Aurora

I think some of this is based on the custom map itself. Last wipe, mats were scarce with no public quarries. I played the entire wipe and still only had enough frags & HQM in the last week of wipe to do half my heli tower – bottom half and center was still stone. This wipe I missed the first 6 days and I'm sitting on 100k HQM and a box of frags. --------------- Adding in other comments: I like having to put effort in to progression and enjoy it more when progression to end-game items and objectives take longer than 5 days to achieve. Hopefully future maps will be a little less generous than this one (but damn this is a great map to play with unique monuments). It's been a few years since I actually played the game and decided to jump on here last wipe. This is a fun, relaxed, and enjoyable server. Different from the other EZ servers but equally as brilliant. ~ A

What about a few AI at some of the monuments? Nothing too crazy (like 1-3 on patrol) – just enough to add variety and challenge for the solo players who take longer to progress to the point where they can tackle the bigger ones (i.e. brad, heli, rigs).

Maps are posted in the RustEZ Discord #announcements channel, usually a day before wipe.

Congrats to our build contest winners! First ($10) and Second ($5) store credits will be delivered to you via the website prior to wipe. For third place (3x supply signals), ask an admin on your server after wipe to deliver the prize. Survival Build 1st US-Survival Amanda.Please: Hippity Hop Nightclub - H17 2nd US-Survival LpLuna: Easter Detox Retreat L8 3rd US-Survival Tweets: The Choco Cache - K8 Pure Build 1st AU-Pure Tinychikn: Tiny's Tiny Station I7 2nd US-Pure GalaxyCake: The Great Egg Attraction and Gift Shop! K7 2nd US-Pure Mayor Sir Lord McGuffin, ESQ: Easter Train Stop Q20 3rd AU-Pure Bluelambb & WEM: Final Destination Station R5/R6 Scourge Build 1st AU-Scourge Chugalug: Choc Bunnies Resort W17 2nd EU-Scourge ElGundi: EASTER EZ CINEMA (Egg Run on Air) W14 3rd US-Scourge Decay: Decay's easter Cafe - N6 Admin Build 1st AU-Pure Butter: Butter Station X13 2nd AU-Scourge TiffDust: Bunny Brain W13 Built Tours event winners: ($5 store credit): NoThreat, Salt, DemonPotato, GalaxyCake and Sgttuggle.

Yeah we found it during the tours

ALL ABOARD! The Easter Express will depart on Friday, April 29th at 5 pm EST in Discord Lobby 1. Check the Discord Events Hub for Build Tours info in your local time zone. We'll gather in Discord, make like bunnies and server hop to tour the contest builds and votes for the best builds. See you then! ~ Aurora SURVIVAL BUILDS US-Survival Razzleberry: Easter Shoppe - M9 US-Survival Amanda.Please: Hippity Hop Nightclub - H17 US-Survival Nova (s1mplenova): Bunny Nova's Brunch 'n Go - G15 US-Survival Tweets: The Choco Cache - K8 US-Survival Yetidom: Can I offer you a nice [Easter] egg in this trying time L8 US-Survival LpLuna: Easter Detox Retreat L8 PURE BUILDS AU-Pure Ryzzle: Ryzzle's Pre-Loved Goods W10 AU-Pure Tinychikn: Tiny's Tiny Station I7 AU-Pure Bluelambb & WEM: Final Destination Station R5/R6 US-Pure Leela: Bunny Organics - J20 US-Pure BeaverofMight: ArtCoop Photo Booth - J13 US-Pure [OGLG] Cain: The Easter Basket J15 US-Pure GalaxyCake: The Great Egg Attraction and Gift Shop! K7 US-Pure Fusion·aPe·: Big Bunny Foo I11 US-Pure Mayor Sir Lord McGuffin, ESQ: Easter Train Stop G20 SCOURGE BUILDS AU-Scourge Chugalug: Choc Bunnies Resort W17 EU-Scourge ElGundi: EASTER EZ CINEMA (Egg Run on Air) W14 US-Scourge BlastinPanda: Happy Easter - G19 US-Scourge Decay: Decay's easter Cafe - N6 ADMIN BUILDS US-Survival Vaswulf: Shining Easter Station - V17 US-Survival Novak: V17 US-Survival CreatureFeature: Easter Bunnicula R21 AU-Pure Butter: Butter Station X13 AU-Scourge TiffDust: Bunny Brain W13

Our Pure servers have been moved to modded. Nothing in terms of gameplay has changed for these servers, only where they are located on the game browser. If you still have trouble finding them in the browser, you can join from our Connect page: https://rustez.com/connect/

