Real Time Timers

[black_ice]

I notice that when running various programs/tasks, I have to constantly refresh my processes to see if they are complete. I know for a fact that refreshing a page that much isn't a good thing for a person who pays for bandwidth on a web package service (1st hand experience with my sites).

Might I suggest implementing a real time timer that will sync with the last known increment of the task, so that you can browse away from process and back, and it would see the number of seconds/minutes/etc and redraw the timer to match that, so it seems seamless. It may require a single frame refresh, once the task(s) are complete, to fully take advantage of this, otherwise, we would need to refresh the page again.

Because I love to offer more than one option, when posing a suggestion, here are two links with two types of countdowns for your perusal.

http://javascript.about.com/library/blcount1.htm
http://www.java-scripts.net/javascripts/Countdown-Timer.phtml

This would benefit the players as much as your wallet, Sir Emi.

[ZacQuicksilver]

I know I've seen several other games do this, so it is possible. I would like to see this happen

[virus man]

I suggested this to Sir Emi a month ago.  I think it is a low priority for him but am not sure.

[siremi]

It's a good suggestion, but like virus man said it's not that high priority.

The game doesn't use that much bandwidth even with all the page reloads it barely touches the available bandwidth.

I'm also monitoring to see how much it can take as it was designed to handle a lot, but I'm sure it will be improved in the future, we're just starting out here...

[human]

it is better to use the <time=*:*:*> HTML tag for that. Java gets some seconds avove or behind the real time. HTML tag do not make so.

[plainwalker]

While you are on it, it would be nice to have a widget-like box on the upper left side of the screen showing us the next 5 finishing items.

It is hard to keep multiple tabs open, especially in a workplace environment :D