Fast and Tactical vs Slow and Realistic (Base Building)

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Now that the dust has settled down, I’ll gladly share my opinions.

Some of you may remember that I made my own post about building, which answers pretty well to most of the concerns of the people commenting here by itself, including this:

@MoltonMontro

Congratulations on all these wood walls you get to either store or throw away because you upgraded to metal!

@BobboRoss

The only issue i have with salvaging everything and replacing it is that if there are any freeform objects placed, you have to remove them all before replacing.

Personally, I’m one of these people who thinks that freeforms should be nerfed or utterly gone

Now, if you guys have read my post, there’s 2 things I barely talk about: building materials/tiers and upgrading. Why so? Because everyone seems worried about how materials will affect base resistance against raids and how tiers and upgrading will work and be organized, as there isn’t any clue of how could Nelson sort this out much better compared to 3.x. Either way, here’s what I see as very plausible and really good alternatives:

@Mr.Rawr

If you’ve built a wooden base with pine walls and roofs and stuff, what if you could “fortify” the walls? Like there would be an option to continue upgrading the walls to a certain level with planks of the same wood.

@BobboRoss

I personally think that plain metal bases should not be in Unturned II, but rather upgraded wood buildings. It’s been said a million times but I think that a system in which wood is the main foundation of most all bases would be a lot better than what we currently have. For instance, upgrading wood with sheet metal, brick, etc. would be a much better system because it would A) give a purpose for bricks, B) give bases a more appropriate “makeshift” look, and C) be more realistic because the salvage system at the moment is not the best. Also i want to really stress that 5 metal sheets to create a thicc solid block of metal is not very realistic which is why i think it should be removed from the game.

@MoltonMontro

Tbh I’d really be fine with end-game building materials being a mixture of stone (for structures) and metal (for barricades), like it was in 2.0.

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Now here, what I don’t agree with:

@Kylie

The way I would go between both grounds is by having the player simply craft the upgraded structure, then simply place it on top of the corresponding structure (which takes aeound 1.5 seconds to install) and it will be automatically replaced

For me, this seems more like a workaround for 3.x’s tedious building system. In UII, this would be unrealistic, and kinda OP.

@Kylie

We could also go for the Rust-ish method… which is done by simply collecting the required items for the upgrade, but when we actually upgrade the wall, it would have a specific timer (just like how crafting in Rust needs a timer). You can move away to go hunting while the timer runs out, and when it does, the wall upgrades whether you’re near it or not

I agree with proper crafting and building time, but making it like that makes it feel like all stuff self-constructs, and it isn’t realistic.

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