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Darrel: There's quite a few advantages to having the LlamaServer PBEM in fact. At least, these are why I decided to have a go at designing it. Obviously there are advantages to network games as well, though.

- It has essentially unlimited capacity. This hasn't come into play yet, but it will be able to have tens of games running on it.
- It's possible to arrange it so that the games can be controlled via the website. No more running home to postpone hosting on the server.
- Other people can be set as admins for games on the website. Xietor can now postpone turns etc without me getting involved (see the admin options on the website). This will be great when there are more games running.
- It's more robust and reliable (*cough cough*). Okay, it should be. It can't crash and so on. Version upgrades should be much cleaner.

Unfortunately this weekend hasn't done a very good job of demonstrating the last point. The fact that everything went pear-shaped on the same weekend as a new game started, and I was away on holiday was quite unfortunate. Sorry again guys for the mayhem.