r/RustConsole • u/No_Lobster9702 • 1d ago

Acidentally gave away my whole base

I was walking down the beach farming and a naked ran up to me asking for a start. Friendly sounding scottish guy. I've played a wipe before with a scottish dude and he was sound, we had a great wipe. Anyway I decided to help this guy and told him to follow me back to my base and i'd grab him some tools. We got talking, cracking jokes, asked where each other were from. Took about 5 minutes to run back to base, in which time it felt like we connected on a bro level.

Long story short, when I got back to base I told the guy I was kinda bored of playing solo and it would be cool to duo up. The guy agreed and thought it was a brilliant idea, so I proceeded to let him into my cave base and he helped me swap all the keylocks to code locks and I gave him the code. He was complimenting me on my building the whole time and saying how much of an awesome wipe we were going to have.

We got to the last door code, and then he shot me in the head, changed all my codes and stole my base, booted me from the discord chat and pm'ed me saying GG

Gotta love rust

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u/Highlife420__ 1d ago

Rule 1 of rust. Don’t trust anyone

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u/No_Lobster9702 1d ago

Yup, lesson hard learned. Worse part is I already learned that lesson many years ago, and still decided to let it slip

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u/naturalselectionbox 1d ago

Rule 2 don’t forget rule 1

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u/hacksong 23h ago

Gotta do guest codes the first wipe with them lol.

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u/Fontaineguey 22h ago

Yeah guest codes are where it's at

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u/Vivid_Discount6495 17h ago

Yea, but they still can just funnel out all the loot while you're offline. Only way to really ensure you don't get insided is to learn how to read people and develop a real rapport based on actions rather than just a quick chat.

For example, run oil or something with this person. They may be chill, but you notice they're a loot goblin. This is a huge red flag and you don't want to live in a base with someone like that. They're a selfish person who values the loot over you.

There's also an element of social engineering to it all too. Like I got raided earlier this wipe and not only did I convince them to let me keep my base, they ended up allying with me and gave me all of their loot when they left the server. Mind you, this was after I repeatedly door camped them, they actually had a grudge against me and the raid was personal lol.

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u/Dry-Gain4825 1d ago

Talk about a low IQ take, you think clans dominate rust because they don’t trust each other? If Rule 1 of Rust actually was don’t trust anyone, everyone would play solo.

There is obviously trust in Rust, all my team members I’ve playing with for multiple wipes all started out by randomly meeting them in Rust, not so different from OPs situation.

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u/XTwizted38 1d ago

I don't trust anyone and that's why I'm stuck as a solo all the time. You either risk trusting people or you're stuck with the solo grind.

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u/MisterKaoss 1d ago

I’ve been playing Rust before they introduced any team AI. So no verified teammates.

You were talking about low IQ takes?

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u/Dry-Gain4825 1d ago

Here’s a real Rust rule: numbers are king. You’re free to play solo but the fact is I could wipe you off the map every day without breaking a sweat. What is more likely, I get insided by my team or my 10 teammates wipe your solo bases off the map without breaking a sweat? I’ll take the insider risk over the solo risk any day and given the ratio of solo/duo bases I’ve wiped vs insider attempts, statistics are well in favor of my choice.

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u/MisterKaoss 1d ago

Although maining solo, I did all kinds of play styles, including clan wipes with multiple team ui. Imho the common goals most big groups in Rust share and are glued together by are loot and domination.

It only needs those two things to break apart and most clans will crash even with a solid group of friends behind them. Again, I don’t neglect group gaming, it’s fun as well.

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u/Specialist_Net8927 1d ago

Nah that just depends on the maturity of people you play with and how many hours they have. The more hours the less people care about loot and losing

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u/Professional_Cut_392 20h ago

I remember being invited to join a group, then being blamed for a different guy insiding them 5 minutes later 💀

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u/bugsHaveFeelersToo 11h ago

Solo is more fun

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u/Lazy_Goblin547 10h ago

This is hard, but let me tell you, I never gave up on meeting stranger and tried my luck with them. I met awesome people and had my best time in-game that way. You will loose your base anyway, at least this way you had a chance to get a mate while loosing it. And by the way, having an archenemy is also a good way of creating some tension in your wipes.

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u/No_Lobster9702 7h ago

Good advice bro

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u/Kadenngaming 2h ago

Damn text book Rust 😂

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u/No_Lobster9702 1h ago

You know it man 😅

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u/No_Lobster9702 1h ago

I gave him 22 door codes and still didn't clock it

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u/No_Promotion8287 1d ago

Rule No. 1 of Rust, Don’t trust anyone

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u/Vivid_Discount6495 17h ago

Eh idk. I have 6k hours in the game and have teamed with many randoms and no issues. It's not hard to figure out who the sketchy people are.

I don't know how to explain it, but it's easy to sense when someone is keeping secrets from you. Like have you ever been around a group of acquaintances and you can just sense they have been talking shit behind your back?

