I'm voting yes to decay because the pros far outweigh the cons for me.
- Random foundations will be cleaned up. Am I going back to destroy that random triangle I put down to kill a bear on wipe day? Unlikely. I also don't think people should be able to claim entire areas simply by placing twig everywhere with 0 commitment. Last wipe on US Pure a player tc'ed nearly half a lake on day 1, then never returned. These tcs blocked off the area for the rest of wipe because this person authed active players to their tcs.
- Over-building. I think that if you want to build the mega farm of your dreams that's fine, but is that 100+ planter farm really going to be used all wipe? More likely you're going to do a couple harvests and that's it. You'd like to build 5 heli-towers around the map to gain an advantage over the rest of the server? Fine. But like the farm, you should have to put in a bit of work to maintain them.
- Vending. One of my favorite things about RustEZ servers is the active vending machines all over the map. I believe adding decay would only strengthen this by creating more demand for items like diesel, pies and tea.
There's a variety of things that keep people coming back to Pure and I think that if you've been here for a while, you can agree that it's not all about your system's performance. But one of the main reasons I play pure is because the performance drawbacks of modded servers isn't worth the extra content/features to me. I'm simply looking for a some-what vanilla Rust PVE experience.
