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Also - I placed a new door where the original had decayed, and everything is totally fine. Still have the double-doors on another part of the base, have a new armored door in place of the decayed one - TC is now working fine and everything is back to normal. Just, highly odd, and I can't imagine that's by design.

So - I logged back in, and everything's back to "normal"? Essentially what I had was, my original 1x1 that had a TC in it. I attached a 1x2 next to it with a different entrance for furnaces and whatnot. That's the one that ended up with the double-door. I tried to put an armored door on, but already had a metal door - ended up with both. At first, everything was fine. But after some hours the door on the 1x1 with the TC and the bag started decaying, and the TC stopped working. (as you can see in the screenshot, saying building decaying) The metal door on the original 1x1 decayed. Nothing else did. Everything else is 100% fine. Once that door decayed, the TC kicked back in, and everything is back to normal. Just highly odd. The mechanics that allow you to place double-doors is odd (especially since there's no way to upgrade/replace doors), and the fact that something totally unrelated decayed, while the rest of the base (and not the new armored door) is completely random. Definitely doesn't seem right, or by design. Like, I could totally understand if the "upgraded" door I placed in the 1x2 was picked up as disconnected somehow. This is just, weird.

It is all connected.

I did on another part of the base, but both of those doors are fine. And I did that a while ago, with no problem. This is only just now after the fact.

Also, the only thing that seems to be getting destroyed, is the door. Everything else is fine. It's a 1x1 with an attached 1x2 under the same TC. The door to the 1x1 is slowly decreasing in HP, but the rest of the structure isn't happy. I know it's my door, because I can still open/close and lock/unlock it. Sooooo I've also destroyed the old TC, crafted and placed a new one, and it's doing the same thing. There's nothing around me, there's no evidence anyone has attacked my base or DONE anything... I can't seem to repair the door with the hammer, and nothing else has any damage at all. But the door is slowly decreasing in HP.

Screenshot...

On US2. Disconnected for the night, Jumped back on. Had multiple days of wood in the cupboard before I got off. Daily upkeep is ~150, and there's over 400 wood in there. I get on, building is intact, no damage, everything's fine. Except - it says "building decaying". I check the TC, and there's still wood in there. There's some minor damage to the door, and it won't allow me to repair. What's going on?

I dont know what the rules are there, but my lord this kid won't stfu. He's been going for like 15-20 minutes now, over and over again.

Here he is in my base, floating thru walls. This should be so easy to detect. Somebody moving on the z-axis when they shouldn't be? Well dang...

This game is in "alpha" and actively under development, but youre not doing any data logging for debugging later? No, that, is not something I understand...

Dude was floating and shit. On US1. Can't seem to upload files, but here's a video on yoYouTube.

Again, seems silly they can't look at the server and literally see it. How else is someone coming in to a base with locked metal doors?

Like, don't take this the wrong way - but if you can't wrap your minds around the concept of "walls are things" - what's the point?

I've posted some extensive things about how to make the game more robust. I've tried to think about things that affect gameplay, but do not require any major programming changes. But all of that is POINTLESS untill you fix the wall-hack problem. it doesn't matter what you do to the game as long as people can just walk into your base, kill you and steal your stuff with impunity. That should be the #1 priority. I was kicked from the server while building, inside my own base. I accidentally blocked myself in while building, and tried to crawl under a foundation to get out of a hole. I *immediately* got kicked for "hacking". And yet, people walk thru walls without any problems? I did a lot of work programming with GPS and vehicle systems. We have a concept of "geo fencing". If I create walls and doors, and they're closed off - that creates a geo-fence. A mathematically defined area of coordinates. If anyone comes in that area - how? Did they enter thru an opening? If you leave a door unlocked, it unblocks an area within that geo-fence. If that geofence is secure, and someone ends up inside that "closed" area anyways? CLEARLY something isn't right. That should be so freaking simple to detect. So if you're going to kick me for crawling under my own foundation - surely you can kick someone for walking thru a goddamned wall. This isn't rocket science.

How anybody allows users to create names that impersonate official accounts is beyond me...

