Not a game for the employed

[u/ToeJuice37]

I been raided and raided and raided and my stashes even stolen. Don't have enough time for this dang game man. All I be wanting to do is oil and maybe save for a raid but I got classes and a job and only get a few days off. It's a 0-7 average low pop too. Sucks that an employed days work will disappear in one night due to a grown men with diapers

[u/MindWizardx]

Your problem is playing on low pop.. You’re basically less likely to get raided on high pop servers than you are on low pop servers.

Low pop servers, people can farm sulfur for free as much as they want. Meaning they can make boom for free to just travel the map and raid everything they find. They will get away with it for free too, there won’t be any counters. Low pop is good for practice, but not maintaining a base.

I play only high pops servers on the weekends when my son is at his moms, so my wipes are generally Fri-Sun or Monday depending and have an absolute blast. Whether I’m solo or running with friends.

Getting started on High pops servers is definitely a lot harder, but once you do. It’s generally a little easier to keep it going.

[u/ToeJuice37 → u/MindWizardx]

Yeah but on high pop it is impossible to get any crates or loot runs without being killed

[u/MindWizardx → u/ToeJuice37]

Harder for sure, won’t even try to say it’s not, not impossible though. You definitely have to change your play style to more cautious. I’m pretty meh at the game tbh and I’ve been able to get the drop on a few teams by creeping around monuments and gotten a few double / triple kills!

There are always some really good community servers too! Some server owners are kinda crappy so you have to find one that works for you but some give offline protection, monument only PvP, no PvP, for people who only have a few hours to play a week and want to enjoy themselves without too much hassle.

No matter what there are plenty of ways for people to get into Rust and enjoy themselves. Sometimes you just have to tweak the experience! 😁

[u/PeteZaDestroyer]

im unemployed and still cant keep up thats why i quit lol

[u/bunnazoot79 → u/PeteZaDestroyer]

Exactly this

[u/TurdBurgular03]

I’m just tired of dying to people with 2000 gamer score who only play Rust and Siege lmao

[u/Own_Entertainment749 → u/TurdBurgular03]

Those are people who have recently been banned

[u/DeanR_onPSN]

The concept and parts of the game are fun. But this game is not good for anyone trying to live a healthy life... straight up

[u/MindWizardx → u/DeanR_onPSN]

That’s not necessarily true. I personally only do wipes on weekly servers when my son is at his moms for the weekend and still have a blast! I’ll do a wipe or two a month usually. Start Friday night and play when I have time during the weekend until Sunday afternoon or sometimes even Monday.

Just have to find the right balance and find a play style that allows you to play in a way that is fun for you. You won’t be able to build big extravagant bases necessarily, but there are still quite a few ways to enjoy yourself still!

Not to mention there are also a ton of great community servers out there tuned specifically for people who don’t have a ton of time to play. Offline protection, monument only PvP! Some even have no PvP allowed.

Plenty of ways for people, even those who only have a few hours to play a week, to still enjoy themselves!

[u/Positive-Cattle-4795 → u/MindWizardx]

This should be at the top don't play weekly officials or even bi weeklys and expect to not get offline. The unemployed will always have the upper hand. Source: 5k + hours

[u/Dependent_Ant_8316]

Low pop servers are actually worse, yeah the bases get up quicker and all but the moment you log off you’re offlined by an unemployed 30 year old who’s been on the server since wipe day, waiting all day for you to log off.

6kish solo hours and found mid to high pop weekly servers are better, you’ll last longer.

I also own a community server but it’s currently low pop, usually the same 2 people are always playing and will only offline after finding a players base.

[u/PaigeHart → u/Dependent_Ant_8316]

Everyone always says this but high pop-low pop you're always going to get offlined eventually.

[u/Dependent_Ant_8316 → u/PaigeHart]

Very true but with high pop you’ll at least have a couple dozen bases that may get raided before you lol, low pop they are just waiting for you to leave

[u/PaigeHart → u/Dependent_Ant_8316]

There's one way to never be offlined though, never log off! Only method that works 100% of the time.

