[REQ] Dynamically resize draw distance as player count increases/decreases

It'd be nice if we adjust this formula slightly to fit our bandwidth situation as well.

 

An interesting proposal I can agree with. This level of flexibility would be nice to offer server admins.

A side note, however... I found what might be a bug with the view-distance setting being responsible for low mob respawn rates and possibly other problems. Something to consider if you're setting it manually to be less than 10.

More information can be found here.

 

Is anybody working on this?
Maybe a hint:

Code:

public class PlayerManager
{

    public PlayerManager(MinecraftServer minecraftserver, int i, int j)
    {
        a = new ArrayList();
        b = new PlayerList();
        c = new ArrayList();
        if(j > 15)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Too big view radius!");
        if(j < 3)
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Too small view radius!");
        } else
        {
            f = j;
            server = minecraftserver;
            e = i;
            return;
        }
    }

(from net.minecraft.server.PlayerManager)

 

@JoneKone posted a link here in my plugin thread. See http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/in...visible-chunks-around-each-player-1000.31576/

I have not had time to work on it for a bit, and the reason it doesn't exist at the moment is that there are serous issues with implementing this functionality. Doing it the 'easy' way is not enough (unless the 'easy' way is changing it for the entire server and restarting).