scooter is spoiled.
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Krill Wrote:scooter is spoiled. Suggested Xenu look him up to solve the technical issue preventing BGN from playing, not play in the game.
Scooter got around it by using his phones ability to tether to his computer and provide internet. Not a workable solution and I am personally skeptical on the quality of the connection, but we'll see in PB5.
dazedroyalty Wrote:Scooter got around it by using his phones ability to tether to his computer and provide internet. Not a workable solution and I am personally skeptical on the quality of the connection, but we'll see in PB5. Yeah I would, uh, not recommend trying this as a consistent longterm solution. I mean my test worked, but I seriously doubt it will be a reliable solution.
If I remember what Scooter posted (maybe in a PB5 thread?) he is tethering his game PC to his cell phone and using its data plan to connect. That won't work for Boldly because his cell phone gets insufficient data reception inside his building. That place is built like a fortress.
Edit: I should have read down further. Yeah, I played one turn tethered to a friend's phone in my PBEM game and that was trouble enough (granted, we were cruising down the highway in the middle of Nowhere, Alabama at the time). I can't imagine negotiating network ports and/or VPN stuff on a tethered cellular connection to a pitboss server. Played: Pitboss 18 - Kublai Khan of Germany Somalia | Pitboss 11 - De Gaulle of Byzantium | Pitboss 8 - Churchill of Portugal | PB7 - Mao of Native America | PBEM29 Greens - Mao of Babylon spacetyrantxenu Wrote:Yeah, I played one turn tethered to a friend's phone in my PBEM game and that was trouble enough (granted, we were cruising down the highway in the middle of Nowhere, Alabama at the time). That's awesome. New addition to bucket list: play a PB/PBEM turn whilst on a cross-country trip. ![]() And yeah, I've only tested it for myself once. It worked fine, but Verizon 3G is pretty quick around here and even then it wasn't blazing fast so it's definitely not a permanent solution... More like something that's just doable occasionally. Although you don't have to screw with ports or whatever - it just worked on first try for me. No telling if it would work with other players - haven't tested that yet.
I've posted this over at CFC, we'll see what happens.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=11314797 Played: Pitboss 18 - Kublai Khan of Germany Somalia | Pitboss 11 - De Gaulle of Byzantium | Pitboss 8 - Churchill of Portugal | PB7 - Mao of Native America | PBEM29 Greens - Mao of Babylon
Playing through a tethered-phone connection has posed no problems for me. But then again, I live in Sweden. :P
Ha. My carrier is AT&T. I know how well that would work for me if I needed it.
![]() Played: Pitboss 18 - Kublai Khan of Germany Somalia | Pitboss 11 - De Gaulle of Byzantium | Pitboss 8 - Churchill of Portugal | PB7 - Mao of Native America | PBEM29 Greens - Mao of Babylon |