I worry about memory issues too, thats a lot of data to hold in memory. And as a avid addon user, im already sitting at a high memory usage. Tack on the combat log, as well as data from other addons like Details!, that's gonna get even higher.Instead of holding in memory, save it to an encrypted file (We all know their encryption is good, as no one's been able to view cinematics or patch data before), and then decrypt/move it after combat. If one were to crash, the file is still there. After logging in, if the player is out of combat, the file can be decrypted. Or appended with more combat info if they're still in combat.
It's nothing to do with mythic nelth lmao just because you hear the word "overlay" doesn't mean a weakaura is the same as something out of game. Nothing about this is new, people have been using these things in other games for years and years.
This post greatly exaggerate the memory need. For an ~8min combat of a complex fight with some adds, it is about or less then 100mb.Every pull will be written to disk. And not every pull is that long when you are progressing (or farming).I.e. one progress evening with Sarkareth was 1050MB with 27 Trys -> this is about 40mb each try.SSDs, which already are the minimum requirement for WOW, will write 100mb in 0.1-0.2 seconds to disk.
Make gud fights, like many have been, and people won't work their way around BS mechanics.
5 minutes later:PLAYER CREATED OVERLAY READING COMBAT LOG DIRECTLY FROM RAM!
Another shiet solution to a problem instead of just making better fights. Makes sense...