Sitting on a hill outside of Elektro. Another sniper is running in the field in front of me. I open fire. Want to guess what happened?

Rocket, please make this a priority.

Rocket, please fix this. It's the #1 threat to the project right now. Firefights in DayZ are too important for people to be able to D/C instantly to avoid them. If player cloning is an issue, be as heavy handed as you need to get around it. Put in a 15 second D/C wait timer and a 20 second mandatory wait on server join. Whatever it takes. If you put this off it will eventually kill the mod. New players see other players do it and copy it. It'll just keep getting worse.

So the best way to avoid zombies right now is to re-enact the cardio scene from Zombieland?

YES Spawn with flashlight instead. Address darkness concerns and give players incentive to work together if a weapon is found (one spots one shoots).