[Norfleet]

I've only noticed this to be especially prevalent when the server is chewing on a new turn: There's a time between when it announces that the hosting will occur, and the time when it actually completes the process. If you try to connect during that time, the game will wait for game data for a goodly amount of time, because the server is busy chewing on a new turn and won't respond to your request until it finishes.