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    Playing AOE3 over lan with one copy?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by mechrock, Aug 13, 2009.

  1. mechrock

    mechrock Notebook Evangelist

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    I've installed AOE3 on 2 computers. One using the cd and another using a mounted drive. If I host the game from my laptop I can find it on my desktop, but not vise versa. When I try to connect it says can't connect. What could my problem be?
     
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  2. Ghold

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    Are they each using the same CD-key?
     
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  3. mechrock

    mechrock Notebook Evangelist

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    Yeah it is...
     
    mechrock, Aug 13, 2009
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  4. Ghold

    Ghold Notebook Evangelist

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    There you go
     
    Ghold, Aug 13, 2009
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  5. Signal2Noise

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    You wants to play, you gots to pay!

    Buy another copy of AoE3 which I'm sure can still be found @ cut-rate prices.
     
    Signal2Noise, Aug 14, 2009
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    Starcraft is the only game I recall that allowed you to spawn a copy on another PC for LAN play. I was hoping that would become the norm, but obviously not. Unfortunately you need to own one copy per computer regardless if it's single or multiplayer LAN or otherwise.
     
    HTWingNut, Aug 14, 2009
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    i believe you can do that with AOE2 as well, i was playing with my dormmates
     
    ryo1000, Aug 14, 2009
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    Ah, ok, another one. Too bad this isn't the normal though. It seems fair. But Starcraft and AoE 2 was the time when single player games still owned the show and internet play wasn't as fluid as it is today.
     
    HTWingNut, Aug 14, 2009
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    Paradox Interactive's games (Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron) are able to play together on LAN, they didn't even require CDs to play. Which is good, considering I lost my CD a year or two ago and just copy it from PC to PC...
     
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  10. Signal2Noise

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    But the point is we want to play something good.
     
    Signal2Noise, Aug 14, 2009
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  11. PanzerVIZeke

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    :laugh:

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    PanzerVIZeke, Aug 15, 2009
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