PBEM question

[Saxon]

Elmo,

Do you have any problems when you run a turn at the office, then at home? I wonder if these extra files are needed by the game or if they are extras.

I am playing PBEM with only one other friend and we are doing two turns at once. I run a turn, then play my turn. I send him all the files in my directory, including my .plr file. He then receives them, plays his turn and then runs the turn. He then plays his second turn, copies all the files, and sends them to me. We find it goes faster this way and we get a bit more continuity. However, we also trust each other a lot, as this system is wide open to abuse.

But back to your question, we always send each other all the files, as we think the host machine needs them to run the game. In my three person game where I am the host, I only send the .gam file and receive the .plr files. As I can not run it at work, I always run it on the same machine at home and then carry the files on disk.