Problems with playing on the web


Hello all!
It has come to my attention that on some browsers the browser pauses the game completely when you tab to a new window or minimizes the internet browser. This make the idle part of the game kind of pointless. I do have a way to fix this but I had this for mobile phones only.

What will happen if i activate this for internet browsers is that the game will "logout" when you minimize the window or tab to a new page, then when you come back you will see the "Welcome Back". The problem is that i've made it so you need to be "offline" for at least 10  minutes in order for the offline water to start ticking. I will make it 5 minutes. After these 5 minutes have passed you will get offline water for those 5 minutes + all time after up until you play again but not more than your max offline time(which can be increased with DNA).

The other solution is more on the player and enabling that the game should keep running even when not visible, hence tabbed to another website or minimized, but then that would be on all tabs. Some people have 10+, 50+ tabs all the time and enabling this would make all those tab run and make your computer slower than needed. I sometimes have 20 tabs always and I wouldn't make that change if I was a player.

I'll make the update since it would be the best for the majority of the players.

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