(12-29-2022, 03:49 PM)Haxus Wrote: Someone (can't remember who) commented that their trek to the center of the galaxy created a lot of sectors that made solo game loads take a long time. After a week, all those excess sectors would go away and their load time would drop a lot.
(12-29-2022, 11:45 PM)QuakeIV Wrote: Do you suppose you could just garbage collect systems immediately if the player leaves and there is nothing left behind there? (IE buildings or items, et cetera)
Yeah a week seems a little long, especially if we are talking real time. Decaying an empty sector the moment it is outside of a player's super-sector seems fine. Especially if decaying and re-generating the sector doesn't take more than a few seconds.