When 0.9 rolls around, I am going to start a server, but I have a number of friends who have outdated devices. How would the infinite world generation affect older devices, such as the iPod 4th generation?
Makes sense, just was not sure. As long as the client does not have to load the world like now, it should work. Thanks!
Anyways, as far as servers go, I don't think it would affect the client, but I could be wrong. There is no way of knowing for sure until the betas start. We have been told that infinite worlds will not be available for PE Realms, so this may be either because older devices will lag/crash, or because they don't want to use up that much space on your Realms server files.
I hope that's what it is, because if not, then things are going to be bad :/ I think the reason why it lags though is because instead of loading and unloading chunks as you use them, it just loads the chunks that are around you/as you explore, and then never unloads them, at least that's the impression I got.