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liga
November 26th, 2003, 07:19 PM
Hia all,

me and some friends of mine are really interested to buy dominions 2 ... I want to know if we need to buy one copy each or is possible (like with StarCraft) just to install the game on the server and a sort of 'spawn' Version on the client ? Of course for an hot seat game we need a single Cd but we are interested in TCP multiplayer and/or PBEM ...

bye bye and good luck
Andrea

I have heard on other topics that there is a sort of big step in price buying one ore two CD's from ShrapnelGames ... there is alco some other step ? I'm trying to merge aal the order from my games club in a single big order ...
Johan K
November 27th, 2003, 02:19 AM
Hi Andrea.

Regarding multiplayer, one CD can only be used on one computer. If you want to play several people with one CD you'll have to play hot seat.
Chris Byler
November 27th, 2003, 03:20 AM
Originally posted by Johan K:
Hi Andrea.

Regarding multiplayer, one CD can only be used on one computer. If you want to play several people with one CD you'll have to play hot seat. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Does this mean I can't host on one computer and use my other computer as a client (with one CD)? Or does the restriction only apply to client computers?

(well, I guess WinXP is stable enough to use as a host box... maybe...)
Gandalf Parker
November 27th, 2003, 03:36 AM
Hmmmm I wonder if the text-mode command line host command would need the CD. Its not looking for anything. It would be nice to be able to host AND play. I know it compares CD keys of all the players and treats matches very badly. I wonder if the hosts key is included.

[ November 27, 2003, 01:39: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]
November 27th, 2003, 06:05 AM
You can host and play.

From the same or different machines. At least in my experiance.
Karacan
November 27th, 2003, 11:02 AM
Hmm, this means every nation in a multiplayer has to have a unique key? I can't have my computer client two nations, for example? No "I have several nations, you have several nations"-duel?
Johan K
November 27th, 2003, 12:24 PM
One computer (with one CD) can be used as the client for an unlimited number of nations in a network game that is hosted somewhere else.

So you can play 3 vs 3 with two computers if you want.
liga
November 27th, 2003, 06:59 PM
So,

if I have well understood, I need as many CD's as computers I want to use in my Multiplayer (TCP o PBEM) games, not as many players ... that's true ?

thank you
good play

Liga
Johan K
November 27th, 2003, 07:51 PM
Originally posted by liga:
So,

if I have well understood, I need as many CD's as computers I want to use in my Multiplayer (TCP o PBEM) games, not as many players ... that's true ?


Liga <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yup
PhilD
November 27th, 2003, 11:41 PM
Originally posted by Johan K:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by liga:
So,

if I have well understood, I need as many CD's as computers I want to use in my Multiplayer (TCP o PBEM) games, not as many players ... that's true ?


Liga <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yup </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Is that "one CD per computer", or "one CD per DomsII client"?

If I launch several Doms clients on the same machine (they might all display on the same screen, or, more interestingly, on different screens over the network), do I need one CD per client? I suspect I do, but I'd like to check.

Also - the key seems to be in the "key" file in the user's "dominions2" directory [this is with a Linux install]. Can the same user have two different keys, or, if I had two different keys, would I need to setup additional Users to use the second key?
Gandalf Parker
November 27th, 2003, 11:45 PM
Originally posted by PhilD:
Also - the key seems to be in the "key" file in the user's "dominions2" directory [this is with a Linux install]. Can the same user have two different keys, or, if I had two different keys, would I need to setup additional Users to use the second key? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah. Plain text and world-wide readable. I wasnt thrilled with that arrangment.