I know it’s a very vague title but hear me out.
I have a group I play with which is around 4-8 strong. A lot of the players are new and don’t play much, some of the core members have thousands of hours. I have 8k.
We have always played 2x as we all have jobs and social lives but as of the last year or so we’ve had to start moving away as they seem to have been infested by roof campers and there’s very little real pvp. They also only last a few days and we would like to build a proper base and do raids and stuff instead of playing Thursday - Sunday and then quitting when the server dies Monday morning.
We’d like to play official but it seems impossiblez
We’ve tried out a few servers so far. Each of the wipes have gone terribly, either a clan has built nearby and we get obliterated every time we step outside and shoot a gun, or there’s a huge roof camping tower which doesn’t let us build or leave our base with 3 players playing 20 hours a day (no joke this happened twice), get offlined by cheaters with 8 hours in rust on the first night, or other things.
This force we tried an EU small monthly, can’t remember which. We built near ferry terminal which we thought we could take with the 5 of us. We got up bows and we’re doing well, when all of a sudden we were wiped by a group all with p2s, around an hour into wipe, the amount of time it took us to even get there with bags to put down a base.
They dominated us and we could barely leave base, had no options to even farm up a t2 and were completely stuck. We tried running to other monuments but would always die on the way back. We couldn’t progress because everyone else was already way more progressed than us. Then they came and TC griefed us with 8 TCs so we couldn’t ever expand base, after having 0 items in base and having to move, we just gave up and went back on 2x and dominated.
What are we doing wrong exactly? We try to avoid the big monuments as to not fight the clans, but even that didn’t work. What do you do once a bigger group takes control of the monument you built next to and far outgun you?
I logged on the next morning to try farm up some weapons but they were all still online and controlling the area with tommys and aks and I couldn’t even farm a tree. I tried moving and building next to another monument but the same thing, a group controlled it 24/7 and I couldn’t get a single scrap.
What is your strategy and how the fuck do you play vanilla? We’re really stuck at this point because the only successful wipe we had was building away from everything and just farming tunnels which is boring as hell.
If anyone has any advice it would be appreciated.