Please explain to me the use of having this plug-in. That is what this discussion boils down to.
Why and how would this plug-in be useful?
Would it help the server or cause unnecessary work?
Do the pros outweigh the cons?
Simply put: This plug-in would have little to not benefits for the server. The scenario outlined above a citizen rage quitting over losing items is a valid reason. However, there are Chest Shops to lock chests. Though chest shops are meant for selling items, they can be used as a locking mechanism. But what about /plot clear and bypassing protection such as doors and fence gates? Yes, the town staff can bypass protection. It is meant to be that way. Town staff are supposed to be responsible for the town and that includes clearing plots. If we implement this plug-in, it would create much more work for the town and the staff.
And yes, it might make a little more work for Staff, but we've got a pretty large Staff crew already. Nothing they can't handle.
~ @CaptainCheesy
Yes, we may have a large staff, but even then, staff has work to do. They cannot be on call 24/7 every time someone needs to remove a door or a chest. To do so, we would need to give Towny Staff permission to bypass such protections. But if we do, we'd be back where we started. This would not help nor would it achieve what you want to do. If we suggest that unclaimed plots should have no protection, what's stopping a town staff from forcibly unclaiming your plot and then reclaiming it and acquiring your items? This plug-in is for convenience, not utility.
The locking chests, furnaces, doors, fence gates, ect. was why I loved Mineguild. (Since Mineguild went down, I've been trying to find another server like it.)
~ @flibergdde
I'm going to assume that you are talking of the MineGuild Server that was pure vanilla and did not have any mods on it aside from the plug-ins. If so, that server was a Survival Multiplayer Server. Meepcraft is a Towny Server. In the SMP, players are encouraged to work together and staff personally know each player. Usually, these servers are smaller to allow staff to reach every players concern. Though I've never played on MineGuild, I have played on servers similar to this SMP style. Usually the staff would be around to help player concerns. In this scenario, the staff to player ratio is 1:4 to 1:5. Meepcraft is a much bigger server and our staff has much better work to do than dealing with every /modreq on a locked door or chest.
The question is how useful would this plug-in be in the long run. And for me, I cannot see that much usage in the long run. This plug-in is for convenience, will create more problems, and every possible solution to fix these problems would put us back where we started.
As an alternative, I think we should have a tutorial on how to make and create chest shops in the Tutorial we have now.
