Multiplayer in Same House/LAN

[andrews]

I finally broke down and got Conquests. I am hoping I can teach my daughter the game and we can then play together on my home LAN, but I wanted to know if I have to have a second copy to do that. Does anyone know?

Games like Age of Empires allow 2 or 3 people on the same LAN per CD. Is that the case here?

Brad

 

[WildFire]

Unless you have the NO CD crack (still not sure if that would work) you need two different CD's. I wouldnt use the the crack (BUY ANOTHER ) because 1) They get more money to make civ4 better and 2) Would be more stable.

 

[andrews]

That is a major disappointment.

Why can other games allow it, but this one not. Ah well, I don't have the time anyway, so maybe I won't be buying Civ 4 after all.

Brad

 

[Kemal]

No worries, you can just start the game on one pc, then remove the cd and start the game on the other pc, since you don't have to have the cd in your drive while running the game. So for a home-LAN, you only need one CD really.

 

[andrews]

That's what I was hoping for!

Thanks for the good news. I will try to do that this weekend.

Brad

 

[davidcrazy]

Unless you have the NO CD crack (still not sure if that would work) you need two different CD's. I wouldnt use the the crack (BUY ANOTHER ) because 1) They get more money to make civ4 better and 2) Would be more stable.

not true. i played in the lab with my friends with only 1 cd.

 

[excite]

i havent actually tried this but you could try making the CD-ROM drive on your PC shared over the network. with that they should be able to access your drive and try running the Civ3Conquests.exe

 

[andrews]

Well, I could get the game running on both machines, but when I tried to hook the machines up, one couldn't see a game created on another, even with "direct connect" with the IP address.

I am behind a firewall, but both machines are behind the firewall, and the firewall doesn't effect traffic on the local LAN. I don't want to open ports to the world just to play at home.

I am running Windows 2000 Professional on both machines, and the only firewall on the machines is ZoneAlarm Pro, which I told to allow civ3conquests full access.

Brad

 

[WildFire]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=93507

Try that?

 

[Bibor]

Well, I could get the game running on both machines, but when I tried to hook the machines up, one couldn't see a game created on another, even with "direct connect" with the IP address.

I am behind a firewall, but both machines are behind the firewall, and the firewall doesn't effect traffic on the local LAN. I don't want to open ports to the world just to play at home.

I am running Windows 2000 Professional on both machines, and the only firewall on the machines is ZoneAlarm Pro, which I told to allow civ3conquests full access.

Brad

You don't need firewall between your computers. As a matter of fact, the only firewall you need is the one that will affect your Internet connection, so configure it that way.

Firewall *does* affect machine 2 machine communication, since the protocols and ports the same as for the internet connection, so...:
You can definintely set your firewall to protect only one network adapter (in this case you want your internet connection firewalled, not the lan card).

As for Firewalling, the Microsoft Windows 2000 firewall is more than enough. It stops 99% of attacks if you disable the FTP ports (ports 20 and 21), which is easily configured in windows firewall.

So, forget the Zone Alarm Pro and similar stuff. It's just a waste of computer resources and money. Just disable the FTP and you'll be fine. However, if someone *really* wants to break into your computer, he'll do it. You can put a $100,000 router as protection - the hacker can still break in. So just don't be paranoid and if you do have extremely important data, keep it on external data storage (use usb memory keys, external disks, CD-R, whatever).



-Kirby