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Stardock needs to put a lock on LAN gaming. It current state the pirates are having too much fun with no limits. Noone is lan'ing anyways, and its too far yet for tournaments. So just disable lab option.

Do you represent the country?  Are you for certain that nobody LAN's?  No.

Pirate.

They can't access the pirates' machines.

The disconnected from nat facilitator message means your either getting kicked or you have a problem on your end.  I had this before updating my router firmware.  Given you can't get into a game in 2 hours, I'm gonna say you probably need to fix some settings in order to get into games.  Try connecting the internet cable directly to your pc and see if that makes an improvement.  My bet is that it will, and that will prove that you still have some things to figure out on your own end.  I"m not saying its your fault - I mean 15 years ago sure, but these days games should be easy enough to get working that a 10 year old kid can do it.

Statistically speaking, you're probably right.  Statistics also say you're likely a pirate.  That's how bad it is.

All that being said, it's true it shouldn't be this complicated to get a game up. I was very happy with the price of the game ($40 is right around where a video game ought to cost) but if stardock isn't gonna help us, it's fine.  My friends and I will just go to hamachi and we'll remember this next time Stardock puts a game out.

I haven't had much problem connecting.  The longest I've had to wait is maybe 2-3 minutes to join a 5/6 game.

The biggest problem I've had is constant extreme lag with some games... not sure the cause.  I'm not entirely convinced it's the game's fault but rather specs, drivers... etc.  The game more or less works.. but until we identify all the possible problems with people's own networks and whatnot it's going to be rocky.

Unfortunetly the game is new so people automatically assume that the game is at fault rather than taking a look at their own stuff which may actually be the issue.  I'm sure they will iron everything out and all this will be a unhappy memory.

=D

Yeah, I steal treasure from boats and wear an eye patch.  Good guess.

Also, considering my topic on JANUARY 26th about playing the beta, I now can assume you are an ignorant idiot.

I've played a couple of 4/4 and 5/5 games time to join the game has much improved to something like 1 min maybe, about as long as it takes to join a DoW2 game (sometimes quicker).

I've never had a lag issue in a game, I have had a bit of stuttering where the whole game will freeze for like 10 seconds and it makes me think a crash is going to happen but the game so far has always recovered.  This also does not happen that often.

A problem I am seeing is NAT faciltaion error.  The window will pop up, I'll click okay.  The game usually keeps going fine for me for X amount of time.  This last game I was in 4/4 finished dispte that error.

Previously I was in a 5/5 game and the NAT error popped up, played for about another 5-10 mins and then game up and crashed on me back to the desktop.

Overall though after the last few days joining and playing games has been much quicker/easier.  So IMO Stardock is making progress towards improving things.

There is only so many hours a week, yes they should have been more prepaired but they're a pretty new company and new to MP online.  I can only imagine that the next game/launch they'll do better.

Jeez, grow a sense of humor, wouldja?

I was being silly by responding in a tone similar to the guy you quoted, who seems to think only pirates are having fun with LAN games.

Also, just because you were in the beta, doesn't mean you're not a pirate.

True. He had to have preordered to get into the beta, though, so he didn't pirate Demigod.

Technically, he could still be a pirate if he lost his cd key (and didn't bother trying to find it again) or some other improbable factor... thus forcing him to either buy another copy or pirate the game.

That is, unless we presume someone who buys a game can legally download pirated versions of the game and not be named a pirate, which is up for debate.

How do you plan on disabling the LAN tab for the pirated versions that are already out?

Man, this sux.

Legit users beeing jelous of pirates? Asking to turn off the lan so that not only they feel bad, but the pirates also feel bad?

Where is the world going to xD ?

how the hell can they turn off lan in a piracy copy of any players home?

this post is just idiot