Laser Trips Crashing Servers

NeonixzNeonixz Join Date: 2003-01-15 Member: 12315Members
in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">Why?</div> Can someone explain to me why laser trip mines crash servers, but normal mines dont?

It gets really annoying.. because they are so fun on some custom maps, but if you use like 30+ the server can crash..
And will it be fixed in 1.1?
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  • MasterEvilAceMasterEvilAce Join Date: 2002-11-29 Member: 10268Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    ... placing mines on the ground won't crash the server?

    Excellent..
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  • ElvenThiefElvenThief aka Elven Thief (ex. NS Programmer) Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8754Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    If what you say is true... (and I was in a game where we had enough laser trips set up that it was a friggin light festival without the smoke and it still didn't crash)
    I am going out on a limb and guessing that rendering the laser forces another entity and requires collision testing along a vector, where on the floor requires collision testing with the mine itself. Much easier to test one area than a whole line extending to infinity or the nearest wall. Multiply that by 100 and see how bad a server can crash.
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  • FireStormFireStorm Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7390Members
    If there are too much mines at one place, a chain reaction can crash the server. Place them in different places.
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  • twoflowtwoflow Singing Drunk Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 1950Members, Constellation
    <a href='http://www.jrc1985.plus.com/mines.jpg' target='_blank'>Here's an example of how many mines are needed to crash the server - still looks cool, though.</a>
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