Knowledge and Limitations

ID:1834081
 
Apr 15 2015, 9:02 pm
(See the best response by LordAndrew.)
Problem description:
What's the best way to determine the "specs" for running your game. Is there an online service or something?
Also- what's the best way to determine how close you are to the object limit and any other limitation in a game. (I don't believe I am, but it would be nice to see how much leeway I have.)
Apr 16 2015, 1:47 am
Try using the inbuilt profiler.
Apr 16 2015, 6:16 am
The profiler doesn't display any limits, it just shows some counts.
Apr 16 2015, 9:56 am
There has to be some kind of code that keeps track of everything that is active in the game. I guess I could maybe loop through all atoms in the world and count them up.
Might be as best as I get.
Apr 16 2015, 10:01 am
 
client
    verb
        RunCt()
            var/list/f=list("turf"=0,"mob"=0,"obj"=0,"area"=0)
            for(var/atom/m in world)
                if(istype(m,/turf))
                    f["turf"]++
                else if(istype(m,/mob))
                    f["mob"]++
                else if(istype(m,/obj))
                    f["obj"]++
                else if(istype(m,/area))
                    f["area"]++
            for(var/i in f)
                world<<"[i] Count = [f[i]]."
Apr 16 2015, 10:08 am
In response to Avidanimefan
Best response
If you're hosting your game via Dream Daemon, you can use the Memory Stats (Ctrl + M, or select it from the World menu) option to view both how many instances of a type exist, as well as how much memory is being used by those types.
Apr 16 2015, 10:08 am
In response to LordAndrew
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks.
Edit : Ah.. you said dream Daemon :o. I can't really host hmm. I guess the snippet will do for now.