how many players with a single CD ?

liga · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 November 27th, 2003, 03:20 AM

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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.

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 · #4 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 ]

#5 November 27th, 2003, 06:05 AM

You can host and play.

From the same or different machines. At least in my experiance.

Karacan · #6 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 · #7 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 · #8 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 · #9 November 27th, 2003, 07:51 PM

Quote:

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

Yup

PhilD · #10 November 27th, 2003, 11:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Johan K:

quote:
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

Yup

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?