Ok, so people complain about how much the server crashes and lags, and yes the server has something for max hoppers & spawners. But what about pistons? Pistons are more used then Spawners and hoppers, and cause more lag, but somehow there's no maximum amount. I'm thinking there should be a 83 maximum on piston, why this specific number? Because that is the most reasonable amount of pistons to keep down lag. On a normal MC world, 1 piston (being turned on and off repeatedly) is equal to .5 a Megabyte of RAM. which may not sound like much but when there's hundreds of islands having this it can be pretty laggy, and to all the people that will say "just by better RAM" not everyone can just do that.

 

So I think that there is one problem here - Having more blocks being moved will also cause lag. Are we certain that the block updates won't cause the same lag?

 

Didn't even think about that, and I spent a hour placing down pistons till my game crashed, and counted them all.

 

no support I could tell you how many people could quit if this was implemented also it should be something like:

 

No support sry

 

I’m neutral on this I think pistons are very widely used and it wouldn’t be great to limit the amount you can have. I also think you would run into the issue where player who started out over the limit break one of their pistons and can’t place it back.


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No Support, I think it would actually not make that much difference, and there is a difference between server lag and game lag. Server side more could be done, but you have to weigh cost to benefit. You could throw a bucket of upgrades to the server costing thousands but... does the benefit out weigh the cost?

The server and it's community tends to find it's own balance, thanks to those who conscientiously use items sparingly to balance those who build multiple mega farms for no reason other than to say they have it. It also has a lot to do with what is being chunk loaded, the more people chunk load, the more lag is created.

Basically limiting pistons would be a drop in the ocean to what would actually be needed to fix lag and crashes. It would still occur just as much.