Best way to create a game with multiple maps

[Wude]

Right now there are 2 options to implement this:

1. Create the different maps in the same world.
2. Create a new world per map.

Option 2 creates some issues, as there’s no guarantee that all the players will end in the same world instance as Ed C said on the official discord.

But option 1, to ensure all players can keep playing and no weird issues (as 1 player ending alone in a world instance) happen, may have an impact as how long it takes the editor to load everything, or ending up with something like this:

So… I know that for bigger maps the best option would be number 2. But I don’t really like the different world instances issue. As that could be a nuisance for players and make them leave the game and affect the overall game experience.

Any help on how to implement this would be appreciated.
Thank you

[Iceland]

Running into the same issue on Speed Run, having over 10 stages significantly drops the framerate and have split the game in two parts (stage 1-10, stage 11-14). Which at this point is unsatisfactory as when playing in a group with different regions (NA/EU), the players will be placed in an instance on their own server once teleporting to a different world.

I haven’t tried this yet but got the suggestion the other day that running certain parts on client side and make them appear/disappear at certain points when hitting a checkpoint might do the trick. Not a coder so I will see how I go about this but might be the right direction to have a bigger map.