Need extra explenation

[rose stratus]

Hi , when should i use that field. I mean i dont understand why i would need to statically set amount of shards

Also how could i set statically amount of guilds for one shard? I need that for testing usage

[mighty mirage]

setting it to a static number may not be the best idea but can be useful

by default if you use the @discordeno/bot package the .start() method fetches from discord the ammount of shards that you need* (* = suggested by discord)

but you may want to force it to another value

[mighty mirage]

you can't

[rose stratus]

oh , okay i didnt know about that , sry

[mighty mirage]

the guild is assigned to a shard based on it's id

and discord does that calculation

you can do it too with the gateway.calculateShardId if you know the total shard number and the guild id

[rose stratus]

oh okay i thought that it's there because there are some cases where it may make sense

[rose stratus]

ye i know that , thx for your answers

[mighty mirage]

if discord suggestes 50 shards but you only want to spin up 25 shards, you can set the totalShards to 25 and as long as you don't exceed the max number of guilds for that number of shards then you are fine