multiple users on home network on the Ville

bigfoot hunter

Hey, glad to be on the forums!

When I try and connect to the same server as my room mates, I get a message that "steam account already in use" All three of us have our own accounts, but only one of us can play on the Ville at a time.

Its kind of fun to yell at each other through the house while we kill each other.

I kind of remember some setting but can't remember.... memory fading. Growing old...

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ROOFCUTTER · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:30 pm Post subject:

we can get on at the same time here, not sure what your problem is???
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DJ George · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject:

Well, lets start at the most basic, are you sure that you are each loging in with a seperate accout? I know I take the autologing forgranted and could see myself making that mistake. If that is not the issuse, here is what I think it may be (Though I could be wrong, as I just started my networking classes at school) Since steam requires you to log into their server and sends commands back and forth, when you log in using another computer going out through the same router/modem steam may confuse the accounts, and when it sends back the data, it thinks it is the other account that is already logged in. Now, while your router would normally send the info to the correct computer, Steam being the "great" program it is may be sending the wrong info, in otherwords, it sends the same data to both computers, and the new computer gets the account error. But that is just my thought, most likely I am wrong
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cobra · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:14 am Post subject:

would it be possible that the ville servers block ghosted IP's?
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DJ George · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:24 am Post subject:

I dont think so, because back when we had WONIDs I did it all the time in NS with Shadow(or Omnide as he goes by now)
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Bleeding Tomato · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:25 am Post subject: