Tactical Wargamer Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 ok just trying to get my CMx1 buddies to play CMSF. Obviously the no Turn Based TCp/IP is a big turn off to them. I thought there was a way for file transfer between machines? What is the best way to do that? In a LAN what would you do just use a flash drive? Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Balboa Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 You can use a program like Hamachi to network yourself and friends together and share files. However you will need to save at the end of each turn then exit from the game and transmit files to your opponent. I suspect that saving, exiting and restarting the game is the part your friends would object to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eniced73 Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Check out www.dropbox.com I am on the PanzerCommand Ostfront beta and they have this built into the game itself. It is pretty slick. All you do is play your turn and it automatically sends it to the online dropbox folder. Your opponent is notified and he runs his turn. Back to you and so on. No saving, exiting, sending, restarting. I dont think this was in the original PC game. These guys put it in on their own. Go to the Matrix games forums and ask those guys they will help you out in setting it up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 I thought we already covered this at length for you during one of the many "No TCP/IP' threads? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactical Wargamer Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 Yes you did sir. I was having problems finding it.....otherwise I would not have posted it. I know how much you hate repeating yourself. Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactical Wargamer Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 Check out www.dropbox.com I am on the PanzerCommand Ostfront beta and they have this built into the game itself. It is pretty slick. All you do is play your turn and it automatically sends it to the online dropbox folder. Your opponent is notified and he runs his turn. Back to you and so on. No saving, exiting, sending, restarting. I dont think this was in the original PC game. These guys put it in on their own. Go to the Matrix games forums and ask those guys they will help you out in setting it up. Cool thanks I will give it a try! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 It works very well (assuming the files are not 100s of MB - which I’m guessing yours wont be). Its basically a “slice” of their server on the Web. You get 2GB free for personal use. The Dropbox application gives you access to a “share”. You copy your file onto the share, you opponent then sees the file (they will get a pop up message on the desktop say “file X has arrived”) and copies it off onto their machine (into the right location) and can then open it. Its the same process as we went through earlier except this is on the Internet and the other was for an internal LAN. Feel free to drop me a PM if you run into problems. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noxnoctum Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Check out www.dropbox.com I am on the PanzerCommand Ostfront beta and they have this built into the game itself. It is pretty slick. All you do is play your turn and it automatically sends it to the online dropbox folder. Your opponent is notified and he runs his turn. Back to you and so on. No saving, exiting, sending, restarting. I dont think this was in the original PC game. These guys put it in on their own. Go to the Matrix games forums and ask those guys they will help you out in setting it up. +1 Dropbox is a good work around. Annoying to have to use it, but still best solution. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactical Wargamer Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 Thanks guys! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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