I am trying to reach a scalable solution to NPC AI in an mmorpg. If I were to do it all on the server, then suppose I have 50 monsters per map, if the whole game consists of 50 maps, then I have 2500 instances of AI running. No matter how simple my AI is (even if I try to simplify 3D down to 2D), th...

I'm also interested on whether there is a method of detecting server shutdown.

I need an entry point to perform some tasks before server shutdown, like closing database connections, saving some data, etc. Is there a workaround?

But shouldn't the request be sent async so it shouldn't be blocking the thread? Right now it seems like the client is freezing every so often :L I mean, I tried to optimise the movement by checking whether movement is dirty, controlling minimum time interval between requests, etc. But it seems messa...

I'm trying to send requests to server to update user locations. Everything works pretty smoothly when I'm testing on the local server. But when I try to test on a remote server (with about 500ms ping), every time I send a request on client, unity freezes for about 500ms. If I don't send any requests...

I'm trying to update user variables on the server and it seems somehow I can't do it... So each time user updates position, it sends x y z to the server. The server validates the position then updates that user's variables. This is how I'm doing it: SFSObject trans = new SFSObject(); trans.putFloat(...

I'd like to keep track of all the players' positions in an MMORoom, not just for the server to send messages based on AOI, but also for game calculations and such. After a quick browse through the API, I couldn't find any reference to getting a player's position in the MMORoom. Should I just store t...

Client side

I'm not sure where I saw it, but I'm pretty sure it says somewhere that I need to remove event callbacks registered with a particular instance of smartfox when I do not need it anymore, or it will create performance problems or memory leaks. I'm just wondering when do I exactly have to remove them? ...

Hahaha, should go through the API in more detail!

Is there by chance a createMob method too somewhere?

Hahaha, should go through the API in more detail!

Is there by chance a createMob method too somewhere?

What do you mean by "regular NPC's are created by one line of code"? If they are not MMOItems, what's the other alternative? We can create users on the serverside and make them enter rooms?

in a 3D fps, it is weird to have a rectangular AOI (imagine you turn your character 45 degrees, now you see other characters, if they fill your AOI, spawning in a triangle before you). I think a spherical MMORoom aoi would solve the problem. How viable is it? Is the additional calculation going to a...

I'm just wondering about how NPC should be coded in an MMORPG. From the description of MMOItem, it seems it's not a bad idea to make an NPC out of an MMOItem. For security concerns, I don't think NPCs should be client based (they can be manipulated by hackers, teleported near the player's current po...

Well, we decided to do our custom serialisation and it seems I've lost the opportunity to debug it :L

Well, since the data is read by client side when the login event is fired, I don't think it is read prior to the handling method, OnLogin(). I put a debug message at the first line of OnLogin() and when I put the serialized class in, the message is never printed. In the end I tried to serialize the ...