Let's say I want to brute force a randomization and I have 2^N possible outcomes after do N switch randomizations. In theory, I could write 2^N triggers to decide what to do with each one, each one with a condition like:

* Deaths is exactly 0
* Deaths is exactly 1
...
* Deaths is exactly 2^N

Would any high N cause significant map lag, or are Deaths conditions super cheap to never cause issues? E.g. I'm thinking low 100s.

(note the N/M below are different from the 2^N I described above. once we know M outcomes and total players, then we can calculate the total unique possible outcomes, which is what the above is talking about).

Or does anyone know an efficient way to assign M exclusive outcomes to N players? E.g. the boss has been defeated and drops 1 item from a pool of M unique items for each player (N players). Each item is exclusive and unique. How do I guarantee each player gets a unique item from all the other players?

a few hundred death count checks won't lag. It's about the cheapest condition

I think I remember hearing at one point if you have a lot of triggers, it can be a good idea to organize the conditions from cheapest to read to most expensive. So like switches and deaths near the top of the list and brings near the bottom. That way if one of the cheaper to read conditions isn't met, the engine skips the rest of that trigger saving some memory.

OOC, would a few hundred thousand cause lag? I can try running some checks locally for this.

I'm building some large systems, and I know independently they won't cause lag. What I don't know yet, is once I have all the systems together in the same map, will it cause lag.

The amount of triggers wont cause lag aslong they arent preserved running each frame, a huge amount of triggers will cause the editor to fail save the map file tho, theres a limit to the amount of triggers in the editor, around 200 thousand

most certainly

its not about the deathcount amount, and the deathcount amount is limited as in the engine, using up all unit types for deathcounts is sure not above 2000 or something, and using 2000 triggers for deathcount wont cause anylag. but its the amount of triggers that could cause lag.