Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Idea (battle.net)

[Peter Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxx>]

David Pfitzner wrote:
> 
> Melissa <ishstar@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > It's not exactly dealing with the game itself, but on setting up and
> > running games...  it's the idea of something like battle.net where
> > people meet up and then there's a creator of the game (when a game is
> > created the creator can start up a server in the background... hopefully
> > automatically) and people can join up and etc.  It can just get a little
> > tough trying to find people on the net to play and etc.
> 
> Yeah, it would be neat if we could somehow have some games
> running automatically all the time on the freeciv server,
> which people could join, or some way for people to meet and
> start games, as you say.
> 

Well, you can create a meeting place just by setting up a server,
and set the motto to something like "Meeting Place #1".
You might e.g. use "screen" to log out while keeping the server running.

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