Summary

We have introduced the SmartFoxServer and developed the virtual world from the basic avatar movements to the inventory and quests system. We also discussed how the virtual world integrates with existing social network services to help players form their social community.

In this chapter, we discussed how to improve the virtual world from players' behavior by logging and data mining. We also glanced at the possibility of scaling the SmartFoxServer into clustering. We also compared different hosting solutions and their advantages.

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