such a cutie <3

Next March I think the staff should bring back the Mystery Crate as the monthly crate. Maybe make it so you can win a single reclaimable crate key xD

I want... a Storytime crate. Maybe with like an Excalibur Sword, and a Boat Spawner in Factions for Moby Dick... I don't know man. Bizarre stuff to keep things fresh and exciting

More and more updates to Factions! Too many to keep track. xD So, Factions is receiving a Meta Update which almost all players I've spoken to are supportive of! Every faction can have a maximum of 5k spawners placed. This creates more raid-focused gameplay which is what Factions has been needing! Could it possibly encourage InsanityCraft to finally create/implement a cannon.jar file? Hopefully?? Probably not. Anyway, with the new meta comes a few new events which grant spawner boosts. One of which is the Mecca Dragon, which is sweet! Another will be the Outpost, which makes sense. What I want to focus on though is the last event which will be a Battle Royale? I'm just trying to think of what it will be like! The announcement mentions a preset kit! Will it be unique? Will it be a Weekly duel kit? Maybe a rank kit? Will this event replace/take over the /warp PvP ? The announcement also says that each faction will have it's own spawn point? Will they be evenly spaced or similar to the crates in crate events? Will the larger factions be placed in one section while smaller factions are placed in a separate one to create an even playing field? Or can smaller factions expect to get wiped within the first few minutes as they spawn between two massive factions? What about the issue of allies? In the announcement, it says that faction members won't be able to harm one another but what does that mean for allies? Will there be some coding to make it where allies can attack one another?... I can see that leading to a few bugs. Furthermore, if this all works out then will it open a way to other gamemodes like CTF? There's a lot to consider with these massive changes and it'll be interesting to see how IC proceeds!

Poli's player board is now 2 PAGES!!! I didn't notice, silly me! This calls for a self-celebration! I'm going to treat myself with some hot cocoa and a snowball duel :)

Got another sneak peek at the Mecca Dragon and I'm getting more and more excited! Seems some other players shared the feeling too! Looks like /warp Dragon will be getting a whole new design which looks INCREDIBLE! Floating platforms, seemingly flat land for PvP, and an absolutely AMAZING dragon statue which will most definitely become a high-traffic area for facing off against the dragon. So it's answered some of the questions I asked earlier! It's a revamp to the map... will it be a revamp to the dragon too? I believe IC uses the DragonSlayer plugin (Could be entirely wrong) for their dragon fights. That means, they could do multiple dragons, They can give rewards based off of the damage dealt... it doesn't need to be money. Imagine killing a dragon with your faction and walking away with a random OP armor piece. I bet that would make the /warp Dragon even more heavily fought over. They could also change how fast the dragon respawns, heals, etc. They could even make the dragon's attacks give players the glow effect if they really wanted to, which would add a twist to the PvP as players wouldn't be able to hide really. A neat little detail though would be that with the plugin they could make it so the most recent person to kill the dragon is displayed somewhere as an NPC. Could be a neat little opportunity to add a tag of "Be the player w/ the most dragon kills at the end of the map". All of this, of course, assumes they use the DragonSlayer Plugin. If they don't then... maybe this convinces them to switch? Who knows! What I know is I'm getting more and more excited to see the return of the dragon!

Ignore the fact I just posted, I'm excited :D . JH has given us a sneak peak hinting at the idea of /warp dragon returning! This dragon is different though and is called the "Mecca Dragon", which has me excited! Is the name change a hint? Is Mecca meant to refer to the city and maybe they changed the /warp dragon map? Is it meant to reference a high-traffic area? Like Spawn? A Spawn event could be cool! A dragon flying around warzone... it'd be fun! Or maybe it's meant to refer to the center of something! Maybe a second KoTH style event where this OP dragon is repeatedly trying to hit you off? Either way, it has me excited!

There's so much happening in Factions this map that it's hard to keep track! It's exhilarating! I'll try to cover some highlights but I know I'll miss things. There's 10 F-top payout spots for this map, which has incentivized every player I've spoken with to go for F-top. Rogue, decided that they'll try to take all 10 F-top payout spots and then leave the server. Which, granted, would be a cool way to leave, but I find it a little toxic? Moving on from that though, there's a new looting EIGHTEEN sword released in the monthly crate, which lets you make hundreds of thousands from just from the spawners at spawn! Pretty awesome! There's another axe that's been released as well which doesn't drop on death, and the G-set this month is also incredible (It has mending 3!!)! I want to go back to axes though for a moment. Armor damage via McMMO axes has been nerfed (Finally!!)! Now, it relies on a higher sharpness level on axes to do more McMMO durability damage to armor. To counteract this though, now higher protection levels on armor will have more resistance against McMMO armor durability damage, so it evens out pretty well in my opinion. All-in-all, this season is incredible and this post doesn't do it enough justice to show the love that Factions has been getting.

GG Poli on getting your explosive snowballs. Don't take yourself down too much with them. Have a blast!

A minor sneak peak update coming to InsanityCraft Factions where /f shields will now display the time zone you're in, rather than GMT. It'll be cool to see the impacts such a small quality-of-life update does for the server. With it now being in your own time zone, there will be less frustration and even fewer mistakes. More people will likely have shields rather than giving up due to being unwilling to google the time conversions. I'll be watching closely to see how this impacts everything. With how much the shields are being updated, it's only a matter of time before something big goes down... like Rogue. I'll also be curious if I do /f shield to look at someone's faction who's in Australia, will I then have to convert Australian time to EST? Or will the code do it for me? In short, will this change the time for only my own faction, or for if I do /f shield for others, will it also do the conversions for those? Only time will tell, and I'd like to think I'll be patient enough to watch it unfold.