It was posted in Blizzard's "War Room" forum by one of the Blizzard people, that you could use the "LAN UDP/IP" multiplayer option to play a direct game with someone, bypassing Battle.net, as long as you knew the IP address of the host.

I was looking around at the interface the other day, and I couldn't figure out how one might do that.

Anyone have any luck trying it out?

—Tim

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—= Timinator =—

This also intrigues me. I have wanted to start TC/IP games as well...





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flargh: slank - you realize, of course, that you've just dragged about 40,000 volts of static electricity off the tip of your vacuum cleaner attachments over your CPU.
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Ahhhh...
back to the good old days...
this method requires that you be talking to your players directly before you try to start a game
you must talk to them in like instant messanger
then you tell them your IP address
then you leave... they wait 30 seconds
then enter the game, put in your IP adress
and the people will start showing up on your host.
this is a serious pain... and I would reccomend to just continue using battlenet

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Tony <'( ))><
They like me, and I make sandwiches for them.
- Douglas Adams

That's just the thing...I don't see anything on the "join game" interface that allows you te enter in an IP address. If I did, then it would be no problem.

—Tim

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well...
I just reinstalled the program
and I don't seem to have the option anymore...
I had the original version, and I believe it was patched/updated monthly until december
so If you don't have the latest patch than get that...
If not that than you may have to scrounge up the earliest version
but I suppose that blizzard wouldn't take that option off unless it had problems...
and I know that if you are trying to avoid the serial # protection, that won't work
because the numbers are compared by each computer
not by a battlenet server

also, try the IPX, apple talk, or direct connect
if you are close together.

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Tony <'( ))><
They like me, and I make sandwiches for them.
- Douglas Adams

You miss my point. I know all about how the multiplayer works, and I do have a legitimate copy of the game. This was a new feature added in SC/X version 1.0.9. I don't really have a use for it, I guess. I'm just curious how the feature works. On a LAN, it would work just as if we had selected IPX.

—Tim

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—= Timinator =—

alright,
sorry I just checked it out.. and yes it was a new feature with .9
It works like any TCP IP game...
the host starts a game...
each person with a seperate IP address joins onto the host game.

Sorry about the confusion

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Tony <'( ))><
They like me, and I make sandwiches for them.
- Douglas Adams

Not having tried it...does the game just appear in the list, or what? How do the others enter the host's IP address?

—Tim

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—= Timinator =—

I suspect it's like Diablo II's system.


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flargh: slank - you realize, of course, that you've just dragged about 40,000 volts of static electricity off the tip of your vacuum cleaner attachments over your CPU.
-The Construct, Gameranger