Old GP system was implemented to reward players who base exclusively, where you can get 1 gp for every minute you’re at a base. Cbow being 33k, that’s 550 hours and/or roughly 23 days if you exclusively afk in a base for 23 days straight without losing any GP. So if you only played 12 hours a day it’d take 46 days to get cbow which most players does not base exclusively for 12 hours or more a day. This system however encouraged basing as there was a big number of people who wanted to base for gp. Everyone overlooked this and claimed GP is easy to earn and yes while it is easy to earn, it would take over a month of hardcore basing to get a cbow. the reason so many people had GP items is because it was a system where almost everyone can earn it and GP isn’t exclusive like HS. When cbow and staff first came out
not many people had good gp item for the first year. the majority of the players took roughly year of basing to get GP item. The current GP system does not reward players who base at all. If you took two players and made one base while make another pk exclusively. the player who pks will get Cbow and more gp items plus pk gun long before the player who bases exclusively will get a cbow. I have based for over 4,000 hours and my kills is roughly 40k. This just proves that GP system now rewards pker and not people who actually base. I’ve just gotten wooden recently and with certainly i can say that not everyone will be able to get wooden unless they get 95% of their hs from team events. To win races or skills you’d need a good wifi and pretty fast device to outrank other people(I play an iphone 8 and my wifi is pretty fast), with the consideration that delay because of where you live will play a part in advantages on race as well as you need to attend races pretty often to learn the tricks to them. You’d also need to attend events to get HS and as someone who’s PST timezone a lot of events are host from midnight to morning for me. To get wooden i had to absolutely no life the heck out of graal in order to get HS(i’m in two guild disc with events spam that is inactive). So yes HS is a lot harder to get than GP, but with the introduction of HS piece, HS is starting the pattern of old gp system again. Some players will get it super fast but other player will slowly get it, but in a year or so there will be a lot of players with HS item just like GP item. This is my personal view on the problem of HS/GP item because right now everyone is earning hs quicker than GP which is really ironic.