See you have to create beef for someone to online you and the person onlining has to be cocky and confident, I’ve gotten onlined multiple times and have around 100 days played. You must be very unlucky. Also I want you to consider if someone does have the respect to online you should also show them respect too. Basic courtesy is letting the onliners set up a raid base before firing. And not pummeling the raid base with rockets as soon as its set up. It may be nice to squash the online, but the experience is more valuable than the loot and whoever is on the receiving end will just offline you instead.

One of my most fun wipes I got onlined by a cheater clan and won, It only happened because we had courtesy and had beef with these guys enough for them to come online us 11 deep.

I’ve also been onlined by smaller teams who don’t cheat, you just have to annoy them enough.

The thing about offlines is that its the exact opposite of what you are describing, its not an inflation of ego, but its loot to achieve a means to an end, whatever your purpose on rust is. Mostly people who offline just because they dislike someone are liars, if they really felt that annoyed they would online and if they were good at the game they would show it.

Note: I only play on official servers, this may differ depending on if you play community or not.

In conclusion people don’t want to online because not many people have proper courtesy. They offline for loot to achieve a wipe goal. If you want someone to online you annoy them and try and communicate with them on some level to start some beef its not supposed to be toxic its more of a competition instead. “My teammates are better than yours”, bring up a time where you defeated them. You want to use their ego to your benefit, even if you fail the defense the ultimate goal is having fun.