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I am in the late functional Design stages of an Indy MMO, and the early technical design stages (Secret for the time being), so a couple of weeks ago when I was searching for a very inexpensive, scalable, smart solution to the ‘server problem’ all MMO’s face, I found Darkstar and a couple other MMO backend products. Darkstar is an Open Source server platform developed by Sun Labs, specifically created for massively multiplayer game creation. It has a long list of useful features, and allows the development team to build application logic directly on top of it while handling all the low level server tasks which are traditionally the most difficult – concurrent data access, user connection level loading, multi-node scaling, and persistence across server crashes or shutdowns.

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