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[Suicide Junkie]

Do you know when support for mods will be ready? I would really like to play as a Pirate in a universe of humans . All I gotta do is figure out how to get a good "capture ships" combat strategy.

[Admiral]

The order of implementation for the remaining long-term to-do items is currently open. I'll be conducting a survey of the Users.

Admiral

[Fuerte]

Here is a priority list for you:

1) Support for PBEM helper.
2) Forced turn generation on work days (Mon-Fri) only. Maybe it has this already?

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PBEM

[Admiral]

Forced turn only on weekdays is not (yet) directly supported, but the game owner can go in on Friday and move the automatic turn generator ahead three days to Monday.

[Suicide Junkie]

I'd imagine it would be quite easy to write a script to set the path.txt each time you run SE4, allowing players to use mods.

[Admiral]

Your imagination is getting carried away. This is a highly multithreaded, multiprocess server. Hence, several instances of the same SE4 can be running at once. Therefore, to do it in the simple fashion you suggest would lead to problems. The solution, then, is to synchronize access to any particular instance of SE4, which of course will mean that fewer turns can be running simultaneously. Not a big problem now, but if the system gets thousands of Users and hundreds of games, it may become a problem. It would be possible to pool instances, but at 150 megs per install, it would get big fast, but would allow more instances to run simultaneously. If the ModPath could be specified on the command line, the simple Version would work.

Admiral

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Space Empires IV Play by Web

[Suicide Junkie]

Wow.

I had no idea it was that large.

I guess you could just support the top few mods, or allow other people to host a PBW game on their own 24h servers...