I started playing about 2 weeks ago and while the game was downloading, I watched Rhinocrunches "HOW NOT to be a NOOB (DayZ Standalone)". That was the point where I decided I dont want to KOS. I've met 5 people today, 2 of them were Bambis with no gear so I just said "hi" waved and walked away since I had nothing to give them. Next one was pretty geared up in the prison building on Krasnostav airfield, I decided to take the leap and called out to him, put my gun on my back, told him I dont want to shoot him and he didn't kill me, 30 seconds later we walk out and some bandit logs in inside the prison we just left, fires a couple shots at us and ruins my pants. My new friend runs off and I had to put this bandit down alone, but damn it felt good. Later I looked for new pants in Berezino school and some well geared bandit runs inside, takes me out with a splitting axe instead of his gun and takes my fire axe and everything valuable. Minute later I get up and that pancake is still looting the school. I run up to him and he shoots me this time. When I woke up for the second time, my vision in black and white and he's outside, so I run up to him, he empties rest of his bullets somewhere around me and proceeds to fight me with my axe... "that's what you get for shooting on sight unprovoked" were last words he heard before respawning You see the reason why they KOS is that they are bad at the game. They can't take you out unless they have the advantage of surprise. They are so bad they dont even know you have to finish unconscious enemy off or he'll get up and kill you. So it's up to you, are you good enough to trust people? Or are you so bad you have to KOS?