Two quick noob questions

Actually if you are playing on a LAN you can use 1 Key to play on multiple computers based on the type of game (not TCP/IP or PBEM). This only works on a LAN.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Zen:
Actually if you are playing on a LAN you can use 1 Key to play on multiple computers based on the type of game (not TCP/IP or PBEM). This only works on a LAN.

I'm sorry, come again?

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "play on multiple computers based on the type of game (not TCP/IP or PBEM)".

Dominions II supports 3 types of play: TCP/IP, which is accomplished by a server hosted on one computer, through which others connect using the "Network" option; PBEM, where the .2h files are manually copied by somebody or something into the game directory, whereupon the game is hosted as if it were a single player game, and then the .trns are doled back out to the players, and Hotseat, which is effectively a single player game where one screen controls multiple nations.

Are you saying that there's some sort of detection built into the game for TCP/IP games that are confined to a LAN address space?

[PrinzMegaherz]

I am not sure how the CD Key check works. I think every .2h file contains the cd key as well as the Mac Adress or whatever is used to identify the client pc.

You can actually trick the game by using a master password and letting the host have a quick look in every player's turn. This way the host would replace the above mentioned information with his own. The downside is that the host would get to see everyones turn.

[ March 18, 2004, 09:42: Message edited by: PrinzMegaherz ]

[Karacan]

You can do multi-computer "hotseat" game where you basically shovel the respective directory to and fro. Hotseat games do not limit the number of human players joining them - only tcp/ip and Pbem games are limited to one CD-key per player.

Hotseat is fun, anyway. Anyone remembers those good old Warlords I sessions?

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Karacan:
You can do multi-computer "hotseat" game where you basically shovel the respective directory to and fro. Hotseat games do not limit the number of human players joining them - only tcp/ip and Pbem games are limited to one CD-key per player.

This doesn't maky any sense either. The only file that is altered by taking a turn is the .2h file. Therefore, "shovelling the respective directory to and fro" simply means you are moving a lot of data which is not actually altered, and only the 2h files are truly being shuffled around....which means that the game is the same as a PBEM game!

This entire CD-key thing becomes very confusing as a result.

To add to the confusion, I recall a few weeks ago, a friend told me that he had managed to counter the message indicating that multiple Users were using his CDkey.....in a single player game, and that he was unable to continue his game past turn 40-ish, when it occurred. I have no idea how multiple copies of a CD key could be in use in a game which consists of precisely one human player, and can only assume this is some sort odd bug or glitch in the means by which it attempts to discern such things. Go figure. I never trusted these sorts of things anyway. They're nothing but trouble, and you'll never hear of a pirate complaining about it.

On a LAN you can set a directory or files to be shared. With it shared, you can play from that same directory on the LAN, but you set up the game in a Hotseat Fashion where someone has to hit the host button in order for a new turn to proceed. Each player plays their respective turn from a workstation on the network.

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[ March 18, 2004, 10:25: Message edited by: Zen ]

[jaif]

Thanks Zen, that works for me.

I have a windows box, a mac, and an old, old, old laptop with linux on it. I may be getting a surplus sun box as well. Not sure if I'll have the time, but it would be pretty neat to run a game using all 4.

Yes, I'm a geek. :-)

-Jeff