Hey all,
Obviously I just set this leaderboard up and am looking for community feedback as far as whether RTA or IGT should be the "canonical" measurement.
Looking at the gaps between IGT vs. RTA for different players, it looks to me like some computers may have significant slowdown that makes getting top RTA times unfeasible... but I don't know how accurate IGT is without slowdown either.
What do you all think?
We've discussed this a bunch in our circle of runners. I guess having both times featured is useful, and personally I lean more towards in-game time because the gains from being able to perform more actions per second/minute due to a slower computer isn't actually that useful in my opinion, whereas real time can change a lot based on different machines/browsers and screw over people with weaker machines.
IGT is not accurate for this game, stocks and a few other things are on a separate timer and will be relatively faster on slower computers compared to IGT.
Anyone have any tips on reducing the gap between igt and rta? My machine's not cutting edge but it's pretty new and really shouldn't have any issues running a little clicker game. I can't detect any noticeable lag and task manager indicates cpu and memory are fine. I'm using firefox since when I first played the game on chrome there were a few crashes but firefox seems good except for the big igt to rta gap
It isn't really normally about lag it is just about how often the browser runs the main loop. For me firefox is 5% to 10% slower when measured so you probably need to use chrome.
If you have a slow enough computer it will start to run the main loop less because of lag but I would guess that for most it is just about browser.
