Well, specifically I was thinking of right now with PBW being down.
I am aware that no one solution is likely to be perfect in every case for all eternity. PBW was intended to make the distribution of files of PBEM more convenient. And it does a great job at that. RTC is an attempt to make PBW even more conveient by automating the player end of it.
However there might be situations where players for whatever reaason may not want to use the PBW service for their game. Or they may be limited by the RTC firewall issue, as I am at work.
If Lan Helper could be configured to use ftp, then it would have a solid niche there, as well as be available in times when PBW is down.
I haven't used the Lan helper yet because noone on my LAN plays Space Empires but me. I have been playing some PBEM games while PBW is down. I would like to be able to have a utility for a two player game that can tell when both of us are done with our turns and then run the next turn. I don't care which is the host. And then launches me back into my turn.
Does Lan helper sound like it could do the job? It does to me, but as I said, I haven't used it yet. Basically I want to eliminate moving the files around entirely.
Geoschmo