Enhance persistence plugin

[Be1zebub]

Any reason why this plugin exists? Except logs & custom path.
I suggest deleting it, or at least updating it to match the native behavior and save more stuff - eg dt.

1. rm bicycle code, just use duplicator lib (its saves dt & other helpful things) - make it better & native bahiavor
2. use native methods Get/SetPersistent - for better compatibility with addons
3. disable sbox persist hooks if plugin enabled - we make custom behaivor, default persist system should be disabled

[alexgrist]

The primary reason is the monumental lag that occurs from the regular saving of the entities as well as many other inefficiencies of the vanilla persistence. Using the duplicator library is the primary cause of the issue which is why we have our own implementation.

Originally we were using the sandbox persistence but unfortunately discovered the major pitfalls of it in our live testing, it will become very laggy over time as more and more entities are required to be saved.

[Be1zebub]

Then maybe lets use just a few non laggy things like duplicator.CopyEntTable?
Im sure things like duplicator.Patse which do a lot of money work are cause lags.

[alexgrist]

Ideally yes but you would need to test with a server that has lots of entities saved over a decent period of time to ensure those also aren't causes to the issue.

[Be1zebub]

Okey maybe lets just add more stuff like dt to original implementation?
The reason why i do this - helix doesnt save alot stuff.

[alexgrist]

Yeah that's probably a more reliable route.

[Be1zebub]

Sounds good.
What do you think about these changes?

2. use native methods Get/SetPersistent - for better compatibility with addons
3. disable sbox persist hooks if plugin enabled - we make custom behaivor, default persist system should be disabled

[alexgrist]

I think we avoided using the default persistence Get/Set due to other addons actually having issues because the implementations of persistence was different. Unsure about the other.

[Be1zebub]

PTAL