What I’m trying to achieve is to maintain steady and decent performance when having a large amount of players such as 100 players. As of now, I haven’t done tests with 100 player servers but from what I see and what I know, it tends to lack in performance.
I want to avoid using Streaming Enabled
This is aimed at large free-roam games such as Ultimate Driving:Westover
Any suggestions?
To be honest, Streaming Enabled would be perhaps the best way to improve performance without having to go through the map (assuming you’ve already finished it) and optimize it by hand (i.e reduce part count/density). I’m not entirely sure of another way to do this that would work with such a large scale map like the one you intend on having, but Streaming Enabled would be perfect. Why avoid using it?
From what I’ve learned, anything to cut down on networking.
If you can get rid of the characters, you’d save a lot on networking.
Would of thought something custom would be better than streaming enabled
Okay, so I could do a local character remove if the distance is far enough from another player
Possibly. You’d be in the realm of experimentation. If you try it out, let me know what you find.
Will try it out, thank you
That doesn’t cut down on networking, and would only affect rendering. You should just be careful how much you are sending/receiving. MeepCity uses normal roblox character replication(which is likely better than any custom system right now) and it runs fine. It may be a less intensive game than yours might be though.
Removing characters locally if they’re far away shouldn’t optimise anything. If Roblox isn’t currently handling this optimisation for you, it’s something I would post in #platform-feedback:engine-features. As a new member, you don’t have post permissions there, so refer to forum rule 15.1.
Don’t worry about whether or not the request is written well or not, if you make it. You will receive very helpful assistance.
Yeah most likely a less intensive game
Note that if you post asking for optimisation on far away players, you shouldn’t try suggesting how it should be done. State your issue, state what you need optimised, and use the feature request format. This seems like something that should already be optimised by now, but if it isn’t then, again, you don’t need to suggest how to optimise it. Engineers will find their own way, as they’re far more familiar with the Roblox engine than (most likely) any of us.
Yeah, my initial intention was ways how to optimise performance for a large game such as 100 players
Also, streaming enabled would be a problem for cars travelling? That’s what I’ve heard
I made a custom system for my game where there are no humanoids at all and the characters are made of just the humanoid root part on the server. All character rendering, movement and animations are done client side, it helps A LOT, I’ve tried it with about 75 people in an intensive game and it worked very well. The system uses Luanoid from the 2018 hack week to handle all player humanoids locally and custom code to make the player models show up and follow the server humanoid root part.
Sounds good, do you have a game with this example and the link to the Luanoid?
I don’t have a link to a working game with the system right now, but this is the link to Luanoid https://github.com/LPGhatguy/luanoid 
Thank you! I’ll let you know how I get on, take care.