Oedipus

Players that are killed by zombies should re-spawn as zombies wearing the items they had on if they are cleaned up by the game before they are looted.

Yeah I've been doing some more research and from what I hear it's centralized, so no go on that end.

Someone mentioned the idea of having server "leaderboards" for the longest lived players. I think this would be a great thing to have and has the potential to be next to trivial to create, providing that there are logs. Do server hosts have access to logs? Most importantly, player name, IP and time since last respawn.

I believe that KoS is a integral part of a true survival game and is what makes DayZ so fun. That being said, I believe KoS will drop quite a bit when there are actual threats to solo play. As it is there is no real logical reason to not just kill anyone you see and take their stuff.