Tar 0.5 Complaints
From
Greenturtle537 to
All on Sat Mar 30 17:33:35 2024
Hello dear user Tar,
While we all appreciate your good work for GlitchNet, your update has an oversight that I would like to address.
When using the program, devices on slower bandwidth like old school modems, have a slower recieval of bits per second, and therefore characters that can be redrawn. The bare Synchronet Minesweeper engine already suffered from redraw delay and drawlines, but update 0.5 has worsened this effect with the new Quickstart [E] Feature.
Running the game used to be:
Board Draws -> Game Starts
Running the game with Quickstart is now:
Board Draws -> E input is accepted -> Board Draws -> Solved Board Draws -> Game Starts
You are unnessarily redrawing the board after E is pressed, why?
Additionally, you could skip redraws on any row that doesn't contain solved tiles, or just use the fast redrawing routine present when hitting space, as it only redraws tiles who have updated values, which only slows down on slower connections when a really big open space is discovered.
At this pace, you have slowed down some users by 5 or more seconds between entire rounds, I will not be moving Tarsweeper to the top of our game boards until this feature is debugged. Please email or call me if you have any more questions.