[TerranC]

1) The game should not close at the end of each turn. (this way the player could overview his/her empire while waiting for the next PBW turn to be available.)

You can survey your empire during your turn. If you pressed End Turn prematurely, you can always load the game again. And You can always load the game again after you send in your player data.

2) It would be nice to have a 'send PBW Info' button within the game. (of course the player would need to configure the required info like server name, email addresses etc.)

I don't understand what you're asking for here. PBW info as in what?

3) The player sould be notified in the game when the next turn is ready and have a 'Get next PBW turn' button/indicator.

No. It is your responsibility to check up on your PBW games, and it is your responsibility to inform yourself when the new turns are due. Plus, I certainly do not want SE4 make annoying pop ups each time new turns are generated, nor I would want it connected to the internet.

4) A better method than feeding/compiling/distributing 'save games' is needed. (there must be a way to only send the 'changed' data and not the whole save game each time for processing.) If the 'packet' size was small enough, then many, many more turns could be played in a relitively short time.

You don't send the save game to PBW; you only send Player Information files to PBW.

5) It would also be very nice if 'encounters' were handled in real-time.

Get the PBW Real Time client. It's in your SE4 Gold CD.

[ January 18, 2004, 15:54: Message edited by: TerranC ]