I would REALLY love to play this with a friend. I made him buy the game, download the mod, go through all the not-so-simple process of installing it, only to find out we couldn't connect to each other. I'm used to playing Civ4 with the Realism Invictus mod and I play with friends using Hamachi and the Direct IP Connection option under multiplayer. Unfortunately, only AFTER going through the aforementioned ordeal I found out there is no such option inside the Civ4Col, only the other four (LAN, Internet, PbeM and Hot-Seat), none of them are functional.
Could any one shed a light on this? Even if to say in a definitive manner: "no, mate, you can't play Civ4Col with a distant buddy nowadays, sorry!"