a long time ago the sandstorm did damage to structures no matter what type of server you were on, but then they changed it. that definitley kept people from building large and bases in the storm path were rarely seen, with the storm hitting at least once per hour, you could come back from work or school and every piece of your base was at half health and if you had a large base, the rest of your night was spent fixing it. which made people build more sensibly rather than extravigant, lol the good ol days