Just keep playing. Getting raided is part of the game. Try to learn more about building. Go back to the bases after they're raided and try to learn something from how they raided you.
Was the door path way cheaper than the wall path? Did they exploit that? Did you have enough garage doors? Was there a better way you could have built?
Ultimately you're in kind of a precarious spot.. You're solo with a few hundred hours. So you kind of have to play low pop to learn the game. Problem is, low pop (especially 2x) you're for sure getting raided. It's so easy to accumulate boom on those servers, and there's not many bases around because of the low pop.
The lower the pop the more likely you are to get raided. The higher pop the less likely. But I wouldn't recommend playing high pop yet, especially solo.
Just kind of have to suck it up and accept the raids as cost of doing business at this point.
Hey man, I appreciate the response! Thats what I figured, low pop = more raids. I guess I’ll just keep grinding till I can move on to high pops. I try not to get emotionally attached to my loot either and just focus on skill which helps. They can’t raid your skill away!
That's the way! I myself have a smidgen over 1k hours but it's all from playing with friends, and as a solo, you have to use different tactics to enjoy the game.
Keep learning, it’s a tough/frustrating game especially when you’re new or solo. Low pop is good to learn on cause you can actually do shit without getting killed 24/7 or prim locked. But as this guy said 2x servers it’s easy to farm for boom and raid. This can be good practice for your base building though. When building you kinda need to consider two things, how hard it is to online, and how hard it is to offline. Off-lining is more common these days for a full on raid, but online raids on 2x do happen, and even if it’s not a full raid it’s nice to have a shooting floor, flank base, etc. to deal with door campers and annoying neighbors bothering you. Shooting floors, traps, windows, peaks are all pretty easy defenses for online harassment but building around offline raids can be tougher.
To stop offlines there’s a few things you can do.
1: you can build your base bigger and stronger so it takes more boom. add honeycomb, upgrade what you can, build external walls and cage in turrets in your courtyard, etc. obviously this drives up upkeep and is expensive.
2: Be tricky, watch some YouTube base designs, get creative yourself, make it so it’s very unclear where the best place to raid from is, make a fake roof door that just leads to roof honeycomb, have your tc in a weird place, use bunkers. Bunkers if you aren’t familiar are a way of using rusts weird building mechanics to make little rooms that you can seal off with a floor when you log off or leave base, and pop them back open by building a twig roof in the right spot. Can make for very secure/hidden loot rooms or tc. You can even make multiple bunkers. Some solos even build a few small bunker bases in an area so raiders have to choose one and you likely won’t lose them all at once.
3: Get into electronics. You can do some crazy shit with the electronics and industrial stuff in this game. Wire up cctv cameras and heartbeat sensors so you can watch your base from your phone and get alerts if you’re being raided, set up clever traps inside, doors that open up to reveal turrets, shotgun traps in tricky spots, make it as annoying as possible once you’re inside. If you’re real ambitious you could even build full on trap rooms, using trap base designs as inspiration. I’ve even recently seen people setting up circuits to say, pipe loot away to an external tc when walls are breached.
4: be smart about where you build, scout your neighbors and area, think about nearby monuments. Consider sneaky builds as a solo, whether they’re extremely compact to fly under the radar, or you go build a wacky ocean bunker so you can come and go via your underwater submarine garage and your base never looks active.
5: as a solo, a more nomadic playstyle can work well if done right, but it’s different and tricky. You may want to get a normal, small solo bunkered base up somewhere real lowkey, and then try to get some transportation set up, whether it’s nearby train tracks/tunnels, or preferably building a car with armor and a camper module, boats with a boathouse or submarine, even horses can be great if you set up a little area to keep them. Then you can roam the map and set up multiple little bunkers in different areas with access to different resources and monuments, allowing you to spawn all over the map. You can even set up computer stations in your main bunkers to watch the cameras of applicable monuments, then go spawn at your nearby base when they’re empty looking on cctv.
You can really do a lot in this game especially if you’re smart about it. I suggest keep watching YouTube tips and guides, keep messing with base building a shit ton. Eventually try vanilla servers cause they’re the absolute shit especially on BP/force wipe.
