[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Arkcon:
Now realtime may be the Java-ware realtime client. It automates a lot of the above steps, and polls the server on it's own, starts SE4 when it downloads a turn, sends the file as soon as you're done. It's on the SE4 CD. It sounds cool, but I have a dialup, so I will wait till I get a cable modem setup before I learn to use it.

Exactly. And it IS cool, very cool. You can use it on a dialup, but you have to stay connected the whole time you play your turn. So if you take a long time to play your turns and you pay by the minute it might not be a good idea.

The shortcuts to the savegame folder is an excellent idea for those using the web interface to upload turns

There also used to be a PBEM helper, which IIRC automates the playing of the turns and should work with PBW just fine. IIRC it doesn't work with web based email like hotmail or yahoo, but you can get free email clients that will work with some of those web-based email accounts and use the PBEM helper I believe. I have never actually done it though so I wouldn't know how to set it up or anything. You should be able to find a link for it doing a search here for "PBEM Helper".

Geoschmo