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One of the questions that I seem to get asked most about building a browsergame is “how do I make things happen periodically?”.
The answer is actually very simple, and lies with a utility that comes on all Linux servers called cron.
Cron exists to run periodic, sche ... Continue reading »
The answer is actually very simple, and lies with a utility that comes on all Linux servers called cron.
Cron exists to run periodic, sche ... Continue reading »
11 months ago
Classic example is TornCity. Their crons (when they were using crons) would take so long that it could take up to a day for a player to get a single update which was to occur every 15 minutes.
Instead a better solution would be the "on-view" event in my opinion. We have discussed this solution on my blog, and it seems to be the best solution.
The basic idea is that fields aren't updated till they have to been updated. So if I were to attacking someone, their info would be updated before the attack was made.