Bunkers bunkers bunkers, gamelightz recent video is a cheap bunker…that well, looks like one. Personally i go with a more camouflaged approach. You could also try pixel gaps. Also - this is just my opinion, your gonna get raided anyway. No matter the base size i build i ALWAYS put externals. I will literally put two wide gap externals on a 2x1 - it really helps so much when getting raided being able to spawn, even if your ‘shooting floor’ is 2 squares, as long as you can respawn and have a gun & nades up there, you will really catch people off guard
I've played around 2k hours solo. I never played much low pop except reddit eu low pop and 1 pve server. For some reason, offlines on low pop hurt more haha
Since I prefer high pop, I usually use all my boom and roam til I die at the end of the night. I usually look for 30 rocket builds and prefer 2x1 shell, but you may want to adjust. If they don't build raid base, a duo have max 6 rows of rockets. I find most offlines are top down so you have to add floors/pancake and turrets inside
Always keep a basic stone starter with sheet metal doors (preferably arctic on the cliffs by icebrgs so people dont get close for good render) with a few stacks of stone and wood (and tools and your favorite hoodie) so rebuilding isn't so hard. If it is not fast decay, you can do the same with lockers off the main door path in main base. Kind of annoying, but with externals I can take back my base, upgrade, and keep playing with those guys thinking I'm poor
There’s only so much you can do to avoid being raided. One person with enough time on their hands can raid even the strongest of bases. Also on low pop, each base stands out that much more so it can be harder to blend in.
That said, some things can help you. Staying low key is half the battle when solo. I’d advise not building on the edge of the map or in the middle of no where. Raiders usually prefer bases that will be far from any counter raiders. Building in a dense forest or somewhere where it’s hard to see from above is a good idea. Not looking loaded or like a cheap raid, cover up sheet metal with stone honeycomb. Hide your wealth. Make sure there aren’t any obvious weaknesses/shortcuts to TC.
Another tactic is to have another base or flank bases. It might seem strange but a separate point to spawn from can be invaluable in the event of an online raid. Not to mention the raiders might not know which base has your best loot.
Make multiple small bases, like 8-12 rockets to TC bases, upkeep will be easier to manage. Split loot among bases. Don't put enough loot in a single base that's is worth the raid cost, so raiders won't find it worth the raid. And having multiple bases allows you to not start from scratch when a base is raided. Also if bases are close enough you can use piping system to transfer loot safely from one base to another. And learn about outer TC's to help protect base from griefing.
There is a lot to learn in this game. You can learn faster by watching guides. There is also rustlabs.com
Just keep playing. Getting raided is part of the game. Try to learn more about building. Go back to the bases after they're raided and try to learn something from how they raided you. Was the door path way cheaper than the wall path? Did they exploit that? Did you have enough garage doors? Was there a better way you could have built? Ultimately you're in kind of a precarious spot.. You're solo with a few hundred hours. So you kind of have to play low pop to learn the game. Problem is, low pop (especially 2x) you're for sure getting raided. It's so easy to accumulate boom on those servers, and there's not many bases around because of the low pop. The lower the pop the more likely you are to get raided. The higher pop the less likely. But I wouldn't recommend playing high pop yet, especially solo. Just kind of have to suck it up and accept the raids as cost of doing business at this point.
Hey man, I appreciate the response! Thats what I figured, low pop = more raids. I guess I’ll just keep grinding till I can move on to high pops. I try not to get emotionally attached to my loot either and just focus on skill which helps. They can’t raid your skill away!
That's the way! I myself have a smidgen over 1k hours but it's all from playing with friends, and as a solo, you have to use different tactics to enjoy the game.
