Automatic watchers

Suspicious shop watch

Flags player vending machines whose buy/sell ratios look like raid bait so your team can scout them.

Some Rust players set up bait shops — a vending machine selling 1 sulfur for 200 metal frags, for example — as a giveaway that an unsuspecting roamer is hauling a stack of one resource and is therefore about to be jumped. Rust Pulse watches the public vending-machine feed your server exposes via Rust+ and flags shops whose buy/sell ratios fall outside reasonable bounds.

When a suspicious shop is found:

  1. The bot posts a chat alert with the shop's grid and the suspicious item / price ratio.
  2. The alert includes a "Type !confirm to set raid target." follow-up. Typing !confirm within a short window pins it on the dashboard map.
  3. The shop appears on the dashboard's Shop watch page with a "suspicious" tag.

Why this is useful

Bait shops are often near someone's base — they're advertising what they want stolen because they know exactly who'll come. Logging them gives your roaming team a quiet way to scout potential raid targets at the start of a wipe.

Tuning sensitivity

Some servers (especially community / RP / build-heavy ones) have legitimately weird shops. The watcher errs on the side of fewer false positives by default; if your team finds it too quiet, raise sensitivity in Settings.