First I would like to say this thread was a good read. Ty for that. I played eve HARDCORE for 2.5 years. Went from a mission noob to the leader of a 400 member alliance where we were hired to police an area of 0.0 space. The thing that works for eve is that there is more than enough content for anyones style of play. Whether its research, manufactering, ship production, pirating, 0.0 conflicts you name it! Carebear or killer there was a place for you. Any alliance would accept a carebear as they are your backend, your support. They are the guys who love to mine so they are knocking out Battleships for your alliance. They had a purpose and as long as that player was a gentlemen he was not mocked. Dayz has a big issue. The people who like to Hoard, the thrill of the rare find, Team play to setup a base camp etc. 1 imature person can take that entire portion of the game content away from those "carebears" 4 hours work to be lost and the killer does not even loot you!! I have also noticed a trend of each server having a clique or group of regulars who dominate the server. They are generally rude and 17. Find a way to keep the carebears in the rear with the gear, and allow effect protection of the support people would solve this. It would form an independence. The warriors need gear, Carebears need protection? I would expect a barren world like dayz to be more like the book of Eli film. People would form into Tribes, Towns, communitys. Warlords control the lands etc. If a commander can be a gold giver, Fighting men will follow him. I would love to see a clan requiring a certain amount of resources to create. You can then fight for control of land. that would then create a fully dynamic end game portion of the game. It would suit both partys. Lone wolf or small groups can work on there own. Rep would be handled like alliance rep in Eve. As for servers, I believe Virtual arrays would do this perfectly. Have a matching arrays to a shared Intelligent storage solution. the more users online, the more servers it can create. that would give load balancing, redundancy and growth viable. Also DR would be simple as you can mirror off the Storage away and have a live copy to recover from. Virtual FTW! :P these are my thoughts :P Increase the peace.