Pros of "new spawn point:" Older areas are accessible (if inconvenient).
Nether chests would still allow users to bootstrap themselves in this situation.
Personally, it doesn't much matter to me. But to other people playing here, it's been a dealbreaker in the past.
You'd have to make one at the new spawn area though. By the time you can do that, it doesn't much matter.
Can I ask why?
Drifter did, just above me:
There. Hence why I specifically put it in my last line.
I'm pretty sure he was quoting me, 3 posts higher.
I used dealbreaker because Gas used dealbreaker :/ Perhaps I should have quoted him.
Setting a pretty hard line there.
I'm not going to say "It's OK, but I'd rather blah." I'm saying quite clearly: I want a clean break. I'm against (and will argue against) any other alternatives (unless something is presented I didn't expect and can support). But I'll play whatever happens. I'm not going to attempt to take my ball and go home or anything (not that I could anyways!). I'm just very against anything that keeps the old world "accessible" from the same characters while the new one is around. I kind of like seeing the new achievements pop up and such. Yes my old home will be "gone", but I'm OK with that.
Nobody knows except mojang (if even them). I did some searching today and couldn't find anything but speculation. People already thought that it was going to be in June, but obviously didn't happen. It's all wild guessing from what I can tell.
I what? I am?
Yeah, you expressed pretty strong sentiment about such things the last time we went through this (which became the Ragnar-Caprica transition).
Unless you specifically tell mapping software to do so, it will generally try to map the entire extant world. This means you would have two dots separated by miles and miles of empty space, but the mapping software would probably still faithfully try to render all of that empty space, just for context. That means potential hours of rendering time spent just going, "Map this? Nope. Here? Nope. Here? Nope," when generating a map.
That isn't a huge deal for me. Just worried about actual map size.
In theory, it shouldn't take up more server space than two separate maps together (two servers running on different ports, for example) would take up. The way the chunk data is recorded, map chunks don't actually exist until they're generated by someone coming within render range of them, and thus it doesn't increase the size of your level data.
Meh. I was wrong. I found out I like mining and exploring more than building major edifices.
