Thank you for all your input on this DJ. It's a great relief to know that I am on the right track. I wish I had one tenth the comprehension of German that you obviously have of English so I could dig into that plugin abit =)

In fairness to it's creator though he did copyright it and bottom line is if I am going to truely be able to master all of the intricacies and problems of a multiplayer game I must know what I'm dealing with. I personally do not have any quality level of C++ and I know that I'm going to have to have a coder write this with me. What I need before I get to that step is a firm understanding of basic network communication. I don't have that yet If anyone has seen a similar plugin with some support in English I'm very intrested in hearing about it.

I want to do things as few times as possible with this project as it is a big enough chore as is without having to redo each phase 3-4 times due to my laziness =) There fore I will get the network module coded properly the first time once I understand how it will interact.

Thanks again for the help. I'll post some more when I take the next step. I'm not going to tackle the network stuff untill the client.exe is fully working with all GUI menus etc.

Mark