hey there :)

After some time i am planning a new server with your great essentials as "backend".
Now i am configuring and i need some description about..
..what is factions, mapper and perftools ?

Furthermore what is "item permission manager" which is switchable in main.cfg ?

Thank you in advance and respect for your great work !

regards

Jogi

factions is incomplete and buggy. Don't use it. Mapper creates a Image of the current region and saves it to region.png, and Perf tools provides basic performance information. As for "item permission manager", I am not entirely sure what it does cause I have not played with it much. You will have to ask @olee or @luacs1998.

Actually factions is not buggy, it's just not finished.
But it can be used to allow users to join some groups themselves (though if you want factions to have special permissions, you will have to set them yourself for now).

Mapper is a part of remote module and basically a lightweight dynmap module.
It can be viewed via remote panel for example.

Well, the main thing I disliked about factions was the creation of extra groups by unsanctioned users. This resulted in players leaving the default GUESTS group. In addition, when they left the faction, it did not put them back in the default group.
But I just realized I fixed that in 7b4f4b1.
So factions may be fine, but I still would not recommend them if you have a better option from another mod. Same with plots.

Yeah you are right with guest group - that is a little problem.
But I think we actually had some other default-group setting that allows you to give some default group to every new user which won't be removed by joining a faction.

Closing - if you have further questions @jogi01, just ask.

thx very much !!!