Post: #17

I am looking at tweaking settings on it, new npcs will always spawn from a gembit, thats the way everything works, the roam distance is set high to allow the spawns to move away from the gembit.

in v1.3 the roam distance is now tied to the gembit gap, so technically a spawn from one gembit should be able to roam as far as the next gembit which should get rid of any dead areas where there are no spawns. The only alternative would be more spawn points closer together while maintaining the same roam distance. This I think could create more lag, certainly more npcs.

I can add in settings to allow easier tweaking of the gembit timers, they are currently set to spawn anywher from 5 mins to 20 mins, though the first spawn from each gembit will appear when the function is initially run. I wouldn't recommend the bits spawn much faster during the initial population phase, this would most certainly cause lag. Slowing down the spawning would also cause problems for players hunting specific animals generated from the gembits.

The small area issue I am not sure how to fix, I was not aware that the gembits did not spawn at all, though I have found some that have spawned inside a building trapping all the spawns there in.
Given that the gembit generated are standard bits there is no issue in physically moving or removing them ingame if you come across a problematic one. Not ideal I know, it is something that I will have to think about.

I will make some changes to make it easier for the user to switch out settings in the script for v1.4, there is still going to be a bit of "hit and miss" in testing to see which settings will work best in it, probably not helped by the fact that I beleive sector.sleep will stop some of the npcs roaming to their full potential