How about ability to buy limited armour and weapons? You may farm to earn enough to buy a rifle, (level par with bandits), but have you the tech kits to learn the item? Would you risk using it if you know that a death means loss of your expensive weapon?
The server has enough people death matching, adding this will just add more people doing that.

Though quite a few rage quits tbh ..lol
They blasted through roughly 3 metal doors and about 20 wooden doors. Shame all I had was wood in my storage boxes as I keep stuff in various shacks around the map