LAN GAMES

[NTJedi]

by Taqwus
you might want to consider buying used, or reselling when you're done with them.

Your saying I should purchase an entire 747 airplane even tho I only need it for two weeks. I need something that's more financially realistic. We could do hotseat so why go thru all the financial hassle your suggesting.

My point is there isn't a high price for multiplayer hotseat and shouldn't be for multiplayer LAN. Hopefully a thrid option will appear.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by NTJedi:
My point is there isn't a high price for multiplayer hotseat and shouldn't be for multiplayer LAN. Hopefully a thrid option will appear.

Thats alittle crazy. MP hotseat is on one machine. The slight protection that Dom has is that a host in a MP game checks for the same CD key. Thats not much protection but probably adequate vs pirates since its likely that all the copies floating around will have the same cd key.

For a LAN playable Version you are talking about multiple copies on many machines with the same ID? If it allows that then how will it verify that its on a lan? Those copies could be on any machine anywhere. If you arrange it so that a host will allow many copies of the same ID then one of those copies could be floated to thousands of computers with no consequences.

Im sorry but this game just isnt protected enough to give you what you want without hurting itself. Allowing hotseat is not the same as allowing lan.

[Taqwus]

Originally posted by NTJedi:

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by Taqwus
you might want to consider buying used, or reselling when you're done with them.

Your saying I should purchase an entire 747 airplane even tho I only need it for two weeks. I need something that's more financially realistic. We could do hotseat so why go thru all the financial hassle your suggesting.

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Irrelevant. Would you ask Boeing to sell you a plane for less, because you're not going to use it much? No. An airline buys the jet -- for full price -- and attempts to recoup its costs by renting passage to people who don't need it full ownership all the time.

You want to pay less because you're not going to use it that often? Find somebody who'll buy it and sell its use to you for a limited time. Boeing isn't obligated to offer you that choice; nor is Illwinter.

My point is there isn't a high price for multiplayer hotseat and shouldn't be for multiplayer LAN. Hopefully a thrid option will appear.

It'd require more protection measures, such as CD checks. The first Version didn't even require the CD to be in the drive, which was a prerequisite for all the "one CD per three players in your IPX game" bit.

In addition, bear in mind that spawning was usually supported only by RTS games which included a completely separate single-player campaign -- i.e. content which was locked out to people who only played in multiplayer games, and which thus offered an additional incentive to purchase. This does not exist for Dominions II.