there are different hives for 1st person and 1st/3rd person servers... i also have seen private hive servers (both should be shown in the server browser)
so it's likely, that your nicely geard character is either a private one, or a 1st person one
whenyou log of a server it will save your current character look to your dayz.rpt, only this file determins the look of your charcter in the main menu

version numbers can be written down, if you have problems remembering them, a change in the system would propably make the work for the devs a bit more difficult, as they use this system since arma2 (or longer). so changing it just for your convenience does not sound like a good idea to me

+HaseDesTodes

(I don't know how to reply to these yet. So I just do the youtube Plus thing.)

The version numbers info is new and useful information. Thank you. I keep forgetting that they don't have absolute control over everything.

@HaseDesTodes, it's actually the dayz.cfg (RPT is the log file), but you were very close. ;)

@mobius1, HaseDesTodes is right. There's different types of servers. Those he called "1st person servers" are marked as "Hardcore" in the server browser. They run on a different database, hence your character is independent from those on the other servers.

Therefore, I close this ticket as non-issue.

Regards,
Johnny