I am experiencing the same issue here. I am using some Mods so I will have to try it with just CBA and ALIVE however I would like to ask some question regarding what it has been said here.
Last mission I tested I was in a tank that got destroyed with me inside. I respawned and saved and exited the server as admin.
My location was saved , the vehicle location was saved but instead destroyed the vehicle was brand new again.
For my persistent campaing I need that destroyed vehicles get persitently destroyed or even disapear from the persistent world.
So let me ask one question, lets imagine one player takes a helo flies to wherever lands leaves the helo and 20 minutes later someone blows that helo, wouyld this helicopter be persistently be dertroyed or in the persisten world objects are not damage persistent?
I really need to make this work for my new mp campaing since players have limited resources and if those resources are not persistent and will always exist brand new my campaing has no sense at all.
Any help or suggestion is greatly welcomed