[serpwidgets]

When playing multi (I assume that's what PBEM is, but what does PBEM stand for?) is it possible to run the SEIV exe with a command line that will automagically run the host for a specific savegame?

Also, is it possible to load a specific savegame and empire using a command line?

This gets quite tedious as it is, run game, pick player, do stuff, end turn... run game, pick host, end turn...

It would be REALLY nice to have shortcuts like "SE4.exe -mygame -AUTOHOST"
(which would load up the savegame called "mygame" then select the host as player, then hit end turn. If there's a missing player file, it would pop up the messagebox as usual)

and "se4.exe -mygame -2 -MyPassword"
(which would load up the game called "mygame" then select player 2 and put in the password supplied)

If this isn't already a feature (maybe it is but I can't find anything about it in the manuals, but then I also can't find any tech tree info either, ARGH!) it shouldn't take more than 20 minutes to add the appropriate code to parse the command line and do whatever is specified. It would be nice to see this in the next patch.