a 3/0 sc lauan

5 hours ago, Bestia said:

What happened to the Pure server independent event? I burnt myself building for that one and now the post is gone  

Our contest was absorbed by the community wide event that came a handful of days after we posted ours.  You can find that post in "announcements" linked above to enter your build, just make sure you check out the requirements as there are some differences compared to what we had.

Offender: Sweet tea     Battlemetrics | Steam
Server: US Pure
Time: 12:21AM EST
Length: Permanent 
Reason: Griefing 
More Info (Optional): 

Multiple players were reporting their bases built onto and/or being stolen from on discord.  Upon investigation i found that Sweet tea had been building onto and into bases that looked exploitable to them in an attempt to steal other players items.  While cleaning up this spree of griefing, it was found that Sweet tea had built onto 16 different bases, most of which also had players or containers with Sweet tea's name on the logs.  Given the widespread nature of this occurrence and the amount of players impacted by Sweet tea's actions, I made the decision to place a permanent ban on their account to prevent another significant portion of the player base being effected by Sweet tea if a console warning were ignored or ineffective, as well as to afford us the opportunity to guide them towards the server rules via the appeal process if they do wish to continue playing on our servers. 

Offender: 杀手 banditcamp.com    Battlemetrics | Steam
Server: US Pure 
Time: 12:06 AM EST
Length: Perm
Reason: Stealing and Griefing
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Within the timeframe of two days this wipe 杀手 was witnessed or found to be the culprit of multiple instances of building onto players bases in order to gain access to their belongings, or on logs of players and containers with items reported missing.  after 杀手's first two warnings in which they were informed these actions were against the rules and not tolerated on our servers, and 杀手 was asked to review the rules, as well as myself having to kick them and ask them to review the rules, it's become clear that they have no intention of contributing to our PVE community and take any chance they can to steal from others.  Given this continued disregard for the rules a permanent ban has been placed on 杀手's account. 

a3/0scLauan (admin) US Pure grid R5

Hi @Kungs! 

The pure servers have been reverting back to actual pure in order to move back to the community tab for a few months now.  As of this month (december) vip perks, salvage hammer, and store purchases (aside from subscriptions) no longer work on any of the pure servers.  If you'd like your drops delivered on a server with store support all you should have to do is log in to survival, scourge, or elysium.  If you'd like a refund or credit you'll have to enter a help ticket so those in charge of the store can give you a hand! 

-a3

Thank you for letting us know, we'll attempt to contact you in game while we investigate this!

-a3

Offender: skipy          Battlemetrics | Steam
Server: US Pure
Time: 1:36PM EST
Length: Permanent
Reason: Stealing
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on 5/15/22 skipy was warned on two separate occasions for stealing another players  mini and crashing it, as well as stealing items from another player.  In both instances a console warning was sent asking skipy to review the server rules and become familiar with them.  On the second warning skipy was informed that any further infractions may result in a ban from our servers.  

on 11/12/23 Players reached out for help regarding a player who followed them to their dead bodies and began to loot everything off of them before the players had a chance to secure their items.  The items/descriptions of the missing items matched almost exactly to what skipy was in possession of in their base and would not have been obtainable within the few minutes skipy had played this wipe without having stolen these items.  

Given the skipy's history of warnings for theft and ignoring previous warning asking them to play within the rules of the server to avoid creating a poor experience for the community, a permanent ban was placed on skipy's account.  

 

We hope everyone enjoyed the build tours if they were able to make the times, and dont forget to cast your vote for your favorite build at the top of this post! 

Players choice poll is live! check out these awesome builds, and vote for your favorite at the top of the page! 

as the ban report states, after being asked not to strip the vehicles for parts by the player giving them away, he returned 30 minutes later and stripped them again after they were all refitted, then proceeded to make call outs in chat asking players if they needed car parts.  this is quite literally the definition of player harrassment and griefing.  the quality or significance of the items taken is irrelevant as stealing is stealing whether it's 50 charcoal or a full metal kit.  

information beyond what's included in the ban report is between the player and banning admin, so further discussion on the subject should be limited to a legitimate ban appeal by the banned player.  When that happens a determination will be made by the banning admin. 

21 hours ago, GLIZZY_GOBBLER_21 said:

why is belifend posting this? a3 banned me?

Belifend was online at the time and handled the investigation and evidence collection, i was simply assisting.  

Hello bilbo, thanks for participating in the appeals process.  

While i understand that the instancing being removed from giant excavator is a new happening for this month, the admin team has also been posting regular PSA's reminding players of that since wipe day.  I also asked and provided roughly 45 minutes of time in game for the player leaving items in the excavator output (with players waiting to use it) to come collect it before investigating to see what was going on as we understand some people may complete other tasks while they wait for GE to run and could forget about it, however this was over 5 hours after you had logged off, blocking the GE from other players to use for a quarter of the day.  

