u/MemeMan_____

It is time to remove them

Potential improvement for the boats to make them usable?

- Current Decay times are too fast and make it kind of pointless to build a boat

- Current Drift times to shore is too aggressive and too fast
- Add more deployables to the allow list to be placed

- Add the rest of the building block shapes to the boat building plan, you can make natural looking ships with the full range of building block shapes.

- Make it more visible when a sail is blocked

- Not necessarily a boat, but is a naval vehicle, being able to create submarines (you'll have to think about the mechanics to pull this off and balance)

- Rapidly decay boats in fishing village safezones to end griefing

- One personal request (Fix what is preventing electrical cameras from playing nice with boats to allow for surveillance and alternative ways to view surroundings when driving)

This is not snarky sarcasm or memes here this time:

People are blindly sleep walking into watching this game enter its entropy phase.

I don't know if its pride, fear of losing advantages or just pure ignorance

But truthfully, the game is deep in an entropy phase that is going to kill it in the future. Some of it is loss of identity, some of it is loss of purpose, some of it is just intentional enshitification through bad decisions or imbalance that feels good patch by patch but harms the long term health of the game.

In the end, it affects all of us as players of this game the same. From the lonely grub rat, to the leader of a 30 deep clan.

The effect on all of us is simple: "What is the point of continuing to play?". We all actually experience this as newbies when we first start learning and playing as a legitimate question, but deep into playing this game, it begins to come back.

I post not to actually shit on this game, but to actually get people to realise where its headed before its too late. Every type of player is necessary and needed to make rust what it is, every layer is part of the inner multi systems of this game, of which without them, the game becomes hollow and pointless.

The direction things are going skews that and is slowly eroding what keeps people enjoying this game.

The game plays for real when all player types interact. And as such, addressing the need for some semblance of balancing is crucial in order to save this game in the future. It doesn't mean a solo has to be OP against a clan, thats not what is being said. But the intentional changes made that only trends to the highest clan count needs to be addressed, it is literally canibilizing the rest of the game and its systems.

In short: the game is no longer a sandbox game, it is no longer truly strategic and no longer respects your time, even if you have everything and are on top. The experience is in "earning it", "fighting for it", "putting in time for it". We're beginning to lose that.

I'll leave you with these questions: We all love this game, and we're all part of the same community, but you don't want to see this game die a slow death due to people not wanting to admit things are too unbalanced now do you? People are quitting, cheaters are beginning to fill the concurrency numbers, its starting to affect new players now.

You may be having fun now, but when the day comes where either the game starts to feel boring because it just feels too easy every wipe or the game is too hard/near impossible just because you're not the right team size when it wasn't like this before.

That question from the beginning will begin to dawn on you once more: "What is the point of continuing to play?".

Thank you.

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Also PS: no group limit servers are literally the way the game was intended to be played. If you have fun on group limited servers, don't let this discourage you, you have your fun. But a honest acknowledgement has to be made here: non-group limited servers are default rust as intended. Every balance discussion should be aimed towards that alone, changes do not scale properly to group limited servers due to the game not actually be designed around them, hence the lower pop and concurrent activity numbers in comparison as wipe progresses, many people do not feel it actually gives the proper rust experience when played long enough, there's always the sense of "something is missing", "this is too easy", "server dies too quickly", can we stop pretending that isn't the case please?

"Engineer the balance problem, serve the cheap solution!"

lmao

What made you quit?

I made a simple poll to gather the yes's from no's of "Did you quit Rust?": https://take.quiz-maker.com/poll5801817x9bbf4113-168 It would help with visualising those who have quit before they put their reason in the comments

This is from a trusted site people use all the time.

Edit:

The results are of the poll as of (UTC: 15:17 16/06/26)

Yes: 517 votes

No: 116 Votes

Pie Chart can be seen in the comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/playrust/comments/1u6kv22/comment/os00m19/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Can they actually be considered people?

My assumption at the time they were spit balling with it was that it was going to replace every non Tier 3 gun (that requires GP), even the bolty for a complete modular system, leaving non-scrap material built tier 3 guns and tier 3 lootcrate guns. With the parts being looted from in world objects and monuments.

Creating a whole new gun meta system, but they decided to back away from that which lead to the handmade SMG in tier 1 we see today. They could revisit the idea in future, but for now it was once something they considered.

Did they miss the opportunity or was it for the best?

What do you think?

I just wanted to write "Blueprint fragments need to go" to collect all the downvotes like a black hole😂

Have a nice day!

This time, instead of "What makes you play rust", lets get to the pain point. If it has already happened, tell us what did it for you? And if you think it is impossible for you, tell us why you think that?

Type below: "if the devs made [blank] change, I would..."