EB Online Wippien Experiment
Greetings handsome men and beautiful ladies of Europa Barbarorum. We are gathered today to discuss something of grand importance--Europa Barbarorum Online. "Madness!" you say? I say "certainly not!" for there is always a solution. This is our endeavor to find that solution...
As you may or may not know, to date, most EB 1.2 multiplayer battles have been played by way of Hamachi, the acclaimed and fairly easy-to-use VPN software. The problem with Hamachi, again, as you may or may not know, is that with a non-commercial (free) license, you may only have 16 members total (including yourself, the virtual network host). For this reason, there are far too many networks created by and for EB users to come together and play online. Most of us who wish to join those networks oftentimes find ourselves rejected with a "Network is full" notice. We need a solution.
Some quick research has shown myself, and others ( props to you Anti =] ), that there are alternatives to Hamachi--free as well. These are Tunngle, Wippien, and another that I may reveal later. If you read through the Tunngle thread here on EB forum, you will notice that many attempts have been made but to no avail, and this is quite unfortunate. Perhaps a future build will be compatible with Total War, but for the moment, all attempts have been futile.
This leaves us with Wippien (for now). I've set up my Wippien, and it essentially works like this:
Wippien works like an instant messenger (includes chat). You still get virtual IP as do Hamachi users. You sign in by using either your Gmail account (as I do) or any Jabber account that you are free to obtain if you haven't an account already. For those who have Gmail, do yourself a favour of convenience and sign in that way.
One final note. Because Wippien does not use networks but acts as an instant messenger, the only way any of us will know who is online and available to play EB is for every single person to have every other person on their list. For this reason I will create a list of accounts of people who have Wippien and EB installed, so reply below with your account names.
Thank you very much for reading and following this experiment, and most importantly, participating. Your efforts are appreciated and I hope with all sincerity will be rewarded by way of many fun and exciting EB battles.
Much thanks,
Vartan
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VIDEOS
Wippien for EB Online
EB Online - Addendum
NOTE*** Not sure if this has been mentioned in the videos, but if you are installing Wippien, MAKE SURE NO OTHER VPN CLIENTS ARE INSTALLED. THIS MEANS UNINSTALLING HAMACHI, TUNNGLE, AND SO ON. TO STAY CONSISTENT, ONLY HAVE WIPPIEN INSTALLED AND UTILIZE THE METRIC RATING OF 1500. WATCH THE VIDEOS TO SEE WHAT I MEAN.
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PLAYERS
ID followed by (forum username)
vartanhaghverdi [at] gmail [dot] com (vartan)
gamegeek2 [at] gmail [dot] com (gamegeek2)
seraph64 (alexanderthegreater)
sthenige1 [at] gmail [dot] com (WinsingtonIII)
scattered [at] wippien [dot] com (Scattered)
vasiliyieb [at] gmail [dot] com (Vasiliyi)
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**As anti-spam measure I'll be using bracket notation for account names.
**Account names are posted in the order they were posted as a means of making sure we all have each other added.
**If this means that a new user later on will have to add thirty people, then so be it. In fact, the more the merrier. As of this writing, we are barely trying to get EB Online moving. Let's do this guys.
**Feel free to rename Wippien user ID's with forum usernames in order to facilitate correspondence.
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Originally Posted by antisocialmunky
from Megas Methuselah, for some information on Greek colonies in Iberia.
), I'll play like mad and beat you all!! 
Maybe he can who knows. Mark's a strong player, he got 1st place after all. MEGAS JINANDJUICE!!!
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