Oh man, you don't even know how deep this iceberg goes. Cheaters in this game will be always, so I'd suggest you to find some private server with active admins (they don't have cheaters problem at all, or at least react very fast), or if you'll decide to stay on official - don't get attachet to the loot. On official you gonna be killed by cheaters a lot of times, it's if you're lucky enough that is not gonna happen very often, but at least 2-3 times a month. So consider it as an uber hard mode, where your enemies are not only regular players, but cheaters aswell. When the devs were fixing cars you were able to drive 3-5 km outside of the map and leave car there, it wasn't despawning so you could use it like a base, and if you were 3-5 km from the edge cheaters couldn't see it (too short radar range or something like that). So that was 100% secured base (the only problem after they removed offmap physics cars became to drown behind the map, but the cars from before were still standing there). But ofc some dude wrote a ticket that cars don't despawn behind the map, so devs ofc fixed it with the speed of light, basically killed the only thing that protected you from cheaters. And to fix the main cause (cheaters) - "nah, that is not how we do, let's go easiest possible way". So yea, dayz is amazing game, but cheaters are the cancer of it. If you gonna stick official servers be prepared that hours of your spent time depend on whether or not some smartass with cheats decide to rip your base/stash/you just for fun.