I am working on a 2D (Realtime) MultiPlayer Game.

With Construct2 and a Socket.IO JavaScript Server.

Right now the code does not include the Array for each Player.

var io = require("socket.io").listen(80); 
var x = 10; 
io.sockets.on("connection", function (socket) 
{ 
socket.on("message", function(data) 
{ 
x = x+1; 
}); 
}); 
setInterval(function() 
{ 
io.sockets.emit("message", 'Pos,' + x); 
},100);

I noticed a very annoying problem with my server today. It sends my X Coordinates every 100 milliseconds.

The Problem was, that when I went into another Browser Tab, the Browser stopped the Game from running. And when I went back, I think the Game had to run through all the packages. Because my Offline Debugging Button still worked immediately and the Online Button only responded after some seconds.

So then I changed my Code so that it would only send out an update when it received a player Input:

var io = require("socket.io").listen(80);

var x = 10;

io.sockets.on("connection", function (socket) {
socket.on("message", function(data)
{

x = x+1;
io.sockets.emit("message", 'Pos,' + x);
});
});

And it Updated Immediately, even when I had been inactive on the Browser Tab for a long time. Confirming my suspicion that it had to get through all the data. Confirm Please!

It would be insane to only send information on Client Input in a Real Time Game.

But how would I write a AFK function?

I would think it is easier to run a AFK Boolean Loop on the Server.

Here is what I need help for:

playerArray[Me]
if (   "Not Given any Input for X amount of Seconds"    )
{  
 "Don't send Data"
}
else 
{  
 "Send Data"
}