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@Ferkswe

Sorry if you're too lazy to read it :P

Each paragraph begins with the request, followed by an explaination (necessary to make my meaning clear to the dev, perhaps).

Maybe try just skimming the first line of each?

@zedadiaswick

Duuude. I think you mentioned something I might be looking for too, but it's too long. Add a tl;dr? :D

Hi! This is a pretty awesome plugin, very easy to scale up the difficulty of mobs.

My primary use is for spawnpoints, as I am making a zombie survival game on my server. I have some requests based on my experience over the last couple of days.

Limit number of spawned mobs per spawnpoint: I have been building a city, and adding spawnpoints in certain areas to funnel zombies into a certain area. I know how many zombies I would ideally like as a maximum in each area, but have no way of controlling this. I also hit an issue where each spawn point can accrue thousands of mobs, causing lag across the entire server; also preventing new spawns in other regions.

Being able to set a distance players need to be from a spawnpoint for them to start spawning: Not a massive problem given the current size of the area I am testing this with, but as I build the city up, some spawnpoints will be quite far off from players. They appear to keep spawning, no matter the distance players are from them. This is causing them lag from so many mobs in the area, and could potentially cause lag across the server with a great many spawn points across the city.

Preventing chunks from being kept in memory: It seems as if chunks with spawn points in are being kept loaded, even when no players are in them. I have seen this when I logged off, with two spanpoints still active. I logged on 6 hours later to find 5,993 mobs in the area (I set a hard limit of 6,000 in the config), which I assume meant the chunk was still loaded even though no players were online in the chunk. Players had been complaining of lag for hours prior to this. All lag ceased after a quick butcher command.

Aggro range per spawnpoint: I am unsure if this is possible, but it would be brilliant if there could be an aggro range set for all mobs per spawnpoint. I would like a larger aggro range in my zombie survival city, but perhaps normal outside of this.

Line of sight aggro: Due to the above not being possible, I ended up adjusting their aggro distance across the whole server, but adjusted it down to 40 blocks and 6 y. This seems like a good number, might possibly consider lowering it; but what would be aven better is if the mobs would only aggro if they could see the player. Players are finding they have hordes of zombies clammering at their walls of their house, sometimes 30 monsters. It would be better if they only chased players they could realistically see. I would imagine it would be very fun to sneak around outside at night, trying not to be spotted by the large horde of mobs in the wide open space behind the trees. Be amazing in my city, to turn the corner and then have a large zombie horde spot you and head towards you.

different mega-aggro range per mob type: The extended range is fun, players do like it. But having 8 creepers converging on players isn't quite as much fun. I would like to decrease the aggro range of creepers to normal, but keep the mega aggro for other mobs.

Thanks for the plugin as is, though. Been really useful in making this Zombie Survival game!

I'm finding that Monster Apocalypse will either have memory leaks or cuase memory leaks in another plugin over time.

My current setup is Monster Apocalypse enabled in world, a spawn with WorldGuard region to prevent mobs from spawning and blowing up etc. After 5 hours, my server's memory usage is up to 2GB vs 700mb without Monster Apocalypse. (There are many plugins on the server, but these two are the ones I have a feeling are interfeering with eachother).

I'm going to test Monster Apocalypse and WorldGuard individually tomorrow, but I'm kinda annoyed as otherwise the use of MA is requiring me to have my server restart every 5 hours to avoid major lag spiking at each timed mob spawn event.

I have a plugin called charonsferry that makes players a ghost when killed. Unfortunately your mob targeting is different than the event I have cancelled. Thus I have one of two requests. One could I get the api so that I can make a soft dependency to make it compatible, or 2 if your event is a normal bukkit event could you tell me what it is so I can cancel it as well. Any help would be appreciated.