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Rovers. Useful to the colony, but also detrimental to the game. They build, but their movement, especially with fast roads, has the potential to lay, freeze, or even crash the game. I suggest an option to render or not render workers, rovers, or drones. The option would be toggled from the engine settings menu.

Forcedminer said:the problem i see is similar to when colonists aren't rendered.
they instantly teleport to their location.
that would making mining operations and buildings instantaneous. :P

But i do have an idea.
i think it might of been suggested before and we do have some units like it.
flying rovers.

they won't need to pathfind that should reduce the stress of having to make them pathfind.

As far as I know the drones (at least that's what I'm assuming you are talking about) actually do still have to pathfind. Anything going from point a to point b has to find a way to get there

Yes, they would still need to pathfind. I also agree that a lot of the crashrate for the game comes from bots moving (specifically turbo drones). I would slightly modify the idea to make them disappear for a certain amount of time depending on rough distance away and they teleport to the location after that amount of time. Lets say its roughly 50 squares distance away, the bots disappear for 15 seconds or so then reappear next to the structure they set out to build. This completely negates the need for pathfinding and replaces it with calculating distance away.

Yeah, it could become something to toggle on or off in the game engine settings. That way smaller bases could enjoy watching the rovers go about their business while larger ones don't need to worry about bots path finding crashing their game.