@Barry Hunter, Thank you for you detailed and informative answer. The Channel API seems like an interesting idea although there is still very little information about this matter regarding using Channel api in conjunction with Android as seen in: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4189 I'l do more research nonetheless.
@Ikai Lan Thank you for your informative answer, i'l keep this in mind. @Brandon Wirtz However dumb my question might be, there's no reason to be the better man and give an helpfull answer without mockery in it. Still you have a valid point, although latency shouldn't be the biggest issue for this type of game. Thanks. On May 3, 7:34 pm, Barry Hunter <barrybhun...@gmail.com> wrote: > As best I understand 500 isn't a fixed limit. Thats an estimate on how > many requests an average application would get while keeping withing > all the various quota. > There is 45,200 requests /minute, which equates to 753 > requests/second. But can be upped, if you approaching that limit. > > ... but I would question your architectural decision to just blindly > refresh every 0.5 seconds. In general you may well find that latency > introduced by mobile networks wont sustain that rate (quite aside from > raw 'bandwidth'). HTTP overhead is not insigificant, so the http > headers without content wont be 'free'. > > Long Polling or even better the Channel API, would probably offer a > better solution. > > If the Channel API doesnt work for you, using XMPP or GTalk more > directly might work. There are also third party 'comet' servers that > offer intergration with AppEngine. > > On 3 May 2011 12:29, Rohan Chandiramani <eksrowl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Greetings App Engine people, > > > So i'm creating a multi-player android game and thought it would be a > > interesting idea to have App Engine handle the server work. > > The game consists of 4 players, each phone requests an update every > > 0.5 seconds. > > These requests are very simple and lightweight so i shouldn't be over > > reaching any free quotas. > > The problem i found was that App Engine only handles 500 requests per > > second, i would only be able to > > have around 60 game sessions active before App Engine will start > > ignoring new requests? > > > "App Engine's quota system allows for efficient applications with > > billing enabled to scale to around 500 queries per second (qps) or > > more than 40 million queries per day." > > > So how much would it be without billing enabled? > > Also on the same page there is a request form for additional requests, > > would i be eligible for this and what would the consequences be? > > Or should i just not use this platform because it is not made for this > > kind of usage? > > > Thank you kindly, i'm looking forward to an answer. > > Greetings, > > Rohan Chandiramani > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
