Is it just me or is SG5 too "big"?

[Sigh]

Today with my newfound donor powers I restarted my Minecraft so that it would have the maximum amount of RAM to work with when I noticed that one server was bound to play Survival Games 5 (the snowy one for you noobs).
Now, I tried to be smart and not activate any redstone (anyone who's seen my past threads knows about what happens when you mess with redstone on SG5), but as I played I noticed in the corner of my eye that my memory usage kept climbing, and climbing, and climbing still, until eventually I was at max and subsequently lagged like nobody's business. I'd barely been playing for 3 minutes and I'd already hit a full GB of memory, and there's nothing to say that it wouldn't have continued skyrocketing if I hadn't capped out.

Now I know that saying to remove the map entirely would be stupid and altogether a pointless endeavor, it was chosen by the admins themselves after all. But I have to know, is it the size of the map itself that's the problem or is it something else I'm not seeing?

 

[VeeZa]

That's weird, never happened to me before. Also what happens when you activate redstone?

 

[The Arena Master]

Never happened to me, SG2 is just as big.

 

[MJM239]

Never happened to me, well, I haven't played the map in like 2 months, so maybe something happened that I don't know about.

It's a big map, but not bigger than SG1, and just about the size of SG2, if we're referring to radius. So I don't think size is the issue.

 

[TheRandomMan1000]

Not too big, but the terrain is a bit boring, the color scheme is dull, and its lack of appealing looks make it rather boring to play. Not a bad map, just kind of dull.

 

[Sigh]

That's weird, never happened to me before. Also what happens when you activate redstone?

Suffice it to say that I've tested a switch near spawn on that map with a sign next to it, instant disconnect from the game when I (and a couple others) hit it. I tested it, like, 3 times and it happened every time without fail.

To be honest, now that I think about it, the redstone must have something to do with it, AFAIK there's more of it in SG5 than the average map.

 

[VeeZa]

Suffice it to say that I've tested a switch near spawn on that map with a sign next to it, instant disconnect from the game when I (and a couple others) hit it. I tested it, like, 3 times and it happened every time without fail.

To be honest, now that I think about it, the redstone must have something to do with it, AFAIK there's more of it in SG5 than the average map.

I pulled that lever once, I thought it was just a one time thing though and never bothered to test it again xD

 

[Porkstorm]

Not too big, but the terrain is a bit boring, the color scheme is dull, and its lack of appealing looks make it rather boring to play. Not a bad map, just kind of dull.

Sounds like sg1

 

[ShaunDepro]

It's because you dedicated all of your memory.

 

[Carz]

It's just as bad as the other 4. SG1 and SG4, not as much, I mean, they're as big as the others, just not as laggy. But I do see your problem with insane amounts of lag on SG5.

 

[gogotgo]

Interesting.... I seem to lag in the boat with the flashing lamps and the fast moving pistons

 

[agentkiller158]

That's weird, never happened to me before. Also what happens when you activate redstone?

There's a lever that does something to you