There is some good shit that is restricted in the construction booklet purely because it is simply unrealistic and what not. But I feel like the restrictions are so heavy right now that there is no longer any benefit to being the person behind the barricades. The whole "peeker's advantage" thing completely outweighs the benefits of being the person defending right now in my eyes. I agree, a defense shouldn't look like motherfucking fort knox. There was (and I'd assume still is) a massive controversy on "limiting movement" with wooden boards inside bases. I for one had nothing wrong with it, til the point someone was creating some sort of tunnel system which was op as shit. It provided another advantage to the defenders, as the raiders had to actually maneuver themselves around to get to the people defending, and it really wasn't that cancerous, people just looked at things to blame for dying.
But I mean when shit like this stops being allowed
then I dunno. Maybe some people really hate the living shit out of those types of defences, which I can understand. But they aren't even close to as bad as they were 2 to 3 years ago with people having elevated one way shit and various other clash of clans looking ass defences. There's just more and more things restricted, but is there actually a benefit to that other than limiting "creativity"? I really feel like the staff team should talk about the booklet a bit more and loosen some things rather than making raiding a piece of cake, nobody uses puffer mart anymore to grow so most raids tend to be CQC or fairly close range (unless outside), meaning the person behind the barricade has half their body exposed anyway when the raider runs in. If you really care that much, then just go craft a bomb for 10k to blow their defense to bits. I didn't care about what defense someone had, it was meant to be a surprise and a bit of a challenge to not know what you're going to face. But now you pretty much are guaranteed its just a bloke behind a set of barricades on one side of the property. When I first started out me and my friends used to build some retarded shit, but it worked and gave us the upper hand, until we used to get bombed, which was still far more fun than just getting rushed without the use of a bomb, because the raiders now have nothing stopping them from doing so.
New players now more than ever rely on defenses because of the marksmanship system which hurts them a shit ton, and let's rich people have a huge upperhand in shootouts. It's a joke how a new player has to sit behind 3 barricades and a low marksmanship, versus a guy who has got it either maxed out, or at a significantly higher level and has more experience.
also stuff like this which contradicts each other and basically means that you must have 3 entrances to parker theoretically.
just wanted to get that out there :]