[crossfire] More server speed reducing the objects number

[Alberto Sáez Lodeiros]

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      Mark Wedel wrote:
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        Downsides:
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      1) Monsters that pick up loot would now need to do more work (instead of the
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      objects of 5 dead creatures merging, they would be all seperate, instead of the
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      common objects merging.
     
Monsters can pick up only the objects over the flor, but not into the
corpse-container.
Or maybe, when the monster is over the corpse-container, check the
object into it, and then move one random object from corpse-container
to monster inventory.

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      2) point 2 from above- fire effects may now have more objects to check for
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      destruction because they don't merge.
     
When a fire spell (for example) burns the corpse, you can make a
simple python routine, which destroy all objects into the
corpse-container. Or simply, the same thing that occurs when fire
reaches a chest, which is also a container.

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        All that said, I'd think this should be more driven by actually thinking this
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      is a good or bad feature, not memory or performance reasons.
     
You can set a timer in the corpse which will destroy the corpse and
all its contens, past 5 minutes, for example. In this way, we will not
wait for server resets to clean the maps.

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