Typically this would still be a warning or speaking to, however as noted in the original post, this is your fifth warning in 9 months for engaging in activity that impacts the gameplay of others in a negative way.  When considering all the circumstances here, including the severity of the infraction(s), your attitude in game, and how players are/were affected, the temporary ban was chosen as the best course of action to try to correct this behavior and to hopefully see you continue on our server as a rule abiding asset to the community upon it's expiration.  

The temporary ban will not be lifted, and will expire as planned in just under 36 hours from now.  Please take this time to review and become familiar with the server rules and we look forward to having you back tomorrow evening!

-a3

Offender: Bilbo
Server: US Pure
Time: 10:38PM EST
Length: 3 day
Reason: Monument camping/griefing
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On 2/9/23 Bilbo was spoken to verbally about an oversized TC ring around their base claiming more land than they were using right next to bandit camp.  Player was informed of the rules regarding builds and claiming area, as well as the rules pertaining to TC's.  After our conversation the player willfully reduced their TC ring to a size that brought it in line with the server rules. 

on 6/9/23 Bilbo was observed camping launch site for a good amount of time.  Another admin posted a PSA reminding players that camping monuments was against the server rules and that they should either loot around the area or run the monument instead of waiting for event spawns.  Bilbo ignored this PSA and continued to camp until bradley spawned at which point the player killed the bradley and a console warning was issued again reminding them of the monument camping rules. 

on 7/7/23 Bilbo was once again console warned for an oversized TC ring that blocked off large amounts of unused land, as well as allowed players to build within their tc ring and base.  The warning reminded bilbo that blocking off large areas of land with TC's was against the rules and that they would need to reduce the size of their TC ring to bring their build in line with server rules. 

on 8/4/23 Bilbo was warned for building a base all the way across a river and preventing watercraft access for their neighbors.  Bilbo was reminded of our server rules regarding blocking waterways and the need to allow safe passage for watercraft unless it's in an area where watercraft cannot reasonably traverse. 

on 10/13/23 Bilbo was found to have cleared and fueled GEP, then logged off (in their base, not a d/c) shortly thereafter.  While attempting to use the GEP myself i was met with two outputs full of metal frags from the previous user which i revealed to be bilbo.  This production was left in the outputs of GEP for over 5 hours preventing other players from running the excavator themselves without risking a theft warning via clearing the outputs to allow the GEP to run.  

Given the continued lack of consideration for other players on the server, and disregard for warnings and requests to become familiar with the server rules in the past, a temporary 3 day ban was placed on Bilbo's account in an attempt to curb further poor behavior that negatively affects other players on the server. 

(Screenshots available upon request)

Offender: Victormtz34      Steam | battlemetrics
Server: US Pure
Time: 12:02 AM EST
Length: Perm
Reason: Griefing
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on 9/2/22 Victor was warned for accessing a player's inventory and base and stealing items that did not belong to them.  Victor was sent a console warning informing them that raiding, stealing from players inventories, deployables and modes of transport are all against the rules. Player was urged to type /rules in chat and to familiarize themselves with the rules of the server.

on 9/3/22 it was also discovered that victor had taken over another player's base as well in conjunction with their prior warning on 9/22

on 9/4/22 Victor was kicked from the server with a console warning asking them once again to read and become familiar with the rules of the server if they would like to keep playing on our servers. 

on 4/14/23 Victor was found to have TC'd off over 6 grid squares of unused land in an attempt to grief other players, some of whose bases he had surrounded with tc's.  At that time Victor was sent a console warning informing the player that blocking off large areas of land is against the rules and the numerous TC;s and platforms that spread across 6 grids will have to be removed.

on 10/6/23 a player notified admins that a player had TC'd off one of the custom monuments on the map, causing the puzzle components to not function for anyone else, as well as surrounding the area to power the monument with foundations connected to the TC.  My investigation revealed this base belonged to Victor.  After a review of victor's history on our server showing a continued pattern of actions that negatively affect the gameplay of others, as well as regularly using building parts and TC's to grief other players, a permanent ban was placed on their account.  

39 minutes ago, bethfaceplays said:

Pure isn't dying because it isn't on the community tab. If that was the case, any modded PVE server would be dying. Yet others are thriving with their mods. Pure is dying because the server is difficult to play due to constant lag (and not worth the lag because the mods aren't ones everyone regularly requests) and the admins aren't very great at being helpful unless you're a buttkisser.

leaving things irrelevant to this announcement out, the modded servers arent dying because they ARE modded, those browsing the modded tab arent looking for a 1x with instancing, they want what those modded servers have, vanilla belongs in community. 

on the topic of lag, it's impossible to please everyone, because there's an impossible amount of system configurations and no two people will experience their quality of gameplay the same.  I'm sorry you were running into issues, however builds that cause lag that can be replicated or are reported by multiple individuals are looked at and the team works with the base owner to try to alleviate those issues, as it would be a gross abuse of our power to make those modifications ourselves when no such rule requires it. 

