Play more than one nation in MP

[WraithLord]

Thanks for the procedure.

Gandalf Parker said:
Im not sure if you need to switch keys. Im fairly sure in many of the test games Ive run on my server that I have logged in as multiple nations. It has always been with one opening of Dom3 grabbing both turn files.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding something but does your exprience sit well with Velusion's warning?

[Gandalf Parker]

Im not sure. Im fairly sure that I have used the master password successfully but maybe it needs more testing. Since that is my "territory" thanks for pointing that out.

[thejeff]

I don't think I can. I've only got text access to the machine from here and though there's a switch to turn on a mod, there doesn't seem to be one to turn off a mod that's active.

I can set it up without the mod tonight or you can grab the mod

As for Velusion's warning, it's unclear that he played both turns from the same machine. I think playing from one machine then using the server to set someone else AI would cause a problem.

[Ironhawk]

Yeah I think I've also played multiple nations in the same game from a single machine. This happens sometimes if you are host and one of your players just disappears. You need to go in and set them to AI. I dont recall having any problems with CD-keys, but its been a long time...

You'd think that playing multiple turns from the same machine with the same key would be ok. After all, you are licensed to have the game on that computer - not on who actually plays the turns on that computer. But who knows how the copy protection is actually implmeneted.

[lch]

Since this was an issue that I had myself when I started hosting games and had to set nations to AI where I was playing in myself, let me tell you the same info that can be found from JK's or KO's mouth elsewhere on the site here:

Just like you can play hot-seat games with as many nations as you want on the same local machine at the same time, you can play more than one nation in the same game in multiplayer. What you really NEED to make sure is that you DON'T install and use the game with the same key on different systems, though. If you e.g. try to play one nation with a Mac and one with a Windows machine, it won't work. If you play both from the same machine, then it will work. To find out more tips on how to set up your machine for multi-nation playing, search for DOM3_SAVE or DOM3_CONF on this forum and read the threads that you can find by that.

[WraithLord]

I've conducted a test myself and this (submitting multiple turns from same machine) works well.

All of the posters here helped me get to the bottom of this real quick. The support one can get here is amazing.
Thanks!

[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.