kerovon wrote:mitchman04 wrote:The-Jack-DeCk wrote:Would lag be an issue? I'm not familiar with how much strain fire puts on the server, but not many people would probably use fire spread anyways, so I don't think it would be too bad.
Fire can lag just a little bit, but not to much that would make it a issue. So I think it will be fine.
One of the older creative servers that we had was taken down because a forest fire started and spread too far. No one could enter that part of the map without crashing out, and it was causing regular server crashes. Fire spread is a nightmare for servers. The lag that it produces is immense.
Note that fire spread has been limited as of 1.3.1 (or maybe 1.4

) so it shouldn't be as much of a problem. Possibly we could still limit fire spread, but not as much (if the option is on in the realm, of course)? So that it would still spread, but not so much as to make it easier for griefers/trolls.
~dlgn
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