|
|
|
|
 |
October 27th, 2006, 11:19 PM
|
|
Private
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 11
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Can we play over a LAN without a new CD key?
My brother is three feet away from me. We can play hotseat, but that is slow and annoying. Is there any way we can play over a LAN without shelling out another 55 bucks for another CD key?
|
October 27th, 2006, 11:26 PM
|
|
Private
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 34
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Re: Can we play over a LAN without a new CD key?
I don't know, but you can probably test and find out yourself in less time than it would take you to get a useful response
|
October 28th, 2006, 05:16 AM
|
 |
Major General
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: 500km from Ulm
Posts: 2,279
Thanks: 9
Thanked 18 Times in 12 Posts
|
|
Re: Can we play over a LAN without a new CD key?
2 players on 2 comps = 2 serial numbers ... no luck, I am afraid ...
__________________
As for AI the most effective work around to this problem so far is to simply use an American instead, they tend to put up a bit more of a fight than your average Artificial Idiot.
... James McGuigan on rec.games.computer.stars somewhen back in 1998 ...
|
October 28th, 2006, 02:38 PM
|
 |
First Lieutenant
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Posts: 605
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Re: Can we play over a LAN without a new CD key?
In the vanilla (unpatched) version of dom II you could. Me and Panther used to, back when we lived together, long ago, before he bought a second copy.
__________________
Every time you download music, God kills a kitten.
|
October 29th, 2006, 05:33 PM
|
|
Private
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 4
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Re: Can we play over a LAN without a new CD key?
At first I hated this back in Dom2, after they patched it, but then it just gave me my friends an excuse to buy the game.
Illwinter is one of the very, very few developers that I buy games from. More sales = more similar games.
|
October 30th, 2006, 08:23 AM
|
 |
Sergeant
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Forlì, Italy
Posts: 322
Thanks: 15
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Re: Can we play over a LAN without a new CD key?
Ok, but I think that a "group" licence with, let's say, 5 or 10 free users with a slighly raised price would be a good idea to greatly increase the market of the game. It is not so easy to convince five or six friends to pay 50 euros. Playing solo is, imho, simply no fun.
Yes, there would be the piracy problem, but I think this can be handle by the paper only manual, it's no sense to play a such complex game without instructions.
Lastly, I think the Space Empires game series sell well enough without serial number.
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is On
|
|
|
|
|
Hybrid Mode