TCP/IP Viable alternatives?

[Grandpa Troll]

I am not the guru of PC Connectivity, however, I sure play me a lot of other MP Games. That being said, many TCP/IP connected games have a place to put your ip address in and go to the game..(IIRC, games such as Alpha Centaurai,Ages of Empires & CIVII were but a few I connected this way)

Is this possible and if so where would one put our "fingerprint (like say 215.23.45.6) or whatever it would be?

Ok..just thinking outloud...any suggestions?

Peace

Gramps "Out-kicking-a can" Troll

[Solver]

Ehh I fear CtP won't support DirectIP.

CtP2 is on the better side, we have te code for it, and theoretically could add anything. Though don't get your hopes up - the CtP2 network code is very buggy as it is, and we don't have any network programmers, so addition of DirectIP does not seem real in close future.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Solver
Ehh I fear CtP won't support DirectIP.

CtP2 is on the better side, we have te code for it, and theoretically could add anything. Though don't get your hopes up - the CtP2 network code is very buggy as it is, and we don't have any network programmers, so addition of DirectIP does not seem real in close future.

[Solver]

Checking the code for CtP2 quickly... found lots of stuff which has placeholders, but is not implemented. Theoretically, the code where it sends packets to a server could be made to send packets to a specific comp... but I am not sure whether any extra software is needed, or if the server part is built in in the code. Maybe someone with a better understanding of network codes could look at that...