Room cleanup
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Room cleanup
I'm not sure if many people are bothered by this, but since the cleanup code was introduced/tweaked? i've gotten a little paranoid about dropping my sack or other stuff on the floor if i can't carry it, or meat for mounts if i need to leave the mount for a time. Was wondering if it could be made so cleanup code only affected unnamed items, so that players could name stuff like meat and sacks, and leave it on the floor without worry of cleanup code getting it.
Re: Room cleanup
Idles/Belannaer/Cutter most prolly will have good insight upon this.. I guess it's primarily a matter of memory consuption and secondarily of CPU, both of which will be multiplied I guess today with the new server being introduced.. Then the cleanup time might be elongated?iluth wrote:I'm not sure if many people are bothered by this, but since the cleanup code was introduced/tweaked? i've gotten a little paranoid about dropping my sack or other stuff on the floor if i can't carry it, or meat for mounts if i need to leave the mount for a time. Was wondering if it could be made so cleanup code only affected unnamed items, so that players could name stuff like meat and sacks, and leave it on the floor without worry of cleanup code getting it.
On the other hand it might have some kind of consequences in relation to monster respawn time, which I guess players would like to keep intact..
Stalker
Re: Room cleanup
No, this cannot and will not be done. With the current object counts, it would most likely eat more CPU power trying to check whether it's safe to cleanup the room than we gain with actually doing the cleanup. (This could be mitigated somewhat if the driver was smarter about how it runs the cleanup, and I have proposed some enchancements, but since I'm just about the only wizard with interest and knowledge in innards of the driver and I'm quite busy with work and other things, don't expect that fixed anytime soon...)iluth wrote:I'm not sure if many people are bothered by this, but since the cleanup code was introduced/tweaked? i've gotten a little paranoid about dropping my sack or other stuff on the floor if i can't carry it, or meat for mounts if i need to leave the mount for a time. Was wondering if it could be made so cleanup code only affected unnamed items, so that players could name stuff like meat and sacks, and leave it on the floor without worry of cleanup code getting it.
#define BITCOUNT(x) (((BX_(x)+(BX_(x)>>4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F) % 255)
#define BX_(x) ((x) - (((x)>>1)&0x77777777) - (((x)>>2)&0x33333333) - (((x)>>3)&0x11111111))
#define BX_(x) ((x) - (((x)>>1)&0x77777777) - (((x)>>2)&0x33333333) - (((x)>>3)&0x11111111))
Actually, I'll take the "will not" partially back. It could be done given enough resources, but the more important question here is, do you really need to carry more stuff around than you can carry? The whole gaming experience is choices and compromises, and one of them is your carrying capacity and the risk of losing something you left on ground.
#define BITCOUNT(x) (((BX_(x)+(BX_(x)>>4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F) % 255)
#define BX_(x) ((x) - (((x)>>1)&0x77777777) - (((x)>>2)&0x33333333) - (((x)>>3)&0x11111111))
#define BX_(x) ((x) - (((x)>>1)&0x77777777) - (((x)>>2)&0x33333333) - (((x)>>3)&0x11111111))
