Multi Player games

[Embis]

Just my two 'penneth, (for those in the states read "for my 2 cents")

I have previously played games using ICQ or some similar client. Once you have overcome the difficulty in getting everyone together at the same time, which isnt actually that difficult if you have enthusiasts, you can play out a game in the course of an hour or so sending files via the file transfer option. I dont see why this wouldn't work for a multiplayer game. Set a date and a time, meet up on ICQ and start playing. You also have the advantage of an open communication channel for general chit chat between turns, which I just know Steve would love.

I would love to join a multiplayer game but pbem wouldnt work for me, or more preciisely, for you! I would be the bottleneck.......and you would all be wanting to wring my bottleneck!

There is always the direct play option, but my recollection of that was that it was a bit unstable, which is why we used ICQ, although, things may have improved significantly with high speed broadband, I was using a US Robotics sportster flash modem at the time, remember those? even the fast ones were slow compared to what most of us have now.