* PlayerMoveEvent performance boost (from 0.047ms to 0.015ms in testing, ~313% as fast): now more thrifty in determining whether player has actually moved between chunks before doing anything else; important since this event triggers extremely quickly
* PlayerInteractEvent performance boost (from 0.068ms to 0.034ms in testing, ~200% as fast): now ignores left-clicks for interaction checks, since in CraftBukkit 1.4 left-clicks no longer open doors or activate buttons/levers/etc.; not as important as above, but still triggers quite often as people are digging or interacting with blocks
* "/f list" command performance boost (from 234ms to 30ms in testing, ~780% as fast): code was getting information for all factions, narrowed it down to only getting info for displayed page range
* "/f show" command performance boost (from 132ms to 28ms in testing, ~470% as fast): tweaked the ally & enemy listing code used
Added wither boss initial explosion to our fireball explosion protection (only needed in 1.6 branch).
Also updated CraftBukkit lib and (hopefully) further clarified error message for GSON libs not being found in CB 1.3.2+ location.
Main change is that files as a whole are read into (and written from) an array of bytes, which is converted to/from UTF-8 encoded text. Previously files were read line-by-line as text from a BufferedReader.
Surprisingly, this seems to vastly speed up startup time. I tested on a ~2 MB data set which is now loading in just over 1 second where it was previously loading in ~95 seconds.
if the offline player had similar name with the online player
ie. online "s2", offline "s", then "s" would show as online because
getPlayer("s") will return getPlayer("s2")
this is why getPlayerExact should be used
TNT in water/lava doesn't normally destroy any surrounding blocks, which is usually desired behavior. That's the reason this setting is disabled by default. However, it is available because it provides a method to get through waterwalls with enough persistence, and it makes cheap (non-obsidian) TNT cannons require minor maintenance between shots. Both are useful things for my server.
1. Obsidian generator exploit, which converts redstone wire to obsidian. New setting "handleExploitObsidianGenerators" (enabled by default) to determine whether it's prevented or not. Some servers might want to disable this prevention, to keep it as a viable obsidian creation method. Thanks to ObGenBlocker and WorldGuard plugins for the prevention method.
2. Ender pearl exploit, which could be used to clip through doors, glass, and probably a few other things if just the right spot was targeted. New setting "handleExploitEnderPearlClipping" (enabled by default) to determine whether it's prevented or not.
Also removed our TNT exploit prevention code, since they did get it fully fixed in 1.1-R4 and it doesn't look to be coming back from the dead again like it did when they released 1.1-R2.
Added Econ.hasAtLeast(EconomyParticipator ep, double delta, String toDoThis) method to check if an account has at least a specified amount of money in it. Also added related FCommand.canAffordCommand(double cost, String toDoThis).
New setting "radiusClaimFailureLimit" (default 9). If claims are unsuccessful that many times in a row during a radius claim, the task will cancel out. There is no longer a limit to the specified radius since the process should no longer cause major server stress, and due to the process canceling out after several failures as just described.
Added some new methods to FLocation to quickly convert between block/chunk/region positions, and rewrote the FLocation hashCode() method to make it faster.
As with every other setting, you are advised to use /f config to modify it. Example: /f config playersWhoBypassAllProtection fakePluginPlayerName - add/remove the specified player name
Also switched several HashSets in Conf.java to LinkedHashSets. LinkedHashSets do have slower insertion and deletion than HashSets, but importantly they have faster lookup speed (at least until you get up to several hundred entries).
