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Can you describe server side technology? How many servers are there? How many players do you handle per server?

• Matheus28 11y ago
  The server is written in C++ with libuv to abstract networking (since I test it on windows but the servers run on linux). See my reply to madeofpalk for the other 2 answers.
  • Roby65 11y ago
    Why the decision to use C++ instead of NodeJS?
    • tomsmeding 11y ago
      Probably speed.
      • loceng 11y ago
        Is it signifiant? I haven't even thought to lookup benchmarks.
      • pp19dd 11y ago
        Think that part of it is that only one process or thread can run at any given time in node. So, if you have a complicated multiplayer server, subroutines will start getting blocked.
    • Matheus28 11y ago
      The main limitation on a server capacity is CPU