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Deleting fish from my map took me from 157,000 active entities down to 41,000 and dropped cpu usage by 20%. Deleting grass/decorations dropped my map size from 122MB to 80MB and RAM usage went from almost 8GB down to 5.1GB.

Any plans to optimize these things?

Which game version you are using?
Decorations were modified in version 0.15 to take much less memory.

Fish are a new one I think - there were seriously that many of them?

If I may suggest, you should post your save here :
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=17501

bp3959 wrote:Deleting fish from my map took me from 157,000 active entities down to 41,000 and dropped cpu usage by 20%.

The "active entities" counter is the total number of entities in the world that *can* be active - not the total actually active.

As for the "dropped cpu usage by 20%" - I don't believe you. Fish take zero CPU time unless a player is standing next to them and unless you're on a MP game with 50 players standing next to excessive amounts of fish there's no way they would take up 20% of the CPU time.

bp3959 wrote:Any plans to optimize these things?

They are optimized: fish don't go active unless a player stands next to them and decoratives are extremely compact for what they provide.

They will of course always take > 0 space - that's how games work If you want anything then it takes some resources. If we strip out all of the bells and whisles from the game you end up with http://factoryidle.com/

Rseding91 wrote:They will of course always take > 0 space - that's how games work If you want anything then it takes some resources. If we strip out all of the bells and whisles from the game you end up with http://factoryidle.com/

Oh ffs you bastard, why did you link that?

Rakshasa wrote:

Rseding91 wrote:They will of course always take > 0 space - that's how games work If you want anything then it takes some resources. If we strip out all of the bells and whisles from the game you end up with http://factoryidle.com/

Oh ffs you bastard, why did you link that?

Took those out of my fingers...
You evil Rseding with tempting links

Rseding91 wrote:If we strip out all of the bells and whisles from the game you end up with http://factoryidle.com/

Except that there are bells and whistles to strip even from that!

i actually have a kongregate account and played that but after a while it gets very boring

Rseding91 wrote:If we strip out all of the bells and whisles from the game you end up with http://factoryidle.com/

Haha, laughed more than I should have.

TRUEpicness wrote:i actually have a kongregate account and played that but after a while it gets very boring

I have the perfect solution: drama about it getting boring after a while