Reasoning why this is part of the core and not a separate addon:
The impact of this function is extremely lightweight when (almost) no
aliases are defined so someone who isn't using this should not have a
worse experience.
Additionally including it in the core (similarly to the discounts,
taxes and restrictions) promotes it's availability while not massively
increasing the maintainability.
As for the OddItem removal:
That plugin hasn't been developed for over 7 years and such unique
plugin support should really be added via separate addon using the
events system which, with the new ItemStringQueryEvent, now actually
supports doing that from an external plugin.
If someone really managed to run their own private fork of OddItem for
all those years then they should be able to also provide such a simple
addon.
This adds some more logging to the metrics for some interesting plugin
settings as well as player account and transaction counts. This data
about account count and average transaction and item counts is also
exposed ingame via the /csmetrics command.
This also removes the outdated mcstats metrics as that site is long dead
now, the last data is from two years ago...
Also add tax bypass permissions (#204, ChestShop.notax.buy/sell). When buying with that permission the buyer does not have to pay the tax (the seller will still get the reduced amount), when selling the seller will get the full amount instead of one lowered by the tax.
The permissions of the shop owner play no role due to there not being a good way of checking offline player permissions and it being a bit non-obvious for the buying/selling player if a shop would be with or without tax. This way all that gets changed is the amount the player pays/receives and not the shop owner (and the player should know their permissions/rank already)
The transfer event was necessary in order to correctly resolve who triggered the transaction. Economy adapters are now required to implement a listener for each of the events. It's also recommended that economy adapters that support transfers directly use that instead of passing it through subtract and add with the processTransfer method.
Phoenix616
Brice Frisco
Phoenix616
Andrzej Pomirski
Acrobot