Scientist Patrol boats#520

Scientists spawn on a boat and can ride it around. Kind of like the scientist that spawns on a road. Makes looting on the sea more dangerous. Can spawn up to 3 scientists on one boat.

In other words R.I.P solos

F for me @MinAu2003

I am opposed to this idea, I like scientists to fight but I don’t want to have to look over my shoulder for patrol boats.

I am strongly against this idea. The sea is the last haven of peace. We already have players in rhibs and minicopters patrolling it, as well as the cargo ship, we don’t need more surface danger.

Wildlife, however, like sharks or whales would be interesting.

Alright guys thanks for the opinions :3
And also what I meant by this is that max 3 or 4 patrol boats spawn on the whole map and circle around the island not billions of boats because that would make the game unplayable :3

Can have a icon that show where this boat its like the cargo

You could also make this the only way to aquire Rhibs is by killing a patrol boat… they dont spawn randomly anymore… like stealing a cop car in old gta…

farming the sea is used by many solo players early wipe(specially on wipe day) since its hectic all around the map for the first to two weeks into wipe solo players(like myself) choose to go calmly farm the sea to avoid any encounters with either big groups or even the road scientists. putting scientists at sea, would make it so that you would have to at least take out a tier 1 weapon(recolver) to go farm which early wipe for us solos is hard.

only have them spawn after a set time like 10-20 mins or if theres a lot of geared guys

Sure, but they have to be deep sea so they dont mess too much with solos

This is the shit that gets roadmapped? Seriously?

I think if this does get added, which I hope it doesnt there should be a max of 2 scientist. One driver one attacker

More NPC’s are alreadys a welcome surprise! Bring more life to RUST! PvE is great.

If they are going to spawn 3 at a time I hope they have decent loot tables