Why would Hierarchy selection impact game behavior?

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I’m finding that selecting different objects in the Hierarchy impacts the behavior in my game.

When I have my “Spaceship” selected in the Hierarchy, it is much slower to launch. When I select any object in the Hierarchy other than the “Spaceship” game object it launches at its normal speed.

It was previously working as expected, I have since added a Particle System and Audio Source. Toggling these off does not make a difference. I’m using Unity physics.

Why would object selection in the Hierarchy make any difference like this?

Any help is appreciated!

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Purely speculation, but Unity may be lagging trying to update the inspector view every time a variable changes or something or rather on big GameObjects with a lot of stuff visible in the inspector. You can hide public variables you don’t need to see from the inspector by putting [HideInInspector] in the line above it, but I don’t know how Unity works so this may not make a difference.