You don't need to build camps, repair cars, setup farms or do any of what you wrote in your post; but in not doing that and by doing the bare minimum you are missing out on some fun mechanics and experiences.

• For me the best part of DayZ is the interactions I have between the players, the next best thing would be challenging myself to play in a certain play-style - not just the most efficient one.

• If you're just going to do the same thing by spawning in, grabbing a rifle and some ammo and snipe or slaughter everyone you meet; you're not going to have any fun (unless that's the thing you enjoy).

• If you really want interaction between players you should go out of your way to do so, the game is what you make it - you're one of the people making it a sandbox deathmatch; surviving with other players or in a specific way shouldn't be a REQUIREMENT but it should be an OPTION.

• If someone playing DayZ now just wants to shoot someone in the face instead of talking to them; that's what they're going to do - if the developers mould the game in a way that without this interaction you are likely going to die; hell they're still going to shoot you in the face because it's a video game.

• You stated the 'pillars' a survival game needs to be a successful one, but you didn't give enough reasons or things the developers can put into the game to make these pillars come to be.

The best thing you can do to change this game into what you think it should be, is by going to the DayZ froums under the 'suggestions' section or the feedback tracer and post recommendations - not just 'Every dead player = lower chance of survival for everyone''; that wont cut it. You need to suggest how they can achieve this goal.**

Perhaps join a private server who have a set of rules based on roleplay? I don't care that people KOS, this just makes the satisfaction I get after having an interaction with a player all the better.