[Kaimetsu]

Oookay. Look, information is sent in bytes, right? So, lets think about this.

1 byte=8 bits=256 possible values
2 bytes=65536 possible values
3 bytes=16777216 possible values
4 bytes=4294967296 possible values

So, lets consider the last of those. One tick every five seconds means that 4 bytes could store enough values for 21474836480 seconds. For those of you who don't have calculators for brains, that's approximately 681 years. 4 bytes could keep Graal happy for almost seven centuries, and do you really think 4 bytes will produce lag?

In any case, if four bytes were used then four bytes would be sent every time, regardless of the size of the number. Whatever lag there was would be there always.