Deadeye (DayZ)

I've had this happen to me a couple of times, but last time i spawned on the coast with all my gear but with my stats wiped.

Its seems paranoia is rife amongst Dayz players at the moment. 90% of my encounters with other survivors have ended with either me or them being shot dead. The problem is you just cannot trust anyone not to shoot you in the back for a can of beans, totally ruining any chance of team work amongst causual players. A simple solution would be to introduce two factions. Survivor or Bandit. It can be treated as a moral decision for your character when you join a server (& non permanent). Friendly fire can be turned off for Survivers, so they cannot kill each other but can still defend themselfs against Bandits. And Bandits can kill whoever they feel like including other Bandits. This would mean the reinclusion of the Bandit skin This would reduce the paranoia amongst survivors and still allow for pvp. Thoughts?

Yeah maybe Faction was the wrong choice of word.

Ok, i didn't know that. I just made an assumption based on other games i've played.