Multiplayer with PTW and Conquests (HELP)

[oregonduckman33]

Ok here is my situation. I want to play multiplayer vs. my brother on 2 computors that are both in my house, and that are hooked up with a network. I own the original Civ 3, PTW expansion, and Conquests expansion. We have a firewall on 1 computor and have disabled it. We uninstalled Conquests on 1 computor so that we could have a disk in both (one is running PTW and the other is running Conquests). It is my understanding that in order for a person using Conquests to play a person using PTW, the person using PTW must be the game creator. So we had the comp using PTW be the one to create the game...

Our problem is, the multiplayer game doesn't show up on the other comp (the one running Conquests).

1. Which one has to create the game (Conquests or PTW)

2. Should I make it a LAN, normal internet or what?

Thanks for any help you can give. Hope that made sense.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, I don't have any patches for either version currently.

 

[microbe]

You both can use Conquests. The game checks the disc only when it starts, after that you can remove the disc and let the other person start the game.

 

[oregonduckman33]

oic thank you for your help I will try that. (doh!!)

 

[Justus II]

Also, if you have both CDs, you can still play with a CD in each machine. Just make sure that one machine has PTW and Conquests uninstalled, then install Conquests (including PTW) from the Conquests CD. From that computer, run the PTW icon from the Start menu. It will check for the CD, but it is looking for the Conquests CD, since that is where PTW was installed from. The other computer runs PTW normally, whith the PTW CD. So you are both playing PTW. That's how I have it set up for me and my son.