Since I am probably the best factions player that has touched this server I'll leave some suggestions. Factions / OP Factions resets have been so bad past seasons so better make this one good. Big problem about pika is that when players login, they have everything served. Most players here never experienced real grind for spawners, hitting cane, printing cactus etc. So for start, make economy balanced.
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CANE ECONOMY/ DARKZONE DOABLE - (NOT RECOMMEND) - We don't want stack of spawners on first hour of SOTW. We want players to work of them. Nerf spawners that you get with ranks and from crates and increase their price. It's not fun when you have over 1k spawners first day of a fresh season. To balance things out, especially on grace, cane would be main economy with upgradable harvester hoes. Darkzone would be fun aswell but depends how is it on jartex. First add basic things and then we can have a conversation about darkzone.
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REDUCE FACTION SIZES - Currently limit on OP Factions is 45 man and in my opinion that is too much for the server like Pika. It's not balanced if only one faction can afford that many people against the rest of the factions who barely can pull 10 people online. Make a faction size 10-15 man and it will be more fun since more factions would compete cause everyone would have same chances. 10 mans are perfect, 15 are already playable but over that big no no. I am suggesting this for other people since I was always on winning side and I will never have problems with members. Just make it more competitive and balanced.
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TOOLS AND CHUNK COLLECTORS - Add basic tools that every normal server has like tray pickaxes and sand wands. I personally really can't be arsed mining slits in middle of raid or slabbing sand stacks - add sand wands. Chunk collectors should be BASIC thing to every server. I don't see a point of having over 5k chests in your base causing lag to your server and to our PC's. Also if you will add them don't be a retard and make them for 30$ each cause no one would buy them. Make them free, it's 2021 and they don't even affect a gameplay.
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CUSTOM ENCHANTS - They should be in game but no one wants to grind 5 hours for one gset that will break in one fight. Add only basic custom enchants like: speed 2, strenght 2, fire res, water breathing and health boost. You would be able to purchase a gset throught token shop (you aquire tokens while grinding cane) or just get custom enchants through xp system.
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BUFFER SIZE - Reduce buffer size to 20 chunks like come on this is not skyblock. If you are playing against any good or experience factions players/patchers it would be near impossible to force raid 25 chunks buffer with 3 sec cannon. I would be able to hold solo against 10 players with that size and it's not fun.
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PVP SYSTEM - Last but one of the most important ones. Change the system of pvp. Right now it's sword, 64 gapples and tons of sets and its braindead. People will just gapple and they would be safe for 30 seconds. Make this like every server, pot pvp and keep gapple pvp to op factions. We want to quickdrop people and see who is the "true" pvper". Gapple cooldowns should be 15 minutes to 30 minutes and pure protection 4 sharp 5 pot pvp. Protection 5 would be exclusive and gained through godly crates.
Consider adding atleast 2/3 of this. If you agree upvote.
Sincerely Ethopiq, won every single season, self declared as best pika factions player since 2018.
Shout out to
@MrFrenco for being with me during my hardest times. I couldn't get through it without you.
