SE4 Gold TCP/IP

[The Frenchmen]

is there any way to start a space empires 4 ip game with a automated host? like, it would automaticly prossess the turns? maybe a comand line tihng? thanks for your time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Dave

[Atrocities]

Bump (Good question)

[Suicide Junkie]

Hmm, do you mean with the host NOT playing in the game itself?

I imagine the PBW RTC would look exactly the same as that from the outside.

[The Frenchmen]

Yeh, like, the way gold as the tcp/ip games, have a host comeputer that doesn't need a player at it to click the 'prossess turn' button

[Gandalf Parker]

That is a very handy feature. The Dom2 game has it. I cant even picture running that now with a host also being a player.

Even handier in my opinion is the "VGAPlanets" method of having a seperate host.exe which can have a much smaller CPU footprint.

[The Frenchmen]

so does anybody know how to do this? how does the PBW prossess turns? i can imagine it would be sompthing LIKE what i'm trying to do...

[Fyron]

It processes turns by running the game with command line parameters, in host mode. You could use Ruatha's PBW Emergency Site script. It has a batch program that will execute SE4 and such after all turn files are uploaded (or available).

[The Frenchmen]

Do you know where i could get a list of the command line commands?

[capnq]

The command line syntax is found in the History.txt file in the main SE IV folder. It's under the changes in v1.39.

[The Frenchmen]

thanks =)