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ORIGINAL: DCWhitworth

Setup would be a bit beyond the average home user though.

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ORIGINAL: timewalker03

If you could get 7 people to hotseat a game, then 7 people could use TCP/IP to play. It would be easier and would not allow for the chance to give access to personal info.

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ORIGINAL: Ralegh

I think the easiest approach would be to play a hotseat game, using RemoteDesktop.
To do this, you would:
* nominate one machine as the one the game is being played within, and setup for all players to be able RDP into that machine
* have all players enter a chat channel (using their base machine)
* when it is your turn, you RDP into the game machine, and play your turn. You can access the chat channel to talk to people. When finished CLOSE THE RDP SESSION, and notify the next player via chat
* the next player then opens the RDP session, and has their turn (etc)

I would even use a VPC machine as the game machine, so it wouldn't change between sessions (and wouldn't expose personal info etc etc).

Would people like detailed instructions to do this?

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ORIGINAL: Ralegh

I think the easiest approach would be to play a hotseat game, using RemoteDesktop.
To do this, you would:
* nominate one machine as the one the game is being played within, and setup for all players to be able RDP into that machine
* have all players enter a chat channel (using their base machine)
* when it is your turn, you RDP into the game machine, and play your turn. You can access the chat channel to talk to people. When finished CLOSE THE RDP SESSION, and notify the next player via chat
* the next player then opens the RDP session, and has their turn (etc)

I would even use a VPC machine as the game machine, so it wouldn't change between sessions (and wouldn't expose personal info etc etc).

Would people like detailed instructions to do this?

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ORIGINAL: NeverMan
This doesn't sound any faster than PBEM where each person is checking their email and playing at the same time. In fact, this sounds slower.

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ORIGINAL: NeverMan

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ORIGINAL: Ralegh

I think the easiest approach would be to play a hotseat game, using RemoteDesktop.
To do this, you would:
* nominate one machine as the one the game is being played within, and setup for all players to be able RDP into that machine
* have all players enter a chat channel (using their base machine)
* when it is your turn, you RDP into the game machine, and play your turn. You can access the chat channel to talk to people. When finished CLOSE THE RDP SESSION, and notify the next player via chat
* the next player then opens the RDP session, and has their turn (etc)

I would even use a VPC machine as the game machine, so it wouldn't change between sessions (and wouldn't expose personal info etc etc).

Would people like detailed instructions to do this?

This doesn't sound any faster than PBEM where each person is checking their email and playing at the same time. In fact, this sounds slower.

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ORIGINAL: Kwik E Mart

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ORIGINAL: NeverMan

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ORIGINAL: Ralegh

I think the easiest approach would be to play a hotseat game, using RemoteDesktop.
To do this, you would:
* nominate one machine as the one the game is being played within, and setup for all players to be able RDP into that machine
* have all players enter a chat channel (using their base machine)
* when it is your turn, you RDP into the game machine, and play your turn. You can access the chat channel to talk to people. When finished CLOSE THE RDP SESSION, and notify the next player via chat
* the next player then opens the RDP session, and has their turn (etc)

I would even use a VPC machine as the game machine, so it wouldn't change between sessions (and wouldn't expose personal info etc etc).

Would people like detailed instructions to do this?

This doesn't sound any faster than PBEM where each person is checking their email and playing at the same time. In fact, this sounds slower.

how could this possibly be slower than:
1) check email until notified you are up next
2) download all the phases between current phase and the ones you haven't downloaded
2a) unzip all the files, if necessary
3) play the phases you have downloaded
4) play your own phase
5) exit the game or alt tab to the commout folder
5a) zip your just finished phase, if necessary
6) send your phase out to a website or thru email

7) oh, and by the way....someone screwed up a phase and the host has to send out backup saves to everyone...repeat 1 thru 6...

i don't know about some, but this is a painfully slow process for me and definitely takes away from the enjoyment of the experience...

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ORIGINAL: adrianthomson

Personally, I like the idea of a single terminal hotseat game. It has all the advantages of both the board game( the social factor, the face to face strategizing and diplomacy) as well as the benefits of the computer version (speed of play, calculations and dice rolls, the fact that you don't tie up a room in your house for months etc.) Besides, there's usually a fair amount of drinking involved with a single terminal game.....

Cheers.


Adrian

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ORIGINAL: adrianthomson

Personally, I like the idea of a single terminal hotseat game. It has all the advantages of both the board game( the social factor, the face to face strategizing and diplomacy) as well as the benefits of the computer version (speed of play, calculations and dice rolls, the fact that you don't tie up a room in your house for months etc.) Besides, there's usually a fair amount of drinking involved with a single terminal game.....

Cheers.

Adrian