ScootDog

Hey Everybody!

Sorry for the delay in getting these screenshots posted, I know I promised that I would have them posted on the day of the wipe, but with FacePunch somehow being really early with their update, that plan got nixed.

Anyway over the last few days I have finally gotten around to compiling all the screenshots together and choosing what I believe are the best ones. If anybody wants a link to the full albums, I can supply them with that. I also have some videos that I took from the event that I still need to edit and down and upload from the event and those will come along at some point in the near future but I don't have a guaranteed time-frame because I am literally the worst.

I know that Ray and I had a great time hosting and setting up the event. It was nice to see some familiar faces as well as meet some new faces in the community. We hope that everybody have a lot of fun getting some revenge on that dastardly helicopter that pestered them all wipe long blasting them out of the sky with loaded arsenal.

If you took any screenshots during the event, please feel free to post them here as well  

Until next time..

Time: 1845 EST

Length: Permanent

Reason: Racism/Harrassment/TC clearing/Looting/Stealing

More info: this guy hit the Ban-Grand-Slam: Racism(Repeated use of N Word in voice), Player Harassment, Breaking into Bases, and Stealing. @AlyCat was following them and told us to keep an eye on this player because of their use of the N word in voice, she warned them that we do not allow that word here. I then turned on OBS to record them and they quickly entered another players home cleared the TC and peaked into their boxes( i dont know if they stole from this player). They left this base and ran across the street to another players home where they harrassed the player and called them a "motherf**ker" repeatedly until the players in tthe house opened their door and he ran inside and looted some items from a box upstairs. AlyCat and i both appeared they player ran away screaming and again used the N word. They have been banned permanently.

Length: Perm

Time: 2310 EST

Reason: Language/Filter Dodge

More info:

Joined server started saying the server sucked then starting harassing the server. Dodged language filter, feel free to pull the logs.

It was a pleasure owning another suite from you man. This was my favorite edition of "Hotel V0n"

Heya shade! Welcome!!

Heya Will good to meet ya!

I am not against it, it is a good change to get people ready for a wipe-less rust. I think the majority of casual players will appreciate this change, where the minority will be opposed to it. 

<3

Time: 0030

Server: PvE Survival

Length: Permanent

Reason: Bypassing Language Filter

More info: Said stuff that was blanked out, told him not to bypass filter, he did anyway. Can supply screenshots upon request.

but what if you would rather solo? It is fine if people want to team up and share the loot, but should never be required.

Id'e assume its the research paper that isn't in the game anymore. No idea if its setup to do anything on survival.

what?

what. No. that's ludicrous. The spawn timer doesn't need to be touched that makes no sense.

what does this even mean? 

2 hours ago, Twitch | Cynical Syndicate said:

 on the first day there may be a heli or 2 per week

Again, players who find the gear they need shouldn't be punished by a lack of helis.
 

So this is going to be pretty disjointed in format but here's my full opinion on the Heli situation

First of all the rules the Server has regarding the heli
1. Its free for all
2. If more than one person/group take down the same heli they split the loot
3. See rules 1 and 2

Here is the biggest thing I've seen lately on pure
"Somebody stole aggro from me"
-The heli will fuck off from a tower if its not being shot at, and another tower is shooting at it. Threat level is a pretty simple concept. The heli is going to attack whomever is posing the most threat to it. If two players shoot the heli then one of those players tucks away into their base to wait for the perfect opening, the heli is gonna bug off and head to the people who are shooting it. Its not stealing, its a game mechanic.

Its a pretty simple concept. There are plenty of players who know that I have zero issues with abiding my either of those rules and we also expect all other players/groups on the servers to adhere to the same rules. 

The Heli is a tough thing to balance, ESPECIALLY on a PVE server where the heli itself is the ONLY risk. Go to a PvP server and try fighting the heli and watch how many people come crawling out of the hills shooting at it, and you while/after you kill it. We run into alot of these issues because of the PvE nature of our server.

I'll use myself as an example here. Less than 24hrs into wipe, I was able to take it down solo with AKs, wood armor and a handful of syringes and a 4x4x3 shit-tower. It was an extremely difficult fight on its own. With buffs to the heli's damage that fight would have been impossible. Start by just buffing the heli's overall health. If you make the fight longer then you need more ammo and meds for that fight making some players second guess if they are in a "financial" position to even fight the heli. Adding to that, more health means a longer fight which means you will need a tower that can withstand that longer fight. My third or fourth fight didn't go so great this wipe and my tower was about 75% destroyed and i died.

