Phaser's Loader, and handling multiple instances

[Croweley]

In my current game, a 'world' loads using one Loader, and once it's been loaded about 10-30 players are created and loaded into the game, each using a separate instance of the Loader to load their personal assets. As each is loaded, they pop into the game. While I have no real problems with this method, I have a few questions:

 

1- Is it better to use a single loader (across the entire game), and if so, how do I trace completion events for players and their assets as they enter the game over time?

 

2- Is there any retry logic for the Loader? If our server is unresponsive for a short time, it would be great to timeout and retry the failed download once again BEFORE the onLoadComplete event is fired

 

Any insight is greatly appreciated!