[Hank Parsons]

Wow, looks like you have a good party getting started here.

I've played multiplayer on Gamespy quite a lot. But it is hard to keep the same group together. The most I've had the same group of 4 or more people, lasted for maybe 2 weeks (which was 3 or 4 gaming sessions). If you can keep it together, more power to you. I advise you to take it somewhat like "real world" where party members may unexpectedly arrive and depart, in case someone shows up late so it doesn't ruin everyone's session.

Allow the leader (host of the game) to keep the latest copy of every character.

If you have an extra character slot, I would play sometime. I have not tried the new Gamespy 2.0 but it should work the same.

See the link in my sig if you have problems connecting (firewall/port-forwarding issues).