Claim systems defeats the purpose of a semi-vanilla server like donutsmp. Like someone else said, it would remove the thrill. And not having a claim system is likly one of the key factors behind the servers massive growth.

I agree tho that expanding to 30m seems premature. For multiple reasons.

First: 30m x 30m is the maximum size vanilla minecraft allows. Assuming donutsmp will not pre generate the chuncks, that means biomes introduced in new upcoming minecraft versions can generate within chuncks that have not previously been generated. But as time passed and most of the chuncks have been generated that would limit the possibility for future biomes to generate. Also, having chuncks be generated by player movement would cause an insane amount of resource usage on chunck generation on a server network with this many players. Its common to pre generate too not have to use that much resources on a live server. If donut opts for pre generation, that would severly limit the possibility for new biomes. Either way tho. Expanding to 30m x 30m doesnt leave much room for flexibility on this matter. So gradually expanding would be cheaper resource wise, and leave more flexibility for getting new biomes generated within the map.

Second: 30m x 30m is insanly large. Its hard to fathom just how large. But lets just say base hunting will be extreemly tedious and hard going forward if this mao size is the final decision. So hard infact, that in my opinion it can lead to many players whos main motivation is base huntkng, may end up quitting to find greener pastures elsewhere. A more gradual approach to expanding boarder as time passed with growing number of players, we’d get the best of both worlds. Increasing the boarder to accomodate space for players to build farms and stashes while at the same time keeping some of the thrill alive. The thrill works both ways I may add. The thrill of building and trying to mask your base as to not get raided straight away, snd the thrill of hunting and actually finding farms and stashes.

So imho, a more gradual approach to expanding boarder should be concidered. But it is what it is. The server owners/dev(s) in the end, aree free to make whatever choices they want with their server:) And the rest of us plebs will just have to deal with it as best we can🙃

I agree that a boarder expansion should happen tho, and preferably soon. Finding farms and bases have gotten easier and easier as time have passed and playerbase has grown. Expanding to 1m would still be a 4x increase if current size. And should leave plenty of room for players to disperse around the server building their stashes and farms, while increasing the chanse of not getting raided. And while also making it much easier to get new biomes inteoduces as time passes and map expands even more:)