Will this lag?

[haxel96]

Ok, so i have a trigger that add a new event each time a unit owned by a player enters playable map area, and those units will be many, really many. Will it lag?
The event added is unit - U takes damage
U is a unit in the map.

 

[ap0calypse]

It would be a lot better to use an already existing damage detection system.
There are enough of them here on the hive, and those will not create any lag, so why not just use one of them?

 

[haxel96]

Thats not what i want, im just asking Will this lag?

 

[Dr Super Good]

It will not add lag as it does not increase net traffic.

Ofcourse if you do something computationally expensive with those events it could cause performance to degrade to such an extent that the frame skipping causes a form of lag for individual clients but that is an entirly different problem.

 

[ap0calypse]

it could cause performance to degrade to such an extent that the frame skipping causes a form of lag for individual clients

That's what most people mean when they talk about lag though

 

[Dr Super Good]

Yeh but if you run an ideal computer executing an infinite number of instructions per second that would not be a problem.

It all depends on target audience, as someone with a 4 GHz I7 will logically run more demanding game sessions without performance problems than someone with a 1 GHz P4 (still able to max WC3).

 

[haxel96]

Ok, thanks for all answers, sounds like i can use that trigger. I guess after an hour or so it would crash for some people but the game aint that long so.