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you can have as many conditional branches in events as you want,
but it wont make difference as long as these conditional branches aren't called
upon to check.
It is slower having unused else branches than not having them, but I doubt the difference is significant.
The problem is rather that they increase the size of the event thus making it more complex from the human point of view.