Decided Against In-game chat calculator for all servers

if he hasn't tried anything above 2^1024, i'm amazed his calculator could hold it, as the plugin can only handle up to that or else it crashes from what i've seen

 

What plugin did you test? @chugga_fan

 

aka easy to crash so lets not add this random crashy stuffs

 

I haven't been testing it, but i'm looking at source, appears i'm wrong because it is complying with standard java formats and catching exceptions, but it isn't very useful for most calculations as you've got things such as Microsoft Mathematics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that work much better for your cases and are more useful

 

But I don't expect a server plugin to solve logarithms or help with trigonometry Just basic operations - multiplying etc.
By the way, you definitely seem to know more about calculations on computers. So if you know any expressions that could crash the plugin/server, send them to me and I'll be glad to try them out.

 

nah, none can crash, the guy is actually using try { } catch { } operations here in the right places, but seriously, since there's no infinite equations to compute, the most massive problem is probably ram, because of how java works

 

more that java doesnt work very well with ram

 

it's because of how java handles garbage collection, basically you can only "suggest" that java collects garbage at a certain time, rather than force it to, it also doesn't collect a LOT of objects in its sweep, which doesn't help much at all

 

Aren't the servers restarted regularily? Doesn't that clean up the RAM? Or would such plugin generate enough "garbage" to lower the performance over enough time?

 

It would generate enough garbage to lower performance, that is correct, but 4 hours gets alot of garbage, and each bit used for the number is an extra byte of data overall, as it's stored in binary but represented in hex, so large, LARGE numbers add up over time

 

I see no need for this, as others have said, and I do regularly, just use Google/phone/whatever. I don't really see what maths you want to do that is so important you can't tab out for like 2 seconds.

 

Wow, I'm lazy but not that much. If your phone is busy, you have calculators. The ones that it's used on schools.

 

Yeah i think it is a bit over the top but a good idea at the roots.

 

No client side only mod available?

 

if not it should be fairly easy to do

 

I found this but it's for MC 1.8: Overview - MineCalculator - Mods - Projects - Minecraft CurseForge
There's also this one for MC 1.7.10 but it adds new items so it won't work in multiplayer: [1.7.10][v1.0] Calculus - Calculators in Minecraft!

Too bad you don't even want to try it, having something new and unheard on MyM servers would be great. Just the same arguments, over and over again...

 

the main issue is generaly plugins are used to mange the server and just adding random plugins that could in fact have virus (ye ik this doesnt) but it is possible and if staff start adding this stuff then everyone will want there plugin put on the network and that is simply not practical also the fact that you could do a stupid number and kill the (or lower tps) is not good also good to keep in mind i think most of us are thinking "really does it take that long to get your phone or open windows calculator" because its true yes it takes a few second but really thats not much i see that you really wanted this and its unfortunate but this is how a public server works think of it this way at least you dont have to pay to play and the staff are amazing

 

It still amazes me, how much of the load could a simple calculator plugin cause on the server...
So I guess that's about it, it's not going to happen. Feel free to close this thread then.