Hi guys,

 

Whenever I try to mine consecutive rocks of iron and someone else shows up, I sometimes get "outclicked" by them. I'm reaching the rocks just as fast, i'm facing them too to prevent the small turning delay, and I'm spam clicking the rocks as fast as possible for when the ore is restored, yet they still beat me. Is it my instincts and reaction time? Sometimes, I spam click, but it takes like 0.8s before I actually hit the rock with my pickaxe, yet the other person already mined it in the same time frame as me. Am I doing something wrong? Are there any tips to this? I hate getting crashed l:. Thanks!

you would need a faster connection

Hi guys,

 

Sometimes, I spam click, but it takes like 0.8s before I actually hit the rock with my pickaxe

 

Do you mean you click multiple times on the same rock? Remember, every time you click a rock it resets any mining progress you have done before you clicked. If you mass click 5 times in a row, only the 5th click would start the mining process (unless you were lucky enough to get a "instant mine" on the previous 4 clicks).

 

So make sure you only click on a rock once, or you could slow down your mining speed enough to lose against another player.

Here's how I understand this....

 

Even though it looks like the game "exists" continuously, it is actually split up into discrete 1/6 second intervals. People call one of these intervals a game tick.

 

A sixth of a second may seem like a short period of time, but it is long enough for "ties" to occur in the game where multiple people can perform the same action at the exact same time. When this happens, the game has to come up with a tiebreaker to decide which person is the winner.

 

In the past, the tiebreaker was based on the IP address assigned to the computers that the individuals used to connect to the game. It was possible to get a "good" address and always win the tie. From what I understand this has been changed, but it is unclear how the game currently resolves ties.

 

This doesn't matter all of the time, but for actions like iron mining where you can 1-click to get the ore, it can make all the difference. You'll also notice this in single combat areas when you are competing for monsters, and the other person always seems to get the monster over you no matter how quickly you click.

 

So, you might actually be doing nothing wrong. For whatever reason, you just happened to be on the bad side of whatever method that they are using.

Each game "tick" that pgmr mentioned is really 6/10 of a second. 100 game ticks is equal to one minute. Usually spam-clicking works for me, regardless of mining level.

Each game "tick" that pgmr mentioned is really 6/10 of a second. 100 game ticks is equal to one minute. Usually spam-clicking works for me, regardless of mining level.

Thanks, I always thought 1/6. That really makes it worse. 6/10 of a second is actually a pretty long time.

Since the length of time it takes to mine an ore is determined by a dice roll, higher values determining a longer amount of time to mine the ore and lower values determining a shorter amount of time, if a high enough value (around 4 seconds or 7 ticks, assuming I remember correctly from my research) is rolled, the odds are in your favor to click again and hope for a lower roll.