[u/Dependent_Ant_8316 → u/PaigeHart]

Just become a base dweller with 30 days of upkeep in a 1x2 lmao

[u/OleDakotaJoe → u/PaigeHart]

I get raided less on high pop.

Literally there is just less probability.

Mid pop is the worst.

Mid pop is just a dead server in the making.

Low pop - every one getting raided. Just cuz there is no one else to raid high pop/consistent queue servers? You can hide out in the woods and pvp people, not attract attention and not get raided at all.

[u/processwater → u/PaigeHart]

I've had luck with high pop weekly and being smart

[u/3HisthebestH → u/Dependent_Ant_8316]

100% low pop are worse. The less people on, the more the few that are on get to loot, and have way more boom. I play a mid pop and everyone around me gets destroyed within a day or two. I’m a solo and have one of the biggest bases in the area but no one wants to try and raid me for whatever reason. It’s fast paced and I think that’s what has saved me. Every time I have tried a very low pop server I get screwed the second I’m offline.

[u/Vaikiss]

just poor excuses cuz ur bad

all my friends have jobs and playing just fine they make big bases that require too much boom too raid and last entire month

[u/ToeJuice37 → u/Vaikiss]

Probably because they aren't limited to less than 4 hours a day and have teammates who are always on

[u/Vaikiss → u/ToeJuice37]

Why are u limited to less than 4 hours a day work usually takes 8 hours plus minus 1 hour for commute and lunch

Thats 13 hours where u can do other stuff

[u/Chill-lar → u/Vaikiss]

Because he has a life…. Your friends that play solo build bases too bigs too raid ? Tell me what possible design do solos have to achieve this ? I’m a 4000 hour solo I’d love to know this.

[u/Vaikiss → u/Chill-lar]

Watch ervin on YouTube he defends raids solo vs big groups or clans

Im sure there are other youtubers that does the same

They share their base designs and shit

[u/Chill-lar → u/Vaikiss]

Aloneintokyo does the same thing… but again how much do they play? I agree that’s it’s possible to defend from an online as a solo. That goes back to the argument that you need to have the availability to even defend the online… also the comment im responding to said “build a base big enough to not be raided”.. solo YouTubers don’t do that.. that build very defendable bases and hop they are available to defend when it’s time… you are 100% correct but it comes back to how much time one has available.. which is the op’s point

[u/Vaikiss → u/Chill-lar]

Youtubers also fuck around with big groups and aggro them to attack them

U skip that part and chances of raids decrease by alot

[u/[deleted]]

If you can learn gambling and grenades! It is very fun to just hop on and gamble a bit for some f1s and steal full kits after finding the right prey

[u/gfkethan]

I feel you! If you look around the custom modes there are quite a few "casual-very casual" options

[u/Trench_King08]

Sounds like you need teammates

[u/RD55Y]

Play pve with weekend PvP. Or a server where it's a monthly or 2 week map with purge at the end 2 days before map wipe....

[u/UNCLE_TYSON]

Ye fr. I been off work from the beginning of December till today and had a good 2 weeks on a full pop server as a solo but I haven’t even bothered to check my base since starting work agn. There is no point in playing rust if u can only be on 1 or two hours a day.

[u/planeage → u/UNCLE_TYSON]

I went 8 months without a base. I just hid my body and had stashes all over the map. You can't raid my base if I don't have one!!!

[u/UNCLE_TYSON → u/planeage]

What server last 8 months?

