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[Marcin Szkudlarek]

Hi!

I'm thinking about developing online game in php  like:
http://games.swirve.com/utopia
or
http://ogame.org

Both of them are real-time strategy  games. This means that if you make 
some action in this games, you have to wait for a certain amout of time to 
see the result. For  example sending an army to attack another province 
takes few hours of a real-world time.
My question is , how can I update periodically these kind of data in the 
database? I think I can do it using cron, updating game database every 
hour for example. Is there any other way? Usually you don't have access 
to tool like cron..

Marcin