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SHiRKiT wrote:Both of them requires tree to having a tick operation. Unless they throw into a single controller, which could help reduce the performance impact.

or have an option in the settings to force only the ones in the players view to regen or die.

SHiRKiT wrote:Both of them requires tree to having a tick operation. Unless they throw into a single controller, which could help reduce the performance impact.

Trees can just throw themselves into a special list when they get damaged. No need to tick every tree.

Call me crazy, but maybe trees can just hide their health bar.

Khyron wrote:Call me crazy, but maybe trees can just hide their health bar.

On a delay after being damaged.

Khyron wrote:Call me crazy, but maybe trees can just hide their health bar.

I think that's by far the best solution.

SHiRKiT wrote:

Khyron wrote:Call me crazy, but maybe trees can just hide their health bar.

I think that's by far the best solution.

+1

I support this suggestion.

I just thought about bumping this topic back up again

Wube, please take this into consideration. The tree health bars are really ugly and useless. Even the bars simply not showing would be a great improvement.

GewaltSam wrote: trees regenerate their hp

+1. Hate health bars on trees in random places of the map

Personally I would rather see them rot and disappear.. seems more realistic to me.

Well, badly damaged trees should rot, but if the devs don't want to differentiate between low and high health I would prefer healing over dying.

No matter how it is done, I just want those terrain feature healthbars gone. Perhaps the game could just not display them, and save that information for the mouseover information window?

lancar wrote:No matter how it is done, I just want those terrain feature healthbars gone. Perhaps the game could just not display them, and save that information for the mouseover information window?

This solves the problem, would be dead easy to code, and would have no performance impact. I vote for this.

Don't know about that... It's inconsistent with the rest of the game.

If you differentiate between enemy buildings, player buildings and neutral terrain doodads, it would be consistent if all items of the latter group behaved that way.

Nova wrote:Don't know about that... It's inconsistent with the rest of the game.

Is it really? It would make sense to me if terrain objects like trees and rocks were treated differently from gameplay objects like player buildings and spawners as they really only work as a decoration, resource and obstacle.

Healing or rotting would still be preferable, but healthbar hiding is a still good yet very simple solution.

The plan (long time ago) was, that trees die, if the pollution is too high. This implies, that trees gain health, if not.

Would love the option to turn off the health bars for trees. Every time I shotgun a forest or poison one I have to OCD chop down all the hurt trees to keep the health bars from tickling my brain in the bad way.

I think that slow regeneration of tree health would be better solution for these ugly bars.

But it's also potentially complicated for the developers. Handling potentially thousands of damaged trees slowly regenerating could get complicated (especially in multiplayer with desyncs - there are already enough problems with damage causing desyncs). It's the ideal solution, of course, but healthbar hiding is much quicker and won't break things.