EB Online via Gamespy

EB 1.2 can be played online via Gamespy as long as one has not modified one's installation to the point of no return.

In Gamespy, the built-in "Online Battles" multiplayer server accessed via the Multiplayer >> Online Battles menu option, there are three lobbies in which players can chat and host games. They are known as:

• Chat Lobby
• Competitive Lobby
• Friendly Lobby

The Friendly Lobby is by far the most populated as this is where all our friends who play "vanilla" (unmodified) Rome:Total War reside. As for the other two lobbies.... If any of you are aware, Napoleonic Total War 2 is a mod for R:TW that was created by a group known as The Lordz. Most of the players I have met are European and they have in common that they meet and play in the Chat Lobby.

Now, assuming that the newest CA game Napoleon: Total War will unfortunately make the mod NTW2 obsolete, EB players may find it convenient to meet and play in either the Chat or the Competitive lobbies. Please choose one from the two options in this poll.

Also, when entering the lobby on Gamespy, please make sure your username has the prefix [EB] (left bracket, "EB" without quotes, capitalized, right bracket). Although this is in fact unnecessary and need not be formed in such syntax, I figure it is the quickest manner in which one can identify efficiently other EB users who are in the lobby, without having to poll the lobby.

Please answer the poll with your choice of lobby and please reply with any thoughts, questions, ideas, or comments you may have. Suggestions welcome!

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Vartan


P.S. Poll ends at the end of March 2010.

On those several times I have tried this solution, the Chat Room was by far the LEAST populated and therefore rather convenient to quickly spot your partner. That is why I would prefere the Chat Room and I will (unless the majority decides otherwise) be right there on those precious occasions when I can play EB on-line. Hopefully we meet each other there and have good fight or two! :charge:

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Originally Posted by V.T. Marvin

On those several times I have tried this solution, the Chat Room was by far the LEAST populated and therefore rather convenient to quickly spot your partner. That is why I would prefere the Chat Room and I will (unless the majority decides otherwise) be right there on those precious occasions when I can play EB on-line. Hopefully we meet each other there and have good fight or two! :charge:

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This is a majority of the time correct, as the competitive room--I forgot to mention--is at times populated by clan members wishing to participate in clan wars on "vanilla" R:TW. It has never been populated by more than a dozen people--at least when I have checked. Continue entering your ballots please.

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V

I was not aware EB 1.2 could be used on gamespy.... If so, why has hamachi been so popular?

Just out of curiosity Vartan, have you had a successful game with EB on gamespy yet?

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Originally Posted by WinsingtonIII

I was not aware EB 1.2 could be used on gamespy.... If so, why has hamachi been so popular?

Just out of curiosity Vartan, have you had a successful game with EB on gamespy yet?

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Of course I have. I've played the original Rome:Total War as well as modifications Europa Barbarorum and Napoleonic Total War 2 on Gamespy server. It always work as long as you have not modded your game or modification beyond the point of no return. I define this as any modification that causes the game data to be incompatible (Gamespy will alert you of incompatible data files).

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V

Then why all the fuss with hamachi?

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Originally Posted by WinsingtonIII

Then why all the fuss with hamachi?

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I do not know. I have not been around long enough to be able to accurately illustrate a history of the multiplayer feature of EB. Sorry.

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Originally Posted by vartan

I do not know. I have not been around long enough to be able to accurately illustrate a history of the multiplayer feature of EB. Sorry.

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It's cool, it was more of a rhetorical question than anything else.

Maybe because, as the dude was saying, people aren't satisfied with the work done and like to mod their EB to the point of no return.

ForceDiplomacy doesn't upset the files does it? I don't remember installing any other mods than that, so I could be very interested :)

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Originally Posted by SlickNicaG69

Maybe because, as the dude was saying, people aren't satisfied with the work done and like to mod their EB to the point of no return.

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Yeah dude, we're not satisfied with the work done. Them a bunch o' lazy sods. Go get 'em tiger!

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Originally Posted by artaxerxes

ForceDiplomacy doesn't upset the files does it? I don't remember installing any other mods than that, so I could be very interested :)

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If it doesn't mess with units or anything that comes up in battle, I suppose it would be fine. Don't take my word for it, though; only a test would show if you are correct. Point is, usually, if you change unit cards, models, or anything like that, you can almost be assured that the multiplayer will be troublesome (if it works at all; again, I assume based on what seems to be logical, but test it please).

In any case, I wish y'all the best and hope y'all get 'round to taking a great game, and making it even greater by exploring the depths of having a human opponent. We can be unpredictable, and we can adapt. Enjoy your humanity.