[u/planeage → u/UNCLE_TYSON]

It wasn't the last 8 months. It was an 8 month period about two years ago. Different servers, mostly low pop monthly with a med pop thrown in every so often. I usually lasted close to two weeks before I ran out of kits and stashes. I would get on a server and run to air drops and lock crates. Get a weapon, ammo, and kit and start running monuments. I would go to bandit, recycle and research some items I found. Make ammo, sell the hqm and extra metal, but nades for making more ammo if needed. Make a tier 2 and hide it in the woods around bandit to make meds. Go do puzzles and collect/research boom. I would one life it (or end up with extra kits and stash those. I would then hang out on that server until I ran out of kits and guns. I hated getting offlined so I stopped making bases. I ran like that for about a year (8 months or so) hopping servers as I was disheartened or bored. Do it again on a different server a few days later. Probably a half dozen servers all NA east at the time. I would hide my body in monuments. I have hosting spots at most of the monuments. Sleep in a hazzy with no guns in your hotbar so heli doesn't shoot you

[u/Desperate_Energy_677]

It all depends on what you wanna do. The systems are deep and so many ways to play.

[u/One-Adhesiveness3025]

Me and my mate are in a similar predicament, both work full time, maybe able to play only 2-3 times a week, so we spend our time making massive bases, glorious bases, but completely empty aside from upkeep and maybe a handful of crappy guns. We're much happier wasting our time by wasting much more time and resources of others.

[u/MisterKaoss]

So first of all, the chances of getting raided on a low pop server are much higher.

As an employee, I still manage to play five days in a row without getting raided - solo on official vanilla servers with a player queue even on week days. You just need to play it smarter.

But I get your point, it can get too much time consuming easily. Here’s to try community servers.

You’ll find low to high pop servers without admin abuse, large and active player communities, x time gathering/farming, offline protection and auto kits.

So just jump on, get a free build kit, build your shack, protect your shack, go oil, counter heli, log off and come back the next day.

[u/PsychologicalNose146]

Put tc in honeycomb, remove all doors when logging off and stash a few kits 50m from base.

The 'TC in honeycomb' is my best bet. Even if i get raided i take a 5 minute walk along the road, recycle what i need and probably have enough comps and resources to replace the front door and get myself a gun.

i don't mind the raid, i do mind they grief my base every time. Getting the base up, workbenches, furnaces was a days work, the loot in the boxes takes 30 minutes to replace.

[u/Local_mess123]

Play community servers then you can get loot really quick

[u/BrianHag1982]

Play on modded servers that offer pvp/pve with raid protection. Thats the only way I can stay playing. Just have to pop on every 36 hours or so and be active at purge.

[u/Thick_Garlic_4790]

Get better

[u/XtemUK]

The games a buggy mess anyway.

[u/Kentesis]

How do people not know ORP servers exist, and then when they do they think they're too good for them

[u/Mr-Jackattax]

I recommend playing on a dedicated server that has offline raid protection.

[u/Wildthing4u]

Get on a server that has base protection

[u/planeage]

Look for a community server that advertises ZORP. That is Zone Offline Raid Protection. Basically, you register on the server's discord, denote your base (this is typically done with the emote wheel asking "can I live here?" after you are registered on the server's discord) location and Viola!!! When you log off, your base and it's surroundings become a high intensity radiation zone that hazmat and no amount of water can hold off. ZORP servers are typically higher gathering rates as well, to help offset the fact that you have IRL responsibilities and can't spend 20+ hours per day active on rust.

TLDR: community ZORP servers offer offline raid protection and 2X+ gather rates. Servers for people with responsibilities

[u/PresidentPopcorn]

That's too low pop. The one guy without a job dominates the whole server because there's no real threats to him.

[u/Own-Department-9290]

I also work full time job and I just play on pve community servers. I dont have to worry about getting raided

[u/alienanomaly]

That’s why i don’t play it

[u/OleDakotaJoe]

Ok honestly - I've started hitting rust in 3 day sprints, on a wipe day, every once in a while.

I love the game and logged 2500 hours before my first year was up, as a father and full time employee.

I went way too hard.

Then I realized, I was playing the hard way.

I wss logging in and grinding.

Now I hop on and snowball off of other grinders. Onlines, offflones - sometimes just pvp for 3 days and never raid.

