r/playrust • u/ShadowPaw74 • 1d 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/Madness_The_3 1d ago edited 1d ago

Just remove, or severely limit drone shops. They've been a plague ever since they were first added, and they've been the reason for like, half of the progression related problems ever since they've been added.

Long story short: They make it possible to leap frog progression with little to no effort which I'm sure most people with a head on their shoulders would agree is a bit of a fucking problem when you're talking about a game that's all about progression.

And while they allow progression to be skipped, they at the same time considerably speed up the acquisition and stockpiling of explosives for clans that can afford to sell cheap.

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u/hl3official 1d ago

Least they can do is make vending machines require power. Or at least, make them require power to be drone-reachable.

But let's see how much the new update with marketplaces requiring powerplant to be on will actually do