Difference between PBEM and TCP/IP

Kimball · #1 January 9th, 2001, 07:07 AM

What is the difference between play-by-email and TCP/IP? Is it the same thing?

SirDarwin · #2 January 9th, 2001, 07:43 AM

No, if we had tcp/ip, you would not have to send all the files from the client-sever, server-client. You would connect to the server, play your turn, and then the next turn would happen. No worry of sending files back and forth.

imperishable · #3 January 9th, 2001, 09:53 AM

In IP games, one player uses his computer as the server for the game, so all others connect to him after getting his IP address.
After that it`s pretty much like hot seat playing. I like to play this way cause I can spare a few hours on a game and pbem is just way too slow.

Kimball · #4 January 9th, 2001, 05:14 PM

Thank you for the answers. Is TCP/IP something MM is working on, then?

imperishable · #5 January 9th, 2001, 05:26 PM

They better!

Baron Munchausen · #6 January 9th, 2001, 05:37 PM

Kimball,

TCP/IP means REAL TIME gaming. You could sit there at your PC and fight a battle in tactical mode with someone else on the other side of the country. You could spend an entire day gaming with a group of friends scattered all over the world without leaving home. Needless to say, there is a lot of interest in this.

But we've not been testing anything to do with TCP/IP so don't expect it "real soon" but rather "in a while". It's not going to be a simple thing to add.