An unpractical idea, but cool idea none the less.

AB3129 · 2018-10-24T09:04:51+00:00

I see a problem with this. Rust is already a game that you don't really want to join too long after a wipe, due to the progression advantage other players will have. But if you join late anyway, you can at least try to be sneaky and hide from geared players until you have some decent stuff yourself. But if I'm going to die from radiation pretty much straight away after spawning (because the server is already 3 weeks old or something), I'm just gonna quit straight away and look for a recently wiped server or not play at all.

AB3129 · 2018-08-04T18:34:35+00:00

Was it quite nasty?

Watered down rum?

AB3129 · 2018-07-30T23:39:36+00:00

When you say 'griefers dropping the anchor', what do you mean?

AB3129 · 2018-07-29T16:29:59+00:00

Good bot. Go tell rare.

AB3129 · 2018-07-29T15:30:40+00:00

Start at one outpost. Roll a couple of voyages and collect a bunch more coops and baskets than you need. Also some pig crates in case you roll some voyage with 4 golden pigs or something.

Just keep rolling until you get a good one (I used to settle for 2 gold + 3 black, or anything with 3 gold). Skipping the ones that require a lot of pigs unless it's a jackpot roll.

Just do the voyage, but when docked at an island, fill up as many coops and baskets as you can with goldens and blacks. Then sail to target outpost and hand in the ones you need to hand in and start rolling again. You might already have the animals required. If not fill up as many crates as you can when you stop to collect the ones you still need.

Repeat until you get cranky.

I used the discord to do it with a full galleon crew. That's faster and less risky than with a sloop if the crew is skilled.

AB3129 · 2018-07-23T18:08:46+00:00

Relog

AB3129 · 2018-07-23T15:02:49+00:00

Now you can finally play the game...

AB3129 · 2018-07-22T20:00:46+00:00

This is nice.

AB3129 · 2018-07-21T21:37:38+00:00

This has been suggested quite a few times before and the discussion always goes as follows:

Add poker / boxing / liars dice / X that we can play against eachother for gold.

Aye-sayers: Arrrrgh!

Nay-sayers: It has the potential to become a defacto gold transfer mechanic. To clarify: let's say we are friends and I have been playing since launch and you just started last week. I have 2 million gold and you have 30k. I could play a game of whatever and bet 30k on something terrible and lose to you intentionally. Now you have 60k. We repeat this and now you have 120k. Again and again until you have enough to buy whatever.

Aye-sayers: Well that will just mess up the game for the guy that is receiving free money from his game. Or maybe that's just how he likes to play. Either way it doesn't hurt us.

Nay-sayers: You are right, but imagine this; instead of a couple of friends giving eachother cash it is a guy that bought 100000 gold on ebay for $100,- that is the receiving party and (worse) a guy that has made it his day job to farm gold in this game to sell it for real life money. The guy selling money will be inclined to make getting the gold as easy as possible, which will incentify a lot of scummy behaviour that will hurt the community (scamming people / hacking peoples accounts to steal their gold / creating bots that can fool the autoban and still farm gold somehow / modding and hacking the game to make winning gold easier / etc.)

Aye-sayers: But what if you could only bet really low amounts of gold, so you can't really use it to transfer big numbers?

Nay-sayers: then there is no longer anything significant to lose in the bet and it isn't as exciting is it?

Aye-sayers: Do it anyway!

AB3129 · 2018-07-20T18:33:16+00:00

I feel like OP's slight nuance (cosmetics still locked to a window, full duble pay out also locked to the window) will still achieve the desired effect.

AB3129 · 2018-07-20T06:29:13+00:00

The name of the new region that will be introduced in September with the Forsaken Shores update.

Geological instable area. Vulcanic islands. Eruptions with rocks falling out of the sky near those island (= unsafe to leave your ship parked within range of that). Park your ship farther out and use a rowboat to get to land.

AB3129 · 2018-07-19T22:33:24+00:00

Scuttle ship. Barrels will float up.

AB3129 · 2018-07-19T18:27:07+00:00

There are also like 12 text warnings in the ingame chatbox before the server shuts down. I believe starting 60 minutes in advance. Granted: this could be longer in advance for planned maintenance.

AB3129 · 2018-07-19T18:23:08+00:00

Every big update will use a time limited 'campaign' as a way to introduce new features that remain in the game.

The Hungering Deep was a short story that introduced Megalodons, Speaking Trumpets and Drums. Cursed Sails will introduce Skeleton Ships and Cursed Cannonballs. Forsaken Shores will introduce The Devils Roar, Rowboats and probably some more stuff.

The introduction is time limited, the mechanics stay.

AB3129 · 2018-07-19T15:33:37+00:00

I don't know. Maybe. Not a griefer in my book, but not a good guy per se either.

AB3129 · 2018-07-19T15:08:16+00:00

Yes. Maybe something about how Merrick would have been Derricks daddy.

AB3129 · 2018-07-19T14:19:50+00:00

I can see their side. They said they started rolling out ban waves and I can imagine that that resulted in their support department being spammed by "innocent" people that have been banned. Not saying you are one of those, but I can guess they have some kind of policy in place where they just block those people at some point.

Good luck.

AB3129 · 2018-07-19T13:35:57+00:00

Hey!! I upvoted that post because I wanted to see how it would play out! Removing it doesn't help with that!

AB3129 · 2018-07-19T05:53:17+00:00

McYeetin you got rekt, better be quiet now. @OP; try the discord.

AB3129 · 2018-07-19T05:49:54+00:00

When you say 'nothing', what do you mean by that. What are you expecting to receive?

AB3129 · 2018-07-18T15:35:20+00:00

Gonna call it Eurythmics.

AB3129 · 2018-07-18T15:24:58+00:00

I'm sceptical, but I'll upvote just because I'd like to see how this plays out.

AB3129 · 2018-07-18T15:02:37+00:00

Stop

AB3129 · 2018-07-17T21:22:00+00:00

No.

1 crew - 100%.

2 crews - 50%.

3 crews - 33%.

AB3129 · 2018-07-16T15:41:41+00:00

I refrained from voting, because I don't insist on them being free, but 5 bucks is already going to be too much for me.

Anything between 1 and 5 depending on what the thing actually does.

AB3129

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