I would personally like to see alternatives to going to the mil base and gearing up so you can do some good ol K.O.S. stuff. Im sure the majority of us own Arma II or maybe even Arma III... could just go get your guns and armor and k.o.s. fix over there (no offense or discredit to what O.P. is saying as it does make sense). I just figure irl it wouldn't be that easy, in a zombie apocalypse or otherwise, to just walk into a mil base which is (somehow) still fully stocked and load up with your favorite body armor and guns.
Aside from that its a real buzz kill to spawn in on the coast to get shot in your back by some flowery sounding white kid who only talks to you AFTER youre dead to say something completely lame such as 'thanks for the gear donation, f*** boy.' even tho you were just trying to find stuff to make a garden and didnt have any gear other than an improvised backpack with a couple sodas in it.
Im not trying to complain but that happens 9 out of 10 times. Player interaction is dead enough. Add a bunch more mil base advantages and any new player struggling to figure the game out will probably just go play counter-strike when they do since the buy menu is much less time consuming than looting buildings on your way to the far north so you can keep up with all the TTsKO outfits and SVDs. Make it ALL rare and build on the alternative routes of survival. You are geared to the teeth or you aren't- inevitably you will be shot and killed and thats all DayZ is right now.
I could seriously alphabetize a list of games from A-Z that at least have a death match option you could get this sort of thrill from without spending nearly as many hours per being shot or shooting someone. Since were making suggestions and requesting features.

1. less guns / ammo / mil gear.
2. more zombies (loads more plz)
3. more primitive technologies (stone axe / clay + ability to make containers with clay and fire)
4. realistic plant food sources (black beans for example are toxic unless prepared properly -boiled n dried) -- red berries / blue berries? lol ok. There is no reason to rely on apples and gardens and berries cause there are cans of spaghetti laying around in car wrecks and every other building.
5. make the wells go dry. less soda and fake beer. make drinking from ponds realistic. you cant just drink water out of ponds and be ok. you will get sick and (if everything else were in place proper) you would friggin die because you wouldnt have the calories to save yourself. How bout boiling the water? Wouldnt be spam drinking it then.

Thats just off top. In real life you wouldnt find a gun on every corner and ammo to match. IRL most of these kids wouldnt probably know how to use the thing if they did. I once heard a couple kids pronouncing Derringer as 'duh-ringer'. xD Let alone fix a helicopter and fly it around or even changing the tires out on a V3S. Total nonsense in light of reality. Point is there is way too much emphasis on all this military gear and not on what would really be happening in this situation. IRL most of the ppl playing this game would be relying on somebody else to stay alive and not even considering for a single moment shooting ppl before striking up a conversation. Only reason you would go to a military base in real life during a zombie apocalypse is with hopes that there were some kind of respite awaiting you there. A sanctuary with other living people whom you definitely wouldn't be shooting at.
Just perspective. Sorry for the book.