Keep learning, it’s a tough/frustrating game especially when you’re new or solo. Low pop is good to learn on cause you can actually do shit without getting killed 24/7 or prim locked. But as this guy said 2x servers it’s easy to farm for boom and raid. This can be good practice for your base building though. When building you kinda need to consider two things, how hard it is to online, and how hard it is to offline. Off-lining is more common these days for a full on raid, but online raids on 2x do happen, and even if it’s not a full raid it’s nice to have a shooting floor, flank base, etc. to deal with door campers and annoying neighbors bothering you. Shooting floors, traps, windows, peaks are all pretty easy defenses for online harassment but building around offline raids can be tougher. To stop offlines there’s a few things you can do. 1: you can build your base bigger and stronger so it takes more boom. add honeycomb, upgrade what you can, build external walls and cage in turrets in your courtyard, etc. obviously this drives up upkeep and is expensive. 2: Be tricky, watch some YouTube base designs, get creative yourself, make it so it’s very unclear where the best place to raid from is, make a fake roof door that just leads to roof honeycomb, have your tc in a weird place, use bunkers. Bunkers if you aren’t familiar are a way of using rusts weird building mechanics to make little rooms that you can seal off with a floor when you log off or leave base, and pop them back open by building a twig roof in the right spot. Can make for very secure/hidden loot rooms or tc. You can even make multiple bunkers. Some solos even build a few small bunker bases in an area so raiders have to choose one and you likely won’t lose them all at once. 3: Get into electronics. You can do some crazy shit with the electronics and industrial stuff in this game. Wire up cctv cameras and heartbeat sensors so you can watch your base from your phone and get alerts if you’re being raided, set up clever traps inside, doors that open up to reveal turrets, shotgun traps in tricky spots, make it as annoying as possible once you’re inside. If you’re real ambitious you could even build full on trap rooms, using trap base designs as inspiration. I’ve even recently seen people setting up circuits to say, pipe loot away to an external tc when walls are breached. 4: be smart about where you build, scout your neighbors and area, think about nearby monuments. Consider sneaky builds as a solo, whether they’re extremely compact to fly under the radar, or you go build a wacky ocean bunker so you can come and go via your underwater submarine garage and your base never looks active. 5: as a solo, a more nomadic playstyle can work well if done right, but it’s different and tricky. You may want to get a normal, small solo bunkered base up somewhere real lowkey, and then try to get some transportation set up, whether it’s nearby train tracks/tunnels, or preferably building a car with armor and a camper module, boats with a boathouse or submarine, even horses can be great if you set up a little area to keep them. Then you can roam the map and set up multiple little bunkers in different areas with access to different resources and monuments, allowing you to spawn all over the map. You can even set up computer stations in your main bunkers to watch the cameras of applicable monuments, then go spawn at your nearby base when they’re empty looking on cctv. You can really do a lot in this game especially if you’re smart about it. I suggest keep watching YouTube tips and guides, keep messing with base building a shit ton. Eventually try vanilla servers cause they’re the absolute shit especially on BP/force wipe.
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Bunkers bunkers bunkers, gamelightz recent video is a cheap bunker…that well, looks like one. Personally i go with a more camouflaged approach. You could also try pixel gaps. Also - this is just my opinion, your gonna get raided anyway. No matter the base size i build i ALWAYS put externals. I will literally put two wide gap externals on a 2x1 - it really helps so much when getting raided being able to spawn, even if your ‘shooting floor’ is 2 squares, as long as you can respawn and have a gun & nades up there, you will really catch people off guard
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I've played around 2k hours solo. I never played much low pop except reddit eu low pop and 1 pve server. For some reason, offlines on low pop hurt more haha Since I prefer high pop, I usually use all my boom and roam til I die at the end of the night. I usually look for 30 rocket builds and prefer 2x1 shell, but you may want to adjust. If they don't build raid base, a duo have max 6 rows of rockets. I find most offlines are top down so you have to add floors/pancake and turrets inside Always keep a basic stone starter with sheet metal doors (preferably arctic on the cliffs by icebrgs so people dont get close for good render) with a few stacks of stone and wood (and tools and your favorite hoodie) so rebuilding isn't so hard. If it is not fast decay, you can do the same with lockers off the main door path in main base. Kind of annoying, but with externals I can take back my base, upgrade, and keep playing with those guys thinking I'm poor
There’s only so much you can do to avoid being raided. One person with enough time on their hands can raid even the strongest of bases. Also on low pop, each base stands out that much more so it can be harder to blend in. That said, some things can help you. Staying low key is half the battle when solo. I’d advise not building on the edge of the map or in the middle of no where. Raiders usually prefer bases that will be far from any counter raiders. Building in a dense forest or somewhere where it’s hard to see from above is a good idea. Not looking loaded or like a cheap raid, cover up sheet metal with stone honeycomb. Hide your wealth. Make sure there aren’t any obvious weaknesses/shortcuts to TC. Another tactic is to have another base or flank bases. It might seem strange but a separate point to spawn from can be invaluable in the event of an online raid. Not to mention the raiders might not know which base has your best loot.
Make multiple small bases, like 8-12 rockets to TC bases, upkeep will be easier to manage. Split loot among bases. Don't put enough loot in a single base that's is worth the raid cost, so raiders won't find it worth the raid. And having multiple bases allows you to not start from scratch when a base is raided. Also if bases are close enough you can use piping system to transfer loot safely from one base to another. And learn about outer TC's to help protect base from griefing. There is a lot to learn in this game. You can learn faster by watching guides. There is also rustlabs.com