Small shop update
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2016 4:29 pm
I'm sure you've all noticed that when you made a purchase in-game using the /search feature there was quite a long delay, about 1.4 seconds.
This was due to an oversight on my part, I was using a very slow way to get player information from our database to determine what shop discount you should have. I have now updated this code to work pretty much instantaneously (14ms now or 1% of the time it used to take!)
I've also sped up the way the online web based shop works and it too now makes purchases instantly. This is quite a minor change (literally 1.4 seconds has been saved per purchase
) so I'm writing about it here on the forums and not on the website.
I know for some of our power buyers these little delays really get on your nerves so I'm happy to have had the time today to correct this problem.
This was due to an oversight on my part, I was using a very slow way to get player information from our database to determine what shop discount you should have. I have now updated this code to work pretty much instantaneously (14ms now or 1% of the time it used to take!)
I've also sped up the way the online web based shop works and it too now makes purchases instantly. This is quite a minor change (literally 1.4 seconds has been saved per purchase

I know for some of our power buyers these little delays really get on your nerves so I'm happy to have had the time today to correct this problem.