Sorry about posting this here, but there doesn't seem to be a suggestions thread - I just thought, what with Ruatha's program interfacing with PBW and also loading the PBW site in a Windows form, that suggests that maybe PBW2 should be designed from the ground up as a Web Service - I don't know if the term is unique to the .NET Framework, but what a Web Service is, is basically a set of functionality that can be accessed over the web from any sort of client program - it could be a dynamic website running in a browser, or it could be a Windows application, or a Linux application, or whatever you want.
Thus, to make it concrete, PBW2 might have a "game" class, which would have functions like "add player" and "process turn"; those functions would be what is called by the client. Basically, it's the same as the current system, only with a middle layer in between the user and SE4 to make the PBW functionality easily accessible to a wider range of clients than just the standard web site.
Granted, I've never written a web service before, but as I've mentioned, I have done some programming with ASP.NET, and web services seem to be the next step up, so I should be learning about them soon in school... and from what I hear they're not all that complicated anyway
Re: The future of PBW - a call to arms
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