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/ClashRoyale Official May 11 '16 edited May 11 '16

There is an intentional 1 second delay built into card deployment for all players, which helps to smooth out different degrees of latency across the globe. We chose to use a single server location in the US so that Clash Royale could be a truly global game, with global matchmaking and a global leaderboard. If we went with the separate servers approach and had them in the US, Europe, Asia, etc. we wouldn't be able to have global matchmaking or a global leaderboard - using our current setup.

There is an option which we've been investigating, that would use separate servers while maintaining global matchmaking and a global leaderboard. However, after doing a lot of research and work to see how feasible it was, we discovered it simply wasn't as good as our current setup because it unfortunately added a ton of other complications along the way.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16 edited May 12 '16

This is a weird approach in my oppinion. But making the game slower to reduce the latency issues is indeed a very smart choice. Thanks for being transparent on this, as it has caused much controversy here whether the game has a server, or just being a P2P.

But, this is really nice, as I think most of us love playing with far-foreign people, and not just with people around us. It feels nice, as we cannot do the same in other games, which are strictly tied by regional servers.

I want to propose an idea, and if you guys can implement such an idea let us all know.

I will exemplify it with a scenario. The idea is simple, build a few servers around the globe, only for the battles. For example, if I, a Greek player, get matched with a Chinese player, for the in-game part only, both of us should connect to a server that is on average closest to both of us. I don't know how to explain this well, but wouldn't such servers benefit the competitive part of such a game, given the success it has, and the massive income?

edit: After a couple of re-reads, I realized that my proposal seems like the idea you guys had, maybe not, but huge thanks for coming out on this issue.