September 22nd, 2020 Livestream
Q&A: Does destroying trees & rocks make the game slower like making buildings?
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does destroying trees and rocks make the game slower just like adding buildings, I don't think so, it makes the save file bigger but that's the only thing I think it makes, okay it makes the game slower to join, network wise because we need to, replicate over all that data of like what foliage has been removed from the world and right now that's very unoptimized like it's it's it's one of the biggest believe it or not that's one of the biggest like, memory culprits right now when it comes to bandwidth over network when you're joining in on a save file like a huge chunk of that memory or a network that's being replicated is like just telling other people like what foliage has been destroyed in the world, and we've talked about fixing that for like two years but this stuff always comes up