Bandits don't need punishment. Specially not the kind where you spawn without a gun in a game with zombies that doesn't have a melee option, lol It's funny how some people want this game to become full PvE apparently (like the poster above me), little do they know that zombies can only be this smart and it would get boring within days. Also saying that bandit is easier than survivor is not necessarily true, for one you can actually meet cool people as surv and having a good group to back you up > mindlessly KOSing everyone. Let's face it, it's up to people to decide whether to kill others or not. I don't see anything unrealistic about it. It's one's own mind that made that choice. Want bandits to have a more severe punishment? Hunt them down yourself. The permadeath of your character is punishment enough. In the end, we all suffer the same way from death, just like we would in real life. Why should it be different for Bandits? Who else would punish Bandits if there was a zombie apocalypse? Think again, because there's noone. You do what you want, there is no law, no rules whatsoever. You find a good gun first, then hell, you have the advantage and it's the other guy's problem. You as a person decide to kill someone, what's the reason you should be punished? Why should anyone at all be punished for making a choice? And that is the beauty of this mod. How people react to certain situations, what choices do they make. Do I kill this person, can I trust him or not? Is he going to shoot me if I try talking to him? Should I take the risk? He seems better geared, maybe I should go away. Infact, that whole town sounds like whole lot of gunfire, up to me to decide whether to enter it or get more survivors and enter it together or just run away. That is what this mod is about. And you guys are trying to kill it by discouraging people to play a certain style, just because YOU don't approve it.