ASP execution questions

Coming close to completing an ASP tick based game.

A tick based game is when every 'tick' new scores are calculated, lots of equations are executed etc etc.  With thousands of players this can take a few minuites.

The way a tick runs is the game checks if a tick should be run on every page view, then executes a file if it should.  However my question is, when the player who activates the tick views a page he will see just white for ages whilst the tick executes.  Is there anyway to redirect this user and continue the execution of the tick file?

Assuming your are using MSSQL, these calculation could be done via a stored procedure and scheduled via SQL server and you would not need an ASP page to kick off the project. If you can't schedule via MSSQL then you can use a trigger to kick off the stored procedure.

Tick bases basically means that stuff happens every tick.  A tick in my game will be once every hour probably.  So for example you can build a tank, and it will take 12 ticks to build, so in 12 hours(ticks) it is built.  The opposite of this I guess is real time.  Tick based games are great because they go on for months, are very addictive and your playing it when your not!