Edit existing units or create new ones?

[Super-Sheep]

I am basically going to modify all of the default heroes' stats and abilities a little.

Should I edit the current ones or create new ones?

Thinking about loading times and sizes...

 

[Dr Super Good]

Editing existing ones should be fastest and smallest.

 

[defskull]

^
But it can be tiring to look for previous edited units because, it doesn't seem to be sorted out in a folder named "Custom Units"
I find it, disturbing to find un-sorted units/abilities/buffs/etc

 

[Marshmalo]

Surely this makes such a small difference to loading/download time as to render it pretty much pointless? Its costum recources that take up the large majority of the space.

 

[Super-Sheep]

Surely this makes such a small difference to loading/download time as to render it pretty much pointless? Its costum recources that take up the large majority of the space.

I remembered that back in days someone discovered that default edited units would take a lot more time in loading screen compared to new units... But I might be wrong too.

 

[Dr Super Good]

WC3 uses a rather unefficent database management system for custom resources. I rememeber dissassembling the source code and following it while it ran for a bit and noticed that for each custom object it ran some form of O(n) opperation to find something. As such the time taken to load each additional object increases linearly so the total time to load all objects is proportional to the square of objects data. This explains why load times get worse and worse with the more stuff you add, adding an extra object can cost more than first 50 odd you added to load.

Frankly there is no way around this, as this is a mechanical fault in WC3. Games like SC2 I hope use hashing or other forms of indexing like binary search which have near constant or logarithmic load requirements per additional data, this means that the load time for data would be proportional to the number of elements (linear).

 

[Marshmalo]

Not all of that made sense but I got what your saying, sound slike its worth it using original units then.