Massively Multiplayer Online RealTime Strategy. The concept which combines strategy games with a persistent online world.

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What technology is needed for this mmorts idea? [closed]

I've got an idea for an real time strategy game like Starcraft or Age of Empires, but there is only one single massive persistent map or world with thousands of factions and each faction's ...
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Game Resource Generation

I am currently building a game that has a "City" entity. These cities generate and consume resources such as food variably over a period of time. I need to be able query the server often to find ...
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Making online battles take time

Let's say I have an account on an MMORTS and I send my 10,000 strong army to a location on the map. I then shut off my computer. Another player gives orders to his 10,000 strong army to walk to the ...
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What has stopped MMORTS games from being successful?

We all know that there have been attempts to create commercially successful MMORTS games, but all have failed. By failed, I mean that they didn't get really popular in the gaming community. Why is ...