KiwiShips

[yottabyte]

Many times, all the way back to when the ships were first released in August of last year, have people been wanting faster ships. This unfortunately is not possible for a few reasons:

- Block removal/placement: All the blocks and their data has to be stored temporarily every time a ship moves, which means more memory and CPU usage
- Chunk updates: Every time a ship moves, all the blocks moving have to be sent to the players in the area which means heavier CPU load and also much more bandwidth usage
- Lighting calculations: When blocks in the sky are moved, the server has to calculate the light changes on the ground below. This can be pretty heavy on the CPU, especially with larger ships.

This is why smaller ships move faster, since they put much less load on the server. Even with the slower ships, having 10 or so big ships fly around the server can cause quite a bit of TPS drop. Ship licenses are expensive because we do not want the average player to fly around in a big ship. We wish to keep the amount of ships moving at once down at a low number in order to be able to support more players on the server and a lag free environment for everyone.