Daedalus

Hello Lothar it's because of your thread or initial problem that I was able to get help so I'll try to help you, it only seems right :). I would say to follow these steps very very closely and exactly as instructed, this link to this thread is how I started...http://dune2k.com/forum/index.php?topic=15876.0 As far as your Hosts file it should look like this: # Copyright © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp. # # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name. # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one # space. # # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. # # For example: # # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host 127.0.0.1 localhost 195.13.163.187 irc.westwood.com 72.17.137.93 servserv.westwood.com Now I had to actually go into "safe" mode in order to edit and save the original hosts file as you see above. Once I had done that I opened EmpBot http://dune2k.com/forum/index.php?topic=17626.msg284460#msg284460 and entered all the initial info it needed; username, game serial code etc. I believe the info for logging into empbot needs to match the login info you use for emperor. So once you've set up empbot open emperor and use that same login info. Hopefully you'll get it figured out soon, if not I'm sure Re-erjin999 will help you until you do. So good Luck....if none of this works try starting all over, uninstall and try again using the link to Re-erjin999's thread it was all I needed and a little tweaking ;)

Hehe yeah I just kept reading and looking and it was your advice after all that worked just in another thread ;). I'll be online and trying again most of today :-[, but may just skirmish my way up in speed for now :D...who knows. it's good to know that I'm not the only one who has the flakey connection with the emp and the game locking up ::). Hope to see you in game sometime and once again thanks for all the help I'm just tickled to have found this community and fan base! ;D

Hehe thanks for the support Re-erjin999 ;D I'll give it a try though I assumed as much and tried that but got some kind of error. I'll try again as you stated above with "save as" and see if that works. Thanks again! :D Ok update! :) ....it worked after your advice in another thread to go into safe mode and edit then save. I've been playing now for 3 hours and I have to say it's my first time multiplayer :-[ and it's faaaaassst!!!! :o not to mention you all have it down to a science. I'll be going back to the basics to get up to "speed" hehe ;D One final note, I noticed for some reason I would get kicked from the emp then it would cause my game to lock up having to close it all and reload....maybe it's just my pc or maybe there's some fix. Thanks again Re-erjin999! ;)

Well I'm not giving up just yet Lothar135, I noticed that numerous people here have had problems in the beginning to get the ball rolling :-. Eventually the good people here should lead us in the right direction as they have numerous others in the past :D. For now I'm just stumped and simply waiting for some kind of help ;).

Thanks a bunch Re-erjin999 that allowed me to see the system32 folder, now inside I find drivers but no file named "hosts" or as you mentioned to Lothar "servserv.westwood.com" so I'm good up to there lol :D. I tried searching also but just get the host file "example" as posted before on these forums ???. Just no File Folder under System32 named Hosts, only in ETC is there a notepad example document called hosts.....hmmmm. Sorry but I'm no computer whiz this is all new to me so I may need a bit of hand holding and while the instructions were very well written, they seem to be for those familiar with these types of files :-[. Hopefully I can get this working soon, because I'm soooo excited to start playing online with everyone! Thanks!

I've been having the same problem, I tried following the instructions but I don't have a folder under c/windows/ that's named "system32".......so I'm lost as to what to do. ??? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm excited to have found this place and finally be able to play EBFD online with others HOPEFULLY ;D. My OS is XP btw Thanks!