TCPIP game question (SE4 Gold 1.67)

[Bartok]

Hi all,

Apologies if this has been answered in one of the newbie FAQs or previously in this forum, but my searches were rather unrevealing.

How do you go about switching from a tcpip-game to a play-by-email? I'd like to be able to host a game where the first several (dozen?) turns are blitzed, then the game is turned over to email. But short of binary hacking around in the saved game, I haven't found any way of doing so.

While I'm at it, I might as well ask why the 'Show Distances' button never seems to be enabled in the Galaxy Map. Even in the screenshot in the Online manual, there is no such button enabled, but it seems like a very useful feature. Sure, I can turn the grid on, count tiny squares until my eyes bleed, and apply pythagoras, but it's not nearly as convenient as a working 'Show Distances' function..

Thanks!

Bartok