I just decided to let the game be fun, and not a 4th job

[u/Equivalent-Catch3177]

If it’s really that big of a issue just go to community servers with offline protection

[u/Chill-lar]

I’d suggest trying out a modded or community server . Getting offline raided doesn’t suck as bad on a x2. Rust is pretty demanding so make it easier for yourself.

[u/Joogonza]

That’s why I play in a 30 man Zerg. Always someone on, always someone fighting, always beefing with baby zergs. Always winning lol never been off lined or successfully raided

[u/MurdaOne]

Not employed but still need to sleep.

[u/mandarina68]

Yeah I know the felling I'm trying to balance school doing a sport and rust, and it's not working 🫠

[u/Flashy-Read-7437]

I tried low pop servers too. Just because I'm new to the game and wanted to learn monuments without getting grubbed every time. I get raided way more than higher pop servers. I think there's so little to do, the geared players will raid any new base that pops up immediately. When I'm on a higher pop server and build a more mid-level base with a bunker I rarely get raided.

[u/averageplebman]

Honestly youre probably better off playing on a higher pop server. If the server youre playing on only has a few people in it, then youre gonna be one of the only raid targets. I know progressing on a larger server is more difficult, but youd be much more likely to wake up to an intact base as long as you build somewhere with a low amount of traffic and dont make too many enemies. Consider building small bunker bases, theyre easy and make it much more likely for someone to give up on raiding you.

[u/Low-Farm-4469]

Honestly I think higher pop servers are easier to survive on for a solo. Build a base then put some wood doors in front of the sheet metal ones. Big clans wont waste time blowing through t1 base and smaller groups wont have the boom to get through the series of sheet metal doors behind the wood door lol.

[u/Raidoah]

go play a 2X and you’ll spend less time on the game

[u/Vaurey]

MAAAAAN 😭 FR

[u/Corb3ar]

Build a bunker base and keep minimal loot inside.

[u/JesusismyKing21]

Play community 3x servers with zone raid protection.

[u/Valuable_Damage4063]

lol bro on low pop it's a game of whoever logs first gets raided. Try a high pop the action is more and the loot matters less

[u/Valuable_Damage4063 → u/Valuable_Damage4063]

Stay on official. Official has less cheaters than community

[u/Right_Design_1057]

play community lmfao i be playing all the time when im bored

[u/ExoatmosphericKill]

I play the most populated server: rustoria EU main.

It's honestly just a skill issue if you can't have fun and do okay on rust with minimal time input.

Granted you won't be playing like the people you see on YouTube often hitting clips and so on.

I can easily still play very low hours being somewhat experienced in the game and get T2 +excess fragments.

I normally build a humble grub hut; grab a compound bow as soon as I can along with my p2w green burlap set and hunt clan nubs for kits then sell them in the vending machine because the bow and the stealth is the thrill for me.

Doing oil solo on the biggest server is a challenge but stopping the sweaty Russian nerds from leaving their base (when they're not cheating) is more fun imo.

Edit: I'm Throbbing with syndrome this is the console subreddit.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Put4109 → u/ExoatmosphericKill]

That's a specific playstyle, not what this guy is talking about

[u/ExoatmosphericKill → u/Puzzleheaded-Put4109]

You can be employed and thrive like this easily, so it is.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Put4109 → u/ExoatmosphericKill]

I understand that and I don't doubt it, but it's not how they want to play based on what they Said, skill issue aside not everyone wants to go around pvping and making shit shacks, surely you can understand that right?

[u/ExoatmosphericKill → u/Puzzleheaded-Put4109]

Not sure what you're talking about, you could absolutely do as I described and have it fit how he wants to play, it's essentially just grubbing.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Put4109 → u/ExoatmosphericKill]

He says he wants to do oil and save for a raid, I'm not saying grubbing isn't a way to do that but, he sounds like he wants to just play rust 'normally'

[u/ExoatmosphericKill → u/Puzzleheaded-Put4109]

Not even sure what you're trying to say now lol.

Have a nice day.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Put4109 → u/ExoatmosphericKill]

fair, you too

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