[Base security]

I just found my base is fully intact with outer locked fence seal, locked downstairs door, locked upstairs door, on second floor with walls covering doors windows, so no jumping through, etc. and yet after a few days off I log in and it's cleared out.  If you had a wall missing it was probably blown up, but even with an intact base there's just to many flaws with A3 to have any security.

 

In vanilla mode, imo the loot is just too hard to obtain for how easy it is to lose... I know you're not supposed to be attached to gear, but when you play a few weeks and then someone cheats or whatever happened to get to your stuff, kind of want to quit rather than start over.  So I bid Epoch ado for now until someone properly mods it.  

[can you destroy lockboxes?]

This creates a situation where "random bush in the middle of nowhere" becomes a more reasonable place for your lockbox than the actual base, where people might actively look for it. Sounds like a bad mechanic.

 

Yes, it doesn't make much sense for either the owner or the bandit.  Especially since destroying it doesn't yield the items inside.

 

I ended up doing what you've said above, the stuff I care about is in some bush, bullshit in the base.

[What to do?]

I've ran around for a few hours, looted up,fought some easy AI, never had a problem with food/water/temperature, drove a few vehicles, killed a couple of people and got killed a couple (nobody talks just shoots), shot bambis running out of the trader...  Hardly see any other people, didn't really see the point in building a base, what else can I do?

[Keys for friends]

A key or two would be great if possible, more fun with friends and I can pry away from Altis Life.

[Controls]

Is it possible to use middle mouse like previous Arma games to open inventory and loot rather than using a key to open inventory while looking at objects?

[Building a PC for Epoch.]

I have 4930k, three 780 GTX Ti, watercooled, etc. and Arma 3 Engine still runs fairly bad.  I find FPS has more to do with the server hosting the game than my machine.