Bukkit

Hi, I use TownyChat but I don't see the faction name where I put "{FACTION}" in the chat format, why? I've too opened a ticket for townychat here: http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/towny/issues/detail?id=672 because I don't know if the problem is of faction or townychat. Regards.

@Crayder
If you don't understand what it explains in the user guide (as mentioned & linked in the FAQ above), be more specific.

@Brettflan

Haha, thanks for reminding me about that property. The file is now just under 1 mb (rather than nearly 4 mb).

@Brettflan

Completely forgot to re-enable that. I disabled it from when it was buggy. Also, I'm using 1.6.3, I'm going to update to 1.6.4 right now. I'll see if those will help. Here is my folder (3.88 mb unzipped): Link Removed: http://www.mediafire.com/?zbkzz4a54b51scl Also, I'm using craftbook since essentials has a lot of extra things I don't need/conflicts with a lot of other plugins, haha.

Thanks for the advice!

@Thomasice
Delays for leaving/joining factions and so forth are something that's still on our long-term to-do list.

@badda2k
10-15 minutes? Wow, that's got to be a record. If possible, could you zip up your Factions data files and send them to me via PM to provide me with a nice large test dataset? It could be helpful for optimization.
A couple of things you can try. First, make sure you're running the latest version of the plugin. Performance optimizations are frequently part of our updates. Second, make sure that you have "autoLeaveAfterDaysOfInactivity" set to a decent value (like the default of 14 days) so that data for inactive players is kept cleaned up.
We should hopefully be updating to GSON 2.0 fairly soon, which is itself supposed to have speed optimizations of its own for loading data.

A note on the EssentialsChat 1.8 integration problem: I've pinpointed the cause of the problem. I'm currently talking with the Essentials team about whether they're willing to revert the change which is causing it (auto-replacement of unrecognized curly braces with square braces in the chat format setting, converting "{FACTION}"->"[FACTION]") or whether I'll need to make a slightly crufty update to handle it.

Now my server takes 10-15 minutes to start up (because of factions being to big) and it's messing with remotetoolkit :( I think it has to do something with it detecting that the server "crashed" (because it's taking it a while to load factions) and disables a plugin. Then once it detects the server is up (about 5 minutes later), it restarts the server to enable the plugin. This would keep going over and over and over. This plugin is really great, but it isn't easy on large servers where there are thousands of players joining :(

@Conderan
I've tested claiming land in the Nether and can't duplicate your problem. Based on the stack trace, the Location or the World is somehow returning as null, though I don't see how that could be happening considering you're standing at that location in that world. Bizarre. What is the exact command you're using?

Have you tried removing other plugins to see if one of them is possibly interfering?

@ThaSourceGaming

Ah, so it was that existing caught error. I suppose I should remove the stack trace printout; at this point, the stack traces have been rather consistent from a debugging standpoint and seem unnecessary to users alongside the helpful info it provides above that.

Thanks.

@Conderan

Oh, missed your post. Power bonuses based on membergroup / permission are not likely to be added, sorry. It would be a bit complex and add in an extra set of permission checks to a part of the code which is frequently accessed, therefore potentially impacting performance. Sorry.

@ThaSourceGaming
OK, but as I said, if you could provide a little more info it would be helpful for preventing problems for others in the future.