Event for excessive pathfinding instructions

[eveferon]

As known in the community for quite a while, pathfinding for objects can be a heavy burden for a server that can dwarf any other performance issues.

The screenshot below illustrates the situation where one creature (a PC player in that case) that is placed sub-optimally on the area (standing dangerously close to a table) can cause 25x more load for the server than all the scripts together while 40 players are online on this particular PW.

The second screenshot illustrates how big of a load it is compared to everything else happening on a PW.

Other similar cases are known throughout the community.

In a discord discussion, there was an idea to create an event to signal such excessive load from pathfinding, giving an option for dealing with the object (moving it or destroying it).

Note

• the creature can be an NPC or a PC.
• the creature does not need to try moving, a standing creature somewhere in a bad place can cause load
• placeables can generate load when placed sub-optimally (e.g., within textures) or on the intersections of some area parts. This happens only once when the walkable area is calculated (see screenshot of a not well placed statue)