Players get kicked due to the timeout when switching maps

[dany-on-demand]

Noticeable with stuff like gen_city.lua which takes a long time to finish. We need to "pause" the time while the switch happens.

[rakiru]

Ideally, it would still send pings, but I'm not sure if that would be possible without overly complicating something.

[BR-]

Perhaps we should make a pump function that long-running scripts can call periodically to handle the network buffers and whatever else ends up needing to run continuously. Or, once/if we make an event system, that can just be an event.

[rakiru]

Just a call to host.service() or w/e it is would probably be enough, but yeah, if we wrapped that in a generic function that needs called periodically, then anything else can get put in there too, and mods can hook it if they need to add to it.

[LeComm]

Something like PySnip's twisted.internet.reactor.LoopingCall maybe? Would making it multithreaded cause the typical problems?

[rakiru]

No-one suggested making it multithreaded, and twisted isn't multithreaded.

[LeComm]

Oops I was referring to the ping sending thing.