I wish more people were cool with full loot open world. I got 2 RL buddies to start playing Rust this week. My one buddy is like me, enjoys full loot. He got his brother to play too, but didn't explain the system. You should have heard him in coms when he realized he will lose all his stuff when he dies.
Also, they found some server where the admins helped them out because they were new. Dude took us to this ridiculous 30 story tall metal tower the admins had constructed up in the hills. As he's giving us stuff from his 20 loot crates, I said to my buddies in mumble, "Dude, this guy only has 1 door protecting his shit. I'm going farm to till I get the C4 blue print and come back tonight and blow his door and take ALL this shit." My one buddy was laughing his ass off, but his brother was like "Dude, he helped us, that's messed up!"
I guess it's just a difference in mentality. I'm free to be whoever I want in video games and in my world, if it's not tagged LoD, it's a target. If you want to call it role playing, I guess you'd call it role playing an evil bastard. lol. Sadly, most people want to make friends online and build carebear cities and trade and craft. Barf.