diff -r 2a8e780844d2 -r d193dd1d8a7e src/Engine.cc
--- a/src/Engine.cc	Tue Dec 16 20:30:35 2008 +0000
+++ b/src/Engine.cc	Tue Dec 16 23:21:26 2008 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 
 #include "Engine.hh"
 #include "SinglePlayer.hh"
+#include "Network/Reactor.hh"
+#include "Config.hh"
 
 #include <iostream>
 
@@ -41,14 +43,26 @@
 }
 
 void Engine::run (void) {
+    // our NetworkReactor
+    NetworkReactor *reactor = NetworkReactor::current;
+
+    // timeout info
+    timeval timeout;
+
     while (is_running) {
         // this does.... magical things
         CL_System::keep_alive();
-
-        // if I can't find some better way to do this in ClanLib by next thursday, then it f*%!ing sucks
-        // ideally, we should be able to have a main loop that does timed waits on I/O, fufilling some set of timers
-        // but as far as I can tell, ClanLib doesn't have anything like that
-        CL_System::sleep(10);
+        
+        // setup our timeout to ENGINE_TIMEOUT_MS
+        timeout.tv_sec = 0;
+        timeout.tv_usec = ENGINE_TIMEOUT_MS * 1000;
+       
+        /*
+         * Thursday came and went, I re-wrote clan-event.
+         *
+         * We use the NetworkReactor for sleeping, as it handles it effeciently even if we're not using network.
+         */
+        reactor->poll(&timeout);
     }
 }