[multiplayer] Idle Hearthlings

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Summary:
After a while all the Hearthlings become idle, and refuse to work. This in includes their job, hauling, mining, building etc. The only work around is to pause the game for a little while, then suddenly all the Hearthlings will switch off idle.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Made a multiplayer game
  2. We each had 12 Hearthlings
  3. After a while they stopped doing their job

Expected Results:
Hearthlings would work on available tasks

Actual Results:
Hearthlings would remain idle even though there was work to be done.

Notes:
It seems this is an issue which has been reported since 2015. Is it possible the thread that assigns Hearthlings jobs is being starved? The fact that pausing the game for a short while works as a workaround, suggest this could be the case.

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Version Number and Mods in use:
Stonehearth Version 0.24.0.835 (x64)

System Information:
I7-4790K
16 GB DDR3-1600 RAM
AMD R9-295X2
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro: 10.0.16299 Build 16299

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Yes, this is a server performance issue and we are actively optimizing this right now.

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