Re: FreshMeat - EA Newbie - (WAIT FOR HOSTING->UPL
There are advantages to PbEM altho I tend to speak more as a server than as a player. A PbEM server can easily run 20 games for each one that a direct-connect server runs. Changes to the game are easier to do. Update patches are easier to do. Its easier to manage the server for multiple purposes (not having to dedicate it to purely a Dominions server). Since every player tends to automatically have a backup copy, arguments are easier to moderate by suggesting do-overs. And a PbEM server can schedule hostings so that much larger games can be run without impacting each other.
IF (big if) Shrapnel ever decided to do an official server I would highly expect it to be a PbEM server. Direct connect games are great when one of the players hosts one game they are in. But running a server full of them is a major pain I can totally verify. (major kudos to the developers by the way for ironing out the server side to not be such a hog having multiple copies of Dominions running at the same time)
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