How does Crime.net refresh? [Crime.net rant]

[Killing 4 Pizza]

Here's a quick documentation of my typical Crime.net experience.

1) I see a game that I'm interested in joining on Crime.net.

2) I unsuccessfully attempt to click on it due to a lag spike every time crime.net "refreshes".

3) I recover and attempt to hover and click on the lobby I want.

3.5) I occasionally do not get to click on time before it disappears only to have it reappear 10 seconds later. A frikin' whack-a-mole min-game?

4) I successfully click on the lobby I want. "Excellent, others that want to play Big Oil DeathWish"

5) Lobby unavailable.

6) Crime.net "refreshes".

7) Within the 40 lobbys listed, my would be new best friends' Big Oil DeathWish lobby is still there. Maybe I'll try clicking it again.

8) Lobby unavailable. (grrrr)

9) "Oh, someone on my Steam friends list has a lobby. Maybe I'll join it." (click)

10) Lobby full.

11) Crime.net refreshes.

12) The Big Oil DeathWish lobby I and my Steam friend's lobby that I've already failed to join are still listed!

13) Give up and pay for a new lobby.

It appears that the GUI masterminds Bain hired to make crime.net's interface did not want heisters to be able to view lists of available games in real time. We must wait for it to display 40 out of thousands of lobbys that we fail to join and yet still display in crime.net. How does crime.net decide when to display a new list of lobbys.

Frustrating indeed. Likely because it's confusing as to what tells crime.net to display lobbys that I either can't connect to and still displays them knowing there are thousands of other lobbys. Surely it could display the ones I can connect to instead of what appears to be a list of lobbys that I should be able to connect to. I'd like a refresh button that might let Crime.net display a new set of lobbys.

Regarding the map interface. I could understand the map interface if the location of the lobbys' possition on the map had any relevance, but they don't. It just seems to me to be a sacrifice of functionallity for a very small amount of esthetics that really do very little to improve the game.

[DJ]

With latest update, I'm suddenly seeing my own lobbies I created ages ago... go figure...

[Mugen]

Originally posted by DJ:

With latest update, I'm suddenly seeing my own lobbies I created ages ago... go figure... :chains:

On the positive side of things, you'd have at least one competent teammate, right?

[Valeek]

i hate the 5 second lagg i get refreshing when i have 40 servers on the filter, yet when it refreshes it only adds about 5 servers.. really frustrating.

[Killing 4 Pizza]

I really thought Crime.net was going to be improved during Crimefest. At least improve the filter so there were check boxes instead of having to click 40 times to get to GO:Bank.