05-18-2013, 06:57 PM
Existing work
Of course it's reasonable to check whether it has been done before, what kind of problems it has encountered, what results it has achieved and what improvements we're offering.
A quick search in the forum yields several results, most of them Spawn protect, which is a different thing. There's also a Protection plugin by Supertransformer:
https://forum.cuberite.org/showthread.php?tid=877
Upon quick inspection, that plugin does only simple protection, without any usernames, and has a hardcoded limit of 50 areas. It therefore makes sense to create the planned plugin, because the planned features represent a much higher value. It's also clear that the new plugin cannot reuse the code from the old plugin, because the feature set is quite different.
(tbc)
Of course it's reasonable to check whether it has been done before, what kind of problems it has encountered, what results it has achieved and what improvements we're offering.
A quick search in the forum yields several results, most of them Spawn protect, which is a different thing. There's also a Protection plugin by Supertransformer:
https://forum.cuberite.org/showthread.php?tid=877
Upon quick inspection, that plugin does only simple protection, without any usernames, and has a hardcoded limit of 50 areas. It therefore makes sense to create the planned plugin, because the planned features represent a much higher value. It's also clear that the new plugin cannot reuse the code from the old plugin, because the feature set is quite different.
(tbc)