Rust caps NPC work per frame, and Facepunch says its new navmesh is at least twice as fast

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Facepunch Studios has set out why adding more animals to Rust should not cost its servers frames, and the answer is a ceiling written into the game on how much NPC work fits into a single frame. The studio's Livestock announcement, posted to Steam on October 1 at 17:31 UTC, says only a subset of…