I play Rust on SEA, AU, and US Official servers. So do a lot of us. And the server situation for AU players has been a problem for a long time.

Right now there's only one large scale AU monthly, and it sits under Rustafied. There are other servers to play on, but if you're looking in the Official Vanilla tab there's basically nothing else. So a huge chunk of AU players end up on US or SEA servers instead, not because they want to, but because the local options just aren't there in the way they should be.

Playing on those servers means 150 to 200ms ping on a good night. In a game where a single frame decides a gunfight, that's not a small thing. Anyone who's lost a fight they should have won to desync knows what I'm talking about.

Players don't quit Rust because they got raided. They quit because the experience stopped being worth the effort. Every AU player who moves on to something else because of ping is someone that probably doesn't come back.

Rustafied are based overseas. Anyone who's played AU Rust knows the community here has its own culture, its own peak hours, and its own way of doing things. Groups like Winterust have been part of that scene for years.

The demand is there. The people with the experience are there. The only piece that's missing is Facepunch. If you're an AU player tired of playing on servers that weren't built for your timezone, sign this.