Hoggs
What do you mean by "Ticker"?
But it sounds like you'll want to try AJAX.
3nodding Tick based games are direct input updated except at a determined period of time, or the "tick time" and at that time, all information is updated, battles are faught, information for top stats is updated and all dynamic functions are updated. and it could , if the game is popular, require as much as 1000+ MySQL queries per tick, has to be done in less than 10 seconds too.