I know creating a suggestion on forums is most likely going to be ignored but it's too big to make on discord, plus you said it your self BOT freaks out with large suggestions and does not forward them in the popular suggestions section.
How is this old ass rewind useful? It is to help me prove to you the continuous pattern bob takes. Bob did somewhat the same mistake with the first Rust servers he launched on Minbuilders. He launched the very first Rust game mode some years back which at the time was full of bugs and hacking exploits. Then he proceeded into completely changing Rust to now known Rust 1 with the Bandit / Survivor system (Which was the most P2W shit you could ever imagine). After a good run of Rust 1 people started complaining about the whole P2W system so bob made Rust Hardcore, Rust Hardcore was what the community needed, a somewhat anarchy server which the only thing you did was to fight and raid. But it soon became a hackers brawling arena and the best kill aura winning the loot.
So moving forward bob launches RustV2, after many bugs, hack clients, etc RustV2 as it is today has progressed A LOT. It truly shows how bob coding skills upgraded throughout the years and how much more he started caring about V2 What I personally like about RustV2 is the anti-cheat, nothing compared to the old shit he used to previous servers, this one is actually working 110% with minor to zero mistakes.
This meaning bob actually managed to beat one of the biggest problems, hackers. But then he got lost and started adding stuff that in my opinion should of straight-up been a whole different server/game mode. The raid keys, the dungeons, the dungeons, all great but TOO MUCH.
See this as an example, you're trying to advertise, clothes branding, food recipes, music artists, travel destinations, and books ALL IN THE SAME advertisment. It just can't work people lose focus and they focus on whatever drags their attention first. So stop making RustV2 so complicated and stop bombarding it with stuff, soon it will explode.
SUGGESTIONS :
I've seen a lot of people complaining about the following: the dueling system or the lack of maps, the lack of PvP, P2W ruining the fun, raiding being completely worthless, and everyone doing traps or trapping.
1: So a suggestion that in my opinion would help both to increase PvP and help duelers is, upgrade the perks to "jobs" or something related. *Example* removing /duel from being free for everyone command. Dueler perk/ job grants you permission to use /duel 30-40 combat points. This provokes and forces people to go out and PvP, also it gets rid of using alts to duel or to hack on. Quick and easy way to increase PVP and to make dueling a "pros thing" OR make it so Titanium rank users get the dueler perk for free. (more money)
2: Do something to stop 24/7 trapping, take as an example NakedLegends, a person that 9 / 10 hours he spends playing is sitting inside his base spamming COME x: -123 y:-123 DEEP ME FREE DB BLACK and he's not the only one doing this. Also, removing barbed wire would be a good idea since it's extremely unbalanced
3: Fix the OP drop rates, I don't see how making OP extremely rare was a good idea LOL, it just reduced PvP EVEN more so make OP more common that way players won't keep onto it like it's a piece of gold and instantly sell it. Literally there players that use OP pieces instead of selling them can be counted on one hand. You've converted RustV2 to a huge and expensive marketplace where everyone sells everything for ranks. OP kevlar pieces like p4pp2 sell for 15-20 c4s, how does that seem normal to you, because I think it's a bunch of nonsense bullshit.
4: Fix RustV2s economy, everything became extremely expensive and c4s are now mainly obtained by P2Winning or selling everything and even doing P2W is no more worth it, Premium Vouchers used to sell for 100-110 c4s each now they go max 70 c4s, that's a huge difference. One way to fix this is by making OP and other popular stuff drop rates more common, OR by setting global sales prices
I've been playing on Minebuilders since the merging with Minezoid, throughout the years' bob is continuously doing the same mistakes. He's trying to implement new stuff thinking it would help the server grow but in the process of doing that, he ruins other parts of the server as well. Take into consideration Survival. Survival was doing fine, with many many donations until bob decided to split and host Survival in 2 separate game modes on the same server. Normal and Donors world, that straight up killed the server.I've seen a lot of people complaining about the following: the dueling system or the lack of maps, the lack of PvP, P2W ruining the fun, raiding being completely worthless, and everyone doing traps or trapping.
1: So a suggestion that in my opinion would help both to increase PvP and help duelers is, upgrade the perks to "jobs" or something related. *Example* removing /duel from being free for everyone command. Dueler perk/ job grants you permission to use /duel 30-40 combat points. This provokes and forces people to go out and PvP, also it gets rid of using alts to duel or to hack on. Quick and easy way to increase PVP and to make dueling a "pros thing" OR make it so Titanium rank users get the dueler perk for free. (more money)
2: Do something to stop 24/7 trapping, take as an example NakedLegends, a person that 9 / 10 hours he spends playing is sitting inside his base spamming COME x: -123 y:-123 DEEP ME FREE DB BLACK and he's not the only one doing this. Also, removing barbed wire would be a good idea since it's extremely unbalanced
3: Fix the OP drop rates, I don't see how making OP extremely rare was a good idea LOL, it just reduced PvP EVEN more so make OP more common that way players won't keep onto it like it's a piece of gold and instantly sell it. Literally there players that use OP pieces instead of selling them can be counted on one hand. You've converted RustV2 to a huge and expensive marketplace where everyone sells everything for ranks. OP kevlar pieces like p4pp2 sell for 15-20 c4s, how does that seem normal to you, because I think it's a bunch of nonsense bullshit.
4: Fix RustV2s economy, everything became extremely expensive and c4s are now mainly obtained by P2Winning or selling everything and even doing P2W is no more worth it, Premium Vouchers used to sell for 100-110 c4s each now they go max 70 c4s, that's a huge difference. One way to fix this is by making OP and other popular stuff drop rates more common, OR by setting global sales prices
How is this old ass rewind useful? It is to help me prove to you the continuous pattern bob takes. Bob did somewhat the same mistake with the first Rust servers he launched on Minbuilders. He launched the very first Rust game mode some years back which at the time was full of bugs and hacking exploits. Then he proceeded into completely changing Rust to now known Rust 1 with the Bandit / Survivor system (Which was the most P2W shit you could ever imagine). After a good run of Rust 1 people started complaining about the whole P2W system so bob made Rust Hardcore, Rust Hardcore was what the community needed, a somewhat anarchy server which the only thing you did was to fight and raid. But it soon became a hackers brawling arena and the best kill aura winning the loot.
So moving forward bob launches RustV2, after many bugs, hack clients, etc RustV2 as it is today has progressed A LOT. It truly shows how bob coding skills upgraded throughout the years and how much more he started caring about V2 What I personally like about RustV2 is the anti-cheat, nothing compared to the old shit he used to previous servers, this one is actually working 110% with minor to zero mistakes.
This meaning bob actually managed to beat one of the biggest problems, hackers. But then he got lost and started adding stuff that in my opinion should of straight-up been a whole different server/game mode. The raid keys, the dungeons, the dungeons, all great but TOO MUCH.
See this as an example, you're trying to advertise, clothes branding, food recipes, music artists, travel destinations, and books ALL IN THE SAME advertisment. It just can't work people lose focus and they focus on whatever drags their attention first. So stop making RustV2 so complicated and stop bombarding it with stuff, soon it will explode.
