Nothing here came off a workshop page

Banking without a bank

Traders bill the watch directly. There are no cash items to stash, drop, duplicate or wheelbarrow to a trader, which quietly removes the entire category of currency exploits along with the inventory clutter.

You draw a paycheck while you play, so a bad night doesn't put you back to zero and a new player isn't priced out of the market on day one. It only counts active minutes: stand still for ten and it pauses until you move again.

Money moves between players from the map menu, for a small fee, and you can type amounts like `120k` or `1.5m`.

The group vault

The group leader opens a shared vault once, and from then on it is where the group's money lives: contracts, King of the Hill and Exchange sales all pay into it, and the contract laptop won't run without one.

Everyone can deposit. Everyone except recruits still on their four-hour trial can withdraw. And the vault can't be hacked, only the personal wallet, so a big balance is safest parked there.

The scanner does two different jobs

A dead player's watch encrypts itself instantly, so a corpse tells you nothing on its own. The SHD Scanner reads it, and it works on a body two ways.

Scan and in two seconds you learn who you just killed, which group they ran with and exactly what's in their wallet. It costs the scanner a quarter of its condition, so one scanner is four scans. Knowing whether you just shot a lone spawn or the third man of a four-stack changes what you do in the next five minutes.

Hack and it becomes something else entirely. Thirty seconds, crouched over the body, in the open, and the victim's screen tells them the moment you start, even if they've already respawned. They never learn who you are, but they know where they died. It takes a quarter of their wallet up to a hard cap and destroys the scanner outright.

Locks that know who you are

An SHD Lock is a scanner lock tied to your group. Your people scan in; everyone else gets *Access Denied*. Add a member and they're in, remove them and they're out. Anyone can knock.

With your watch on, it's also a gate remote: one key opens the gate you're facing, and auto-open swings it as you drive at it, which sounds like a small convenience until the first time you're being chased home. Remote-opened gates close behind you after five seconds.

Territory, and one base per group

Your base is a flag pole, and the 40 m around it is your group's territory: only your group can build, dismantle or destroy anything inside it. One base per group, at least 200 m from anyone else's pole.

The flag has to be raised to keep the base alive. Let it run out and the base starts to decay, and once a flag is fully down, enemies can destroy the pole.

Cars you own, and cars you take

There are no cars lying around the map. Every vehicle on the server was bought by a player or taken from one. Bought cars go straight into your garage, and there are no car keys: your watch locks and unlocks anything you own, and your group can use it too.

Lockpicking still works, and a successful pick makes the thief the new owner outright, so a stolen car is genuinely the thief's car now. The garage is the only truly safe place to keep one.

The no-raid zone is a trade, not a sanctuary

The south coast, up to roughly the latitude of Zelenogorsk, is drawn on your map and minimap at all times, so there is nothing to guess at. Base inside it and nobody can breach your base, and you can't breach anyone else's while you're based there.

If any part of your flag's 40 m territory touches the zone, the base counts as inside: you can't sit on the line and get both. The zone blocks charges and the breaching hammer. It does not block bullets, it doesn't protect the cars parked outside your walls, and safe-cracking tablets and watch hacks still work in it.

What a door actually costs

There are two charges. A Light charge breaks wood and metal doors; a Heavy charge does twice the damage and breaks anything, concrete included. Neither can be bought: Light charges come out of high-tier crates, Heavies are rare rewards and never world loot.

A door is only as strong as its weakest part, and it gets tougher when nobody in the owning group has been online for 15 minutes, decided when the raid starts, so logging off mid-raid doesn't help. Up to four charges can sit on one door. The blast hits that door and any other door within 2 m. Walls, storage, loot and vehicles aren't damaged; players are.

If you're home, you get to do something about it

Every online member gets an alert the second a charge goes on the base, with the grid and the fuse, and again when it goes off. Defenders can even hear which kind was planted.

Anyone holding pliers can defuse an armed charge in twenty seconds, and the defused charge is theirs to keep. That three-minute fuse is the whole design: raiding a base is not a silent operation. Between raids, damaged doors repair with a hammer or hatchet and the right material, but not while a raid is hot.

There's one quieter way in. The rare breaching hammer works on wood doors only: five minutes of holding for one hit, and the owners are warned when it starts.

And then you're still outside the box

Soft-siding is allowed, so a wall's unprotected face is still a way through for anyone who gets themselves into a position to use it. Build like someone will.

Storage is a separate problem from the building. An SHD-locked safe, locker or crate doesn't open for a crowbar and some patience: you need a charged Hacking Tablet, which comes out of the same high-tier crates as the charges. So blowing someone's gate is the start of the raid, not the end of it. The loot behind it is still locked, and you're still standing in their base while you work on it.

And charges can't be logged out with. Log off carrying one and the server drops it at your feet, so nobody parks a raid crew next to your walls overnight.

A laptop at your base

The laptop goes inside your territory, one per base, and needs an open group vault. New offers land every day at 06:00 Central. Accepting one takes a 10% deposit from the vault, which you get back when you finish and lose if you fail, time out or walk away.

Upgrading the laptop unlocks harder jobs, the weekly job and bounties. And it's part of your base like everything else: during the raid window enemies can smash it in twenty seconds, and it drops back to tier 1 with the upgrades gone.

Six kinds of job

Recover a cache before another group opens it. Clear waves of infected. Hold an area while the clock runs, and it stops the moment anyone else steps in. Salvage and supply runs send you out for parts or medical supplies to hand in at the laptop.

The Courier is the loud one: carry a case at least 1.5 km and upload it, and while you carry it you're on everyone's map. If someone else uploads it, they take half the pay. About a third of offers also roll a twist, like a bigger horde, a tighter clock or night only, for more money.

Bounties

A tier 2 laptop can put a price on any player's head, paid from the vault. Other groups can top the pot up, and everyone who pays stays anonymous.

For the next sixty minutes of the target's online time, the whole server sees a 500 m circle around them, refreshed every five minutes, never their exact spot. Kill them and the pot is yours. Survive the hour and the target keeps half.

King of the Hill

One military zone opens at a time, announced five minutes ahead. Stand in the 30 m circle and your group builds a capture bar, faster with more of you on it. Two groups on the hill and everything freezes until one side is gone; another group alone on it drains your bar at four times the speed before it starts its own.

The winners' vault gets paid, and a fully kitted loot crate appears at the flag that anyone can loot. Winning the hill doesn't lock it to you.