Smart area reclaim limited

Smart area reclaim has been the source of a lot of crashes and lag spikes of late, thanks to people accidentally (or not so accidentally) using it to queue up map-wide reclaim commands. It now has limits to the total area and number of commands it can issue to alleviate this problem. Read on for more details!

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July 1, 2024

Smart area reclaim limited

Lots of small optimizations were made to help speed up this widget, but the major change is limits. Specifically:

The diameter of the command has been limited to 1/4th of the maps largest dimension
The number of commands issued per smart area reclaim is 1000. This means 1000 commands total, each unit given the command gets unique orders to minimize walk distance. What this means in practice is that the number of features smart area reclaim will issue commands for can be divided by the number of selected reclaimers. So if you use 1 rezbot, you can issue orders for 1000 wrecks or features. If you have 5 rezbots, that number will be 200, with 20 rezbots it will be 50, and so on.

These limits may cause some frustration at times where it seems like the orders issues do not match the area drawn, but it’s a necessary limit to stop lagspikes and hard crashes.