Fixes ticker roundstart being slow (#15129)

code/modules/client/client_procs.dm

@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@
 	// Log player connections to DB
 	var/datum/db_query/query_accesslog = SSdbcore.NewQuery("INSERT INTO `[format_table_name("connection_log")]`(`datetime`,`ckey`,`ip`,`computerid`) VALUES(Now(), :ckey, :ip, :cid)", list(
 		"ckey" = ckey,
-		"ip" = address,
+		"ip" = "[address ? address : ""]", // This is important. NULL is not the same as "", and if you directly open the `.dmb` file, you get a NULL IP.
 		"cid" = computer_id
 	))
 	// We do nothing with output here, or anything else after, so we dont need to if() wrap it

code/modules/client/preference/preferences_mysql.dm

@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
 			"slot" = slot,
 			"ckey" = C.ckey
 		))
-		if(!firstquery.warn_execute())
+		if(!firstquery.warn_execute(async = FALSE)) // Dont make this async. It makes roundstart slow.
 			qdel(firstquery)
 			return
 		qdel(firstquery)
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
 						 "ckey" = C.ckey,
 						 "slot" = slot
 					 ))
-	if(!query.warn_execute())
+	if(!query.warn_execute(async = FALSE)) // Dont make this async. It makes roundstart slow.
 		qdel(query)
 		return
 
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@
 			qdel(firstquery)
 			qdel(query)
 			return 1
-	
+
 	qdel(firstquery)
 
 	var/datum/db_query/query = SSdbcore.NewQuery({"
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@
 	))
 	var/list/saves = list()
 
-	if(!query.warn_execute())
+	if(!query.warn_execute(async = FALSE)) // Dont async this. Youll make roundstart slow.
 		qdel(query)
 		return
 
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@
 		"ckey" = C.ckey,
 		"slot" = default_slot
 	))
-	
+
 	if(!query.warn_execute())
 		qdel(query)
 		return

code/modules/customitems/item_spawning.dm

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 			"ckey" = M.ckey,
 			"realname" = M.real_name
 		))
-	if(!query.warn_execute())
+	if(!query.warn_execute(async = FALSE)) // Dont make this async. Youll make roundstart slow. Trust me.
 		qdel(query)
 		return
 

code/modules/mob/new_player/new_player.dm

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 		qdel(query)
 		// If our query failed, just assume yes
 		tos_consent = TRUE
-		return TRUE 
+		return TRUE
 
 	while(query.NextRow())
 		qdel(query)