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May 29th, 2001, 07:07 PM
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Re: Play by Web is now open
The order of implementation for the remaining long-term to-do items is currently open. I'll be conducting a survey of the Users.
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May 29th, 2001, 08:03 PM
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Re: Play by Web is now open
Here is a priority list for you:
1) Support for PBEM helper.
2) Forced turn generation on work days (Mon-Fri) only. Maybe it has this already?
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May 29th, 2001, 09:05 PM
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Re: Play by Web is now open
Forced turn only on weekdays is not (yet) directly supported, but the game owner can go in on Friday and move the automatic turn generator ahead three days to Monday.
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May 29th, 2001, 10:00 PM
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Re: Play by Web is now open
I'd imagine it would be quite easy to write a script to set the path.txt each time you run SE4, allowing players to use mods. 
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May 29th, 2001, 10:53 PM
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Re: Play by Web is now open
Your imagination is getting carried away. This is a highly multithreaded, multiprocess server. Hence, several instances of the same SE4 can be running at once. Therefore, to do it in the simple fashion you suggest would lead to problems. The solution, then, is to synchronize access to any particular instance of SE4, which of course will mean that fewer turns can be running simultaneously. Not a big problem now, but if the system gets thousands of Users and hundreds of games, it may become a problem. It would be possible to pool instances, but at 150 megs per install, it would get big fast, but would allow more instances to run simultaneously. If the ModPath could be specified on the command line, the simple Version would work.
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May 29th, 2001, 11:26 PM
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Re: Play by Web is now open
Wow.
I had no idea it was that large.
I guess you could just support the top few mods, or allow other people to host a PBW game on their own 24h servers...
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Re: Play by Web is now open
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or allow other people to host a PBW game on their own 24h servers...
SJ, You can do that now by hosting a game on your own PC and having the players email you the files. That's the sort of thing that Fuerte's PBEM helper is ideal for, although you can even do it the hard way. Lot's of people have.
But I've done it myself and PBW is a LOT easier.
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