General feedback on upkeep and serverwipe without bpwipe (month officials solo).

[ScavvyMclootface]

Hokay, while the upkeep has put some dents in the plans for many largebase clans, it hasnt made it too easy for solos either.
After some experimenting with builds Ive come to the conclusion that the most you can build for is 13k stone and metal, with a few k wood. It usually results in a 2,5k stone and metal with 1k wood daily upkeep. With a full TC you can sustain your base for 3-4 days.
as a soloplayer, Id find that to be an ok upkeep.
but,
the size of a base with this upkeep is at best a 2story 2x2 with some honeycomb, it will fit all essential facilities, but it will be obliterated by not much more than 4-8 rockets - in the best case scenario for the defender.
I really appreciate helks attempts to push for more intelligently designed bases, but in order to afford an intelligently designed base, you're gonna need to grind every other day, or your base will be toast.
and well, for the audience rust supposedly targets - students and adults (18+), having a grind as a daily routine when someone might offline it with peanuts, well its not really balanced.
I dont have any hard solutions to this, but in the not terribly likely event that a dev reads this and havent thought about it already, im writing it.
Some food for thought though, things you could do are:
Balance the upkeep with all essential rooms and functions in mind. Functions like countermeasures for people boosting up your base (2 floors+). Right now its too high for too small bases, an intelligently designed base needs an element of unpredictability.
 increase building hp x2 when its TC registered players have been offline for more than 20 minutes.
Make endgame raiding tools and weapons more difficult to come by, by perhaps making helicopters and bradleys spawn them at first a few days into wipe.
Make rockets more expensive, for their damage (4-5 walls with 4 rockets and good aim), they are pretty damn cheap.
Like I said, food for thought, no hard solutions.
sorry for the wall of text.

[TerraNovaClick]

It takes 8 rockets for one sheet wall now, don't forget.

[captainrussia]

yep, so you can get your honeycombed 2x2 to be 12 rockets to raid as a solo player (thats what I do, sheet + stone walls to get through, thus 8+4 rockets = 12 total)... but Im not sure if "12 rockets LuL" is a balanced number?

[ScavvyMclootface]

Sheet metal walls only directs you towards doors, which in most cases are of sheet metal as well, there you only need one rocket and 20 rounds of explosive ammo.
And you can only have so many doors in a 2x2.

[TerraNovaClick]

Yeah, Doors are the real issue in my opinion. I've posted this *FACT* multiple times.