[laviroman]

It's the same as with your mobile phone when you lost your wi-fi signal. Everything pauses and everybody has to wait.

Have you played games like HOMAM 1 or 2? You can't do anything when the CPU is playing its players. You can watch where he goes and what he does but that's it. When he is finished then you go.

When there is a network error - some message or please wait... or loading spinner message should be shown in the meantime.

For turn based RPG games or Chess etc. this is a non issue.

Of course, real time action games etc. is not a good idea for this technology.