Support for Vault and similar economy plugins might be a desirable feature to have in Yamipa, as shown by @ObcbO in #72. Multiple things have to be considered to add this feature properly.

First, how to specify the "prices". The best I can come up with is to add a section in the "config.yml" file with these properties:

# Prices for Vault-enabled servers
prices:
  download: 0.0  # Cost of downloading an image
  image: 0.0     # Cost of an image (deducted when placed, reimbursed when removed)
  item: 0.0      # Cost of creating an image item

By default (if omitted), no action has a cost to maintain backwards compatibility. Regarding the "prices.image" value it works like this:

• When a player places an image with /yamipa place, the amount will be deducted from his balance.
• When somebody removes an image with /yamipa remove or /yamipa clear, the image's owner will be reimbursed that amount.

The latter is problematic as, if the server owner changes "prices.image" to a higher value, it could be abused to generate more in-game currency by removing previously placed images. To fix this, the image price will need to be stored in "images.dat" alongside the rest of metadata.

Second, player feedback. Players need to be aware of how much it costs to perform a plugin action and when a given amount is substracted/reimbursed from their balance. Prompting for confirmation with every command execution is, IMO, way too much. So maybe adding an additional /yamipa prices command with the list of prices is the best solution.

This is, still, not ideal, as a dishonest server owner might use permissions to hide this command, leaving the players with no feedback.

Anyway, if anybody wants to give their opinion now's the time :)

• Should Vault support be added to Yamipa?
• Is this proposal reasonable?
• Is there a better way to give feedback to players?
• Am I missing something that should be taken into account?

hi! well in the server i'm running i only use this plugin for the laughs and only me with the perms required for that ofc but i believe it should be actually a good thing do i just don't like too much is the placed and remove prices thing i feel like those should be free (even tho it would be the same thing as the way you said it) but other than that i feel like it should be a great addition yeah

Closed due to lack of interest.