Dev Talk - The "Lag" Discussion
Crystaria Online is a classic text-based browser MMORPG built with PHP, MySQL, and vanilla JS from the whole AJAX-fillDiv lineage. Last week a player told me the thing every solo dev dreads to hear: "the game's super laggy for me," and a single Network-tab scr
Introductions are in order!
Hello everyone! I'm the developer of Crystaria Online, and I wanted to properly introduce myself and the game. Like a lot of people here, I grew up on the old-fashioned text-based browser RPGs, the kind you'd sneak a few turns of between classes or on the fami