Herz Jaeger

I would have to whole-heartedly disagree with this idea. It already takes me about ten minutes to get into a server, if I have to wait two hours after being killed by a bandit - or like Herr Otto said, dying from game objects - that would totally turn me off from this mod. I'm having more fun with this mod than I've had with any other and ArmA itself combined. Making the game harder is totally fine, this shouldn't be a casual game, but a 20 minute or even worse 2 hour respawn time is ridiculous.

Agreed. I think if a player-model change would be incorporated, it would be a great addition to the mod. That way a survivor could tell if this bandit he's talking to actually got the skin from "self defense" or not. Plus like you said, it would add a bit of variety to it. And, you know, I'd love to have an awesome skin as a scumbag bandit, or an awesome skin as the whiteknight survivor, depending on my rank.