Auto Turret Limit

[ZombiePumpkin]

Now that it's had time to marinate for two months how do we feel? Personally I think if I have the capability to power 30 gd turrets then I should be able to no questions asked. Does anybody actually believe this is a good thing?

To quote the devs, "There is no hard limit on the number of turrets you can deploy, only a limit on the number of turrets to be activated at any one time within 40m. For example, you may choose to enable 12 of your outdoor turrets but keep your indoor turrets disabled or you can set up smart circuits to detect players and power up turrets when needed."

The change is arbitrary at best. A limit of 12? Why 12? Why not 11 or 13? Why not 3?

Also if the whole point of making a turret limit is to put a hard cap on the turrets, then why offer a solution in the form of "smart circuits?" Why create a problem then offer a solution? How does that make sense?

The devs claimed turrets were being "abused" without any other elaboration but that doesn't seem justifiable to nerf them. It's an ambiguous claim that doesn't provide any real explanation. Where is the section in the rust handbook that discusses appropriate auto turret usage? Are turrets abused because people put down a lot of them? Geez, it's almost like people put down as many turrets to slow down / discourage an offline.

Who was facepunch catering to when they made this update? Did they want more people to offline raid? Did they just decide solos and small groups can go ♥♥♥♥ themselves?

TL;DR: The turret limit is stupid and arbitrary at best. I'd like to know what facepunch was thinking because it seems they don't even know themselves. But please, provide your own input. This is just my own opinion.

[JohnnyCanuck]

No input. 100% agreed

[DICKENS CIDER]

yeah agreed . I always see people claiming outrage but I never actually seen any outrage . kinda like the butter, syrup and rice. I never seen anyone actually upset but then bam its gone and they say it was cause of outrage. I am in these forums a lot and never seen posts on turrets being op . doing a search does not really show much either.

[Guts]

Having played a ton of ark, I can safely say that the rust turrets are not overpowered. At least you can shoot rust turrets to disable them. That's not possible in ark until you've already gotten all the techs. The turret cap in ark made sense, but the way they've implemented it in rust makes no sense. If I can just build smart circuits to activate turrets on nearby players, that's not a nerf. That's a tradeoff. More expensive, but more effective. And it makes the turret limit pointless.

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[Frieza]

The turrets limit is proof of the devs incompetence to improve the game, they say it's to make it "easier" for raiders, but it's just about windmills lagging the servers.

Next time limit bases floors to 2 or something.

[Guts]

Originally posted by aWarZiLLa:

Next time limit bases floors to 2 or something.

I actually would like to see them nerf stability. Wider bases instead of taller. Make spikes and rooftop turrets mean something. You'd see more proper fortresses instead of roof camping towers.

[_KC76_]

Originally posted by N473:

Originally posted by aWarZiLLa:

Next time limit bases floors to 2 or something.

I actually would like to see them nerf stability. Wider bases instead of taller. Make spikes and rooftop turrets mean something. You'd see more proper fortresses instead of roof camping towers.

I would legit be impressed, if they could code in to make Stability story-Level based ..
Twig Foundation supports 1 twig level
Wood Foundation supports 2 levels; Wood 1st, twig 2nd
Stone Foundation supports up to 3 Levels: 1st Stone, 2nd Stone OR 2nd Wood and 3rd twig
Sheet metal, 4 levels; 2 Sheet metal, one stone, and one wood
Armor, 5 levels: 1 armor, +4 sheet metal
.. or something similar.