Chris, the specification of the protocol is in the source code for the server, you should read and understand the relevant sections as soon as yohu have a question about how the protocol works. MAXPLAYER is set in include/config.h to 32. That's player number zero through to 31, as you observed. How far are you from release? We're synchronising here for a 1st June release for several components. -- James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/