Implemented Power armour is hurting server performance | DW20

Direwolf has had a lot of new players, and we're seeing player amount starting to reach the 50's now.
This is good.
Lots of players are building bases, and working on different mods.
They require good protection. Of course they do, as DW20 has left the peaceful times quite literally now. So they make good armour.
This is very good.

However, The amount of players opting for the infamous power armour, which is very known for the drain in tps, are building up.
@Tamaohme and I are often finding ourselves advising players to stop using them, as they hurt the server.
We often find the tps drainage list to include players with power armour, and it saddens me to see.
We know we moderators have no power to force the players from refraining to use them. We can only advise, inform and ask them to use better armour, like Quantum, Bound, Kami and Flux-infused, which all are much easier on the server.

Now, I propose a ban, or at least a much more strict permission to use the power armour.
I know a lot of you players who use this armour on DW20 will be mad, yet you are often the ones complaining about the server performance in the chat.

What do you want. A server that is playable and fun for all, or keep your armour when there are many other options?

 

I obviously agree with eAndPi, there are lots of different and better armours and at 70% of the times i profile the server there are always 1 or 2 players in the highest TPS drain.

 

what about this armor hurts performance?

 

The power armour is energy dependant, and cast many updates seemingly. The players seen when profiling are 70% of the time using this armour, and and sometimes barely have any inventory.
This armour was donator only for a reason on Monster.
Just the pants can be upgraded with enough speed to ram past many, many chunks, resulting in loading and unloading a vast amount of chunks in seconds.

I'm not sure if these are still active problems or if they are fixed, or if the claims plugin negate these problems, (as they were reported on a towny server), but they are also notorious.
Plasma Cannon: Explosion claim-bypass. Blink drive:Skip doors, Teleportation into "secure" areas. Pickaxe/Shovel/Axe:Tool itself Bypasses protections, Coded to complete actions in "OP" mode.

 

In other servers only lux capacitor is banned

 

when i was wearing PA on dw20 me and me alone took out 5 tps, yes 5 tps just by USING 2 modules, thats HUGE

 

888leoj can confirm this, me and him lived together during the time i used PA

 

ok, we'll see, i can't reproduce atm cuz i'm working on killing a wither but after that i'll try

 

This would be Backpacks from forestry. they have a few modes. Refill, auto pick-up, Lock

 

Ill jump on and do so for you.

So I jumped on and gave myself maxed out power armour.... This is with 23 other players on the server... one chunk profiling

With everything OFF

And with everything on:

And full server profile:
Everything OFF:

And ON:

 

The one chunk profile suffered, actually, going down a whole 10 tps.

 

look at the 2nd picture you showed, shows you at the TOP of the list using 96% of the tps and the top one shows you using 64% of the TPS

 

ok, but yes we still need a cleaner envoirment because of the playercount being so high probably affecting the outcome