Does it cost less to send 1.123 than 1.123456 via remote events?

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No. All lua numbers are sent as signed float64s with a one-byte overhead for their type, meaning they take 9 bytes in total to pass through a remote.
An int16, in comparison, is only 2 bytes, 3 including a byte overhead.

I made a plugin specifically to observe this kind of behavior, which you can use:

Packet Profiler - easily measure all of your remotes!

[Icon] Packet Profiler by Pyseph [image] Get the plugin here Get the in-game profiler here Table of Contents Introduction Functionality In-Game Profiling Introduction Packet Profiler is a plugin which allows you to accurately read remote data sent by different contexts. Unlike the vague and uninformative Stats windows which only show the current KB/s receive and send rates, this plugin allows you to accurately see packet data each frame, along with precise byte size information. Funct…