Very good topic. I played a little more than 400 hours in this stable patch and will share my experience with pleasure.
The private servers on which I originally played and then abandoned have a very questionable administration on each server. I saw situation(in time crashs of servers before fixed) where admin to ban everyone in a row and then ask for money from my friend(10 eur xD) to remove the ban, and sometimes it happens. Often, private servers have an additional server, closed, for dupe loot and sales of VIP slots. Solo to play on private servers is almost impossible, as there are usually large groups of players playing, unlike public.
Public servers. Public servers are my DayZ. I bought the game more than three years ago. On a public server, you always have the option to change the server if you suddenly become bored if it is emptied(pop.LOW) in the morning or at another time of the day. You can go to an almost empty server and look for loot if you do not like to finding loot on a full server where you always can be killed a group of top looters. :) On a public server, a much larger influx of people, which is constantly connected, is replaced. There's more fun and fun here. I see the DayZ only on public servers.
BUT, public servers like and Dayz have a big problem. It's cheaters(Cheat programms). I believe that on public servers should be allowed ban cheaters and glitchers. All new rules, such as 5 restarts per day, kick and ban, which is easily circumvented, only reduced the popularity of this game. This is the only and unique online game I play, yes, yes, I have one online game. And if now there were no public servers with an active administration that bans cheaters, I would simply not have the nerves to play my favorite game. :)
The problem of cheaters is very urgent. After each anti-cheat update, after a few hours the cheats are updated. Their huge amount and with this there's nothing to be done. Almost erom very day I die by cheater on a full servers. Me save a few servers where they are actively banned, and their number decreases a little bit a hundred times. Give people the opportunity to fight with cheaters and keep their servers where people can safely play, knowing that the administration of the server will take action.
Will allow ban cheaters on public. In the end, if something does not suit you on one server, you can always go to another server without losing your loot.
This is a game that takes a huge amount of time to get excellent loot, if there is no possibility to change the server without loosing loot, namely, close the public servers, the game will die. This is my personal opinion to which you can listen, or you can not listen.
