Thank you I was fearful that I was the only reasonable one left on this planet.. Pflame seems to think that the world is COD .. I would like to know how often you get shot at on a daily basis Pflame.. im not talking about game I mean in your real life.. I am guessing its 0. most likely 0 for your whole life.. why is that? oh because man banded together and made laws and protect eachother from random violence.. give your head a shake
Earth. I know it seems preposterous at first, but take a moment and think about it: what is a nation, at its core?
It's a group of people that band together to protect each other. That's what tribes were back in the day, then cities, then countries, then empires. It's all the same thing.
An individual is far weaker than 100,000 individuals. And Rust doesn't really emulate this well because, unlike in the real world, death isn't permanent. People get blue in the face shrilly insisting that the bloody free-for-all that is Rust is somehow "realistic" but in reality, if death was permanent, people would be a lot less keen to go attack everyone they see.
Side note: Ironman servers would be AWESOME. You die? You get banned from the server. Game over, man. Game over. (Or for a slightly less severe form, you lose your blueprints and lose access to your stuff, including hidden stashes.)