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<blockquote data-quote="Alarian" data-source="post: 5794726" data-attributes="member: 24407"><p>I've been using MapTool for quite a few years and really like the program. That said, and as others have said, connectivity problems can be a major pain in the butt with it. I've played with multiple groups and we've had more than one case where we simply never successfully were able to get some people to be able to connect. I've also had problems more than once where its worked flawlessly for months and then suddenly one day no one could connect to me anymore or I would be unable to connect to other servers. Nothing had changed on anyone's end (well not that we were aware of at least) but its lead to more than one evening of frustration as everyone tries to troubleshoot the problem PC or PC's. Thank god for Skype. We currently have a PBEM game going where maptool is left running for people to log on and check out the current situation during combats and we have several people that have never been able to successfully connect no matter what's been tried. </p><p></p><p>If the DDI VTT can only solve that one problem, I can see it being a valuable alternative. The 4th Edition only thing though is going to hurt, at least in the short run. Opening it up to everyone I think could open a large pool of people willing to pay for a subscription even if they used none of the other features of the subscription.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alarian, post: 5794726, member: 24407"] I've been using MapTool for quite a few years and really like the program. That said, and as others have said, connectivity problems can be a major pain in the butt with it. I've played with multiple groups and we've had more than one case where we simply never successfully were able to get some people to be able to connect. I've also had problems more than once where its worked flawlessly for months and then suddenly one day no one could connect to me anymore or I would be unable to connect to other servers. Nothing had changed on anyone's end (well not that we were aware of at least) but its lead to more than one evening of frustration as everyone tries to troubleshoot the problem PC or PC's. Thank god for Skype. We currently have a PBEM game going where maptool is left running for people to log on and check out the current situation during combats and we have several people that have never been able to successfully connect no matter what's been tried. If the DDI VTT can only solve that one problem, I can see it being a valuable alternative. The 4th Edition only thing though is going to hurt, at least in the short run. Opening it up to everyone I think could open a large pool of people willing to pay for a subscription even if they used none of the other features of the subscription. [/QUOTE]
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