Hello,
I was wondering how does gametracker save player data such as score or time online? Does it use cron jobs?

If you're interested from a coding perspective, here is one place you can get some info the play around with:

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Server_Queries

burn wrote:
If you're interested from a coding perspective, here is one place you can get some info the play around with:

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Server_Queries
Yeah, i know that, but im more interested on how it saves and generates statistics.

Scan servers -> insert into database.
Clever calculations -> update current day results in database.
User click -> display statistics.

chimaera500 wrote:
Scan servers -> insert into database.
Clever calculations -> update current day results in database.
User click -> display statistics.


So, gametracker is running cron jobs each hour for each player? And then ofc saving them.

There are a variety of scheduled tasks that help keep the site up-to-date and running smoothly. Obviously if you query servers on a schedule you need a way to schedule that and I'm sure there are a variety of ways this can be done depending on your system.