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[Baron Munchausen]

With files that are not time sensitive this works fine. It doesn't much matter if I get a copy of the "Loose Change" 911 Documentary today or next week. No one is waiting for me to see it and respond. Turn files for an ongoing game is another matter entirely. Even with the ability to resume large files you don't get any faster performance than your modem can produce. 75 megabytes means a minimum of about 4 hours download time (with optimum performance) on a 56k link. With a '1 turn per day' game this might be manageable -- if you don't mind your line being tied up 4 hours a day. But any game moving faster than that is likely to be a problem. Playing multiple '1 turn per day' games is also unlikely to be possible, while it was before with SE IV.

[shinigami]

Simply put, multiplayer is not practical for most people until the filesize comes waaaay down. Hopefully, MM will follow through on what was said about it in the chat.

[NullAshton]

How about we simply pester him to add an option to REMOVE combat replays?

Or a simpler method would be to just run the combat again with the same random seed, thus having the exact same results...

[Spoo]

NullAshton said:Or a simpler method would be to just run the combat again with the same random seed, thus having the exact same results...

Now that's a good idea!

[Fyron]

How about we leave this thread to its purpose, helping people play MP games today?