You realize you're playing on 0.5x - 0.3x right? There never used to be a ton of 2x and 3x servers, because the game was fast paced enough that they weren't needed. I don't have any way to quantify it, but in terms of effort expended to rewards, 2x is about right where Rust used to be.
Posted Feb 2, 2020, 12:33 AM UTC
I mean the mini game didn't exist, but I guess this annoying upkeep didn't exist either.
lower rates are easier. if you play 10x, sure you can build your base 10x faster because you get more wood, stone, metal, hqm.
guess what? the raider gets 10x sulfur. whoops. most people on a 10x, or whatever x dont build their bases so they are 10x harder to raid. this means the higher the boost, the easier it is to get raided, which means you lose all your stuff, and start over more often. congrats, you played yourself.
It's actually worse than people not just building out to the modifier, it's inherent to the geometry of Rust bases. Raid cost increases linearly, while the cost of adding another layer increases exponentially.
One of the most fun wipes I've had recently was on IceFuse Alpha 5x. People were going fucking nuts, like 300 people roaming AKs and raiding constantly. It felt like a solid Day 3 on old Rustafied Main.
Personally, I never build too big to encourage online raids.
Unless you're a pvp Chad... Isn't rust a game of risk vs reward, most of people I play with who complain about the grind; take pretty much no risks and usually do things that seem like they'd be good idea, but make progress slow asf. I play on 1.5 or 2x, and I find that the progress is pretty fast(unless you die to people all the time)
People seem to think that you should be able to make something similar to a 4x4 full honeycomb as a solo no problem. I think expectations are much different for the people playing modded
I'm just the laziest fucking Rust player in the world, because I've done so much sulfur grinding and rad town camping for large groups before I'm just over it. I'm not kidding when I say I will just quit for the wipe rather than farm a tree. I also had a perfectly efficient playstyle in components that would let me do whatever I wanted, but it just didn't translate to BPs, so I'm weirdly resentful about having to even get 50 scrap for a workbench.
2x is fine, if I'm going to put in a solid day, but I can't just jump on for a few hours and be roaming AK by the end of it anymore and it's lame. I also remember when 20,000 stone would get you a 20 rocket base, that everyone would immediately recognize as a solo and never hit.
Yeah, it's easy to start being resentful, specially with all the toxic players. As for getting ak in a few hours, that's up to expectations Id say. If I'm playing a full 150/150 server, I don't expect to get ak that fast unless I get lucky ( not many people counter points of interest, or some guy dies with one) or people are just playing poorly VS me. I never got to experience old rust, so it seems normal to me.
Shut your face
Raid me irl
1v1 me on roleplaytags. I'll fish circles around you
You think you can fuck with my 3 story Christmas theme cabin, or my 8x30 pirate ship trap base? Get outta here
I don't understand what you're saying with "You realize you're playing on 0.5x - 0.3x right?" when the majority complaints for the game currently are that it's too easy to progress.
Yeah, it's a different player base now I guess. Component system was a little bit too fast paced once people figured out how to snowball out of prim with a budget SAR kit, and the first iteration of scrap was just stupid. AKs cost like 300 scrap, no workbenches.
It's fucking miserable now, literally just a kiddy grinder type of game. Grind scrap, grind upkeep, grind scrap, grind sulfur, grind the recoil patterns. I just stay in prim because I can't be fucked to get a T2 up and as soon as I get a DB to doorcamp with it's free kits for the rest of wipe.
And you will never leave your base with those kits
Ah yes, the typical insecure r/playrust shitter response. Someone has an opinion you don't like, and the only thing you have to say is "yeah well you're bad."
Honestly, I don't think I've ever researched a T3 gun, other than maybe a bolty once or twice, because people don't roam with them that often.
What servers are you playing on where people aren't roaming full kit