I would ask, what is the real goal? Server performance improvement, or scrap farming? Or is it both? If you nerf the pickle farmers, it's just like horses. You could add a 10 story horse farm and be profitable with 200 or more horses. Or you could have PJ's running 24/7 convert to diesel and run Giant Ex non stop. If you want to make scrap hard to come by, you would need to nerf scrap period and have an ecosystem scrap free.