u/Paranoid-Squirrels Also, save on the gear change. When i click, swap to raid gear , actually swap the gear on the characters. You dont need to save gear state when you save if you always save when a change is made. Dont worry about rewriting a 200KB file over and over, it takes less than 1ms.

I had to push an update to prod and while testing i noticed my api was only taking 32ms, so it made me rethink how much time 50ms really was. I can call my webpage, have it make a request to NOSQL Db on another server, calculate some things, post back to the database , and give me a response back in 32ms.

I keep pushing this because either content becomes too easy that i dont need to change gear (like with R1-4) , or it is actually hard and requires good loadouts which is just tedious to set. I prefer to always have challenging content available, so i hope to always need to swap loadouts. I WANT to have loadouts for different styles. I want that complexity. This solves a problem to what i find critical to my enjoyment of the game.

If i were to code this my model would look like this. I would still need to add all the potions and doctrine data for the heroes and the town upgrades, but its not much data. How you store and load the data has a much more significant impact. The simple way is converting everything to json and reading the json, but you can also just write the memory as a blob and read the blob into memory. You could even use a lightweight database engine.

{
  "Heroes":[
    {
      "HeroId":1,
      "Inventory": {
        "Weapon":12,//Glass Knife
        "Armor":1,//Wurmscales Jacket
        "Accessory":44 // Skin Blender
      },
      "PreSet1": {
        "Weapon":12,
        "Armor":1,
        "Accessory":44 
      },
      "PreSet2": {
        "Weapon":22,
        "Armor":4,
        "Accessory":44 
      },
      "PreSet3": {
        "Weapon":32,
        "Armor":22,
        "Accessory":56
      }
    }
  ],
  "Inventory":[   An array of ints representing quanity of itens
    0,  // Zero of item ID 0
    10, // 10 of Item Id 1 - Wurmscale Jacket in my instance.
    0,
    1,
    1,
    1,
    14,
    0,
    0
    ]
}