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[Thrawn]

This is most certainly theoretically possible. You would either need to heavily modify the server source, or have some sort of specialized software running on the server machine. Perhaps you could have something similar to IP tables, but instead of blocking IPs, it would redirect them to a virtual network interface that intentionally induced a substantial delay before passing the packets on to the system. Though, I have no clue how well the AC server would handle multiple network connections, especially if one of them was as hacky as that one would have to be. Even then, you'd probably still need to modify the server source to send certain packets to certain IP addresses back out using this virtual delay device.

In all honesty, I feel that at best, this is probably a waste of your time, and at worst it's a bad idea.  That being said... if you really want to, go for it, I suppose.