[Jubala]

Marty, if you play pbem simultaneous is the only way to go as turn based will take forever. With 7 players in a game and each player taking 24h to do his turn and send it on to the next you'll only get to play one turn a week. Even if all players are fast and it get the turn away in 12 hours you'll still only get to play 2 turns a week. With sim games all player s to the turn at the same time and send them to the host. The host compiles the new turn when all turns are in or a set time is reached (usually 24h after Last turn was sent out) and sends them out to the players. This way you get to play one turn/day, sometimes maybe even two turns/day if everybody is fast. So sim turn is superior for pbem. And it also makes the game less prone to die if a player loses interest. In a turn based game the game dies if a plyer stops doing his turns. In a sim game the player is simply set to AI control and the game goes on without him.