Never played PBW but...

[Grandpa Kim]

Tileus, I was leary at first too, because I didn't know how it operated.

The way it works, when everyone uploads their turns (a fairly painless proceedure in itself) the PBW server runs the turn, and sends everone an email of the result for their next turn. It is zipped, so you need winzip or another similar program to open it, then you just save it to your savegame file within SEIV and play the turn normally.

Every game has its own time limit. Most common are 24, 48 and 72 hours. Some games are automatically set to run the turn when the time elapses, others wait till all have uploaded. Don't abuse either option. In the second, the host may kick you from the game if you do it too often. In both cases, if the turn runs before you upload, the AI will play your turn for you. Can you spell DISASTER! It will mess up your empire more than you thought possible.

Anyway, those are the mechanics. Hope it helps.