We appreciate your feedback about the admin team and we will certainly have future discussions on how we can better help players in need while also tending to our real life commitments. 

~A3

Get your build hammers out and pumpkins on! We're hosting a US Pure Community Halloween build contest for all players. Build an original spooky, Halloween-themed space on the server and enter to win prizes for next wipe (November)!

BUILD REQUIREMENTS
The build must be a stand-alone single detached Halloween-themed build (no towns/villages/bridges to ensure an enjoyable event experience for all) and contain a minimum of 5 different Halloween items obtained during wipe.

HOW TO ENTER
To enter, reply to this forum thread and include:

-Your in-game name (i.e. a3/0scLauan)

-The name of your build (i.e. Northstarz Spookie REC)

-The Map Grid ID of your build (i.e. C13)

Maximum of 2 screenshots of your build: One screenshot of the front, one interior/other screenshot of your choice

Once you have posted your entry here, contact an admin in game for your build contest package (a few helpful Halloween items).  Post early so we can follow your progress! You may edit your post later to update the screenshots.

Builds must be posted here by midnight (ET) Friday, October 27, 2023.

BUILD TOUR EVENTS
Build contest ends later this wipe to ensure players have time to decorate their builds after the official Halloween update.  Unfortunately, this doesn't leave much time to plan our Build Tour event. Admins will do their best to host server events (Oct 28-31) so participants can offer tours of their build. This post will be updated to include events and times to meet.

***UPDATED***

Admins will be hosting 3 tours of the builds:

• 10/28 at 8PM Eastern
• 10/29 at 12PM Eastern
• 10/30 at 3PM Eastern

BUILD CONTEST PRIZES
Winners will be chosen by US Pure admins and a separate players choice vote.

1st place: $10 RustEZ store credit

2nd place: $5 RustEZ store credit

3rd place: 3x supply signals

Offender: Macgom        Battlemetrics | Steam
Server: US Pure
Time: 1:17AM EST
Length: Permanent
Reason: Griefing and Stealing
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on 8/30 Macgom was warned after it was brought to our attention that he had stolen another team's base, locked the owners out of it, and stole from every container they could access.  The warning (sent in English and Spanish) notified Macgom that stealing and griefing are against server rules, and that they can find the server rules by typing /rules in chat.  They were also notified that griefing and stealing is a bannable offense.  

on 9/22 Macgom was found to have griefed another team's base and stolen items by authorizing on their TC and trapping the owners within their own base.  Another warning was sent notifying macgom of the server rules and that any further infractions of this nature would result in a permanent ban from our servers.  

on 10/4 While checking the area, I found that Macgom once again returned to the base they previously griefed to access containers as well as build onto the team's base.  Macgom added two doors and code locked them to prevent the base owners from being able to exit their own base.  Given Macgom's history of severe griefing, and continued disregard for server rules which significantly impacted multiple teams' enjoyment of the game, a permanent ban was placed on their account. 

(More screenshots available upon request)

On 9/29/2023 at 4:59 PM, NonZero said:

I want to focus on the main struggle I have with the changes so lets move on to the next (and also for negative last) one:

The admins: you do such an amazing Job here!! Thanks for that in so many ways guys! But I think that there will be stress coming up for the admins. If you take away sleepers protection, loot protection, perso drops and especially the quarries you will get a MASSIVE shitshow in the chat. 90 % of the admin pings will be "XY stole my hqm, XY stole my LGF, XY robbed me sleeping, XY stole my mini". etc. The other 10 % will be "can you remove the wall here for me?"...

I think with the changes you take away SO many plugins and extras the admins fought so hard for to have an easier life here and I think it will be really really stressful to admin this server with vanilla settings (i was - as said - admin and host of a pvp rust server on vanilla and admining this thing... dude... was basically a full time job).

 

i cant speak for all admins obviously, but i joined the admin team FOR the extra work, not to get rid of it.  I love helping the community, and those actions and activities are how i get to do it, and how i have fun on the server, so the more protections, the more boring it gets. 

as far as relaxing/time goes i've played here since before instanced quarries/ge/heli and brad loot and before the HQ quarry became the meta. and always been solo, and never found myself having a hard time maintaining the base, upgrading, or otherwise filling boxes while maintaining 100+ hours a month in game to this day, along with enjoying a fulfilling home life,  my schedule is on call, 12 hour days/5 days a week.  I honestly dont believe the changes will be nearly the burden some think it will be and hope that those unhappy with the changes at least give it a try before bailing.  We've gone without all these things before, and can definitely do it again  

2 hours ago, Legitamas said:

I am fearful that the already dwindling population is going to grow even smaller. The general consensus seems to be leaning towards leaving the server all together in light of these upcoming changes. I hope that this works in favor of the population and not against it. Very interested to see how the next wipe plays out.

the problem is, people browsing the modded tab are looking for a modded server, not a vanilla experience forced into the "modded" tab.  under the community tab, the ability to unlock achievements, and pve in general will be a big positive IMO, as well as draw more new players looking to learn without pvp chaos. 

