Why is this trigger lagging?

[tommerbob]

When the hero learns the skill through the following trigger, it lags the game for a full 2 seconds.

• AspectLearn
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Learns a skill
  • Conditions
    • (Learned Hero Skill) Equal to Aspect of the Hunter
  • Actions
    • Trigger - Turn off (This trigger)
    • Set AspectHunter = (Learning Hero)
    • Unit - Add Aspect of the Hunter (spellbook) to AspectHunter
    • Player - Disable Aspect of the Hunter (spellbook) for (Owner of AspectHunter)
    • Trigger - Turn on AspectCounter <gen>

Anyone know why? The ability learned is a spellbook, which has only 1 ability, that ability has 50 levels. Is that was causes the lag? Is there any way to reduce the lag?

 

[Guest3z]

One ability with 50 levels is quite a lot for the game to handle. I see no other reason why that trigger would lag so the ability is most likely the reason. To reduce the lag you could preload the ability, that is have a unit with the ability already learned so that it is already introduced into the game. You can preplace this unit with the ability and just remove him at the start of the map via triggers and reintroducing the spell later will not cause a lag spike. This method however causes an increased loading time for the players before the game begins. An alternative is to pause the game for a few seconds at the start of the game and display a message saying the game is loading and add / remove a unit with the ability / the ability to a unit during this time which will cause a spike but may reduce the load time for the map to begin.

Alternatively reducing the amount of levels of the ability would likely reduce the lag but im assuming that is not an option you would favor.

 

[tommerbob]

Beautiful! I just preloaded it on a dummy unit. Works awesome now. Thanks!