Well? It's not like you can set up a base anywhere else?
Yes you can. There is a camp in the wild territory with fire, beds, crates etc. People stay there all the time, there's been a recent influx of people who tend to stay in the "safe zone" and look for weapons. Multiple times me and the other admins had to do something to keep the role-play going, some people never attempted to role-play. There are a handful of people who role-play quite well though, and make the server a good experience for others.
And even if you couldn't, people could try to improvise and pretend they are setting up camp. Like Knaz said, some people have acted out that they have been hit by a sniper when nothing has actually happened. But it's adds something to the role-play that people can build on. There haven't been many of those people lately.
I think this server needs more melee weapons, and maybe random supply drops from an unknown group. But the drops would mostly be in the wild area.
I don't understand why there are guns. If anything there should be less guns and more melee weapons. They should be scarce too, all anybody asks for is "Where are the guns?"