Slow Load

Over the last few days I've added about 9 custom abilities to my map - however now it takes FOREVER to load. Anyone experienced something like this? Any fixes?

Loading times reflect on:
-The size of ur map
-Number of units from the exact start
-Number of doodads and destructibles
-Number of triggers and actions from the first 2 seconds of the game initlisation...


I came up with this way but it takes age...about 30 seconds into the game i spawn alll my desctrucribles and units...some maps this is almost impossible and a daunting task. But if u can do it, it cuts down loading time.

and the number of triggers / actions etc that work from the map initialization

well its funny because I didn't add any things you have described here (besides a small file size difference) by adding custom abilities. And it increased DRAMATICALLY in load time, like by 3 MINUTES. But you're saying the load time doesn't depend on my 250 custom abilities?

If they say that, they are lying. One of the single largest causes of an increase in load time is custom object data, especially multi-level abilities.

yeah that's what I'm thinking - so I'm going to run a test by removing all of them from my map.

Yeah - custom abilities are the KEY factor, and are about 1/4th up on the loading bar. While other stuff plays a factor as well, simply by deleting 10 abilities I'm looking at 30 second faster load time. Thanks everybody.