Resend an unanswered message without flooding a struggling connection

When an important message gets no answer, sending it again at once and again makes a bad connection worse, and giving up too early drops players for a hiccup. The waiting time between tries should grow, start from the real delay, and not line up for everybody. Here are the numbers and when to stop.

Why this works

A silent line may be slow, not dead, and everyone waiting at once makes it worse. Waiting longer after each failure, and a little differently for each person, gives a struggling connection room to recover instead of burying it.

When not to use it

Skip it for messages that go stale quickly, such as a position that the next update will replace anyway: just send the newest one. Waiting and resending the old one only delivers news nobody needs.

In the full entry

• What to build, step by step
• Starting values and the reason for each
• 3 common mistakes and the fix
• 15 lines of example code with 3 checks that pass
• How your AI shows you that it works

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