Scenario: Survival Server (50+ Players)

Problem: TPS regularly drops to 14–15 during evening peak hours due to simultaneous operation of mob farms, active redstone, installations, and high per-player view distances on a widely explored world. Manual intervention at this scale is unsustainable.

# config.yml — recommended production configuration for survival
auto-regulation:
  enabled: true
  schedule:
    - time: "06:00"
      profile: survival
    - time: "18:00"
      profile: aggressive  # Anticipate peak load
    - time: "01:00"
      profile: conservative  # Overnight

heuristics:
  triggers:
    entity-count: 400
    passive-mob-count: 200
    entity-hotspot: 150
    loaded-chunks: 10000
    redstone-updates: 8000
    piston-activations: 1500

Expected outcome: During peak hours with the aggressive profile, the plugin pre-emptively reduces VD/SD for free-tier players, throttles redstone circuits exceeding the threshold, and pauses mob AI in hotspot chunks. As the peak load subsides, auto-revert incrementally restores the prior configuration as recovery conditions are confirmed.