Let me first thank you for joining the forum. It will be much easier to keep in touch with everyone.
Ok, I perfectly understand and agree with your sentiments in part.
1. As far as the 'drop on death' settings, It is set on toolbelt only because that is what the vast majority of players are comfortable with. Of course if there is a majority of our players that want to change that I am certainly open to the idea. I will make mention that for the first couple of hours of Alpha 8 (due to mislabeled config settings), we had backpack drop on death and virtually every player complained.
2. I am definitely cool with the idea of reducing the Day setting, it does seem a bit excessive.
3. Airdrops were just added so I think we just need to get a feel for them and make some adjustments there. Maybe once every 7 days like loot respawn. I'm not quite sure what the limit is as it is set in hours not days.
I think we should give it a little more time to see how the current settings lay out because I just increased difficulty to maximum as well as zombie spawn to maximum. I will create a poll to see what everyone wants as far as the drop on death settings first. I will create a poll section to the forums for these purposes. As always, I encourage everyone to feel free to express their ideas.