Play more than one nation in MP

[chrispedersen]

huh perhaps me no understand
I play multiple humans from the same license - just hot seat - and this is a supported application.

[WraithLord]

Yes. I knew hot seat works and I was assuming MP will work as well - that is until I got a warning that it may not work, hence this thread. Anyway tests confirm that submitting multiple turns from same machine works.

What I'm not sure about is whether the following will work.
1. Start playing turn on machine A.
2. Continue play turn on machine B (say its weekend, you're at your parents and you installed your dominions there as well, no copy violation since parents don't play dom )
3. Complete playing turn on machine A and submit/email.

I assume it will work based on the assumption that every time the turn is saved to the .2h file the current key is saved as well.

[thejeff]

That should work. In fact, it should also work if you just started on A, then finished and submitted on B.

I'm pretty sure there's no way to trigger the MP CD-Key violation while only submitting turns for one nation. It's only when you have turns from 2 or more nations with the same key and different machines that there is a problem.

[llamabeast]

I'm fairly sure it doesn't work by PBEM.

[Zeldor]

Ekhem, I am confused now. Can you play 2 nations on pbem in one game with 1 cdkey from same machine?

[thejeff]

llama, you're fairly sure what doesn't work?
Wraithlord's latest question?

I can't see how the server will even know that machine B was used. Assuming he just copies the turn files from A to B and then back, rather than trying to submit them to the server and then get them back which won't work because the server won't send you the .2h file.

[Zeldor]

So we could start a game on llamaserver where everyone has 2 nations? That could be a nice alternative for team games.

[lch]

llamabeast said:
I'm fairly sure it doesn't work by PBEM.

Hosting doesn't differ at all for Hot-seat (local game), PBEM or network games. The only difference is how the turn files are being exchanged/transmitted.

Zeldor said:
Ekhem, I am confused now. Can you play 2 nations on pbem in one game with 1 cdkey from same machine?

Yes.

And it is possible to prepare turns on another machine, too. The only thing of interest for the host is: Which system submitted the turn to the server? A check value for the key being used and for the system is stored in the turn files. If the host finds the same key value, but different system values in the turn files, then it will let those nations stale.

[calmon]

WraithLord said:
What I'm not sure about is whether the following will work.
1. Start playing turn on machine A.
2. Continue play turn on machine B (say its weekend, you're at your parents and you installed your dominions there as well, no copy violation since parents don't play dom )
3. Complete playing turn on machine A and submit/email.

This works, i do copy my .2h file all the time.