Please add the Armor Statues datapack

[Ptown16]

First off, it seems like the plugin you mentioned would cover my issue about how the plugin interacts with worldguard, which is nice! There are a few comments that are worrying -- such as the plugin "being too aggressive" and the permissions not working, but oftentimes those comments are from people who have something misconfigured.

As far as entities are concerned, my worry is that it would incentivize players to add more entities than they would normally. You're right that players can make as many armor stands as they want right now, nothing is stopping players from doing that. However, players don't have much of a reason to make a bunch of armor stands right now, and adding this plugin would give players a reason to and potentially add more lag to the server.

I understand that item frames and armor stands are "passive" and thus don't contribute as much to lag. However, I'm fairly certain the reason that CVC was laggy last map was due to the sheer amount of item frames that were there. So, a large enough amount of armor stands may have a similar impact on the server. Maybe there's a way around that by adding a cap on the number of armor stands in a 100x100 area similar to how hoppers work? But that would require some looking into.

As sae also mentioned this -- but not everyone who is going to get their hands on this is going to have good intentions in mind. We would need to make sure that people can't use the plugin to drop armor stands into the void or do anything malicious that could harm the server.

Ultimately, my point is this -- I personally would love to have this as a feature on the server. I love what you can do with invisible armor stands when it comes to detailing a build, and it can really add a lot to interior decoration as well. There would just need to be a lot of work from admin+ in order to determine if this plugin could even be used on the server in the first place, let alone how it could affect the server lag-wise.

[magicus]

If you think it would be helpful, I can setup a test spigot server at my home server, and use command to flood it with armor stands, and log how it affects mstp. Since hardware and conditions do not match it can't be completely taken as a truth on how it will fare on the official CV server, but if it looks relatively fine it certainly is a good indication. And conversely, if that completely crashes the game, then sure, this is likely to have to be out of question.

What plugin are you using for getting the hopper limitations? I can see if I can install it as well, and if it is possible to configure with regard to armor stands.

As for the void, I *think* all entities that fall into the void dies, but I can check it up.