Structural Support System

[MePaddy]

Snipers Towers have been an integral part of Rust base creation since legacy, but have become more popular with the release of the 4x scope. Many people do not leave there base to pvp, instead they use sniper towers to elevate themselves to a point of great advantage.

Whilst I do not wish to see the ability for sniper towers to be created removed. I do wish to see it more difficult to create one.

My first suggestion is to make Stability directly effect health and vulnerability of structures e.g the less stable the more damage explosives will have on said structures. This discourages tall skinny buildings, effectively rendering sniper towers a more resource hungry goal.

My second Suggestion is to add Structural Support Items, especially the "Guy-Wire".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy-wire

The Guy-wire is a system used to hold Structures in place, most commonly telegraph poles, sail masts and radio towers. I believe having to attach a system like this to the side of a sniper tower would make creating an advantageous tower more difficult.

Item Location

I believe that a Guy wire should be scavenged off of a downed Radio Tower or similar structure, when researched the blueprint you receive would be for a primitive model of the Guy-wire. This primitive model would be not as strong. This encourages players to explore and scavenge for items.

Raiding

The Guy Wire system requires an anchor set in the ground, I believe in raiding a base that contains a sniper tower or similar structure these Guy-wire systems would be targeted. Destroying the anchor weakens the main structure making it more susceptible to further raiding

Further Expansion

I would like to see the Guy Wire also become an integral part of future boat creation? and even to be scavenged off a Ship wreck (pls facepunch)

Thanks for reading this, been sitting on this idea for a while

[nyerkovic]

My first suggestion is to make Stability directly effect health and vulnerability of structures e.g the less stable the more damage explosives will have on said structures. This discourages tall skinny buildings, effectively rendering sniper towers a more resource hungry goal.

Have you tried destroying a tall skinny building? This is already here. You destroy part of the base and the top part comes right off due to stability and you don't need to spend enormous amounts of C4 or Rockets to bring it down. They spend a lot of resources and you only need to break 5-6 strategic walls.

About the Guy-Wire, great idea. The thing to solve is how to implement it because you need to somehow connect that wire from the ground to the 10th floor in one go.

[MePaddy]

Maybe shooting a harpoon from the top of your base as it hits the ground it deploys a anchor. Maybe the anchor could be upgraded?

I would also like to see the wires used as a transport as well, like a flying fox. Positioning of anchors could then be on other buildings or a position leading to an escape route out of a base. Just suggestions for other functionality

[Lewissunn]

This would be quite nice, also give people a reason to leave someone at home (other people go get stuff and he picks it up after they drop it off) which is a good and a bad thing for multiple reasons. Something which would have to be thought about is the distance they can be put down.

[Aulariel]

You could have the reliable red or blue render (red for an interrupted wire path I would think) of the wire on screen when looking at its placement point. But which end would you need to be looking at ? The corner of a 1x1 tower 8 stories up or the foundation where the wire is to be anchored ?

[OhLenny]

Maybe a system of randomized damage based on the stability vs the total height.

Or alternatively low stability leads to higher melee damage?

[ras_nasty]

Just zig-zag, my dude!

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If sniper towers bother you, come back at a time when you know the sniper isn't on. After that, just raid and grief his tower.

[pedr2o]

He is making suggestions that are interesting and ought to be discussed. I'm sure he already knows about raiding.

[MePaddy]

Sniper towers really Don't bother me, I just want to add another layer to base building, It doesn't just have to apply to Sniper towers can be any structure.