Survival Improve Pika Iron Accessibility

[mukulxoxo]

Minecraft username:

mukulxoxo​

Suggestion:

Improve Pika Iron Accessibility​

Detailed description:

• Allow players to buy and sell Pika Iron through /ah.
• Introduce small amounts of Pika Iron as rewards at selected level milestones.
• Keep the existing 14-day expiry period unchanged.
• Retain voting as the primary way to obtain Pika Iron, while introducing additional voting incentives, such as streak bonuses and cumulative vote milestones.

Reason(s):

• Voting should remain worthwhile, as it is currently the main way for players to obtain Pika Iron.
• Voting streaks and cumulative milestones would encourage players to vote consistently rather than only occasionally.
• Auction House trading would create an additional way for players to obtain Pika Iron through normal gameplay.
• Small level rewards would make progression more rewarding without undermining the importance of voting.
• Maintaining the existing expiry period would preserve the current system while providing players with more flexibility.

Example(s):

• Players earn Pika Iron through voting, with additional bonuses for consistent voting and reaching cumulative vote milestones.
• Players can trade Pika Iron through /ah using in-game currency.
• Selected level milestones grant small amounts of Pika Iron.
• All Pika Iron retains its existing 14-day expiry period, regardless of its source.

 

[iurawehiouergi]

There is a reason why Pika Iron is non-transferable in other gamemodes even when you win it as an island, a gang or a faction with multiple members. I just don't see how making it tradable on /ah would work.

If the 14 days timer resets on transfer, players will just cycle iron between their alts forever to stockpile enough for top ranks, making them way too easy to get.

If the timer keeps ticking even after a trade, people will end up buying iron on /ah that expires in a couple of hours or minutes. Plus there will be wayy too many expiry timers to track at once for a single currency, which would be frustrating and counter intuitive to use.

Tracking separate 14 days timers for hundreds of traded batches per day and handling split expiries across transactions would create a massive technical overhead on the backend, which isn't worth the maintenance headache from a developer's POV.

Right now, getting 500 Pika Iron every 50 votes (up to 200 votes a month) plus 1000 Pika Iron from topgg discord bot voting gives active players more than enough to get solid ranks on survival anyway. Making it tradable just kills the value of obtaining ranks from the store and crates.

The current system is adequate and works fine as is and making it tradable just breaks the server economy so it's a downvote from me.

 

[JOKER_1___]

Minecraft username:

mukulxoxo​

Suggestion:

Improve Pika Iron Accessibility​

Detailed description:

​

• Allow players to buy and sell Pika Iron through /ah.
• Introduce small amounts of Pika Iron as rewards at selected level milestones.
• Keep the existing 14-day expiry period unchanged.
• Retain voting as the primary way to obtain Pika Iron, while introducing additional voting incentives, such as streak bonuses and cumulative vote milestones.

Reason(s):

​

• Voting should remain worthwhile, as it is currently the main way for players to obtain Pika Iron.
• Voting streaks and cumulative milestones would encourage players to vote consistently rather than only occasionally.
• Auction House trading would create an additional way for players to obtain Pika Iron through normal gameplay.
• Small level rewards would make progression more rewarding without undermining the importance of voting.
• Maintaining the existing expiry period would preserve the current system while providing players with more flexibility.

Example(s):

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• Players earn Pika Iron through voting, with additional bonuses for consistent voting and reaching cumulative vote milestones.
• Players can trade Pika Iron through /ah using in-game currency.
• Selected level milestones grant small amounts of Pika Iron.
• All Pika Iron retains its existing 14-day expiry period, regardless of its source.

Bad idea, the player would abuse it and get the best ranks in the server. For example:
voting through alts using VPN or a sim that changes it location after resetting it.
they can vote with a tons of alts and then transfer the irons to their main accounts. after that whenever their iron is about to expire they will transfer their iron to any random alt and then paying it back to the main account.
and by voting with VPN or sim they will get almost infinity iron and buy the best stuff in the game by abusing a bug and exploiting the sim IP-Reset exploit.
just imagine that a player decided to vote for a month for his x10 alts.
each alt gives 3k irons.
3000x10 = 30000 irons.
they can buy:
32 seasonal keys.
classes.
tags.
bedwars & lobby ranks. such as VIP, elite, titan.
they will sell everything they have for iron which is ruining the economy of the server.
you may ask about the gold and why the gold is not ruining the economy.
basically because there's a 5 gold tax so not everyone can list an item for gold.
and if you say " then add a tax for iron "
they can still vote which it makes no sense to add a tax for iron.
so your suggestion is a really bad idea.