Is boss rushing ruining public server play or making things interesting for all?

[Lardee]

If you're going to rush, common courtesy is to let others know what you're doing to give them the option to join in.  There are exceptions to this rule such as CC or FW since they're uncommon targets on pubs that get abandoned in Winter, but for the readily available obstacles like Ruins, DF, BQ, and even Toadstool, best to let the server know what you're doing and ask if anyone wants to join.

Although none of this applies to Maxwell players since shadow prisoning bosses ruins everyone's fun.

[WendyHater9000]

Survival pub server force u to do thing fast. Once u left the server even for 5 min, there's a high chance for it getting reset.

For me, I was once like others, I can't do boss rush, but I love to play in pub server because interacting with random ppl are fun.

But I soon find out that if I keep playing in pub server, I won't be able to enjoy the full content in dst because I need to sleep and server will get reset.

Instead of playing in single player, I start speeding up my bosses fighting pace, being able to kill fw and cc at d40 now.

And there's a phenomenon I observed in pub server. No matter u kill bosses fast or not, player that don't have goals will leave the server in Winter anyway.

All they've done in server is leeching in base eating food and afking, and now u are telling me boss rushing will cause those players leave?

Those who got urge to learn will learn no matter u kill bosses or not. For those who want to do bosses slowly, they will ask to join the bosses if u are doing it anyway.

U can't deal with moon storm? Then don't enter it. U can't fight brightshade? Learn to fight or learn to build brightshade preventer. U get killed by shard rain? Get under the tree to prevent it. U can't deal with acid rain? Learn to make miner hat+umbrella. U can't deal with ink blight? Just don't fight it.

In general, dst is all about learning, just get good and stop blaming ppl for being good.

 

Oh btw, this is not for endless server. Rushing in first year without doing together is kinda ass

Edited May 8, 2025 by kevindaze

[Frosty_Mentos]

On 5/6/2025 at 10:15 PM, Well-met said:

I wish random starter season was the game default

That would not help anything and rather harm playerbase more. New players know this is a hard game, least we want is to discourage them from playing completely.

[Hungry French]

Boss rushing ruining has a lot in the game, even in solo. But you can't control it if you want to play normally with random people. Rush Ruins, Moon Island. It's just as bad.

[Waynel]

At least something happens when an experienced player joins a public survival server because most of the time those servers are a time bubble of sheer emptiness, people sitting in base doing nothing.

On 5/6/2025 at 8:53 PM, Guille6785 said:

imagine thinking that a public server will last anywhere near long enough for people to eventually kill the bosses at a """normal""" pace instead of everyone just leaving before day 30

generous take I'd personally go with day 20 lol