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Originally Posted by cbk1994
There are some general common-sense guidelines for lots of players, and some specific things to keep in mind on mobile devices as well:
- Use as few timeouts as possible. Try using scheduleevent when you need to schedule something, but avoid 0.05 second scheduled events, too.
- Use the default movement system.
- Avoid as much scripting as possible in level NPCs.
- Avoid as much scripting as possible in general.
- Set player.ani directly instead of using setAni. This only works on v6/iPhone.
- Design everything to be run by touch.
- Keep in mind that there are multiple mice (contact points with fingers) and use the mouse ID included in touch events.
- Use clientstats aggressively to profile your scripts.
- Use as few timeouts as possible.
- Use the new transitions in v6 when possible.
- Use as few client/clientr variables as possible. If it's only needed serverside, store it in a player. variable.
- Avoid quirky things like joining classes to the player clientside.
- Do as many things serverside as possible.
- Avoid triggers where possible for things that can be done serverside entirely (e.g. healing player while in a bed).
- Avoid abusing SQLite. With so many players, you need to be careful not to use too many queries.
- Avoid writing to files. Use player attributes to store stuff when possible.
- Use as few timeouts as possible.
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Era iPhone and Delteria iPhone both use custom movement systems, and it doesn't have any performance impacts at all. It just makes movement smoother. Also, it's really easy for players to manipulate both the serverside and the clientside on iDevices, so the iPhone systems have a special way of communicating with the serverside that doesn't allow using triggers in classes and such. You'll really need to get hold of the iPhone systems first before you do anything.