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By on January 18, 2012 10:52:25 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

sulley1

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So a friend and I want to play multiplayer on Sins Diplomacy. We are trying to do lan multiplayer, but when either of us try and create a game, we can't see the created game in the "join game" menu. We've tried putting in each other's ip address, but that doesn't seem to work. We've also put Ethernet cables between our computers, but that doesn't help. Does it matter that we are playing on a very large LAN network? We also have the same version and no mods, so that is not a problem.

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January 19, 2012 3:11:42 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Sounds like a problem with your LAN. Maybe its infrastructure is too large for your two computers to find each other through a simple LAN game?

Other than trying to connect more locally (like from the same room or something), you could try logging on to Ironclad Online and then creating a game there that your friend can join.

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January 19, 2012 8:52:44 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

We were thinking of doing that, using Ironclad Online, but we had to create accounts and didn't get that far yet. We'll have to try that, thanks!

 

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January 19, 2012 9:17:00 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Yeah, you guys could play over ICO, but it would suck having to log onto ICO when your computers are right next to one another.  The upside is that logging onto ICO is the first step in discovering publicly available games, including 4v4's and 5v5's.  (Of course, you guys would want to acquire much more skill and knowledge of the game first before venturing into online multiplayer.)

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January 21, 2012 2:24:34 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

make sure you putting in the true i.p.  i'm behind a security router and my computer has a differant i.p. for lan ( than the one on line. )  I had the same problem and It drove me crazy. 

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January 26, 2012 1:31:07 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Yup. We figured it out. Sometimes a ad hoc (computer to computer) network worked, too. But the true I.P. address worked fine. Thanks!

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