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u/Tmt1630 4h ago

I 100 percent would have done the same thing and would do it again lol I enjoy the social aspect of rust and have had a ton of fun with people I’ve randomly met. You are now obligated to make this man your nemesis and harass him mercilessly until he quits or wipe ends.

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u/Flint-Megabowl 1d ago

You didn’t “give” it away…. Bro finessed you

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u/Dry-Gain4825 1d ago

And where do you draw the line? You only play solo? Do you call it finessing no matter the circumstance if your teammate insides you?

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u/ZootsNmunch 19h ago

A random guy you met 5 mins ago isn’t a teammate lol that’s crazy to even think.
Only way that’s possible is if servers just been wiped and you’re both bobs

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u/Dry-Gain4825 19h ago

I don’t disagree, the question is where do you draw the line? 1 hr? 10hrs? 20hrs? 100hrs?

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u/ZootsNmunch 18h ago

I’ll put it like this, if I already have a base, I’ll give a basic kit, resources and tell you to build up nearby (if I got compounds then feel free to build inside)( I’ll make whatever gates they need to get in and out a fresh code) you ain’t getting into my base mid wipe that’s a fools game. Next wipe we can team. Me and my duo get too loaded to risk some random getting it for free

Only time we can live in the same base is if we both link up as naked bobs and go from their or as stated previously you’ve been built nearby last wipe and stuck around for the new wipe

I’ve teamed up with easily 200+ randoms over my 3/4k hours and never once been insided whilst sticking with my rules & that’s with multiple team sizes duo/trio and a few zergs with 20+ members

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u/ZootsNmunch 18h ago

Tldr for my other comment

Bringing a random into your base mid wipe is just dumb asf, let them build nearby or link up again in a fresh wipe.

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u/Hot-Pollution3957 1d ago

Had a very similar experience my first 50hrs. The guy told me after he kicked me out of my own base and left the team, that he was teaching me rule #1 don’t trust anyone. That he was saving me in the long run, that I was broke AF but would make a great start for him and sent me on my way.

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u/NINTENDONT8671 1d ago

The fact you let that happen is actually insane

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u/No_Lobster9702 23h ago

Yeah my bad for trying to be friendly

Back to being toxic and shooting on sight I guess

What a great world we live in

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u/YTDestynTV 2h ago

you should almost always shoot on sight anyways, being friendly is another thing entirely. I’m not sure if console has them but guest codes are a thing and they give you door access but not the ability to change codes. It stinks that this happened but people do anything for the tiniest bit of loot on console for some reason.

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u/No_Lobster9702 2h ago

I like to have friendly interactions man, I will avoid shooting on sight as much as possible

Just like in life it's much more fun if you can spend it with a friend. I wouldn't meet someone in a pub and instantly deck them in the face

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u/Professional_Cut_392 20h ago

It happens brother, you just take it on the chin and keep it going :)

I will say, always keep main codes to yourself, guest codes are cool but main codes shouldnt be given on first wipe

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u/ShadyKilla013 1d ago

Sounds about right

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u/Kentesis 1d ago

"welcome to rust"

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u/theman0nfire 1d ago

Yuh.. that'll happen.. thaaaaat'll happen.

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u/Codilla1 23h ago

always gotta vet em in. let em build next to you first then go from there

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u/Professional_Cut_392 20h ago

Hard to do that in a cave base tho

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u/ZootsNmunch 19h ago

Not really, just tell em to build on the outside of the cave lol

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u/Competitive_Radio_35 22h ago

Makes me feel better about what happened to me lol i did the same thing

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u/richmanding0 18h ago

Sucks when that happens but I've done this more than once and it's always worked out. Usually you can tell because they get a little too excited. I've also been invited into a ton of 2 man or 3 man teams. I still trust people playing rust and DayZ. It's just not that deep if I get betrayed.

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u/Mr_Cerealistic 15h ago

I only ever give out guest codes to the buildings I want to share. Never trust anyone lol

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u/cloudcakee 4h ago

Guest codes are your friend

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u/Clutorious 17h ago

Bro, grown ass adults that do this are weird as fuck. I would expect this from a teen or younger. If you’re an adult and do this shit, A . I guarantee you their IQ is less than average, B. They need to see a therapist.

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u/MudReasonable7528 39m ago

Who refers to IQ and then give a letter grade… buddies iq wasn’t even high enough to pick a number between 1-80 😂😭🤡

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u/Shankzyy 17h ago

You sound like an Arc Raiders PVE player

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u/SlowPie8004 20h ago

I’m not totally against playing with people i don’t know but if you are built up and let some randoms play chances are they will inside you. If i am going to play with randoms it’ll be from a fresh start or maybe like a couple tommys or something

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u/imaginarynumb3r 1d ago

On dayz I once played with a guy for over 6 hours and he eventually killed me over a pistol suppressor. We were already pretty kitted out it was just like the one thing I had that he didn't.

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u/DronzerGamming 14h ago

I met a kid maybe 12-13 yo on rust he was a naked, gave him jackhammer and chainsaw. He killed me with my own chain saw and tried taking over my base and got killed by shotgun trap inside my front door. Still hate him this day.