Here's how I would change things to make it immediately more engaging and strategic. Basic Resources can be refined into basic materials. Wood can be crafted into sticks. Metal Ore -> Metal Frags Sulfur Ore -> Sulfur For this - you use basic crafting and the existing basic furnace. For weapons - sticks can be made into Spears and Bows - nothing more. Arrows require metal frags (arrowheads). A "metal spear" requires metal frags (basically a giant arrow). Sticks can be made into a basic hatchet, but not advanced axes or pickaxes. For anything more advanced, you need an advanced furnace, which can take multiple input resources. 2 Metal Frags -> Iron 1 Iron + 1 Charcoal -> Steel 2 Charcoal + 1 Sulfur -> Gunpowder Introduce new materials - Copper and Zinc. Get them randomly while mining any stone or ore, and as a byproduct refining basic materials ores. Introduce scrap that can be refined in an advanced furnace and get different metals out of. 1 Copper + 1 Zinc -> 2 Brass. brass + gunpowder -> bullets. (what would be REALLY cool, is as you fire your bullets, you keep half your brass) Now you also have two more elements that you can combine with basic items to make all kinds of other stuff. I would also split the weapons a little bit. Take the current shotgun and make it a sawed off. Very short range, very high damage, 2 shots. Slow to reload. Becomes a great defensive weapon, or for hunting. Make "rifle barrel" something you can craft from say 3 steel. If you want to make a basic hunting rifle out of it, throw some planks in there, and it's the same thing you have now. Or even make it single-shot, but you automatically "load" it with a bolt/reload animation. Allow it to take a scope, and at the very least zoom 1.5x when you aim without a scope. High damage, high distance, low rate of fire. Assault rifle requires some additional parts - maybe stuff you scavenge but can't craft. Medium Damage, medium range, higher rate of fire. I would get rid of rocket launcher all together at the moment - but maybe make some kind of improvised explosive for raiding? Maybe a pipe bomb that requires a bunch of gunpowder and some kind of advanced crafted item (like, i don't know, a pipe?), and another that's more for people - like a frag grenade. Less gunpowder, lots of metal frags. Does little damage to structures, but lots to people in an area. Building : Absolutely need a way to demolish parts of your own base, and ability to move items (like a furnace, sleeping bag, campfire, etc) that you've already crafted. It's extremely frustrating to build a small base, need to expand - and there's no easy way to build off what you have if you haven't thought it out ahead of time. Require upgrading to stone to require not just farmed "stone" but make stone refinable to "blocks". Raw stone can be used to craft fences/barriers - but if you want to upgrade your base - you need refined/cut blocks. If you want to upgrade to metal - you don't just need metal frags - you need steel, and the steel plates/walls have to be crafted. Oh, and absolutely create some sort of water catcher, more clothing options, and options for getting food. Speed the hunger/dehydration counters up so they actually mean something. Yes, there's more of a "grind" aspect to this, but there's also a lot more strategy, and options for how people can approach the game. The resources are all fairly easy to come by, and by adding different options for how materials are refined and what you turn them into - you have to think ahead a little bit more, and there's more a sense of achievement. It's not just "make a bunch of guns and go after people". You CAN do that still, but it will require a little more work and a little more skill. There's built-in levels of progress based on how you use your resources and how you plan/approach the game. All without changing any mechanics - just adding crafting recipies and a few new items. Places like the gas stations and towns, where "rare items" get dropped become hot spots for PVP. If you're trying to play a more low-profile game, you can still avoid those places - craft the more defensive weapons, and try to fly under the radar.... but you'll lack the firepower of people who go that route. Everything becomes a tradeoff/balance based on how you approach it. And again, with virtually no major reprogramming or rethinking game mechanics. That makes for a FAR more interesting game to play. It doesn't need to have the size/scope of Rust to be something really fun. But there does need to be some options and different routes to take to keep it interesting, and make people feel like they're progressing.

Well, right now - there are no more advanced items to craft in the first place. Soooo

The biggest thing so far - is the "balance" / pace seems to be a bit odd. There's not enough to craft, and it's very easy to jump up to the top tier gear/weapons very quickly. There are very few intermediate steps required, and so few materials - that it all becomes a formality. An axe will get you 300-400 wood in a matter of minutes, but finding ore and sulfur you have to run all over the place, and a handful of hits with a pickaxe and the node is gone. You can make a hunting rifle extremely quickly, and once you kill an animal - you'll have everything you need. A single bear will get you tons of meat, a bunch of leather and bone, and even some cloth(? don't even need to refine it?) Immediately craft some leather clothes, and you can go to the mountains and get all the ore and sulfur you need too. But really you don't even need the leather to protect from the cold, since cold does so little damage, you'll likely run out of pickaxes and axes before you even have to worry about it. Set up 2 furnaces, one for metal, one for sulfur - and you can crank out ammo. There isn't much else to do in the game at that point? Just build storage boxes and stash resources.... The food and water meters are kind of irrelevant. The meters decrease so slowly they don't even matter. The only food source in the game is animals, and again once you kill one or two - you have more food than you'll need for weeks. Water is just an annoyance, since there's no way to collect it or store it, other than water bottles from the gas station. Easier just to stash your stuff and suicide if you get dehydrated. Introduce a tiered system for materials that need refinement. Sticks and Metal frags will get you spears and bows. Metal frags can be refined into Iron, which you can use to craft better tools. Iron can be refined to steel to make high-tier guns, or used to craft components needed to craft guns. Being able to go from some wood, cloth, and metal frags to an assault rifle, just doesn't make sense. Introduce items that can only be collected, and stash them in the loot boxes at the gas stations/town - make them required for building the top-tier equipment. Obviously, this is a mobile game and will likely never be as extensive as rust, and that's okay - but more of that games balance of grinding/crafting/etc would definitely help. It feels like you run out of things to do very VERY quickly in this version. There's no real purpose or sense of achievement or progression in doing anything right now.

The two biggest bugs I've had so far. First, I can't build foundations everywhere in my base. I'll update this with a screenshot later, but I basically have 3 areas where for some reason, it does not allow me to place a foundation or floor. I've had to put stairs in to go down and back up. Pretty annoying. Second, I regularly have items just disappear when transferring from a storage box to inventory. I'll drag the item, and just "poof" gone. It doesn't show back up in the box, and never makes it to my inventory.

Didn't have the chance to get a video, but my ID is B2F1D1DE20B9E081 - Playing on US Server #1 - around 11:00am Eastern. Was on the top floor of my base - all doors closed, nothing built up to get in a window or anything. Got hit in the head a couple times with a spear. Thought he got me thru a window or something so I didn't bother screen recording. Respawned elsewhere in base, ran back up stairs - just in time for him to grab all my weapons and blast me as soon as I got to the top. All doors locked, nothing broken, on the 3rd floor. Guy just disappeared without going thru any of the doors. I believe his name was "Balboo"? Gotta be some way for you to look and see who killed me in my own freaking base. Once with spears, once with (my) assault rifle. I really don't understand why it's difficult to detect wallhacks or irrational movement. I got kicked for "suspected cheating" just for building inside my own base the other day, but these people are walking thru walls without any problems.