NEW MP Campaign Starting

[Dead_Like_Me]

*myrddraal* i will give you an answer as soon as i can ... as you must have noticed i am not a coder\modder and so one, i am just learning.

but i have friend that are, and yes both me and them know how the system works. the point that my friend tried to explain me that there is a possiblity
i didnt got it well ( too confuesing ) but what i do know is that the battles are played throught gamespy ... gamespy checks the Cd-Key, if you start a lan game it isnt played through gamespy. so if you tricks the game to think that an internet game is a lan game he wont connect to gamespy.

all u need to do is to change and play with the lan files so it will connect internet games through IP ... you need to do a build that you could enter IP like in lan and then the internet game will be shown like a lan game.
the battles themselfs are the same. try working this out, after all it doesnt matter for the scores if it was a lan game or internet one. :P

*Sextus Caecillius* about the multiplayer that you wanted to play, i still want to play i think it is a great idea to open another game, but if you do so pls download + istructions and now i can claim the Julii house. dont forget to reorginaze everything.

[GrimSta]

Yes, but with Rome Total Multiplayer we can actually fight other people, and thats were my strengths lie.

[Sextus Caecillius]

I really think the Mydraal version is better. Since the battle version doesn't even have settlements.

[Myrddraal]

if you start a lan game it isnt played through gamespy

I didn't know that... In which case it should be possible to play the battles by LAN or internet, whichever....

[Sextus Caecillius]

OK I just wanted to make it clear that we will be playing the mydraal campaign Multiplayer. I hope that doesn't upset anybody. That was my plan from the beggining until I got mydraals version mixed up with rome total multiplayer. I wanted to play a mp campaign from the beggining so we will play the Mydraal version of the campaign.


Sorry,

Sextus

[Dead_Like_Me]

*myrddraal* for ex: me my brother and some of this friends had played Generals : zero hour.
me and my brother at home and his friends in there home.
basically the game is planned that if you play other the internet it will send you to the internet server which of course check Cd-Key. we im the Generals game used the same Cd-Key ... my brother is a genius in computers so what he did in this case he used a server that allowed all the computers to have another connection to each other through this server and that allowed them to use IP peripeties like in lan. that way we played our games.

i am trying to convince my brother to explain me what he and his friends did to make it work. i will explain it here as soon as i will know.
in Generals there is build in option for IP connecting - in RTW you need to create one by creating a script or something. try figure out on how to connects to Gamespy and then use it for connecting directly to the IP jumping on all other stages as Lan does, i know you can figure it out, this info in the game is not hidden. the second thing you can do is to create a mod that will allow you to chose whether you want to connect as regaler to gamespy or to connect a server ( that we should try to get by donations or something ) and on this server there will be a build that can handle MP game transportation. in this case what you need to do is to find the lines that tell the game to connect gamespy and change them to the server name in this server you need to create the build.
the mp games should keep working on the players internet.

*Sextus Caecillius* so .... what is going on with the MP. i do prefer myrddraal's version. but i dont have it exactly and we need myrddraal's premesion.

[Sextus Caecillius]

Ok, we have a full campaign ad can begin when every one gets the files and has installed. We can start the campaign as soon as possible or we can wait until the weekend to start it. Lets take a vote.

I vote wait until the weekend.

[Dead_Like_Me]

Sextus Caecillius dude did you read the end of my last post ?
it seems you jumped a bit.

what about the factions ? do i get Julii ?

[Myrddraal]

I've already said to Sextus, if you gather enough people, I'll set one up for you.

[Dead_Like_Me]

Great myrddraal tnx.

can you pls read the post that i had before the 2 before this one.

[Myrddraal]

yeah, I'm not sure all thats necessary, why not play the games through gamespy. If its a problem of CD keys, then if you've got the same CD key as someone, then your gonna live near them, you can play the battle by lan...

The point is, its a lot of work for me and I can't see why.

[Dead_Like_Me]

yeah i understand it is a bit more job to do.
but if you would work this that other MP guy maybe it will go faster.

as i told the WHY is that after you release the MP version you made, full release
people would download it, and i am quite sure that they will want to play with there friends even that they dont have several coppies. and for many people buying the game for the mp is not an option if they having a problem to buy other games. so this would be a great thing to do for the community.
of course that i see it as a later stage but many people dont want to play only with random players, they want to play also with there friends, for ex if i play in your MP version with my friend who dont have the game and some other guys other the net, the game will go great untill someone or several people will understand that they cant play the battles becuase he is invovled in the battle and he dont have a CD-key ( in this case i presume that he would use invalide one ) the battles alone isnt to much fun but if you play a battle as in the campaign map it is much more great especielly becuase of the views and diffrent maps for each battle.

so you understand, i think many will agree with me on this one, it is for the best.
go on with your job and when you will start working on the importing of battles think about this, i think many people will thank you for doing this thing, since your purpose is not EVIL and you will only spred it as the MP version you dont have nothing to worry about except the huge work, which i would really want you to do :D.

[Sextus Caecillius]

I thought you were going to be parthia? An4sh I thought was already Julii. So will you still be parthia?

ok if not the julii ... which i really want to play as then pls let me play as parthia

[Myrddraal]

Don't we have a full complement?

[Dead_Like_Me]

didnt understood you last comment *Myrddraal* ??

*Sextus Caecillius* yeah if you didnt read the parts that were for you in the last posts i posted you would notice that i thought since we will use other version we restart the players choses.

if not and all stay as it is and non player change his mine than i think i stay with parthia... yes. no other good option left.

[Sextus Caecillius]

Ok you stay as parthia. Now we need a dacian player. Some one please try to get him before friday.

[Dead_Like_Me]

dude i can get a dcian play... maybe not from the forum but i can :)

but what i need to tell him ...

Me : there is a multiplayer game wanna join ?

he says : OK, how do i join ? do i need to install something ?

Me : hmmm... dont really know ? but congradulations you are in :D

WTF ??? is this seems to you ok ?

[Sextus Caecillius]

Ok, but he has to be emailed the files to play. Thie instructions are in the install I think. Which will be with the files we are emailed. Hope you can get your friend to play.

[Dead_Like_Me]

dude Sextus Caecillius my friend will give you the email today. but as much as i see all factions are full can you pls update the first post ???

update all the players that play + what version we play email and so on like in this post : https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...771#post992771

or here which is even better : http://www.truegamers.us/rtw/index.htm

tnx and pls learn from lordraiden

[Or_K]

Hi everyone, I joined today to the forum due to the the rome total war multyplayer campeign game.
I heared of the oppening of the game from Dead Like Me and I would like to join.
So how does it work? it cannot be a fluent game, can it?
Anyway, in case I'm in, I would'nt resist playing any faction (though I prefer the salasid empire or other greek)
Thanks

[Dead_Like_Me]

*Seleucid Empire

:) lol this is my newbie friend...

[=E.T=]

To Start or not to start,...That's the Question!

???

[Sextus Caecillius]

Ok we are going to restart this. It has gotten really confusing. I get the blame on that. If you still wish to play please post under New Mp campaign factions thread. If I could get a mod. to close this, It would be greatly appreciated.