Entity Levels

[Raul]

This is a RustEZ feature where players can merge one or multiple of the same entities into one for the sake of reducing server overload where at the same time not losing productivity.

 

Upgrading

For the most part, levels 1 through 10 only require one of the same placed item with no additional Net Worth.

 

Furnaces

• Level 1 to 10: requires 1 item with no additional Net Worth required
• Level 10 to 15: requires 1 item and 2,500 Net Worth
• Level 15 to 20: requires 1 item and 5,000 Net Worth

 

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The following are the current level-able entities:

• Regular Furnace
• Large Furnace
• Legacy Furnace
• Electric Furnace
• Oil Refinery

Levels multiply the following:

• Burning fuel & rate
• Charcoal production
• Cooking time
• Power consumption (for Electric Furnaces*) (level 1 through 19, 20 is free)

 

Water Pumps and Purifiers

• Level 1 to 5: requires 1 item with no additional Net Worth required
• Level 5 to 10: requires 1 item and 1,000 Net Worth
• Level 10 to 15: requires 1 item and 2,500 Net Worth
• Level 15 to 20: requires 1 item and 5,000 Net Worth
   

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The following are the current level-able entities:

• Water Pump
• Powered Water Purifier

Levels multiply the following:

• Power consumption (level 1 through 19, 20 is free)
• Amount per pump
• Water stack size
• Max. output flow
• Autofill amount
• Amount to process per minute (Purifier)
• Pending fresh water (Purifier)

 

Water Catcher

• Level 1 to 10: requires 1 item with no additional Net Worth required
• Level 10 to 15: requires 1 item and 1,000 Net Worth
• Level 15 to 20: requires 1 item and 2,500 Net Worth
   

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The following are the current level-able entities:

• Small Water Catcher 
• Large Water Catcher

Levels multiply the following:

• Water caught
• Water stack size
• Max. output flow

 

 Water Barrel

• Level 1 to 10: requires 1 item with no additional Net Worth required
• Level 10 to 15: requires 1 item and 1,000 Net Worth
• Level 15 to 20: requires 1 item and 2,500 Net Worth
   

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The following are the current level-able entities:

• Water Barrel

Levels multiply the following:

• Water stack size
• Max. output flow

 

Composter

• Level 1 to 10: requires 1 item with no additional Net Worth required
• Level 10 to 15: requires 1 item and 1,000 Net Worth
• Level 15 to 20: requires 1 item and 2,500 Net Worth
   

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Levels multiply the following:

• Composting interval (300s at level 1, 5s at level 20)

 

Sprinkler

• Level 1 to 5: requires 1 item with no additional Net Worth required
   

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Levels multiply the following:

• Water per splash
• Power consumption

* At level 5, Sprinklers can steadily splash 2x2 planters full of Orchids.

 

 

PSA: When upgrading to the maximum level, all electrical entities receive a free level of power consumption. This means that level 20 multiplies everything, except the power usage, using the same amount as a level 19 entity.

[Enivoke]

This is an amazing feature, like so much that I am considering building another farm when I said I might take the wipe off and just spend some networth and do other things.

Although I am still seeing farms with over 10 pumps causing slight lag on the area, maybe there is a limit of 5* for each entity per grid of that specific player, after that the player is given a notification that they can upgrade their existing entites whch would give them a total of 100 levels each if they could afford it of course.

But the MAJOR lag that players experience is from sprinklers. It would be nice if somehow we could upgrade our sprinklers to produce more water and higher AoE that way we can have one of them manage an entire floor, or just a few depending on how it's constructed, of course it would take the necessary water and items from your inventory to do so.

In the end this is an AMAZING plugin, hopefully it can be expanded to more things as mentioned above to reduce it even further and acknowledge that the plugin exists to players, because I didn't even know it was there until someone mentioned it on the chat.

 

*Subject to change

[TiffDust]

This is amazing and much needed.

[Theodore Baggins]

@Enivoke unless I'm mistaken, I think the "more water per splash" means with upgraded sprinklers that they will indeed output more water. It doesn't change the AoE except for orchids and plants with bad W genes where, by extension of the increased water output, a single sprinkler can do a 2x2 grid. (Before the AoE was effectively limited by output)

From what I understand (Raul can correct me), the water processing queue is done server-side, and the more water components there are on the server, the more global lag there is to all water activity on the server (e.g. delay with everyone's sprinklers). However, I believe the particle effects of a sprinkler are rendered purely on your computer—the lag you experience from sprinklers is therefore largely a product of your graphics settings. Try decreasing particle and object quality and see if it helps your frames! Othwrwise, there's not a huge amount that can be done to decrease the item quantity in your PC's render queue other than the heavy-handed approaches of your draw distance, LOD bias, and things like turning off skins. 

[Enivoke]

We’ve had some discussion on discord but here are my 2 cents on this.

Before the discussion ever took place, I suggested sprinklers being upgradable and also suggested limits before any of this was implemented or was a problem, so maybe I was on the right track.

 

My suggestion is this: if we want to not disturb the economy and not upset people or make some happy that they abused the system and got away with it, we do this: Most players build in a range of 100 to up to 800 ish, let’s assume an avg of 300 planters. We introduce limits to how many planters people can physically place, say 100, and limit each planter to be upgraded to 5, giving us a total of 500 planters if we really wanted to with much lower footprint. Oh and of course each and every level will cost 1 planter + 5000 net worth. Those who choose to build only 100 don’t need to upgrade anything and don’t need to worry about spending net worth, those who want to push it further will have to pay with their net worth and will cost them a lot.

The idea of having 1 sprinkler per 4 planters is good, but with those planter levels we have 2 solutions, if it increases water consumption, we need to upgrade sprinklers to more than just 5 levels, or say fuck it and just don’t change the consumption of planters and leave it as is and simply increase the harvest and sprinkles don’t need to be touched and 4:1 ratio can continue.

 

this way, economy flow is the same and not artificially limited, those who want 100 planters have 100, those who choose to build 500 virtually, can also do with the included levels.

100 times 5 levels or 50 times 10 levels, all will need planter + 5K networth.

 

if anything I wrote didn’t make much sense, feel free to ask.

[utsuts]

What about making max physical amount of planters like 50 per player and be able to virtually upgrade them to lvl10 with 5k net worth per lvl.

This would reduce gigantic farm bases  but yes this update was great