My advice for new players is: Avoid crowded servers. Servers with more than 20 players usually are groups of hackers playing death match with each other, or - even worse - hackers hunting down and killing regular players for fun. There really is no point in trying to compete with players who have unlimited food, weapons and ammunition, who can spawn vehicles and teleport themselves and other players around the map. If you want to play DayZ, find an empty server, up to 5 players, hackers rarely join these servers, as there are not enough people to have fun with. There you can learn how to stay alive, collect some items, eventually build a little camp, without being killed every evening by some script kiddie who is not capable to play the game without spawning item crates and slaughtering other players helps them to overcome their inferiority complex. I really hope DayZ/Bohemia Interactive/BattleEye will be able to get rid of the hacker problem in the standalone version. I already gave up any hope for the mod.
