Ingame notes? SE5 forgets types? Ministers? LAN?

[Lohr]

Ah, local network drive, nice idea.

We will try this out as soon as our "trash-box" (=a computer made out of old computer components, which we are collecting here and there at the moment) is ready for duty.

Iv've got here an oled netgear router, an old 4 port hub., as well as a twisted par networl cable.

I think, we will try out first the hub, then the twisted pair cable. I think, the the router we may have the smallest success, at all.

[Fyron]

The router should actually give you the best success rate, since it's DHCP server works with Windows to create the LAN automagically for you, unlike the hub or archaic twisted pair cable. SE4/5 TCP/IP works great in such a LAN environment; its just going over the Internet where one or more parties are behind home routers that issues arise.

[Arralen]

I can't even connect to the server instance of SE5 with the client on my very own comp, neither on it's IP not on 127.0.0.1 (localhost) - and I'm running W2k therefore firewall can't be an issue. Tries to connect but times out with error message "Unable to establish provider" .. whatever this means

[Fyron]

I'm not sure doing that was ever even meant to work, since the game host is usually supposed to just be a player in the same instance of SE5.