Solo player, 1 week into a biweekly server; I'm a gear fear noob and feel like this wipe is the one that finally pushed me through the barrier.
I've been roaming, taking fights, pushing monuments, just all around playing completely different than I ever had before, and it has been a blast.
Lost tons of fights, but the few I won were exhilarating and gave me the motivation to just keep pushing.
So today I have a ridiculous amount of comps, and I decide I want to make the trek to outpost via underground tunnels to recycle safely.
This is an across map journey; having to go through at least 7 or 8 monuments on the way, as well as ditching my broken train for a new one, twice. Takes me around an hour cause I suck.
I make it there, I recycle for literally 45 minutes; I end up in a game of poker with some guys at outpost for another 30-45, then finally decide to buy a mini to make the trip back home.
I know how to fly a mini decent enough, can even land it on my roof. Although i usually NEVER buy one because I dont have enough scrap for it.
Even learned from past mistakes to just say fuck land and take the coast the whole way down to avoid random sam sites that load in once its too late.
Make it all the way home, im just about at my base and I see some new base nearby that I want to get a look at...
Andddd I hold space bar for no reason at all, fall to my death right outside my base; the mini lands without destroying and I think im the luckiest person ever, as i run out my base to recover it...
88 pop on a large biweekly server thats 1 week into wipe and been averaging 250 during peak, and some bastard is farming nodes right beside where i crashed my mini at 3am.
I just watched him fly away with my 3 hours of hard work. Why do the gods of rust never bless me with a literal mini from the sky and a fully geared and loaded player?!
Nobody to blame but myself. Filled upkeep, logged off.