TCP/IP game: Get Your Game On This Summer!!!

I am Interesed (as my brother is aswell I believe)

Hey buddy, I'm afraid your terribly mistaken, PBW goes by quite quickly if you have people that have a lot of time as well, I got in 82 turns over a week so it isn't as slow as you think, you should give it a try.

It is a bit, but hey its GAME TIME! Who cares? I play other games while i wait for my oppoent to finish his/her turn.

If you get someone who can go on when you do, the turns can become synchronized and you both upload the turns at around the same time and it goes really fast. Also, playing other games, testing other strategies, etc can work.

Also, it's not really hard, you just click the "Send Turn" button on PBW site and then you select your PLR file, send it, wait for processing, then press the "Get Turn" button to get your turn or you can wait to get it through email. Then you just extract the downloaded file into your savegame folder and you can play your turn. Once you done it once or twice it's really easy.

The only real problem I have is that my very first game, first turn was a bit weird because I didn't really know what to do, but once you know, it's easy. And another thing is that sometimes I get confused which turn I currently am on, like whether it is the most up to date turn or not. Other than that it's all good.

I open and close it....dosnt bother me since i play some CS:S between turns =)

PBW is what it is, and personally I find that I don't mind having to download/unzip/upload turns.

In my opinion, the benefits of being directly connected are inversely proportional to the size and development of an individual game. In the first 20 turns or so, when empires are small, it would be very nice. By turn 50 or 60, though, empires are larger, there's a lot of economic juggling, ships to design, systems and planets to sift through, diabolical planning to do, strategies to test, research to plan and balance, etc. Turns start to get complex enough that it may take one player many minutes longer to enter orders for one turn, then that same player might be done an equal amount on the following turn.

I'd like to try TCP/IP sometime, but I don't hold out much hope as to its long term practicality in individual games.

I'd to tcp/ip, but unfortunatly it's terribly bugged. I haven't really heard of many people who got it to work...

I got it to work between my laptop and desktop, but could only get them to connect didnt figure out how to upload my empire yet.

UnderLord, just a quick side note, do you have two copies to run between your desktop and laptop? Because I may be able to convince my wife to play with me, but I'm too cheap to fork out for another copy.

Cheers, Innuendo.

I want to play a web or by-email game, PM me for info

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is it too late to join.. or have your guys reset it yet? if u have a opning or if i can join will ou let me know