Internet or network latency is a fact of life in multiplayer games. The amount of time it takes a message to travel from a client machine to the server or from the server to client machine isn't something we as developers can control. You can effectively handle latency through various latency hiding tricks not discussed here.
It is difficult when programming games to test high latency conditions because developers are usually testing on an ideal set up. In the ElectroServer client-side API we introduced a way for you to simulate latency. There is never a better test than the real thing, but this is great for testing your game under higher message delays. You can crank up the latency to see how your game handles it.
Turning this setting on and off is pretty simple. Here is an example of turning on the latency simulation:
var es:ElectroServer;//created and connection established elsewhere
es.startSimulatingLatency(500);//time in milliseconds
To stop the simulation:
es.stopSimulatingLatency();
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