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At this rate pumpkin and melon farming, signs, fireworks, Redstone, water flow and all mobs will be made illegal.

 

-1 Andrew made this law because there were people with massive light farms crashing the server multiple times on harvest. This is not made to outlaw what causes tiny lag. Andrew made this rule to prevent further crashes

 

So I can still mine?

 

Our server can handle pretty much anything thrown at it. Minecraft itself can't.

 

It's funny how andrew and the mods always blame minecraft and mojang for the lag. Minecraft could be better written to cause less lag, yes, you could also use a supper computer and have less lag. It works both ways. I know ecc has good hardware but I think ecc is being to ambitious.

 

Would you want the server crashing frequently and never being on for more than 10 minutes? This is about what it does to the server, and almost nothing to do with prices.

 

I would prefer if you did not stereotype us all. Every staff member has different views on the events and matters. Some of us voice then, some of us keep our views more private. It’s a choice we all make.

 

Sorry for stereotyping all the mods, I was just tiring to make a point.

 

Theres nothing wrong with using redstone lamps for houses and such.

 

Agreed at Walker. We could use more tinkering and less nerfing with the force of a thousand suns. If large light-harvest farms are the issue, ban them. But smaller setups? I've been running a small light-harvest farm forever with no issues. There's no reason for legitimate users to be penalized for excessive setups. I understand that it may be difficult to determine the exact threshold at which lag becomes an issue, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be attempted. Start small (say, four chunks maximum) and keep adjusting it upward until you hit the point at which lag becomes an issue. Then drop it down a bit for some wiggle room. But banning it outright? That's like making Coca-Cola illegal because some women in England drank 10 liters a day and died of a caffeine-induced heart attack. Sure, too much of a good thing can be a problem, but does that mean even small amounts must also be done away with?

 

I like the analogy

 

I'm not sure this would work. Unless you have extremely detailed rules on building them, and extremely active people watching out for this, it would cause the same problem.

You would need something like this: " Number x Number farms, Number stories high, Number blocks apart from other lamp farms"

It's a lot easier (but less fun) to outlaw them completely.

What if 2-3 people all harvested their farms at the same time? (easily could if they knew each other in real life, no one would know)

Playing on a giant fun awesome server costs something. Smaller servers = less people, less fun, more freedom to do lag inducing stuff. Giant servers = tons of people, tons of fun, less freedom to do lag inducing stuff.

Giant servers have to sacrafice some things to keep the server going. Would you rather go back to clicking the refresh button and then rushing to the connect button because the server only allows 100-200 players on?

 

I agree 100%

 

This the same thing I stated in the first post, me I'm glad I'm not the only one who share this opinion. I feel like there can be some size cap on how big the farms can be. I have been running my own farm for over 5 months on this server, and it has never caused an issue.

 

Wow Rock preached the truth here! +1.

 

and i just started to build my wheat farm lol lucky it was only small tower TBH i think mobs cause majority of lag and crashes too let disable them please i know of a few spawners that after 5mins standing there mine world lags this puts alot of pressure on all worlds and server as whole

i also dont understand the nerf of the price that went with it [but meh] as now we have to use water im sure soon water will cause lag too ..

 

rockdassie basically just spoke my whole opinion of this.
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