I’ve seen a lot of videos on survival game base building and stuff and from what I can tell, just like the MMORPG genre, all the survival games are “updating” down the same path towards the same play styles.

I know I can just build an ugly full foundation block base with multiple layers and random rooms to try and get raiders to waste their explosives guessing but, frankly, that’s lame as hell (to me anyways), it looks like crap, and in reality there is always another player or clan on any given server that puts serious time into the game to the point that there’s no such thing as making them waste resources. I’ve yet to see a server that doesn’t have at least 1 clan that simply does not run out of explosives.

I’m also aware of how to build “unraidable” bases but that’s like playing with cheat codes. Like a hanging sky base where you hang pillar foundations from the ceiling of an overhanging geological formation and have them keep up a floating floor off the ground. If you do it right, other players can climb all over it but there’s nowhere to set bomb jugs, explosions can’t reach your structure, and that new battering ram won’t help because there’s nowhere to stand.

Actually, the thought just occured to me that this might be a moddable issue. Does anyone know if there any good mods yet that restore Thralls to their rightful glory? If not, I may just write one myself.

I just hate playing other people’s private servers. We’ve had admins fly over our bases to spy on us. We’ve also had admins delete the door off of our base to let their friends raid it.

So now I’ve got to spend the time and money to mod the game and run my own server just so I can play some semblance of the game I actually bought.