[crossfire] mapguide/director question

[Alex Schultz]

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         /12) Do not put directors with bullet, lightning, fireball, etc. that
     
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         are a loop or continuous.  Example:  Do not have two directors, each
     
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         facing each other, with a bullet wall firing into them at the side.
     
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      Why is this a problem? I saw what was written below it, but don't 
     
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      bullets and fireballs and such explode after traveling for a bit?
     
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      Nope, they travel between the directors until they hit something 
     
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      substantial such as another player, monster, summoned pet, etc.
     
     
Actually, I'm afraid you're mistaken... I just tested on my private test 
server. They do disappear/explode after moving a bit without hitting 
anything (i.e. when director bouncing). A small fireball exploded about 
~5 seconds of bouncing, and small bullet disappeared after about the 
same amount of time.
I don't see how it could be that bad either: I'm testing firing missile 
swarm (about the most projectile intensive spell there is), into a tight 
3 director loop, and my server barely gets up to 2% cpu usage.  Large 
fireball fired as rapidly as can be by a signal player's natural casting 
can't push it over 1.3% cpu, and even with all this, the idle cpu usage 
is 1%. Really, unless lots of monsters are casting, or if it's meteor 
swarm with it's massive amount of fire, I don't see how this could be a 
problem.

Alex Schultz