melanko

It's not that bandits and PK'ers should be punished for the way they play, there just needs to be a bigger advantage for cooperation. Something that is enough for even a regular, every day PKer to stop and think, "should I just kill this guy I see or wait and see what happens if we band together."

This thought crossed my mind earlier today too. To help players cooperate amongst each other then just kill each other: make some high-end areas of the game accessible unless you have 2 or more survivors helping each other access it. For example, helping get over high walls, getting on top of roofs and large vehicles, lift/push large objects out of blocked paths etc. Even to the point where you can have high security military installations that need dual user access, like using two ID cards scanned at once to access an armory.