Gaia lush causes framerate drop, allow to disable the foliage?

The lush visuals that spread out from Gaia’s economic buildings give me a noticeable framerate drop, I think it might be due to the little foliage models that spawn. Could they perhaps be removed by the low/none terrain embellishment/foliage settings, as is the case with the little models that spawn on regular terrain?

It’s probably not the foliage, but rather the logic calculations. One of the devs mentioned that gaia lush is one of the more computationally intensive mechanics in the game. I’m not sure why, but my guess is that it’s because it has to go through all your units to see whether they are near any lush building to know whether to apply healing, and it has to do this calculation every frame.

Removing the Gaia flower objects that spawned greatly improved it for me, I’ll be sharing the mod soon.

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