http://bbgames.disqus.com/enThu, 17 Jul 2008 11:43:35 -0000http://buildingbrowsergames.com/2008/07/17/simple-cron/#comment-3089145While crons are a good way to do such a task, they aren't the best solution. For a game with a large DB a cron can take too long to cycle through the DB.<br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>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.bardicThu, 17 Jul 2008 11:43:35 -0000