{"id":134,"date":"2016-11-02T18:03:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2016-11-02T18:03:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:03:06","slug":"new-month-new-wipe-new-crafting-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"New Month, New Wipe, New Crafting System!"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the new month and new wipe, I\u2019ll be rotating our server to a North American-based server for a couple of reasons. \u00a0First, I promised our NA players that we would; it\u2019s really only fair that our player base get the opportunity to take turns between having 20ms ping versus 100ms ping. As someone who\u2019s been playing from NA on an EU server this whole time, trust me: \u00a0Don\u2019t panic. It\u2019s not a big deal, at all. \u00a0The other NA players and I did just fine these last three months. \u00a0The second, and much more important reason is this:<\/strong> It\u2019s no secret that our server host has been kind of shit at maintenance and stability for Rust, and with the server based in France, our host has been able to tapdance around American consumer protection laws that would otherwise require them to either fix the server or refund our money. By moving the server to a US-based location, it gives us a lot more leverage to be able to actually force things to get done and to make the server actually stable and reliable, which have been big issues at times.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be closely watching the dev feeds and package releases tomorrow and expect that we\u2019ll be up just a few minutes after the server packages are released. \u00a0Tim has been kind enough to reach out over some social media channels to spread the word about our server, to invite some new folks to visit us during this awesome new phase, and to unleash some exceptional mayhem!<\/p>\n

Due to the changes coming both to the map and to the crafting system, we won\u2019t be doing a map vote this month, and I\u2019m going to hold off on setting up an event schedule until we have a better idea of what the new crafting system looks like; I don\u2019t want to risk early game imbalance. \u00a0I will be doing some testing with supply signal drops and drop rates, as well as some testing with barrel drops, during low-population times. If it looks like presents and signals won\u2019t break the game for folks, we\u2019ll get back to using those as our daily giveaways and running some events that will give people a chance to win some new goodies. \u00a0Until we\u2019ve got a little more data on balance and loot propagation, expect events to be more along the vein of our primitive arena, labyrinth, and hunger games events.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"