This is true, i've seen others doing it, and i even did it myself, and its very very easy, you then can handcuff "yourself" or kill it to get the duped items, it's a very important bug. One that sould be fixed ASAP.

BTW: I haven't tested it yet in the experimental version, since it says in the config that spawns is now managed by the server itself (maybe this was a silent fix, to avoid people kowing it by reading the exp changelog).

True, its very hard to find the right server if you're searching for one when you cant consistently change de filters without having to wait couple minutes every time. (even happens with the favorites and friends tabs)

I'ts called bad balancing. You sould be able to respawn all over the map, even in the north, not with the same probability ofc, but definitely more places, and farther away, the starting loot is almost imposible to get like this.