LAN play, or lack of it ??

SalsaDoom · #1 December 10th, 2003, 03:58 AM

Hmmm, that sounds like a load of excuses. There are ways of fooling it, but those are not going to be handy for anywhere near most people. I doubt anyone would be willing to setup a vpn to play with random people on the net.

I know I was really annoyed when it didn't let me play on the lan, thats just crap. I really makes me very angry when copyprotections mess with legitimate Users. Paying twice as much to play on a lan is extremely frusterating.

Blah! ;(

--SD

Saber Cherry · #2 December 10th, 2003, 04:12 AM

On a LAN, you can always keep open a shared folder of the game directory on the non-host computer. The folder should be set with full read-write permission. Then at the end of each turn, you simply move the 2h file to the host's game folder, and after hosting, move the trn file back to your folder. It's hotseat on multiple computers... like PBEM, but being on a LAN makes it much faster and much less work.

Gandalf Parker · #3 December 11th, 2003, 02:59 AM

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Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
On a LAN, you can always keep open a shared folder of the game directory on the non-host computer. The folder should be set with full read-write permission. Then at the end of each turn, you simply move the 2h file to the host's game folder, and after hosting, move the trn file back to your folder. It's hotseat on multiple computers... like PBEM, but being on a LAN makes it much faster and much less work.

Wow thats so elegant and simple. If they are lan then they should be able to use a shared directory to do an MP game.

Have you tested this? Is the check for same-copy done only by direct connects? It seems to me that if it doesnt then it wouldnt be able to on PBEM either.

Saber Cherry · #4 December 11th, 2003, 03:53 AM

I'm on a LAN, but just with my parents, and they don't DOM=)

So I have not checked, but I cannot imagine how it would fail, unless the 2h files include the HDD serial number (or to be safe, a secret hash of the #). Anyway, you have to start the game as hotseat, not PBEM...

And thanks for the compliment

Gandalf Parker · #5 December 11th, 2003, 04:07 AM

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Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
Anyway, you have to start the game as hotseat, not PBEM...

Bingo. That slipped past me. That probably would make all the difference.

Argitoth · #6 December 11th, 2003, 06:29 AM

what if you just borrowed a friend's CD key?

Gandalf Parker · #7 December 11th, 2003, 06:37 AM

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Originally posted by Argitoth:
what if you just borrowed a friend's CD key?

Well that would be illegal. And that would be an awful good friend. Sure not something Id do since there would be no way to gaurantee that the friend actually "gave it back".