Rust is the best game I ever played. It has the highest highs and the lowest lows - and I think that is the equation to a perfect game. I've always thought Cod 4 was my favorite game, for sure it used to be, but this is it now. If you know nothing about Rust, its a first person shooter with building and crafting involved, like a COD/Minecraft. It's like Minecraft? ♥♥♥♥♥ n*gga that's all you had to say.

You start out as a naked guy with a rock. And nothing else. And you craft your way up to the point where you have an enormous castle with rocket launchers and C4, and everyone fears you - and they do fear you if you're the big guy in your little region of the map. The maps are often enormous, and the servers are 200-300, the team sizes vary between server to server. When you die, you lose all your sh*t, but you respawn back in the same ongoing world. They wipe the servers on different schedules. Sometimes it's weekly, sometimes it's monthly.

There's basically a technology race going on in the game constantly. Where people are trying to acquire resources to research items like guns and armor and if you want an AK47 (best gun in the game) you gotta find one first, and research it through the ingame interface with scrap metal.

There's a level of tediousness to the game. 45 minutes of gathering metal scraps won't get you much scrap. For 3 days - 6 of us worked for 2/300 hours to find an AK47 or kill someone who had it, and we never got one. Nothing is in the same class as the AK47 - it dominates everything else. It's a full automatic assault rifle whereas the tiers below it are submachine guns and semi automatic rifles. If somebody sees you and their rocking their AK and you've got your SMG..they melt you - in what seems like a fraction of a second. It has a very difficult to control recoil pattern, it's a very difficult gun to use but it's definitely the best gun in the game.

Numbers is very important. Early on, we could use numbers to rush people with longbows - even if the guy had a handgun we'd mow him down with archery fire and we'd take his handgun. We didn't always have 6 people online, and there's a lot of grinding, a lot of: mining for resources, killing people and taking their resources, and you get random junk like screws and nuts and bolts and you have to take it to a recycling place and putting it in this machine and press go, and then it makes a loud noise that people will come to.

There are nerve racking periods where your heart is absolutely pounding because so much is at stake. Hours of work are at stake on a regular basis. Nighttime is pitch black, you can't even see your own hand. If you have a torch, you're a beacon to everyone around you.

I'm pretty good at negotiating with people ingame, and bartering with them and becoming allies with people on the server. People spawn naked, so it's easy to tell when someone isn't a threat when they're naked.

It's important to setup your base in the right area. The map is like 4-5 different biomes, there are: snowy areas, desert areas, wooded areas, tropical areas. The resources are: stone, metal, sulfur, and wood. And they're plentiful. If you're in the forest there's more trees, if you're in the mountains there's more rock. The real thing people do is, once you get to a certain level, you don't chop trees anymore; you kill people and take their trees.

Once you become the bully, you become the guy everyone fears - like you roll out with 6 AK47s and kill anyone you see, you take their loot. Instead of chopping trees for an hour and getting 20,000 wood, you kill one guy and you get his wood in 5 minutes. You become the guy who takes from others, a warlord essentially. There's a snowball effect that is rapid if you're doing that sort of thing.

There are missions in the game, cards you find randomly: blue, green, red; you go on a quest and solve a puzzle and you get a lot of loot.

When you run around naked in this world, you find different types of individuals. Sometimes you can run up to somebody and be like, "Hey! You can have my torch and rock if you'd like em, but I'm just going that way - kill me if you want, but I'm just going that way." and sometimes they'll be like "Nah man, need some food?" when indeed I do need some food because I'm literallly starving.

I need me 8 men. 8 nerdy, nolife men. We're gonna be doing one thing and one thing only: killing nakeds. If you're out there, I'm looking for people who are good at PVP. I need 2-4 guys that are good at PVP and know high level base design. I don't want some people who are going to play for 2 hours a day... if you can't put in an 8 hour shift it's probably not going to work. And you need to be 18 years or older because I don't play with children unlike some people[twitch.tv]. No offense to anybody. I'm looking for some grown up men (or women) who are into this game, who are good at PVP, and know what's up. We want to start up on a freshly wiped server and we want to grind hard with 6-8 men and own our corner of the map. I don't like being bullied by my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ neighbors.

I've been biting my tongue about the minecraft parallels but they're there. It's exactly like minecraft factions, which is a gamemode we ran, and then the idea of the amount of time and effort you put into it is huge. I lived this for years, I know all about this. Parallels all over, we all agree, it's exactly like minecraft factions but it has an updated aesthetic. It's what minecraft should've been, because minecraft was described as cringy for years, especially right when I was exiting and its like "cringy? aww man" but I get it. It's also the ingame player groups is quite young in that, whereas a lot of grown ass men play rust. There's a lot of roleplayers too; weird, incestuous, homosexual, and S&M type relationships that go down in these servers. There's a lot of calling each other daddy, BTW.

Different ingame specialties come across these games too, like, "hey, I need a guy that can do this mind numbing task for 12 hours. You don't need much talent - you're the scrap metal souvenir hunter and that's your job, you get to be on our team despite the fact that you suck at video games if you're willing to do that.

and you really have a lot of time, if you just flunked out after your Fall term and you don't really have a plan for January, we're looking for a guy who enjoys finding scrap metal in Rust. I need a guy to mine sulfur for me for 15 hours a day. If you're willing to work 12 hours a day for me mining sulfur, we might be able to find some monetary compensation for a guy like that. I might pay you actual cash for sulfur - if you're willing to put in 12 hours a day. every. single. day. and mine sulfur for me.