Which one is efficient? (path finding question)

Unity Engine
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In a multiplayer game’s unit pathfinding:

1-Send target to peers and calculate dummy’s pathfinding in each peer and make dummies move

2-Just serialize position.

It is a RTS game and there will be about 300 units moving around.

What do you think about the efficiency of both implementation ?

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Hi,

if your RTS engine is really deterministic you can go for the 1st one.
But IMHO, a really deterministic RTS engine is pretty hard to achieve, so I would go for the 2nd despite the network overload.

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Hi Nems, thanks for your answer.You are totally right with your answer.I have implemented both situations and in 1st one for 8 players too much cpu works in peers. 2nd one worked just fine with a little network overload.Now i am trying to decrease that overload with some algorithms.Thank you very much.

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300 units , unity can support that ?

If you can port this to mobile , you sir are great !

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It is nearly impossible to go mobile with this RTS, but i have tested 1600 character while game combat system is running and each unit was calculating shortest path