars. After relocating or destroying a mountain bike and then a motorcycle in the airfield, a plane spawned. After I flew the plane out of there, the same cycle repeated. My server has some vehicle counts pretty high so that makes sense why some servers aren't reporting the issue. Kinda sucks though, since most players won't know to destroy or steal the bikes and stuff near a hangar to keep the rotation going, since the plane is pretty much what they come here for.

Thanks for the update. I'll check if there are any vehicles parked around Airfield. Does this count the whole area or just the hangars themselves?

[PissedHippie]

What I've typically seen have been two-wheelers parked near or inside the hangars, but I'm thinking they must share the spawn point with planes just parked in a slightly different location.

[{AZC} ArgulKit]

Can confirm that blowing up bike inside one of the hangers fixed that issue.
Strange note. I destroyed sport bike at Western Airport hanger. The next day we found and extracted plane from Eastern hanger.