A welcome change, i'm excited for our pure servers!

Offender: YTK       Steam | Battlemetrics
Server: US Pure
Time: 4:45 AM EST
Length: Permanent
Reason: Harassment
More Info (Optional):

A team reported they had a player sneak into their base behind them upon returning home.  After going to the team, I found YTK inside their base, with the base owners repeatedly asking YTK to leave.  During his time in the base, it was noticed YTK stole items from furnaces and boxes within the players base at which point a warning was issued notifying YTK that theft and player harassment/griefing was against the server rules and to use /rules in chat to review the server rules.  

YTK ran off a short distance and began to attempt to despawn more items they stole from the same team after they were removed from the base.  After dropping these items on the ground, YTK returned to the players base and began sneaking around in an attempt to return to the boxes he stole items from.  When he was caught by the team sneaking around outside, and asked to leave again, YTK refused to do so, and was kicked by myself with a message to "read the rules and rejoin" along with another warning notifying them that player harassment and griefing is against server rules and that they need to abide by the server rules to continue playing on the server.  

After rejoining from their kick, YTK once again returned to the team's base and began using the dancing emote.  After being asked to leave once more by the base owners YTK began to insult the players and call them names over voice chat while claiming they were innocent.  Given their continued refusal to abide by the server rules in the short time they were playing on our server, and continued harassment of players, negatively impacting their enjoyment of the game, a permanent ban was placed on their account. 

congratulations foxykiller and shadowofthestars for finishing second as a team! 

one main prize left folks! come give it a try the last few days of wipe! 

Congrats Brad on US Pure for completing the maze first! 

still plenty of time and prizes left! we look forward to seeing you join us to give the maze a try! 

Join us on US Pure for August's edition of the MAZE!

Located in the middle of R25 on US Pure, this months maze is sure to challenge veterans and newcomers alike!  The maze will run until wipe, and is open and operational 24/7!  

As always, food, item storage, and a flashlight are provided on site, and there is plenty of room nearby to drop a sleeping bag in case you need to leave and come back! Running the maze is simple, one correct button push opens a door to the next room, it's up to you to navigate the correct path while avoiding dead ends and other incorrect maneuvers!  there are NO combinations, parkour, traps, or anything that will kill you aside from thirst or hunger if you're in there too long without food!

Of course, the MAZE wouldn't be complete without prizes for the top finishers of the month! 

This months prizes include: 
1st: $5 RustEZ store credit, Golden egg
2nd: $5 RustEZ store credit
3rd: Golden egg, Supply signal

The MAZE can be run as a team; HOWEVER, teams will have to split the prize they win (e.g... 2-person team finishes with 1st prize still available the TEAM will receive 1st prize to split amongst themselves, NOT 1st AND 2nd prize) This will ensure as many players as possible have a chance at all the prizes available.  If you play on another server, please leave your username and the server you'd like your prizes delivered on, on the note you deposit at the end of the maze!  The top 3 Prizes will be delivered NEXT WIPE!

After the top 3 prizes are exhausted, subsequent finishers will be eligible for scrap prizes, supply signals, presents, m2's, l9's and others for the remainder of THIS WIPE while supplies last.  These prizes will be available on US Pure ONLY! 

We look forward to seeing you on US Pure, and hope you enjoy the challenge of the maze!

Hello entouslieux, thank you for participating in the appeals process! 

Words such as what you used in chat are never okay, in any context, which is why they're filtered and cause an auto ban.  

We understand the situation you were dealing with is frustrating, however in order for the admin team to resolve the issue we need to investigate and collect evidence, as we cannot issue a ban simply based on word of mouth, and you were told multiple times that it was being watched.  Unfortunately things are bound to happen while we're not online, and while we dont wish for you to have to deal with it at all, the best course of action is to make use of the mute feature for individual players and/or turn voice chat volume off so you dont have to hear what those players are saying to you.  It's never okay to take these things into your own hands, because that generally causes otherwise good players to stray afoul of the server rules themselves.  

With that being said, we will overturn this ban just this once, with the understanding that this type of behavior CANNOT happen again, and any further infractions of this type will result in a permanent ban.  If you continue to have issues with other players please notify the admins by asking for one in game, or using #help in the rustez discord and tagging @us pure. 

We look forward to having you back!

-a3

Was this a separate incident where he stole from you? or is this a report for brayden's issue this morning?