[2022] Something fishy is going on with the Echo Web Creation

Love seeing things like this. I have actually got some reasons as to why this is happening that I can share.

Aspects of this are working as intended.

1. There’s a maximum depth beyond which you only really get shade echoes.
2. When the web is particularly large it creates fewer branches.
3. When creating a new branch close an existing branch it’ll have fewer side branches because the more echoes there are around a specific spot, the lower the chance it has of containing an echo.

These are in place to keep the web from becoming too unwieldy. You found some unintended consequences of the system.

We actually had set up a pre-generation system and I can’t remember why we didn’t use it. We ran into some design conflict that made it not work at the time.

I just checked and this is expected behaviour.