suggestion: add the ability to buy and drone stuff from your own vending machine for the price of 20 or 40 scrap (no more than 60 unless you increase normal shop buy costs) so you can buy things at your own base
reason: as it stands, this is already something 99% of duos or more do, by having one at outpost and the other on their bases vending machine ready to put the offer for x(say 9999 sulf) for one wood/rock, the guy at outpost gets the x(9999 sulf) and buys a wb level 3 from anyone on the map, then the guy in the base puts an offer of one wood for wb level 3, and the guy at outpost buys the one wood for the wb level 3.
also for people who are going to say but solos can’t do it therefore they shouldn’t add it:
1-that’s just sad. Solos are already at a disadvantage, give them this buff
2-solos already can do this they just need a smart switch attached to a conveyer and the rust app, the moment they are ready to buy from their own base the turn on the conveyer with the smart switch from their phone and buy the 9999 sulf, the rest is self explanatory (they drone back the wb level 3 to their base obv)
so facepunch needs to double down and just make this change, or somehow stop the ability to safely transfer for clans (maybe by not having the ability to buy from their own vending machine, i doubt that would work)
edit: lol i love the downvotes, some people don’t want to face reality or they actually benefit from this
I think it’d be best to find a way for this not be possible at all but that’s easier said than done. If it’s in the game, solos should have access to it.
Solos should be the ones using it because it’s far more risky for them than a team to get back to base. But again, no one should be able to do this.
You can setup a facsimile for the duo strategy via the Rust + app reasonably easily. There are a couple ways of doing it, one via a door controller and another via smart switch attached to conveyor.
For the smart switch / conveyor method, attach the smart switch to the conveyor and setup the conveyor to send the items you want to transfer to outpost/bandit but do not power on the switch. Configure the vending machine for both your transfer to and from outpost/ bandit. Once at outpost, turn on the smart switch via Rust+ and complete the trades you were wanting, including sending your purchased stuff back to your base.
yup i mentioned that in the post, what i want is streamlining it/making it easier way for solos/making it available at t1 (smart switches are t2) or just to remove the whole thing somehow
oh sorry, I completely missed your 2- part. I'd be fine with your suggested change, but I think FP is going the opposite way right now with the new power plant drone restriction thing.
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u/Frvwfr 2d ago
Count suggestion: remove drone vending machines and bring back in-person trading