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Why SkyBlock Is Pay To Win

Why SkyBlock Is Pay To Win

Nowy

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Hello Everyone, I'm Nowy, you might have seen me around on SkyBlock and KitPvp. I made this post explaining my opinions about why i think SkyBlock is P2W.

I started playing the current season of SkyBlock the first day it came out , December 1st 2019, and I partnered with my long time friend @HyperFlames. As we played the first couple of days, we realized that the players on /is top were way far ahead of us due to them having ranks.

Ranks allow for a lot of things, some of which include:
#1: Allowing them to have 10 players join their island
#2: Kits from their Ranks allowing them to get mass amounts of money and island level
#3: Giving them perks such as /fly allowing them to work 2x as fast as others with no ranks.

So we decided to buy ranks and we ended up doing work so much faster which would have taken a week to do, but we did it in 2 days (we built a cactus farm to sky limit, image below ↡). We started seeing improvement and we recruited others teammates. We even got on /is top on and off and on for a couple of weeks. But soon we realized this still wasn't enough.

The best islands had a strong start which lead to them having High Tier Spawners in quantities incomprehensible giving them high amounts of wealth and island level. So we gave up at around 100k island level which is not bad.

The main issue i see with Skyblock is that there are ranked players earning millions by the day with minimal effort where poorer players with no ranks have to work 10x as hard to only get a fraction of the result.

I like the game mode SkyBlock a lot and it was the first game mode I ever played on any server. But a few things I would say on how to improve SkyBlock is to:
#1: Give all players access to /fly or to completely remove it. This is a little stretched but /fly is a game changer to how quickly you get things done.
#2: Nerf /kits. You get so much OP stuff from /kit that is worth so much money allowing ranks to get a head start at the beginning of the game.

I still love SkyBlock and i will most likely play the new season when it comes out again in a few months. But as i can see right now there is improvement to be made and i hope that some of the higher up staff become aware of this.

Image of cactus farm ↡
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hello there, there are some points that aren't entirely correct
- I was solo and got is top #1 for a week or 2 before I got bored and quit
-Kits are weekly.
-"High Tier Spawners in quantities incomprehensible giving them high amounts of wealth and island level"
Actually, I only got my first stack of chicken spawners on the third day of reset after a LOT of mining and afking.
- The server is more like grind to win than pay to win.
-"poorer players with no ranks have to work 10x as hard to only get a fraction of the result."
yes that's the point? don't we all start as a non forced to work harder to rankup? giving everyone equal treatment would ruin the sense of accomplishment.


lets be honest, skyblock is easy af. when I was a non, I got 400 chicken spawners in just a couple days just by mining (no afk mining). Ofc I didn't have fly or any perks, but still easy.
 
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the kits are not op, you get barely anything beneficial in them, the tools are nice and all but to be honest there isn’t much mining in skyblock except for in the beginning so this isn’t gonna put high ranked players much ahead. the gear is useless unless you want to pvp which probably 90% of the server doesn’t. the blocks are crap and they give you what? 32 gold blocks a week, lmfao.
i was playing like i had just started skyblock with no help on my alt account a few months ago and managed to rank upgrade it all the way to skygod (irls) and had a crap ton of spawners. it really isn’t as much p2w as a server like kit. it just depends how much work you decide to put in. as blood said grind to win.
 
Nowy said:
Hello Everyone, I'm Nowy, you might have seen me around on SkyBlock and KitPvp. I made this post explaining my opinions about why i think SkyBlock is P2W.

I started playing the current season of SkyBlock the first day it came out , December 1st 2019, and I partnered with my long time friend @HyperFlames. As we played the first couple of days, we realized that the players on /is top were way far ahead of us due to them having ranks.

Ranks allow for a lot of things, some of which include:
#1: Allowing them to have 10 players join their island
#2: Kits from their Ranks allowing them to get mass amounts of money and island level
#3: Giving them perks such as /fly allowing them to work 2x as fast as others with no ranks.

So we decided to buy ranks and we ended up doing work so much faster which would have taken a week to do, but we did it in 2 days (we built a cactus farm to sky limit, image below ↡). We started seeing improvement and we recruited others teammates. We even got on /is top on and off and on for a couple of weeks. But soon we realized this still wasn't enough.

The best islands had a strong start which lead to them having High Tier Spawners in quantities incomprehensible giving them high amounts of wealth and island level. So we gave up at around 100k island level which is not bad.

The main issue i see with Skyblock is that there are ranked players earning millions by the day with minimal effort where poorer players with no ranks have to work 10x as hard to only get a fraction of the result.

I like the game mode SkyBlock a lot and it was the first game mode I ever played on any server. But a few things I would say on how to improve SkyBlock is to:
#1: Give all players access to /fly or to completely remove it. This is a little stretched but /fly is a game changer to how quickly you get things done.
#2: Nerf /kits. You get so much OP stuff from /kit that is worth so much money allowing ranks to get a head start at the beginning of the game.

I still love SkyBlock and i will most likely play the new season when it comes out again in a few months. But as i can see right now there is improvement to be made and i hope that some of the higher up staff become aware of this.

Image of cactus farm ↡
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Irl deals: Allow us to introduce ourselves!
 
heres some past streams on my alt (I got astronaut on it from irl deals within a couple days of grinding on it. No help from my main, no benefits, with fellow non ranks).
 
I had to play 11 months to get comet rank.. haven’t spent a single penny on this server, and I have still enjoyed every single moment (even as a non) on this server. And yes you can get better if you have a rank, but just.. just grind until a chicken spawner and grinding sword, and you’ll be grinding just as fast as ANY other player (even ranked)
 
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I had to play 11 months to get comet rank.. haven’t spent a single penny on this server, and I have still enjoyed every single moment (even as a non) on this server. And yes you can get better if you have a rank, but just.. just grind until a chicken spawner and grinding sword, and you’ll be grinding just as fast as ANY other player (even ranked)
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Chicken = trash
 
SkyBlock is definitely P2W. Is that really a bad way to go? Servers need money to operate, and I would argue that this server doesn't paywall nearly as hard as other servers.
 
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