I've got my fare and just a rifle to spare... We're hosting a new build contest for players on all RustEZ servers. Build a public Easter-themed shop or community space and enter to win store credits and other in-game prizes for next wipe! The build can be anything you choose (food market, tea shop, weapons, disco, pub, café -- be creative), however it must follow these rules: Stand-alone shopfront or public community space, not connected to your base or other build Must be within 10 foundations from the above-ground railroad track Maximum build size of 25 foundations (you may use 10 additional foundations to create a walkway from the tracks to your build entrance) Maximum 3 walls height (plus roof if applicable) Contains at least 5 Rust Easter items Sign or banner near entrance with your build (or IGN) name HOW TO ENTER You may enter only one build. Reply to this forum thread and provide the following details by Midnight EST (5 am GMT) Sunday, April 24, 2022. Your in-game name The server your contest build entry is on (i.e. AU-Survival, EU-Pure, US-Scourge and so on) The map grid ID location of the build One screenshot showing the front of the build One screenshot showing the interior of the build PRIZES 1st ($10 EZ Credit), 2nd ($5 EZ Credit), and 3rd (3x Supply Drops) will be chosen on Pure, Survival, and Scourge (all regions included for each) and admin builds as a separate category. Winners will be chosen by community forum poll vote, after admins have verified the build meets the requirements. - Pure (AU, EU, US) - Scourge (AU, EU, US) - Survival (AU, EU, US) - Admin Builds (Admins may use admin tools to build) BUILD TOURS We will meet in Discord and on the EZ servers to board the Easter Express train on April 29/30th, stopping at each contest entry build along the route. Build Tour event times will be posted in advance in Discord. The community forum poll vote will be posted following the Build Tours Event.

.... only because it is often posted as a legitimate question/concern many times each wipe and most admins have a copy & paste ready to go for it.

Just click the "Event" hub in our Discord. The wipe day info will show in your local time zone (i.e. the below image shows wipe date in time for my location). https://discord.gg/WXhPKKct?event=959469816870232064

The option to solo any server event is near non-existent in a busy PvE community. If you feel the need to solo it -- then yes, call a personal on the modded servers for the best chance at being able to do that. Multiple people can and will shoot at an attack heli. At the end of the day, others are trying to have fun and enjoy doing the same things you are (i.e. do server events). Once the heli event is over, all qualifying players can loot each crate to access their own loot instance. For heli, the top 5 players who dealt the most damage, and dealt at least 500, will qualify for loot. And yeah, I get it. Taking it out on your own is fun, but it's rare for that to happen. With the loot instancing, you can still fully participate in the server event and earn the loot rewards if you do enough damage. With that said, if another player or their team is actually hogging it and not allowing others to participate (which is difficult seeing as how up to 5 qualifying players are rewarded) then ping an admin on your server to review server event logs. If it is a case of one player taking them all the time then admins will speak to said player about their actions and what they need to do in order to stop ruining the PvE gameplay experience for others. Usually a friendly visit from your resident admin team will help sort that out. GLHF! ~ Aurora

Love the boat rally idea. I'm absolutely up for doing this event on any (all) the servers. ♥

In all honesty I doubt decay will solve this problem. The very nature of PvE makes it easy to gather resources uncontested and stockpile it. Players will simply divert the many, many boxes of mats they keep on salvaged shelves to their TC. Decay, while it might impact a handful of players who build large, the biggest impact will be to our single (non-team) players and our casual players in the community. Even a duo can farm enough mats in 2 days to last a whole wipe with decay. But a single player or casual player who just logs in a few times a week will be the ones who struggle with this -- and chances are they are not the players who are excessively building and farming. That's just my $0.02 general commentary on the topic. In saying that, I absolutely, 100% agree that the composter farms are an issue. Death has made changes on the backend to improve this by making it more taxing on players who do this, but obviously more work is needed here, as evident by the forum posts and in-game chatter about how it impacts your experience on the servers. It might be time to take this one back to the drawing board and discuss internally what changes we can make on the backend that will mitigate this without punishing everyone else (i.e. the vast majority of our community of players who are not doing this in an excessive manner).

*cry* I miss them too.

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If I enter a cave and someone built there and blocked usage of the cave system for the entire player base of the server, I'd ping an admin so they were aware and could send a warning to said player so the player could adjust their build to ensure the cave is accessible to all. People build in caves every wipe, on every server. It's not that difficult to build and ensure you leave enough space for others to have passage through the cave.

Entire islands should not be fenced off – by players or admins. Even in the case of a large team using an island, we would ask they ensure there is an opening (or a gate unlocked or locked but left opened) to allow players to pass through. If this happens again, please let your admin know (or post in # help on Discord and tag the server). This will alert admins to the issue so they can check in with players building in this way and work with them to ensure all players have safe passage through.

In Memory of Renn ♥ ~ For the month of March there is a special item appearing in the RustEZ store. Admin glowing eyes will be available for purchase with 100% of proceeds (minus processing fees) in support of Renn's family. This wipe you will also have the option to top up your store purchase to help us reach our goal. On Sunday, February 13, 2022 we lost a much-loved member of our RustEZ community, Wendy, (aka Renn who played on US Scourge). Thank you to our EZ community for showing your kindness. For creating a special place In Memory of Renn ♥ on US-Scourge in February. For sharing your stories, and now, for being the amazing community that supports one another.