Mate I would like to see this fix, but i dont have much hope in pika. Its obvious to me that the ppl who make the big decitions here dont play factions or are not good at it, or perhaps they want ppl to donate tons of money, why else would they decide to change the server to 1.8?.
For ppl who dont know, in 1.8 the tnt mechanics are different to 1.7. Tnt gets pushed by water when activated, the blocks usually placed for alignment or as guiders behave different, the random spread is diferent, and many other subtle changes that render most of the vast cannon tech achived on 1.7 useless. To add on this, there are blocks on 1.8 that behave as full blocks for tnt but as half blocks for sand.
Theres a reson why the biggest factions servers keep running at 1.7 or patch to the best of their ability the 1.8 tnt mechanics, there are op canons on 1.7 but there are op defenses on 1.7. There are not good enough cannons on 1.8 but guess what, there are op defenses still on 1.8 so theres no balance.
The reason i dont have much hope left in Pika is because its going hardcore on paytowin, prior to the reset there were bases almost impossible to raid with cannons due to the fact that you can buy an obnoxious amount of power with real money. Now this would have been "ok" if there wasnt for the fact that you could not dispense more than 100 tnt per tick (at least with redstone torches, never tried it with repeaters, even tho i think it wouldnt make a difference). So if a player bought the right amount of power he would be unraidable by cannons because his claim would be so big that you could not reach the wall with less than 100 tnt on your thrusters. This problem was brought up by Justakilla but it never got fixed.
Another reason to lack hope on pika is that even prior to the reset, raiding a big faction was not that rewarding because you didnt know where to aim your cannon, since world download is not allowed, so even if u got in a base you would most likely get nothing because expirienced players know how to water their chests and spawners making them unceggable. On top of this ceggs are too expensive. But guess what?! they added Pvs now! Hype! So even if u went through 20 plus walls, got in and find that they have unwatered chests you wil most likely get crap! because now playes have unraidable storage!
Now Im not entirely sure if the patch it fixes all the issuues, as u can see on this video, but atleast it opens some chances.
At this point i wonder Why not sell bedrock in the shop? I understand if the owner wants to make ppl able to be unraidable with real money, its actually a interesting path and probably a good bussiness model, but for me and probably some other players it doesnt seem that fun and would probably just play for pvp or hangout with friends.
Good luck, have fun.
