Weird scientist entity count

So for reference this is a performance monitor snapshot from a few days ago before the force wipe. The server had about ~90k entities and the npcs made up maybe ~150: https://pastebin.com/MqRCsvVC

Now after force wipe on a new fresh map and nothing has changed. For some reason now I am getting ~800 scientist_heavy entities active: https://pastebin.com/mzS0h4ps

It's actually a smaller map too. Not sure if this is normal behaviour or maybe I have no idea what I am talking about just was concerned and wanted clarification, thanks!

7 hours ago, Sephisticate said:

So for reference this is a performance monitor snapshot from a few days ago before the force wipe. The server had about ~90k entities and the npcs made up maybe ~150: https://pastebin.com/MqRCsvVC

Now after force wipe on a new fresh map and nothing has changed. For some reason now I am getting ~800 scientist_heavy entities active: https://pastebin.com/mzS0h4ps

It's actually a smaller map too. Not sure if this is normal behaviour or maybe I have no idea what I am talking about just was concerned and wanted clarification, thanks!

Yeah I do see an increase of just over 800 heavy scientists in the two screenshots. Some things to consider in this change.

Ensure that the heavy scientist is your base NPC in the NpcSpawn configuration file. It likely is.

If it is, the one thing that could greatly affect this is going to be which files you have enabled, and what changed in the maps. Perhaps the other map had less monuments, so this map having more monuments or more viable locations to spawn in general has led to this.

One other thing to consider would be the timing. If perhaps one event or more were active at the time, certain events may produce a lot of NPCs in a small amount of time that could also contribute to what you saw in that snapshot.

Check the numbers more periodically, let us know if you are having performance issues that you think are a result of this, and any other information you can collect and notice.