Currently this game works off the browser, this allows people to farm others until Dan made the page refresh.
The problem I have with this browser based game is it takes time to load whenever you switch to legion tab or trade tab.
What I suggest is to change the GUI format to a flash based; reducing the loading time for certain things like switching to different tabs or opening a mission.

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Flash is not the way to go for a very large list of reasons. If you're having slow connection problems, you should check your internet because it's not the game. On average, I can't even say "One" before it's loaded the whole game from the Facebook homepage.

I can agree with your flash comment, I will disagree with your speed. I'm on high speed ethernet via my work account and the can just runs slow.

Even when you are on and active, the game won't register what people are doing to you. I watched someone disable me because unless I collected resources, it didn't show my shields decreasing.

The game needs refresh buttons in multiple spots to help with some of the problems.

Normally, at least as has been the case from what I've seen, whenever you click just about anything it refreshes. I mean, I've seen a trap go off or seen shield start to go down a little and I catch it and can wait and reapply traps to keep them up and repair if needed.

The game does lag often times though, so that is true. But, talking about when it's at its average rate, that's the speed I'm talking about.

For what it's worth, I'm also on ethernet and have 45up/45down mb speeds

I have a slower internet and it still loads in about 1-2 sec.

Is it a work computer your on? Most places I worked at go for the $100-$300 pos computers.

Most company's have extra firewall to there internet , this can slow everything down.

if there were manual refresh buttons people would click them repeatedly increasing the server load... a more frequent refresh might be needed, but not one that is put into the hands of the gamer.....

...if you want a manual refresh, sit there at your computer buying and selling 1 dynite repeatedly... sure you'll lose a few thousand credits throughout the day, but what's a few thousand credits anyway

Ideally, the game would have a mini-refresh that happened every couple of seconds. It wouldn't refresh the entire game like it currently does, it would just update stats, display popups, and the ship's log.

This could allow for more interesting game effects too. Imagine having realtime shield recharges. I currently gain 206.95 shields per tick, which is every 42 seconds with my current modules. With a realtime shield recharge, I could get 3.44 shields per second instead. The existing shield recharge modules could then be rejigged to increase the amount of shields gained per tick by set amounts then.

Of course this could result in a huge server drain. But we can dream...

a quick check to a server-side "dirty" flag every 5-10 seconds could probably be done

as for a realtime (per-second style) shield recharge.. that could be taken even a step further... realtime production...
the "build a city, conquer the world" style games do realtime production...

the best i can figure is that for the visible effect, it's calculated client side per second for the visible effect, but calculated server side as needed...
pretty easy to do... just need to know a value (like the last time your shields were hit), the date/time of that value, and the rate of increase

client-side it's mostly for the visible effect and so it doesn't have to keep querying the server...
server-side if something happens to that value (like someone hits your shields), the dirty flag is set, the current value is calculated, it is capped if it exceeds cap, and then it is reduced by the amount of damage sustained...