Town gates and memory management (Patreon)

The starting town will finally have some proper gates.  The gates will be closing at sunset and won't open again until dawn.  Anyone wanting to enter or exit the town will need to find some other alternative or wait until the sun comes up.  

The current gameplay direction I want to test out is making the nights outside of town a bit more dangerous to the player.  At first this will mean stronger and more frequent hostile encounters at night.  If things go well and the gameplay is fun then I'm thinking about adding night specific NPCs like vampires and werewolves and possibly even have special events based on something like the lunar cycle.  If anyone has played Terraria and remembers the Blood Moon events that's roughly the direction I'm thinking of.  

This also brings up an issue with using the wait command in game.  If the player can wait in order to advance time anywhere and at any time then the gates being closed at night really doesn't have the same impact.  I'm thinking that I'll hook waiting to specific pieces of furniture.  So if the player wanted to wait for any period of time they would need to find a chair, bench, or bed.  That way getting stuck outside of town after sunset should feel a bit more dangerous to the player.  This isn't set in stone just yet but I'll probably put it in the next build for testing unless anyone has any objections or alternative ideas?

Also on a side note, for anyone that's working on their own games in UE4 or thinking about doing so.  I recently watched this video from Epic Games about soft object references and memory management and really learned a lot of useful stuff.  

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ENnLV19Cw 

This was why the goblin alchemist's references would randomly break during her quest chain.  I'm working on fixing that now and changing over some things in the parent character class to save on memory in the future.   

Still chipping away on the map updates, the AI revamp,  and the rest of the game loop system designs.  Nothing fancy to take screenshots of just yet though.