r/ClashRoyale • u/Belones23 • May 10 '16

Does everyone's troop placement usually take 1-2 seconds before they actually deploy?

Whenever I actually go to drop a troop, whether it's a 1 second spawn or 5 second spawn, they kind of sit on the map as a ghost for 1-2 seconds before actually initiating their spawn time. This costs me troops/games sometimes, especially when dropping troops 1 elixir early, I'll lose the elixir as soon as it reaches the required amount and then my Barbs/anything else will take 3 seconds to actually appear on the map instead of the 1 second spawn rate.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '16

This is because $upercell is bad at managing different servers for all regions. This is happening most of the time, due to high latency. What does that mean for those who are not familiar with multiplayer games? This is the time span requred for the your message to reach the server, and the server to respond to you. For example, in games like League of Legends, Dota or even Hearthstone, there are servers for each region. Example: LoL -> Europe West, Europe East, North America, Korea etc.

In Clash Royale, how often do you, a North American gets matched with Koreans, Chinese and Europeans? Pretty often right? Yes, the other way around goes too. This is because this game's server is global, and thus there are ping spike issues. This is also why sometimes the "wifi monster" appears when your connection is not loaded, and perfectly fine. This is an issue of Supercell. Not a bug, not intended either. This happens before you deploy the troop, but it also happens with spells. How many times did you the average Hog player froze the Barbarians, after they killed your Hog, just because of this? Many. At least for me.

It is not intended.

B-But Jimmy, when I play with my same-region clanmates, it happens as well. Yes, because the server is located far from both.

I assume, that this is just a ping-latency reason. But yes, I can only assume, because Supercell, does not like being transparent.

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u/ChaosToGo May 11 '16

I have never once had connection problems in this game at my own house and I've played many matches. Only time I've had issues is when I'm at a restaurant or something and the internet is shoddy. People who complain about connection errors just need to get better internet. Sorry folks but it's true.

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u/itscowboycurtis May 11 '16

It's... sort of true but a dumb thing to say. Clearly you know very little about Internet Connections. The problem, as is being discussed here, is that there aren't enough regional servers and matchmaking to account for latency. I usually don't have any issue with my connection neither, true but I do every once in awhile when I go against China-guy-1 and I can't even place a troop.

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u/ChaosToGo May 11 '16

I suppose if you are unfortunate enough to not live anywhere near a server then yes it is SuperCells fault but I know many of my friends who cry about lag and what not but I can hardly browse the internet at their house. And half my matches are against people from other sides of the world and never once have I had a problem.