CD key violation

[Zooko]

4. Is this going to happen every turn from now on until I do something different?

Hm, on reflection I think my brother might be using my CD key. Although unless he lost his during his recent move I don't know why anything has changed today as opposed to all the other days that I've been using this product for the past eighteen or so months.

[Cainehill]

That's probably it, and it'd only come up when you and your brother were playing a server-hosted game together; possibly pbem hosting as well.

[Zooko]

So my Mac laptop just got back from the shop. I already did part of my turn using my Linux desktop. If I put the same CD key on my Mac laptop (I only have 1 CD key), and then try to play the rest of my turn, or try to play my brother's turn, then I might be forced to stale again?

This sucks.

[Zooko]

Oh -- waitasecond. Forget about my brother, and forget about my Mac laptop. Consider the fact that I have two Linux computers here. I've been playing from either one of them, depending on whether I was out in the garage or in the house. Is it the case that I so far got lucky and did each separate turn with only one of them, and then this time I got unlucky and used both of them for the same turn, and that's why my orders were ignored?

[Zooko]

So, am I allowed to log in to my brother's position in our 2 vs 2 vs 2 vs 2 vs 2 game in order to see what's going on with his nation, or is that going to force me to miss another turn?

What are the rules that I have to follow in order to not get forced to stale?

:-(

[Zooko]

Um, now when I try to connect to our game nothing happens after I enter the hostname and before it prompts me for the port.

I don't know whether this is some kind of copy-protection scheme or just random bugginess.

Sorry for the delay, folks. I'll play my turn as soon as this product works for me.

[Zooko]

Well, after the server was restarted I was once again able to connect.