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PBEM Question - 10/14/2004 6:32:52 AM

Belce

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I am not entirely sure on how the turns are done by each side. I know the Japanese player needs to start and select the agreed options, that player does their first turn and sends to the Allied player, they do the turn and execute that turn. Can the Allied player then do their next turn and send it along with the combat replay to the Japanese player, who then does their next turn and executes, does their next turn sending the just the turn to the Allied player or does the Allied player just do a turn, execute and send the replay to the Japanese player and the Allied player is always executing the turn? Or in other words, if I execute the turn can I plan my next move and send to the other player along with the combat report save so that they can do turn, execute and send their next turn and combat report? Or is it always the Allied player executing the turn, sending the report and waiting for the Japanese player to do their next turn to proceed.

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RE: PBEM Question - 10/14/2004 7:18:19 AM

siRkid

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Japanese player sets up game and inputs his moves. When he ends his turn, he saves the file and sends it to the allied player. The allied player opens the save, inputs his turn, saves the game and sends it to the Japanese player. The Japanese player loads the save and turn one is automatacly processed. The Japanese player gets to watch this live so to speak. Once the turn is processed the replay file is saved and the Japanese player inputs turn 2. The Japanese player sends the save from turn 2 along with the relay from turn 1. The US player watches the replay and then does his turn and so on and so on...

Hope this helps.

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RE: PBEM Question - 10/14/2004 7:55:11 AM

Belce

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Thank you that does answer the question.

It means that the Japanese player always executes the turn.

It would greatly improve the playability of a PBEM game if a player recieving the others's turn could do theirs and execute the turn and then do thier next turn, sending the replay and thier saved turn to the other to repeat. It could be even possible for a third party to execute player turns and email the results to the players, when ready the players upload their saved game file to them to execute.

The suggestion, I know is a major change to how the game currently works, but as it is now, I would need to find someone in a different time zone or with a very different work schedule to hope to do one turn per day. I would like to play against someone I know, because we like to play games like this against each other.

The requirement of who starts a turn, who executes a turn is so 80's in computer games, really in a PBEM game each player should be able to plan their turn based on the combat replay of the previous turn and either player should be able to execute it.

I am sure that alot of current and wantabe PBEM players would appericate being able to do 2 turns each time they pass a saved game back to their opponnent.

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RE: PBEM Question - 10/14/2004 9:00:40 AM

2ndACR

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After the first 10 turns in the long scenario, you can easily average 2 or more turns.

In the game I started with Ron, we were averaging about 4-6 turns per day. I think we never had less than 2 turns. But both of us are night owls who do not sleep.

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