Playing with my CD from several computers with patch 2.11

[liga]

Hi all,

I'm use to play Dom2 with my regular CD (key) from at least 3 different places ... my laptop (winXP) at home, my PC (winXP) at home and my Pc (Linux) at work.
I'm use to move the .trn and othr files from work to home and back to work every day.

It will be that still possible with the new speyware or I'll be classified as a thief becouse my CD key is used from 3 differnet "persons"/PCs ? How can I do ? I would like to know that before installing the new patch.

thank you
Liga

[Norfleet]

I believe this should not cause any overt problems. In theory. Illwinter claims that this check is not performed when the game is played in single player, although oddly enough, it occurred when I was testing a single player game, which is why I noticed: Had this not, for some unknown reason, occurred in a single player game, I would probably not have noticed, since I'd already have given Dom2 access.

Clearly, this is a little odd, and leads me to suspect that there is more than meets the eye here.

However, you probably won't have any problems....unless you count the distinct possibility that Illwinter is now tracking your every move as a problem.

[liga]

Yes ... my problem was:

if IW prevent me to play in a MP games with two CD key that are the same that's good becouse every player needs a different CD key (and his own copy) ... but if they preventy me to use the same CD key in differetn MP games coming from different machines that prevent me to play both at home (with some friends) and at work with other ones and tht's is not good ...

good play
Liga

[Norfleet]

What I am somewhat MORE concerned about is what the ramifactions it has on a single person simultaneously attempting to play different multiplayer games using physically adjacent computers.

Does anyone care to test this? I don't have enough expendable computers for such a test.

[Gandalf Parker]

There isnt going to be anyone around to comment until Monday or so, but the answers I got so far is that each PLAYER needs his own CD key and that it doesnt affect solo-play.

Dom2 is in its 3rd printing. Im majorly sure that little machine its contacting isnt trying to keep a database matching keys to ip addresses (sheesh, I alone would max that out). All it seems to be doing is instead of checking an internal list of cracked CD keys, it now checks a centralized list. So if you are playing with a downloaded cd key you are out of luck.

BUT the HOST does check IP/Key together (it always has). So players connecting to a host get checked to see if the same key is used on multiple machines. It used to just declare you a cheater (no, turning cheating off in the menu doesnt affect that).

I dont think it keeps track over multiple turn-ins of the files. I think it only compares players in that turn when it hosts. If you were able to play the same game before by doing different turns from different machines, then you probably still can. Now that I think about it though, I can see a problem if you played mutliple nations and used multiple computers. It would be too easy to forget that you finished Ctis from home and turned in the final move on Jotun from work. I think I would always make sure to reload and turn in both nations.

I have a 5 machine network in the house with multiple copies off one CD. This machine alone has 4 full copies off one CD (plus 3 partials, and 2 demo Versions). We have 3 players in the house and one other we are trying to convert. Im surprised my key still works.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
It used to just declare you a cheater (no, turning cheating off in the menu doesnt affect that).

You can turn cheating on/off in the menu? I know the patch said you now could, but I found it humorous to notice that this was not, in fact, something you could actually turn off, but merely something that sat there mocking the would-be cheaters.