Hello @DanielMclachlen thank you for your suggestions.

Sadly you were miss informed about the speed of ships, the speed of ships was not only decreased for purely lag, there is a much greater design to this; allowing the ships to move in chunks rather than block by block, allows for people to walk on the ship while its moving, not only walk, but it means you can craft, build, and move items around chests! Attack, board another ships and actually have cannon shots take damage on ships. When the blocks are moving block by block as previous none of this gameplay can be utilized. The reason I want to improve gameplay on ships, is for future projects that involve having ship battles that can be reset, and so we can have trade routes with working gameplay, not just so people can move fast.

Fire spread, cannot be specifically targeted at ships, sadly. I have looked into this before and it is also documented deep down on the forums, the only option is to disable fire spread across the entire server, maybe that would be a good thing? The reason I did not remove a feature from the server, is because that’s part of minecraft, its part of the fun being able to create fires, removing this is removing part of the fun of actually playing, so if you can think of a posative argument for removing fire spread from the entire server, just to benefit a few trade ships then please reply with it, I have thought about this in depth already.

Siege has always been an issue, it is part of griefprevention it is not a separate plugin, for the 4 years I have used Griefprevention I have requested that it be remade from both developers that have tackled programming griefprevention, now the issue lies with a good idea on how it could be improved, that is what gets stuck, its very very easy to say to the developer “this is broken” and then they can fix it; but the entire idea of re-working how it works needs to have an alternative method that is balanced; now I do have a solution to this that I have covered in detail the last few months, that’s the new world, No TP, no Map, No GriefPrevention, its everything rolled into one for the “hardcore PVP”, This works nicely to not break the balance between the 30% PVPs to the 70% builders on the main survival piratecraft where Siege is at present. The map does not have a name nor has it started as there are a few large projects that need completion first. ship trade ports will be on this map, no teleport means you will have to move around using the default minecraft mechanics and with our addition of ships, there will be no map to hunt down people or find out where people are holding up base, there will be no /near, there will be no griefprevention to “stash” infinite items to be protected, which solves the “ugly stone brick boxes that make raiding impossible“, and im also very tempted to limit the global chat to be proximity based, so we don’t have people able to talk to each other from other sides of the map. People will have to actually make maps, bury their treasure, it will be a real pirate server for those that have the balls to play on it, while also keeping our balanced world to keep everyone happy.

Chat plugin, again you have mentioned something that is already planned; Our current chat plugin does have channel support, I haven’t ever mentioned herochat using lag ever? we used to use it for a short period. we already have Global & Crew, msg and mail in chat, anyone can create a crew to talk to people, or be invited to a crew that could be made for specific purposes, adding channels will confuse the chat even more; so the channels we have talked about creating will be limited; they will all be invite only; A help channel, to put people in there to talk to all staff without the use of /msg a specific staff member. this is the only extra channel that I would think could benefit the server.

I love the new-world-thingie *_*

Though if it comes up i want to suggest something.
Maybe you should keep griefprevention in but disable all hard blocks in the new world.
In my head the idea sounded smart so people could at least have a small base if they don’t have the time to get back to the normal world and still want to store their stuff safely…however this would go completly against the idea of the new world so…i just wanna throw it in as an option if people find the new world to hard.

<p style=”text-align: left;”>I believe that only one thing needs to be  to the ships pluggin and that is something that will prevent people from ender pearling onto the ships while they’re activated. This will make it much harder to get on to ships which will give the people more time to shoot the enemy and make ships harder to steal. Keeping a person away from your ship will simply be just shooting him/her with a punch II bow and then cannister shot the hell out of em! And if someone wants to ship that is sailing it will be easier to actually use a ship of their own to get up close to and board another ship which will make the server more piratish. Also with ports it’s best they be safezones so pirate ships can’t make it impossible to trading ships to safely deliver their stuff to ports. Also make camping nearby public ports to wait for ships to come out so you can attack them against the rules because if it wasn’t it would be annoying for the traders. Also if you were to disable teleporting you should also disable the /back command because then donators would way too OP and give crews a few more crew homes as they might have multiple cities or bases to protect and this might make it very difficult to protect them. Now to make the multiple crew homes thing fair make it so that it cost more money to set more crew homes and give the /crew home a three minute recharge so it’s not so OP. I think the current siege pluggin we have  is fine and we can keep the live map and make it easier to raid by having the live map just not show people’s locations. And that’s all I have to say for now.</p>

Yes Iodin nothing changes in the normal world but the new one gets…rougher.

Inventorjohn…the whole point of the new world was to make it a hard place to sail ships and make trading and pirates more…useful.
If we disable enderpearls it disables a way to atack ships that is not only useful but also not THAT easy to obtain.
Camping outside harbors might be annoying but it makes a lot of sense if we want to make the new world a place for more public pvp, which was exactly godsys intention as far as i know.
Also the livemap is a dumb idea if you want to trade safely.
Of course it helps you to navigate but EVERY pirate on the world could see where you were in realtime so…it would make trading a lot harder, additionally if a pirate could just sail towards a port and check if somebody is inside first.

AND i know how less assuring it can be to not have a base even more so in a new unexplored world but since the claiming-tool is so extremly bugged right now i would rather have no claims at al than a map that is stuffed with claimed stoneblocks where people store their stuff.
I know my suggestion about claims was similar but looking back i see how much it would hurt the feeling of the new world so i would like to withdraw my earlier suggestion.

I like the idea of protected ports, so anyone can park and build their ships in protected zones, outside of the ports is hell!