How do Real Time Strategy games work in PHP?

Question

Some MMO Real Time Strategy games such as Travian or oGame are coded in PHP.

Could you briefly explain how such a game works behind the scenes ? How does the game make r

Answer 1

The updates are done by cron jobs most likely or another possibility is that they do it at login/any page change. Bandwidth may vary a lot, based on how active users are, how much possibilities there are, etc. I think you should measure it on localhost/test hist with example requests because it depends very much on the project.

Also, if there'll be considerable amount of players, etc., I'd think of not coding it in PHP+MySQL but in Python&PostgreSQL, maybe even Java, or another systems.