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Sm0knGun:
It might sound silly but there is a reason behind it.
Test this out for yourselves, but it works.
what reason please explain?
I believe that It has to do with how the Flash Player(game client) communicates with the server, and then how the server the server then communicates back with the game clients.
The game clients will send a message to the server telling them that they are still there, in return the server will tell them that they are still connected to the game.
However if the game client does not send a message back to the server within a certain amount of time, and the server does not send a message back to the game client in time, and the game client thinks that it is disconnected, and you will get the "spinning" icon and the screen will turn grey.
Clicking on the middle of the screen causes the game client to send a message to the server saying that it IS connected, and the server will then consider you as a player being connected, and the game will progress as long as everyone else is doing it too.
I have done networking coding in a past life, as well as debugging. One thing that I have learned is that you start with the obvious questions, and then look for obvious answers.
The obvious issue is that people are getting disconnected. So the obvious system to look at is how the clients interact with the server, and vice versa.
I stumbled on the "Clicking" basically because I am impatient, and click in the middle of the screen out of habit. I noticed that when I did so, my "spinning" seemed to be shortened.
I then started asking other people in my skins and alternate shot games to try the same, and found a significant speed up in the game, and fewer full disconnections happened.
I have been doing this for a month now, and play several matches per day, so I have a fairly significant data set to work with. I am not privy to the specific network code that WGT uses, so I can't definitively say that I have a cure to the disease, but it does seem that what I am saying seems to ease the symptoms.