Hej! At the moment i'm creating a turnbased game. The rules are somewhat like chess(but it's not chess). The first player roll a dice, move a brick and then it's the other players time to play. The game will also have a chat in it so you can comunicate with your oponent. I want to create a server for this, so that the first player that connects to the server will get a message "waiting for other player". When the second player enters, a game will start. When a third player enter he will get the message "waiting for other player" until the fourth player enters, and so on. This will be done by starting a new thread for every game. I'v done a chatprogram and a multiplayergame earlier, but then it was just 2 computers comunicating with each other(without server) and i had a connection open all the time. ------------------ THE PROBLEM; When 2 or more players connect to the server, is it possible for the server to have connections open for alla clients? What i understand only one socket can be open at the same time. If so, is this the best way, or should you close/open connection all the time? I'm using TCP socket programming. And the language i'm using is C#. [Edited by - hans-ola on April 21, 2007 7:57:28 PM]

You have a single port open listening for incoming connections on your server, when a client connects you assign it a port for direct communications. I'm afraid I can't provide any info about working with C#, but I imagine it's fairly straight forward (it was relatively easy to setup nonblocking ports in C++ when I did it a couple of years ago, so it should be a snap in C#).

Tnx guys. You helped me alot.

I will try to get this to work.