How does PBEM work - exactly?

[Suicide Junkie]

PBW2 is independent of the LAN.

But in the case of a LAN and scripting:
Host:
- Make a shared folder for transfers.
- Script:
1) Wait for all PLR files to appear in the shared folder
2) Copy files to SE5 savegame folder (and archive old PLRs before deleting them from the save folder)
3) Run SE5 (with command line parameters as explained here
4) Copy results to shared folder
5) goto 1

Clients:
- Script:
1) Wait for new files in the shared folder
2) Copy files to SE5 savegame folder
3) Wait for PLR in savegame folder
4) Move PLR to shared folder
5) Wait for PLR to disappear from shared folder
6) Goto 1


You may want to use some dummy files to indicate when the copied files are finished so that the clients don't try and grab them before you've finished writing a big CMB or something.



OR


You can not worry about writing all that and make use of the existing infrastructure