Lag and API's

Hi So I have happily been installing scripts since I got my Pro account and now have a good 30 plus installed (gone mad:p) anyway I was about to install Status FX and I was reading a post about it causing a lot of lag. I have never stopped to think about lag as a issue before seeing that post and was wondering if I am setting myself up for problems with all the other API's I have running? Any advice?  

Probably not.  Lag caused by a script should be the exception, not the rule.  API Scripts are event driven, so will only do any work when a triggering event occurs.  The problem you would run into is when a script is too promiscuous with the events it reacts to, and does too much when they occur.  If you are mindful of what happens when you add scripts, and notice a script that is causing problems, bring it up on the forums and we can fix it. 

Status FX can cause lag because the particle effects can be resource-intensive if there are too many being rendered at a time. There used to also be an issue where if you switched tabs, it would wait to render all the FX until you return to the tab, causing it to render too many FX at once. Not sure if Roll20 may have fixed that though. I haven't used that script in years.

99% sure that bug is still around.  The same thing happens with pings.

So I can have it installed and it will not cause any issue even if just sitting in the background as it does nothing unless I call upon its function then I have to be careful to not have many of them going off over many maps etc? Is that correct? 

Giulio M. said: So I can have it installed and it will not cause any issue even if just sitting in the background as it does nothing unless I call upon its function then I have to be careful to not have many of them going off over many maps etc? Is that correct?  Yep, that is how we use it and it works fine.