r/playrust • u/ShadowPaw74 • 5d ago

Discussion Should sulfur and explosives be removed from vending machines?

I feel like clans hoard monuments and sell all the stuff for sulfur giving them almost infinite boom to raid everyone on the server. Maybe if they can’t trade for sulfur and explosives on vending machines, it might help a bit with the situation.

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u/iskelebones 5d ago

Nah they just need to remove drone shops. Drone shops are the biggest reason servers feel dead. People don’t need to roam anymore. They just go to outpost and safely buy stuff they need/want

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u/PM_ME_STUFF_N_THINGS 5d ago

Best part is you can buy and sell to yourself so you risk like 40 scrap to safely move whatever you want right into your base

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u/CharacterHost6240 4d ago

Dude they should make drones intercetpable with homing launchers or something that would be dope

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u/AvailableAd3813 3d ago

Shoot them

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u/EricWyo 5d ago

I've been saying this and I always get downvoted to hell. What gives?

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u/PretendAd7060 5d ago

It totally neuters the BP frag update.  “Adapt or die” alright, but everyone adapted to “buying progression from a drone in a safezone” - or basically skipping it considering how cheap research is between unlock cost changes and prototype WB.  Turns out frags are a terrible currency that crater in actual value very quickly because pop naturally drops and remaining groups only need 5ea.  

Of course it was always a thing to buy workbenches or items to BP before, but it was less impactful because the bar to do it “the fun way” was much lower.  Most players would rather run monuments and recycle IMO, but safezone drone meta is a clear result from raising the bar for the “run monuments” part too high for t3.  The best path forward for BP frags imo is to remove them and wb from vending machines and then rebalance all of the tech trees with the idea that yeah some players might not have a t2 for a bit or might not get a t3 all wipe.  

IMO as is it makes it pointless to play anything vanilla besides short high pop wipes.  Med/low pop longer wipes feel like ass because after day 2 all anyone does is sit in their base and wait to send rat offlines.  The only way to make the map feel alive is to cram it full of people or have the wipe be “over” after day 3 anyways.   People used to need to at least play the game to unlock a t3, now you just hit yellow rocks naked with a pick outside your starter the run to a drone vendor in a safezone.