SEIV Gold Demo does *not* have TCP/IP

[robinleepowell]

No, wait, before you flame.

I'm serious.

It uses UDP/IP.

This is *not* the same thing. In particular, pretty much every firewall on the planet can handle NATed connections using TCP/IP.

Pretty much none of them can handle UDP without special configuration. Usually not even then.

Using UDP only makes sense when speed is of the essence, and even then is a pretty bad idea.

I was unable to play with a friend of mine until he completely removed his firewall (a low-end linksys router), even though he had told it to forward all incoming traffic to his machine (it wouldn't let UDP out).

So, as TCP/IP play is really important to me (I don't have e-mail accounts on the machines I play SEIV from; I using linux for e-mail), I would really like to know why the SEIV Gold demo doesn't have it, and when this is likely to be fixed.

Thank you.

-Robin