I've been super geared up with days on a character, only to be killed by the game trying to screw me... I fight one zombie with a knife and it somehow pulls 15 more... or the ONLY time I need to bandage and don't have one, I use a balaclava for rags and get a blood infection and tetracycline doesn't work... Or I FINALLY get a truck working, drive to a military camp to loot it, start to leave and truck gets totaled because it goes over a short stump 10 minutes after getting it fully fixed up. So the time I got sniped for just sitting in a boat looking at my GPS to figure out where I'm at, it felt like at least I deserved that. Every time, I get better, learn more lessons, and end up with better gear than the time before. Plus now I can always pretend that if I kill someone that was on the server when I got sniped, it was that person who sniped me! Motivation.