Hey, just thought I'd shoot off a quick question about a possible play-by-mail system?

For those unclear on what it is: you pretty much just play a turn and send the save file to a friend who plays his turn and either sends it back or to the next player. It's not often implicated, but it's cool when it is.

Remembering back to Heroes of Might and Magic and such, I was a big fan of play-by-mail because I have friends in different time zones/who work different shifts from myself.

Only thing I'm unsure of is the seemingly simultaneous nature of turn taking? I've seen lots of fleets moving around as I move, etc, so I'm wondering if it'd be too far-fetched to implement a system like that?

Or just having a separate "game mode" on the multiplayer screen where the game state is uploaded to the server and the next man can go when he can?

I understand that the latter system could end up overloading the servers with people having 10-20 games going at once (or whatever), or that it may be impossible with the current setup for turns. Just thought I'd throw out a suggestion

already was a thread created for this here.