Need Help setting up LAN game! PLEASE

[Hoos1erBud]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to hook up my desktop and my laptop and play a LAN game against my kid.  I've got them networked...I can get Emperor Dune fired up on both of them and can even chat from computer to computer in the "Local Network Lobby".  I can set up either computer to host and see that game show up on the other computer...but when I highlight the game and click "JOIN", I immediately get the response "JOIN REFUSED".  Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

THANKS FOR ANY HELP ANYONE CAN GIVE!!!

Phil

[mst9999]

Because you are using the same game on each computer .. WW checks for serials, if they match .. it doesn't start .. to inforce copy wright.  I had the same problem at buddies house .. So I brought my own original copy of Emperor and installed it their and it worked.

[Hoos1erBud]

Ohhh NOOOOO!!!!

I was afraid of that.  I thought I understood their sight to say that you could run it as long as you had ONE of the original CD ROMs in each computer.  I ASSUMED that meant you could run up to a 4 person LAN game with one copy (4 CD Set).

Well...I guess I'm pretty much screwed then.  Anyone know a cheap source for another copy?  Maybe someone's selling on Ebay :-[

Thanks for the reply.  If anyone knows a (legal) way around this...please let me know!

Phil

[ken124578]

guess they meant 1 origenal emperor battle for dune serial number/game.

anyway, welcome to the Emperor Battle For Dune community.

[Timenn]

I can't believe that. WW is bad, but no so bad. With all their other games you could play LAN-games with the same serial number. It would be strange if they have changed that with Emperor. I think there is an other problem. But I don't know that for sure

[ken124578]

can you play co-op in LAN?

never saw that.

[Gobalopper]

Nope you can't play Co-Op via LAN supposedly that would have taken too much time to get working.

[Nyarlathotep]

Because you are using the same game on each computer .. WW checks for serials, if they match .. it doesn't start .. to inforce copy wright.

[Nyarlathotep]

Hoos1erBud, you might want to check if both computers have the same version of EBFD. If not, update them.

Maybe it's a setting of firewall you may have running ?

[mst9999]

Hey, Hoos1erBud, sorry about my mistake .. I just tested Emperor on my two computers .. and It works fine.   I got the same error you've reseived (Join Refused) and that was correct  from Nyarlathotep, update your version will correct your problem.

[Hoos1erBud]

Well...thanks.

I guess I should have waited for the complete vertict.  I went over to ebay and bought another copy.

There's 6 bucks down the drain :P.

I'll try to update the second copy.  I updated the one on my main machine...but not the one on the laptop.

Thanks again everyone.  

Phil

[ken124578]

There's 6 bucks down the drain :P.

things like that can happen, westwood abandoned us you know.