@deer milk Thank you for your feedback!
Players are purged after 2 weeks of being offline, assuming there isn't an active player authorized on the cupboard.
Zombies cannot walk off the mesh like some of the newer scientists just yet but it's something we're working on. Also, they're attracted to sound and do often horde naturally based on the terrain. I do like the idea of making it into an event.
We're always working to balance loot and do so with peak counts in mind. Zombies drop the same loot as junk piles to give players an alternative method of farming components and blueprints, as with fishing, when the server is full.
@RakkaDaReal When they're added to the game you'll be the first one behind the wheel.
@Warlord Ubba The long term plan for zombies is to have them scale to their attacker using an item scoring metric associated with the contents of your inventory.