PBEM Question

[Hydraa]

It looks like ya'll made an assumption that he was asking about a simultaneous game.
Turn base games can be played via PBEM as well. It is different and can be longer. A Turn based games starts out similarly. All players send the emp files to the first player. This player creates the game and plays the first turn. Then the turn files is passed from player to player as each plays his/her turn.

Turn based email however is more prone to a slow down in that if one players delays the game the whole game can be delayed. Also turn based breaks down more, the more people involved. If there are 10 people in a Turn based you might get to the point of having one turn a week if every one takes a full day to do their turn.

Don't get me wrong. Turn-based is viable for PBEM. I am playing both styles in PBEM settings right now and find that it is two different flavors of the same game. It takes a bit longer to do some stuff (game time) in simultaneous games.