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?

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.

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

LAN is always nice to have

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.