Welcome to Gotham City!

The server has been a lot of fun for us as I'm sure most of you would agree - it's one of the best servers on Rust. Joker, Penguin and I spend most of our free time reading logs, chatting in game, steam PM's, investigating cheaters and running kick ass events. It should be obvious but in case it's not, I'll let you in on a little secret. (Running a Rust server is a maddening experience!)

It's a labor of love, we don't get paid to host the server and you guys aren't paying to play here - we hosted this server as a sanctuary from Cheaters, Assholes and liars. With the current tools Facepunch has available for Admin, it's an uphill battle against those who only seek to ruin others experiences, by cheating, griefing, ESPing. I hate to say it but Rust is losing the battle against cheaters/hackers and Garry doesn't seem to give 2 shits, so I guess we'll see what lies in store for Rust in the coming months.

The server is coming up for renewal in a few days and I think we're done deciding if we want to continue pouring our time, effort and own money into this server. So far there has only been 1 $ donated to the server for our operating costs (thank you easpider) but that's it. We aren't very aggressive on donations but we do mention them from time to time. We aren't planning a pyramid scheme to get rich, I'm already financially comfortable as are the rest of the admin - we are adults with families and jobs and those things take priority over Rust. This server was awesome but only because of the amount of time the Admin put into keeping shitty players off the server and running events and all the other behind the scenes - hours and hours and hours.

We can't obviously manage the server 24/7 - though after talking to most people, some expect that and more from us. What are we getting in return for all this effort and frustration? Nothing really - the events are fun to host but most of the time it's someone QQing about 'cheaters' which sadly... is probably is true. I would guess based on what we saw running the server that a big 1/3 of the total population are cheating. No joke - we have over 90 bans in less than a month - that works out to 6 bans a day. If we were to ban everyone we have a 75% probability of being right on (based on experience) that number would easily had been double or Triple. That, unfortunately is why we are posting this announcement and regret to inform everyone that the server will be closing in a few days.

We will do the "Rustpoclypse" event on Friday @ 9pm est as the blowout event. If you were at the last one - I'm sure you remember how much fun we had.

Gotham will remain in Limbo until Facepunch gives their game the tools admin need to run a server properly, until they get the hacking/cheating issues resolved, Gotham will live on in memory only. (and that $1 I got from easpider, lol)

Should Facepunch restore our faith in humanity (haha) by adding some features the game desprately needs, we will open Gotham once again and welcome everyone still playing to join us.

Thank you all for helping make Gotham a truly amazing experience - we broke the top 20 for overall Rust servers globally and we couldn't have done that without you folks.

Best of luck, where ever you land!

Gotham Staff


ps: a special thank you to: Joker & Penguin! + all the folks who helped out with events, like Shaylynne & Harley Quinn.