BurroDiablo

You have nothing to lose when you begin so I usually head to Cherno or Elektro to loot a weapon and some supplies. If I'm successful, I head North to start looting villages and deer stands to collect any more essentials I've missed. I've not got as far as looting military bases or airfields yet (except the one at Balota), but that's my next objective if I don't get eaten or murdered before I get there. Once I'm set up with a tent, NVG's and a Ghillie suit, I'll probably move out to the wilderness and start to build myself some transport like all the other Yeti's.

A few minutes at least, but it really depends on where I spawn. If I spawn near Cherno, I head straight for the camp opposite the hospital and usually find an AK or Pistol there, along with the usual misc. loot.

As much as I hate murderers, I don't think murdering should be dealt with by systems like, 'humanity drops below X level you get X penalty' it seems lame. Murders are going to continue playing a large part of the game due to natural player 'Shoot first, ask questions later' paranoia anyway. What I feel would keep murder levels down is some kind of vigilante system where if you kill a bandit, people with murders to their name begin to have small red circles over them of varying brightness depending on your Vigilante level and/or on the level of murders a person has. Bring some law to Chernarus without totally murdering the murder system.

I generally leave people alone, but I got my first murder today and scared another away by shooting my Enfield to attract all the zombies to the barn I was sitting in. Although he said 'Whoa, don't shoot, don't shoot!' I was really not in the mood for letting somebody try to get the better of me when my squad mates had just fended off a huge zombie horde only to get killed by another player while waiting for medical attention. I'm seriously thinking of changing tact, because now I have all my friends gear (he'd been playing on the same character for a while and had some decent stuff) and I really don't want to lose it as I'd at least like to give it back to him so he doesn't feel too bummed out.