Make the TFM custom world system configurable

i don’t understand what exactly you’re suggesting so neutral

Neutral

@videogamesm12#15275
@UnderTails#15273

dum dum words:
worlds in concrete, cant get out of concrete- worlds stuck. whereas worlds in bag, can swap out worlds and remove/add if necessary

@videogamesm12#15275 ok i’m not sure i understand but i think it sounds cool so i’ll vouch

You had a similar suggestion in the past, not about the world system, but about changes that are mainly intended to help servers other than our own. That idea was not very well received:
https://forum.totalfreedom.me/d/178-make-the…r-server-owners

The main problem with this is that we have limited developer time to spend currently and I feel like that time is better spent on things more urgent than making TFM more appealing to potential server owners (which is an extremely small demographic). Not saying it isn't a good idea to consider, but it's very low on a long list of priorities.

even if its low priority and won't be done for a while that doesn't mean that the suggestion should be discarded, just because a suggestion is approved doesn't mean the devs are forced to work instantly on it.

vouch

While this is a good idea, it won't be something that we will focus on - our main priority is utilising stuff for the network (F01 and F02).

To be honest, I think suggestions like this that do not impact the community should be discussed between developers and Ryan.

Neutral, I understand both sides of the discussion.

I object. TFM is designed four this server, not others. If other server owners want to make changes, it's open source. I see no reason to spend precious development resource doing the work for them.

guys lets backport plex's features into tfm

I vouch not due to the fact it may assist other server owners but because of the fact that this may potentially help the future community manager in their job - e.g. events that take place in a particular world (hunger games or something?) can be made without having to jump through too many hoops. I also vouch due to suggestions like the recent void world suggestion, which would be far easier to add.

I vouch. This is something that can benefit not just other people but also this server. Allowing for creating and managing worlds through a configuration file would allow for easy creation of events worlds without having to hardcode a new world into the TFM. This would make it as simple as editing a config and restarting the server and you get a new world without having to waste developer resources to add or remove worlds used for events that only may last a month or two for events.

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@Luke#15314 because of the fact that this may potentially help the future community manager in their job - e.g. events that take place in a particular world (hunger games or something?)

we do likely at some point have an events server coming soon, no eta i aint asked about it yet but it was approved afaia. but if it was going to have tfm and the likes i see what you mean. this'd be useful i imagine on the main server too for the same reasons.

vouch

I intend long term to remove or have the ability to disable the custom TFM worlds anyway, as that's caused a hell of a lot of the problems for TF recently.

Ultimately we won't ever ever ever permit new worlds to be created on the FreeOP Servers, and my intention will be that as we go forward we start to move these current custom TFM worlds out of FreeOP Servers and on to dedicated servers instead.

I have no issue approving the dev time to disable / enable the admin world / MB world etc etc, but customising them / dynamically adding them based on config isn't something I really see being remotely useful to TF, especially when there's about 100 other tickets (Not even kidding) that needs to be done right now...