[ohm]

I've got a similar problem but always attributed this to my own ping to the SE servers. When I mine or gather manually I can't do it much faster than the bot does, it's simply my client waiting for a response from the game server and locking any further actions till it's recieved.

Which is a very long time it seems, as when other miners collect from the same node as me I notice they have finished their 4 swings while I might only have finished 2 at most. :(