[suggestion] small stacks of common items to not be barricades

[KtoemYsw]

Hello

Nice to see stacking being added to vanilla.
I suggest that small stacks to be treated as normal items stored in lockers, not barricades put on ground.
I suggest this due to performance considerations. because that mean ten thousands of extra barricades.
more heavy when loading, more heavy when saving (server side), more heavy when raiding.

suggestions:

• scrap metal/cloth stacks of 10 are items not barricades (with 1X1 inventory size)
• scrap metal/bars/cloth stacks of 100 are barricades and can be places on ground (with 2X2 inventory size)
• same rules apply on metal bars, wooden sticks
• wood-logs/metal-sheet stack of 10 are items (with 2X2 inventory size), stacks of 40 are barricades
• dressings stack of 20 (if you gonna add) with 2X2 inventory size (no need to have stack of 10)
• rest of less common items I guess it is fine to let stacks of 10 as barricades, like ropes (glue, chemicals if you gonna add)

p.s. 1 : faster salvage time for stacks would be cool
p.s. 2: this is a good occasion to remind about my previous suggestion of "adding CraftingBlacklistAsset from mods"
because some top famous mods add stacking, but after this game update I guess many would like to disable that and use the vanilla ones.

Greetings

[KtoemYsw]

the things I said regarding metal scrap and cloth are inspired by the famous "more farming mod".
if they feel op then instead of stacks of 100 then stacks of 40 betten than none (like wooden logs)

[KtoemYsw]

some serverside save time statistics:
if we take an example Arid Reborn (which has stacking as barricades) server save time on low activity server is around 20ms while on meduim active server save time is 170ms, on very active server was reaching to 300ms
I don't say stacking is the only responsible to save time dramastic increase, since there is more of everything, but "I guess" it contribues much because total number of barricades increase very much due to it.
on vanilla russia high active server save time is around 70 ms

for servers that keep saving every 2-3 minutes (due to expected crashes) it is not desired to have 300ms save time, cuz that mean server totally freeze for 300ms

[KtoemYsw]

as far as I see, servers performance got enhances very much after this last game update.
not only Rio, but also Arid Reborn and Buak. (which are heavy maps)
so, for now I will stop nagging on this topic and will close it.
nice work in total
and very interested to see the collaboration with DogFood.
hopefully next step will be to decrease community political splits (Russia-Ukraine, LGBT, .... )
good luck and best wishes

[SDGNelson]

Late comment on my part but thank you for the feedback! We do want to be mindful of these things. :)