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by Roby65 4063 days ago
Can you describe server side technology? How many servers are there? How many players do you handle per server?
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Matheus28 4063 days 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.

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Roby65 4063 days ago
Why the decision to use C++ instead of NodeJS?
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Matheus28 4063 days ago
The main limitation on a server capacity is CPU
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tomsmeding 4063 days ago
Probably speed.
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_tfot 4063 days 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.
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loceng 4063 days ago
Is it signifiant? I haven't even thought to lookup benchmarks.
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