CaptRR on #spaceempires has allowed me to distribute the client and server he created for a SE5 PBW, he created it purly for personal use for a game with his brother but he realizes that others may be interested in using it. I hope that this one day leads to a central PBW server like we have for SE4 right now.
19:27] CaptRR: its also pretty buggy, so it will probably have some crashing issues if everythings not like its suppose to be
[19:28] CaptRR: thats what I get for creating a vb program after too many drinks
[19:28] CaptRR:
[19:31] CaptRR: also one more note (like I said this thing is still pretty beta), you need a C:/Temp directory, otherwise it will cause problems, this is a remnent of some old code, that I am getting rid of in the next build
[19:31] CaptRR: thats for the client
[19:33] CaptRR: oh and one last thing (sorry to keep adding stuff to this, this is the first time I am giving the code out, so havn't written all this down like I should have), on the server, do no use the se5 save directory as the save game directory
[19:34] CaptRR: since I the program moves the files in and out of the se5 savegame directory for processing
[19:34] CaptRR: and then cleans up after itself once the turn has processed
They are written in vb.net you need the .net framework 2.0. I haven't setup a server to test it yet but I looked at the code and it seems like it should work but then again I don't know VB so who knows lol.
Server:
http://www.secenter.org/SE5PBWPreBetaServer.zip
Client:
http://www.secenter.org/SE5PBWPreBetaClient.zip
PBW Server and Client for SE5
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