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Hello every one, i have a quest ( again and again :) )
My preassur plate took a realy long time to be activate.
I mean if we run on them or jump on them, they won't activate.

Is it a bug from mesecon mod or they were like this from the begining due to minetest capacity?

It's called lag, it just takes a minute sometimes if your on a server or a slow computer.

It helps if your on a LuaJit build of Minetest, as LuaJit is the fastest implementation of Lua.

Try a development / daily build, there have been optimisations.
There's also work being made to make mesecons etc more responsive by @sofar

Serh Arien wrote:Hello every one, i have a quest ( again and again :) )
My preassur plate took a realy long time to be activate.
I mean if we run on them or jump on them, they won't activate.

Is it a bug from mesecon mod or they were like this from the begining due to minetest capacity?

Mesecons uses node timers to periodically check for the presence of nearby players standing on the pressure plates. By design node timers only are processed every 1.0 second, even though there's really no reason for it.

I wrote a patch to make this time configurable, so that you could set it to e.g. 0.2 seconds:

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/3805

With that patch applied, and a or so, pressure plates work like magic.

benrob0329 wrote:It's called lag, it just takes a minute sometimes if your on a server or a slow computer.

It helps if your on a LuaJit build of Minetest, as LuaJit is the fastest implementation of Lua.

Lag is entirely irrelevant in this case.

Ah, I see. Cool!