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Originally Posted by i8bit
I'm getting the feeling I should use as few timeouts as possible. (sarcastic)
But it looks like what I had in mind in making is out of reach for mobile devices.
Do these same principles apply to let's say a facebook server, or perhaps even a html5 (if that ever comes to light with GS3)?
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The client-relevant recommendations will apply on any platform, even PC. I would suspect that the Flash and JS versions of Graal are still going to be much less powerful than the native PC versions.
I really don't know much about how powerful the NPC-server is on iPhone servers. I'm sure they're better than the ones the PC servers get, but with so many players you still need to mind what your scripts are doing. Abuse of SQLite especially is going to be a big potential problem on servers with tons of players as the potential for locking problems is huge. I would tend toward player flags even when SQL is a bit more elegant of an approach simply because they scale so much better. Save SQL for the things that would really benefit from it (e.g. guilds).
I haven't been involved in iPhone server development for a long time but I would guess that the attitude is still to be very conservative in the use of things like SQL and DB NPCs which don't scale very well.