[sfbol-planning] Asynchronous play

[Devlyn D. <de...@ya...>]

I know it's a little early to be discussing feature
requests, but this is something that was brought up
amongst other SIB players and it sounds like a good
idea.

Allowing asynchronous play.  Basically, the system
would become a sort of PBEM mediator for the players,
although it wouldn't really be PBEM, the user's would
just send their turn data to the server for
processing.  The reason that this sounds appealing is
that SFB can sometimes take a few hours (or more) to
play a scenario.  There's a lot of folks that don't
have that amount of time to spend online at once. 
Asynchronous play would allow two or more players to
play out a scenario over the course of a day or two,
playing their turns when they have a few minutes
available to spend online.

There should be limits placed on the system such as
how long to allow a user to make his next move and how
long a game could stretch out, but I think this opens
up the system to a wider audience.

Just having fun with the possibilities...

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