So saying we do nothing when people have been griefing that we are not told about is a bit unfair don't you think?!
Killing fresh spawns?
G0rd from this forum was fresh spawn killed within minutes of spawning.
Problem you have roach, is you (not you personally) create a negative circle when you kill someone needlessly, they feel they can't trust anyone and start KoS and the circle continues.
I was on your server all day yesterday and when Sp00k started to KoS everyone, from then on the server deteriorated into a KoS fest.
The first time i saw him which was in the morning, he was being hunted by a pack of players for being a ****, he realised this and logged. Came back some hours later and initiated an entire server community attitude switch from random acts of banditry to full on death match KoS, which is not fun for building communities.
Witcher will say "How do you stop new players doing this", quite easy. (Not hating on you
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If the community is close enough to frown upon death matching and fresh spawn killings, they will either adjust their attitude or leave as they don't fit in.
Its also not inevitable when people gear up, base raiding is and random acts of banditry, but if your servers attitude is to KoS and death match, then yeah the geared up people will descend into CoD.
What you have to remember is this game is a survival game at heart with multiplayer PvP as a feature. If you want death matching, just have everyone insta craft, all recipes and items not requiring materials.
Or build a death match arena, so those people who are inclined that way can head there.
The sad reality is, i saw in chat a lot that people where getting really annoyed with the KoS and death matching, the group I'm running with which is around 4-6 players roughly, (at least 4 of them are regulars on your server at the moment with the others thinking about moving) are in discussions about leaving the server due to the constant death matching, KoS and fresh spawn killing (Amongst other issues).
No one is asking for it to be PvE only, just give fresh spawns the chance to play the game. Remember some of them have no idea how the game works (like i did), when i joined i got loads of help from players, offering me advice, tips and even some giving me the odd item. I was left alone to gather and build a small camp, loads of geared people saw me and just left me be. But as explained above with g0rd, he was just fresh spawn killed.
The KoS mainly aims at fresh spawns and people resource collecting, see a dude smashing a rock, hold them up, instead of just blasting them. Also try lowering the amount of $$$ you get per player kill, gives less incentive to kill players 'for money'.
And death matching is just boring as hell, spawn with a p250, run out with just that and some ammo, blast anyone on sight, get their gear and keep going until you die. If you don't mind this behaviour, then at least move them to a certain part of the map with like minded people.
) Change your play style to suit the environment or find a carebear (PVE) server. Get your new joiner friends to tp to you and take them under your care(wow.. I never had tp for the last few months in rust! What a luxury)