CD key violation?!

Reverend Zombie · #1 April 10th, 2007, 04:20 PM

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Edi said:
Doing a second install on a machine you own and using that for SP only and playing any MP games from a different machine would technically be a license violation anyway, so fair use does not really enter into it.

Since the players are the ones providing the infrastructure for MP games, and since we often use a second install on a machine dedicated for hosting, it would be nice if we received some slack on this issue for that.

Edi · #2 April 10th, 2007, 04:37 PM

I can sympathize with that, RZ, and see where you are coming from.

Where MP tech issues in setting up etc are concerned, I know little. If hosting machines were excluded from the check, it would do the trick, I suppose, but don't quote me on that. It's something that Johan K and the Shrapnel tech people are better equipped to answer if they do so at all.

Gandalf Parker · #3 April 10th, 2007, 06:02 PM

As I understand it thats how its supposed to work now. The host doesnt check its own key against the players. That allows the host to play in their own games, even from a different machine. But apparently its a problem if you go in as a player to do something like set a player as AI.

Manuk · #4 April 10th, 2007, 06:13 PM

I don't fully understand. I bought a new computer and reinstalled the game. I had no issue connecting to network games. I was expecting to have some kind of problem. but i didnt.

DrPraetorious · #5 April 10th, 2007, 07:10 PM

To be clear:
on any given turn,
different IP address, same key = violation?

So if I set up a game on my home machine, play one nation from my laptop, and one nation on the tower (which share a key), then try to host, I'll get violated?

This could cause a problem for people playing multiple nations on the same server, if they have a dynamic IP address, I suppose, but that's pretty unlikely, unless their IP address changed crazy fast - and who plays more than one nation at once remotely?

Gandalf Parker · #6 April 10th, 2007, 07:18 PM

Some do. I see them on my server.
But the main non-pirate problem seems to be when the host does host things, the game sees it as the same key used multiple. I have reported that today to see if something can be done about it

Sombre · #7 April 10th, 2007, 10:13 PM

Out of interest, does the license say anything about hotseat play?

So far I get the impression that Dom3 is far more bothered about piracy than other games. It's not something I agree with, but it's up to the people who made it. I do know if I wanted to play with my wife I wouldn't buy another copy, not at that price.

So hypothetically, installing on her laptop as well as my computer would be a violation and may/would result in the CD-Key getting scrapped? (via some online or ingame check that you aren't willing to discuss) But would the two of us playing on one computer hotseat style be a violation?

As I say, this is all just out of interest so don't start lighting any pirate burning fires.