I’m presently writing a bachelor thesis the place I plan to conduct some experiments on regtest community to guage how efficient a specific rebalancing algorithm performs in comparison with presently used rebalancing options. Beforehand, through the analysis part, I had in thoughts to run it on the testnet, however then I spotted that it would not make plenty of sense due to unfair circumstances (I’d not be capable to rebalance on the identical community/graph states). This led me to the concept of utilizing regtest to have the ability to simulate and experiment with networks below the identical situations. However this isn’t an ideal surroundings both, as it’s a sandbox surroundings, and I’ve to watch the state of the entire community myself. I take advantage of the regtest workbench and it makes my job rather a lot simpler in some ways, however now I am confronted with an necessary query, the reply to which might assist me carry my native community nearer to the actual setup. Particularly, is there any technique to import a lightning community snapshot into the regtest native community?

So far as I perceive, this query has already been answered right here, however maybe one thing has modified.

Do you assume I’ve taken the suitable method to do the wanted experiments? I wish to play with my rebalancing methodology on testnet as properly, however as I see it now, I’d not be capable to draw any conclusions as I’d not have a comparative issue. In that case, I do not see any contribution a bachelor’s work may have made. Perhaps you may advise one thing helpful for this vector of labor within the context of the libraries and tasks?

Thanks upfront for the solutions!