Re: How do you play over email?
PBEM games free up the host from running the program all the time.
It allows players to hide behind firewalls and ways of hiding their IPs.
PBEM games can be hosted on machines which arent even capable of running the game in direct GUI mode.
A crappy machine can run 100 PBEM games at a time.
PBEM games dont care if a person is on a crappy connection to the net.
PBEM can reach a host where the ISP might be blocking ports.
Of course anything CAN be done. Its a computer. There are workarounds for most if not all of these. But then it would boil down to "the pbem mode works so why bother banging my head on it"
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