Buffing the heli's HP pool makes the fight last longer, so even with M249s you are gonna take at least double the amount of rocket barrages which is going to double the chances of you dying in the fight and again adding to the already low risk factor of fighting the heli on a PvE server.

All in all this forces players to either team up to fight the heli so that you can do more damage than it can do to you, or forces solos to prepare for a much longer fight and inherently a much more difficult fight. I can speak from experience that once you take more than 2 rocket runs as a solo and 50% of your tower is engulfed in flames with 3 walls missing that the fight becomes exponentially more difficult

The most important takeaway here is that you can't nerf/buff the heli based solely on kill times of geared vs under geared players. If you try to fight the heli with wood armor and a SAR out of your house and you die...well that should be expected, but if you put in the time to build a proper tower, and gear yourself then you should not be punished for other players lack of gear.

Let's talk about tower placement now for a second. We have EIGHT heli towers within 2 grid squares of each other (Mine, yours, Macas, SyberTanks, Staticisdead, RoastedMeat, Cant See, and The Dying) That is a big part of the issue on pure right now. You aren't the only one that has had somebody else aggro the heli this wipe...its part of the fun of it, whether or not you'll get the heli or not but again, that chance of getting a clean solo heli kill can be increased by build your tower away from the 7 other towers.

The heli patrols the map and goes from monument to monument, so no spot is inherently better than another its literally random. Whether you are by airfield, launch site, water treatment, it doesn't matter the heli has a chance to patrol it. There have been plenty of times this wipe that the heli didn't come anywhere near my tower and just left at the end of its timer. Maybe one time it comes in from the north and heads to airfield first, then the next heli a few hours later comes in from the west and heads to water treatment first. Its random, and when EVERYBODY on the server builds towers right next to each other (like what happened this wipe) its going to cause petty conflict.  Last wipe, after the first week we had a few people taking down helis, myself included and our bases were in totally different parts of the map. So if Cant See tagged the heli, it was far enough away from me that I couldn't even see it, and the heli couldn't see me and vise versa then there was no argument and no issues with the heli running away unless either one of us died. If one of us did die in the fight and the other was able to get aggro, we would split the loot down the middle because that's the rules and we are all adults here and we never had an issue.

Biggest takeaway if you want to kill more helis without being interfered with is to build your tower away from the other 7.

Part of the issue, that I have explained already is the proximity of heli towers on pure. You, Me, Syber, Static, Maca, and Dying all have towers within 2 grids of each other. the Heli paths randomly to different monuments on the map so you have just as much of a chance it passing you at airfield as you do trainyard, harbor and sat dishes  . So when 6 people have towers that close, whoever is luckiest is gonna get first hit. Ive had my fair share of times where Staticisdead or Maca has gotten to the heli first, and I just bow out and wait for the next one.

You were warned about even getting into peoples bases the first day when you hopped over and into Maca's base and still all his stuff and said you wouldn't do it again.

Length: Perm

Reason: Language/Harrassment

Time: 2005

Additional Information

Joined the server and said some stuff then said "this server gay as shit still" we told him not to use gay as an insult, a minute later he says "***** this server  gay as all fuck"

Fellow computer tech geek

Congrats on the baby!

Sorry for your loss my friend.  

Another player that was looted by the same two players.

52 minutes ago, Cant See said:

Plants die after a few hours and you will be left with a sad brown husk as a reminder of your failure and inability to tend to something as simple as a pumpkin.

My favorite part lol. @Cant See amazing guide. Great appreciated by me and I am certain, the rest of the community. 10/10

anyway to lessen or change the explosion sound. I'de like to not shit myself again the next time it blows up...

code lock despawned off my car last night, wouldn't let me put a new one on. Is also happening to other players on pure.

Wipe Hype!

Time: 0015 EST

Length of Ban: Permanent

Reason:Twig Raiding & Looting

Additional Info:

While out, I saw a twig raid tower, went to check on it, and it was not built by the player who's base it was next to. There were also other attempts at making a raid tower along the coast to try and get into the same base. The player was able to get into this persons base and loot the owner's body. The player also gave themselves authorization on the owners TC as well as taking all of the players keys for their base and looting. This player was privy to the rules as I was told by @AlyCat that they were thankful that people couldn't raid on this server and that it was PVE. This tells me they understood the rules.