Branch base not lasting a day

[SlammerJC]

Can someone tell me why a branch base won't last an entire day cycle? I built a basic base on a PVE server, took me no more than 20 minutes and that's with figuring it out for the 1st time. Found an inflatable and ran back to the trader for a load and when I got back found my base was already staring to fall apart. The walls say 1000 hp (I guess) when built but they were already down to around 350. Bugged or what?

[Macdallan]

Did you build the storage closet in your base and load it up with branches to prevent decay?

[ManMeetsGamez-YT]

Also the more lights and base items you add, the higher the cost gets. Can be jarring after a few little bulbs to make it home takes it from 200 sticks a day to 605.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by ManMeetsGamez-YT:

Also the more lights and base items you add, the higher the cost gets. Can be jarring after a few little bulbs to make it home takes it from 200 sticks a day to 605.

I really think they botched the upkeep system. they probably should just junk it. Make bases harder to build, no upkeep required.

[SlammerJC]

No, I built the chest but didn't have any idea I needed to load it. I really don't like base maintaining. Ugh. Sounds like just a place to have storage chest and a work bench now.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by SlammerJC:

No, I built the chest but didn't have any idea I needed to load it. I really don't like base maintaining. Ugh. Sounds like just a place to have storage chest and a work bench now.

Yeah, it's a pain. Not much fun to sit there grinding resources just to keep your base from falling apart especially when chopping trees and cutting branches is both tedious and vomit-inducing due to the screen shake.

[ManMeetsGamez-YT]

Seems like they took away more than they added. The small base idea works well with the old watch tower they had previously. The land claim system worked extremely well.

Now we have this weird AF system. Hopefully it gets tweaked a bit. Getting dumb to constantly chop when I should be out lootin'.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Memphis:

Originally posted by Macdallan:

Yeah, it's a pain. Not much fun to sit there grinding resources just to keep your base from falling apart especially when chopping trees and cutting branches is both tedious and vomit-inducing due to the screen shake.

No. I think they know exactly what they did - and that's the really painful part of that all.

They want people to force to raid bases - they spent a lot of energy in an offline raiding system that almost nobody wanted. And since the size of a base can be a good protection against raiding, they implemented some things: Explosives do a lot more damage now, and bigger bases are impossible to maintain. Now we can theoretically build bigger bases than before, because one can go much higher - but we can't maintain them. So, bases have to stay small, and that makes raiding much easier.

The devs are not stupid, they just don't care about players' demands - why would they: Old players go, but there are always new players - and new players buy the game and rent servers. Who cares about the veterans of the game from the early days - love it or leave it ist the answer.

Obviously not, you can't raid bases on the PVE and PVP no raid servers.

[Pho' Bich Nga]

3 mins of tree chopping is PITA ?
just build 2 plank mills and work twice the speed.
I make 5 days worth of upkeep in 30 mins. I'd rather not doing anything for upkeep but I can't complain for such little work.

[Radonator]

u can chop enough sticks or logs for planks its bad but not THAT bad, the planer is super fast, and each axe chop is 4 logs an planer makes 4planks each log so 4x ur logs is planks u get. same for sticks 4 per whack. dont take long for me to have enough planks an sticks in that cabinet to base stays 10days. system works.
they have to allow for never-come-backs, or thered be bases every 10 feet lagging out the server.
its the right amount of work for base to last a week or more imho.

the vehicle upkeep however suckoorrrzzz bad. oil n plugs ugghh, cant find enough, and IM LOOKING HARD.. i can only manage enough of them to keep vehicle 24hrs, theyre too scarce, and system uses too many per day its like planks or sticks rate but u cant find 100's or thousands of oil n plugs, or chop wood an make them.

needs a tweak how many plugs OR oil would a bike use in a 24 hours? 16?? no. maybe 2. or oil?. 16 a day?. dang thats a bad oil leak. so maybe 1 machine oil a day. then itd be good... with current amount of those items available now in this version.

not mentioning the little red toolbox that also stems vehicle decay because its very rare and hard to get only on hardest missions an bunkers, and u aint doing those at first when u get a vehicle u need to find oil n plugs an current system uses way too many of each per day.

[FaintPulse]

I'm considering purchasing, but reading this thread makes me dread the idea. (Fwiw, I'm looking to play PVE...maybe move to PVP eventually.) Sorry to interject with a question, but: do I even need to build a base?

[Gog]

Originally posted by FaintPulse:

I'm considering purchasing, but reading this thread makes me dread the idea. (Fwiw, I'm looking to play PVE...maybe move to PVP eventually.) Sorry to interject with a question, but: do I even need to build a base?

You don't need a base at all. You have two safe zone storage areas to work off of. No one can touch that loot.

Then you also have PVP servers without raiding, so your base is totally safe from players, but upkeep is there. You chop a bunch of trees, turn them into planks and you'd have 7+ days and not have to worry about it.

Then there are PVE servers.

Ultimately, I'm sure the Devs will adjust stuff as people play.