Hello tyrsis,

I am having some serious lag spike problems with one of my worlds, and (unfortunately?) have pinpointed them to this mod. "/sort manual" takes about 8 seconds, and I have further nailed down the problem to the Moon Base. SpaceEngineers version is 01_134_007 Win-64, mod version is the latest greatest, the only other mod in use is a Laser Range mod which doesn't make a difference.

In the original game, the base is a bit larger, with a sizable solar array and a space "elevator" (really just an armor+conveyor tube) attached, but for reproduction purposes, those are not essential -- it can be reproduced with just the reduced size Moon Base. For simplicity, I have also removed most other assets from the save. With one Moon Base, it takes 2 seconds, and with the 3 clones it's about the same as the original game (8 seconds for one "/sort manual"). When automatic sorting is enabled ("/sort toggle"), the lag spikes I am observing are in the same order of magnitude, and when combined with the default interval, make playing almost impossible. I have already tried changing the priorities of the containers to be sequential instead of sharing the same priority for ore, but I think it didn't improve the situation - if anything, it just got worse.

savegame is published here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=686527066

Do you have any idea what might be going wrong? Do you need additional log files?

One hint my be that it actually also gets worse from simply attaching a long passive conveyor tube, i.e. no "active" parts like containers or sorters, just plain conveyors, so it looks like some... computation may not be scaling too well. And maybe something is computed too often (per sorted container instead of per ship -- the other base in the game, Asteroid Base, has a similar number of non-armor parts/conveyors but fewer containers with sort orders, and that one does not cause such long computation times.)


Best regards,
Kiwa