03-07-2009, 04:16 PM
MrBaloney Wrote:The 5 second delay definitely hinders how fast i can race - I keep many multiple tabs open as well. Once the tabs are open - I click backspace and click challenge. Very fast.
A - i have nothing to back that up - i dont know anything about server overload, i just think the 5sec racing delay slows things on their end down - enough for them to keep up on data transfer.
tbh I couldn't be bothered doing the tabs thing. Maybe it's just me but that would be more annoying than just finding the next guy in the list.
It does keep server load down a bit, think about how much the game lags in the beginning when there are more people than usual spamming clicks. Every click in this game (well almost every) requires a server calculation, a database query or both. So it definitely would help with keeping us from lagging and timing out.
Of course a faster server with more memory would do that too, but dedicated servers are pretty expensive, trust me I know lol.