LAN-friendly?

[Lytyr]

This thought just occured to me - will this game be playable over a LAN without needing two copies of the game, like so many other games out there? I hope we can pop the CD in, start the game, then take it out and put in another computer with the same version installed and play like that - like how AoE and AoK worked, if you guys know what I mean. Do we know if this is the case?

[Ghostly_Substance]

Well with the copyright issues and crap like that I doubt it but who knows. If we can at least have it on the same network like a LAN then thats great even tho I play in Single and multiplayer.

[Foshjedi2004]

I think it will be LAN friendly but we'd need Delphi to talk us through what there is planned.

[General Ackbar]

LAN is always nice to have

[Delphi-PG]

There will of course be LAN support, but there is no time in the process to code in support for spawned MP copies.

 

I will mark it down for future products though.

[Sparky]

Hopefully the will do something like X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter...they had a multiplayer disc included with the game.

[Lytyr]

Thanks for the reply, Delphi - nice to know that it's not been neglected, even though it might be difficult.

[Megajames]

Hopefully the will do something like X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter...they had a multiplayer disc included with the game.

 

That would be so useful, i am fed up of games i can't play against my friends because of needing two discs.

[Little.B]

Yeah. Perhaps something that you can send in your maunaul (or whatever has the cdkey on it) and (for a small fee) in return you get your manual and an additional CD which only works in LAN.

 

Wow, that would be nice but I will buy the game even if it lacks of this feature

[Lytyr]

Hopefully the will do something like X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter...they had a multiplayer disc included with the game.

 

That would be so useful, i am fed up of games i can't play against my friends because of needing two discs.

Same here - or worse, two CD keys. The only RTS games I know that you can play with a single disc and CD key are the Genie engine games - AoE, AoK, and SWGB. Sadly, those games are... well... old. I'd love to play the newer, more in-depth stuff with my dad (whom I game with often), but a lot of it doesn't work. We still get a kick out of 400 medieval units facing it off on the battlefield, but it's not quite as fun as playing, say, Empires or C&C: Generals would be.