Floods (plugin)

This Plugin will be where when it rain in a hole or flat land long enough will cause floods with the rain.

How this Will work is when you get a storm if it raining more then 5 min then you will start to see some floods popping up

If you want to suggest anything please do because if i don't get good review will just trash it

nevermind i see this plugin will be useless if anybody thing that it could be useful i might make it

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Hmmm, well I like the idea, BUT:

• wouldn't it be heavy on the server? You know for every player, check the surroundings for holes in the ground (how big?) and fill them with water
• if you only want to fill holes, it's not flooding
• if you want to flood fully, you could create a damn mayhem

 

It's not useless, its an awesome idea, but plague is right it would be way to resource heavy...

 

Ideas
- Is it possible to make it flood only in the area the Player is?
- I like the idea of setting a time, what the OP said. Configurable.
- Make it so that the water added on the world (the flood) is counted/logged, that way when the sun shines the flood dries up. Maybe timed too?

Just some ideas

EDIT: OP, if this was done i would put it on my server ;P

 

i was thinking of adding this to RealFluids as a separate plugin, though i don't have the time to code it up and since the update some of RealFluids is bugged

EDIT: seems it was the build i was using

 

You can limit the checks to say 1-3 players at a time, that would limit the weight on the server. That's not that big of an issue imo.

 

So only some players get floods? that would be strange.

 

Create a list of active players and create a nextPlayer function. After that you create a runnable tasktimer which cycles all active players (one by one) an executes a block search for - let's say 200 cycles - each player. With this the server shouldn't overload regardless of how many players are online. The tasktimer only activates when a weather change event occurs.

Edit. This should be fast enough to cover all players. You don't need to check all of them simultaneously.