Is real time play vs humans feasible?

[javaslinger]

I had great fun playing small games of Stars vs many humans in real time over the net.

Basically there is an IRC room where players hang out and meet up to play games that Last 4 - 10 hours. Obviously most of the players have no jobs so they can waste that kind of time.

My questions are: Is it even possible to play a game of SE in that time frame with multiple human players? obviously with smaller settings of galaxy size etc set.

And do you think we as a community could set up such an IRC channel for this? Would it be used? Is the commmunity big enough where if it caught on, there may one day be 10+ people hanging around in there in peak times to get a game going.

I have asked many such similar questions in the past with little response. Is there really very little demand for this? I think that is the best way to get SE to truly thrive.

Thanks,

Ken