Hy all, first off all, don't yell that i shouldn't start with it, i just want to know how that works...

The thing is, how does the engine of an webgame works. A game like tribalwars, grepolis and forge of empires.

How does that keeping alive work. I mean, a user is building an building, and quit the browser... The building is build even when the session of the user is expired. but the points of the user is updated when the building is finished... So how does that works.

What do you guys think? do they have some kind of cronjob that is fired every second, and that walks throug the database, and search for finished buildings, and update's the stuff? or do you guys think that they do it difrent?!?

I hope that i was clear. -NOTE- i don't need anny code, i'm just intrested in the progress behind the game...

Greetingz Marc