35+ hours played, Was best on the sever, Current thoughts, solutions

[Gearedtokill]

Hey all,
So i have played a tonne of rust so far and all in all i love the game but obviously because it's in alpha there are some issues, now i'm not going to go on about the obvious ones that will clearly be done before launch like more armors, weapons etc etc but more so what is currently 'anti-fun' and what i think should be looked into being improved.

[U][B]Stairs[/B][/U]
For me this is one of the biggest issues, there is almost no way around it unless you want some stupid looking place that has crap everywhere. On our server we had 3 building all own by allies built withing the same large spikes and than had small spike around every inch of our buildings. This here you would think is the definition of a nice secure fort. They want to raid they need to c4 gates and all metal doors etc thats fine, but not instead people build stairs making large spike useless, small spike around your building you can link stairs together and get over them, windows for shoot out point than can be jumped through with stairs. My solution to this would be stairs can only be build against a wall, most peoples building will have this inside and small spike therefor will stop this because stairs cant touch your walls.

[I][U]Doors[/U][/I]
Great idea with one person building a door and they can only open it but in theory it sucks balls. Locking people in their own house after raiding them is just bull shit in my mind and totally unnecessary, i'm sure most people have also seen this, if not basically if you'r logged out people raid you house, take everything, than build metal doors everywhere they just blew yours up making it impossible to get out. My solution would be to make a played ID on things they build, a door way can only be built where that player made the pillars/walls, that door can only be placed where that player built the pillar. This would stop anyone from building in your house because you built the pillar, walls etc so they cant put a door there. Also to stop people having to go up blow a section of their house up for other to build a door, why not just allow permission for people to go through one door, right click the door, have a tab saying allow permission or some shit than click on the person you want to allow to access the door.

[I][U]Windows[/U][/I]
They need a cross or something at the moment they can be jumped through making them stupid to put onto your house.

[I][U]The 'wasteland'[/U][/I]
At the moment there is a place i call the wasteland, basically no food, no ore vents, no wood piles just mountains that and infinite. This place needs to be blocked by mountains or something until it gets used for something later on, every day i see people getting lost out there and walking for hours than having to suicide.

[B][I][U]Research Kits[/U][/I][/B]
I forgot to add this, but research kits really need a nerf in my opinion, now most will properly disagree with this but i think it's OP that you can get a research kit, research paper, and research every item with no issues, now i can make whatever i want whenever. I personally think a research kit should destroy the item you use it on, and also destroy the kit. It may seem harse but you can now make that item forever, that in itself is a lot. I tried a new sever the other day for example, met some cool dude and they just let me use their kit and let me use it on all their kevlar and m4's etc so within an hour or so i could have every item in the game to make whenever i please.

Basically all of this stuff i would call griefing, assholes going around building shit on people stuff and just wrecking the game. C4 can be blocked with doors and i'm sure better materials will come in patches to build with (zombies already drop metal walls, ramps, windows etc). But this bullshit of people doing this stuff is just dumb, no matter what you build there is a way for someone to get in using stairs than blocking you in. Let me know what you guys think would love to hear opinions.

[InsightKnight]

I agree with you on many of these points. I have lost quite a few players on my server from them being griefed by stairs and ragequitting. As it stands right now windows are absolutely useless and are basically a newbie trap for bandits to exploit.

I would like to see buildings have a no build radius just like the towns now have. So other people cannot build onto or around your base area.

[montyrat]

The door thing counts as griefing, report them for it if you know who did it. I do agree that we need a solution to this problem though, maybe make it so you cannot place doors with 5m of someone elses shack.

[Gearedtokill]

[QUOTE=InsightKnight;43212030]I agree with you on many of these points. I have lost quite a few players on my server from them being griefed by stairs and ragequitting. As it stands right now windows are absolutely useless and are basically a newbie trap for bandits to exploit.[/QUOTE]

Yeah exactly mate, i think with the windows a simple X through them would make them better and stop people from jumping through them

[editline]18th December 2013[/editline]

[QUOTE=montyrat;43212031]The door thing counts as griefing, report them for it if you know who did it. I do agree that we need a solution to this problem though, maybe make it so you cannot place doors with 5m of someone elses shack.[/QUOTE]

Well even my server admin has rage quit at the moment haha, thats the issue you are logged out and than block you in so you never know you. Thanks for your reply mate.

[InsightKnight]

[QUOTE=Gearedtokill;43212044]Yeah exactly mate, i think with the windows a simple X through them would make them better and stop people from jumping through them
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That would certainly be a fix. Just "barred up" windows.

I am having the same frustration with being a server admin. You can only login so many times and spend an hour removing blocked doors before it just becomes rediculous.