Quotas

Often, server administrators want to limit the number of warps that can be created by users. This can provide a balance between disallowing users from making warps (often Draconian) and allowing unlimited warp creation (leading to chaos). The answer is quotas.

What are quotas?

A quota is a limit on the number of warps that can be created by a particular user. For example, it is possible to allow user Alice to create five public warps and unlimited private warps, but restrict user Bob to only a single public warp and ten private warps. If Alice or Bob attempt to create more warps past these quotas, they will receive an error message instead.

Quotas help slow or limit warp growth on servers with many players. In addition, quotas often encourage users to think carefully about warp placement.

How do quotas work?

Every player can create two types of warp, public and private. Accordingly, every player has an effective quota for each warp type. The effective quota is calculated using the following process:

1. If the player has a specific quota set, that quota applies.
2. If the player does not have a specific quota, but there is a global quota, the global quota applies.
3. If neither a player-specific nor a global quota exists, the player can create unlimited warps.

Quotas can be checked at any time by running /warp quota.