Observation

ok i think we can test it pretty good here since we have enough ppl online to notice significant changes in the serverload

maybe the reduction of those arrays will also raise the performance
are there currently many different timers in the source?

again haegar worked his magic powers and got us a new flhook that is working better and has more features than before
the flhook memory leak is history thx to w0dk4 and haegar and the server is running with a very good performance now (running the beta version of the new flhook)
the new (full) version will be online somewhen this afternoon

i also did some magical work and the general FL memory leak has been fixed aswell

yeah haegar and me are both mighty magicians and together we are known as siegfried and roy
noo ... noo simba... sit... sit... i said sit simba!!!!!!

"and now to something completly different"
no not really
the work on CF1.8 has been started.... no - no new work on features yet
i only was able to collect ideas, ship models and write down some concepts
before i really start working on cf1.8 i want to fix errors... vanilla errors and cf errors
so i did a very deep scanning of all files and got a long error log
a word document with more than 1600 pages which means somewhat about 30.000 listed errors in CF
after a closer look i was able to exclude 24.000 of those errors because the tool i used has a bug and partly reported shit (those 24.000 error reports were no errors at all)
520 ship related errors that were caused because those ships were from shippacks (and not created/converted by me) and not correctly build are fixed now
another 4.000 other errors have been fixed too

so about 2000 errors are still to be fixed
most of the errors are no real errors.... its mostly something like bad typo eg. "colour=200.0000, 239.0000, 120.0000" instead of "colour = 200, 239, 120"
basically FL is not much interested in such kinds of errors since the engine does reads those lines and doesnt give back any error outputs because of them

so why fixing something that doesnt cause probs?
the answer is simple... because if there is something that is not "standard" there is the chance that FL needs to calculate more than usual ... maybe a debugger needs to run to convert the data to "standard"
and all that calculations would raise the serverload
thats why im fixing it
i want to see 80+ players on the server when 1.8 is out
and i want to be able to say CF is the first 100% clean, bugfree mod

from all the errors there are about 15 which can cause real problems (crashes or console messages) but except 2 of them it wont be hard to fix those

CF1.8 is going to be the most stable and bugfree mod with incredible performance (compared to its size)
and the first 700 files have been finished

yes it can be fixed that way
but i wont filter out that stuff now coz that takes more time than fixing it on the fly

btw. Blaster is doing the same error fixing atm with BU and after that massive content will be added to push BU

and if you think 30.000 errors are much... i scanned other mods to see if its good or bad and they all had much more errors (pure interest ^^)
smaller mods of the size of BU had something between 15.000 and 40.000 errors
big mods of the size of CF (yes there are some of that size) had up to 100.000 reported errors
so there is nothing to worry about