Hello, _DT here. Today I would like to propose an idea, we increase the number of animals allowed in a town to 15 adults. This insures enough space for a town to have 3 sheep, 3 cows, 3 pigs, 3 wolves, and 3 chickens, or a variance of those numbers. I also feel that bears should be excluded from the limitation, as they are so hard to tame and cannot be bred. To prevent a spike in server lag caused by this strain I see a couple of options, but feel free to suggest others if you can think of any.
1) lower the number of farm plots/berry bushes to 512 blocks (2 chunks)
2) only allow towns to have 8 animals until a town member has been active for 4 days of play time. This shows dedication to the server, and should hopefully prevent people from getting this number of animals, quitting tfc, and leaving a these extra animals.
I would love to hear from the community on this, and I hope we can work something out!