So, I've so far played around 3 hours on the server with the new update. I've tried every new activity on the server, including the whole candy farming.
That's what I mostly wanted to talk about.
To those who don't know, the Christmas update brought us a candy competition on the server just like the Halloween one. You collect candy by going to doors and ringing them, then you have a chance of getting a random amount of candy. My experiences have been around 0-10 candy per house. After singing the Christmas carols at a set amount of houses, you have a 24 hour cooldown till you can do it all over again. Besides singing carols at peoples houses, there are 2 more ways of obtaining candy. One is finding the one of the 450 Christmas presents scattered around San Andreas. Which isn't too hard, but only awards you with 1 candy per present found. Considering there's 450 of them, not a big deal, but it won't win you the competition for sure.
Then comes the Christmas tree, which I believe introduces WAY too much RNG (Random Number Generation) in to the competition. At first, you might think the person that's most dedicated, farms the most and does it the fastest will be the one victorious, but you are so very wrong. So with the tree you can, once a day, go up to it and get a present which awards you with either: A) A clothing item B) Money C) Candy. It seems fine, till you find out that you can get insane amounts of candy with just the tree. After I sang as many carols as I could, I managed to get around 400 candy from it. Yet some people (I suspect) have gotten anywhere from 500-750 candy from just the tree, since they have now done all the carols they are over a thousand. It's just so insane!
You can with 1 daily Christmas tree present, knock out two whole days of carol singing which is unrealistically unfair and overpowered. You can be as dedicated to winning the competition as you want, but if someone else has better luck with the candy, they can just pass you in a day or two.
I recommend re-balancing the amount of candy given by the tree or remove candy from those tree presents completely. It's too overpowered as it stands.
