I am programming a MMO Tower Defense game (Client Server architecture). Because of cheating protection, the server needs to have the logic. But I have real design problem. When lets say 10 People fight deathmatch against each other, every tower shoot needs to be calcuted and send over to the players. When many towers are build. (Like 10 Players * 10 Tower = 100 Tower ) the traffic is very high. (One player causes many messages per second) How can I solve this problem?
Server is written in Java ( Smartfox 2x) Client is written in C# ( Unity 3d)
Thanks in advance.
Use strong simplified Units and combat rules on the server. Just program your damage algorithm by affecting continuous damage over time if someone is stepping into the "Damage area" around the tower.
U can use tow dimensional battlefields on the server where all units and towers and damage areas are just circles or oints and circles. U can also use several rings of damage with damage per second is lower in the outter circles and higher at the inner circles around the defense tower.
U can use queues for managing single target damage / multi target damage and area damage. Just the first in the queue is affecting by the damage area if single shot, just the first, second and third is affected by multi shot etc.
If a tower shoot a bullet every 5 seconds and does 40 damage per bullet u just calculate on the server by affecting a damage of 8 per second for every target standing in the "Damage area" or "damage circle".
On the client u can all the things like flying bullets and hitting and splish and splash and fireworks and so on.
But on the server do all the stuff by entering damage areas and then get damage per second. (sorry for bad english)