Game update delay

I understand stopping sending info to client after some inactivity, but when you go back to game it takes too long for unit position and other info to update. This is a constant issue. As soon as the game is refocused the server should send info immediately. Maybe it has to reload game from database? Please make this faster.

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You can't expect that downloading information about units and positioning, and computing it requires zero time.

Paramunac wrote:

You can't expect that downloading information about units and positioning, and computing it requires zero time.
It used to for me until Coalitions came in.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
-Winston Churchill
Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.
-George S. Patton

Obviously I didn't mean zero time. It takes anywhere from 50 to 1000 milliseconds for client to send server info that client is active. By immediately I meant once server gets that info to start sending updated data sooner. They are probably loading game state in a database and it's taking a long time to read the data back into the server. The lag isn't due to transfer time over the web. I'm saying that however they are doing it they need to change it and make it faster. It's too slow right now.

DxC wrote:

Obviously I didn't mean zero time. It takes anywhere from 50 to 1000 milliseconds for client to send server info that client is active. By immediately I meant once server gets that info to start sending updated data sooner. They are probably loading game state in a database and it's taking a long time to read the data back into the server. The lag isn't due to transfer time over the web. I'm saying that however they are doing it they need to change it and make it faster. It's too slow right now.
Yeah, it did seem like 0 to me before. Now though, I have to refresh the page the get all my up-to-date information.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
-Winston Churchill
Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.
-George S. Patton

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