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How many UDP ports for an MMOFPS

I'm designing an MMOFPS. I'm not sure whether to use one UDP port for all clients or one UDP port per client. Or is there another alternative? Currently UDP is only being used for position data ...
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Loadbalancing Questions

I have been learning networking for about 4 months. Wrote a single standalone Multiplayer server and succeeded with authoritative approach. Now I want to extend it by splitting the single server into ...
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Would it be too much overhead to keep a HashMap of variables on a server per object for the purpose of syncing object changes with the client?

I am currently writing a server for a multiplayer game. I am trying to find a good solution for synchronizing GameObjects across the server. The server sends each client a snapshot of every object in ...
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Is this the right architecture for our MMORPG mobile game?

These days I am trying to design architecture of a new MMORPG mobile game for my company. This game is similar to Mafia Wars, iMobsters, or RISK. Basic idea is to prepare an army to battle your ...
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Using SQL for a Realtime Multiplayer Game Server's Working Data (Fast Enough?)

The game I'm working on currently has a Client in Flash AS3, and a Server in C# (multithreaded). Currently I use mySQL to handle logins (Raw access: no middleman for accessing the database) which ...
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Should the engine for an eventual web-based game start as a web-service?

I've recently decided to start writing an engine for a card game. I'm not a big "cards" player, but a friend introduced me to the game (it's a spin on the game Danish), and I fell in love. I want to ...
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Server-side Architecture for Online Game

basically I have a game client that has communicate with a server for almost every action it takes, the game is in Java (using LWJGL) and right now I will start making the server. The base of the ...
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Looking for architectures to develop massive multiplayer game server

Hello all Where can I find architectures and examples of building massive multiplayer game server Does the does the concept of building it on top of libenevt is right ? or I need to think more on ...