Well, to play EU2, HoI or Vicky you basically need external IP to solve all your problems (and allow your firewall to act with EU2). If you unlucky with that, specified ports should be opened and _forwarded_ like it is discussed in separate topic.
Hamachi program let people without external IP under not forwarded or closed ports still play EU2. Hamachi emulates LAN connection. This post is explaining more how Hamachi works.
Hamachi connection
First of all, one person should create group and set password for it. For example group "europa234" and password "234". Then the best way to inform about that in the game thread. Normally you receive virtual IP like 5.x.x.x and sub-net 255.0.0.0
Players, who must join Hamachi group:
- host
- those who has problems to connect because of router, internal ip and so on ("problems players")
- those who has lags with certain host
Rest of players can join by IP or vnet.
It doesn`t matter if host creates Hamachi group or not.
Bear in mind, that most probably inside Hamachi group you`ll be able to access each other computer`s shared resources via explorer.
Game connection
Normally when you see host IP at vnet, it shows host`s usual IP. So "problems players" can`t join host this way. They can do it by typing virtual IP of host, or much better - just press "Join by LAN". The host will appear there. If there is wrong version, host will have grey color.
Two things to mention
1. It is rumoured that Hamachi is down sometimes, which gives unreliability. So if anyone knows alternate program, please post.
2. All EU2 processes are done via host. He accepts signals from everyone and send them. So while you are in the same LAN group with host, you get everything all right. Except one thing - in-game chat. It is specially done via separate port (47624 if i remember correctly), so when your EU2 lags to host, you normally still can talk with everybody in real time without lags, if your connection is okay.
But then Hamachi and non-Hamachi groups doesn`t see each other, except host. (maybe only non-Hamachi group doesn`t see). So it is recommended that all players would use Hamachi if one player has to do it. Besides it may influence on overall game stability to keep that smooth.
Hamachi program let people without external IP under not forwarded or closed ports still play EU2. Hamachi emulates LAN connection. This post is explaining more how Hamachi works.
Hamachi connection
First of all, one person should create group and set password for it. For example group "europa234" and password "234". Then the best way to inform about that in the game thread. Normally you receive virtual IP like 5.x.x.x and sub-net 255.0.0.0
Players, who must join Hamachi group:
- host
- those who has problems to connect because of router, internal ip and so on ("problems players")
- those who has lags with certain host
Rest of players can join by IP or vnet.
It doesn`t matter if host creates Hamachi group or not.
Bear in mind, that most probably inside Hamachi group you`ll be able to access each other computer`s shared resources via explorer.
Game connection
Normally when you see host IP at vnet, it shows host`s usual IP. So "problems players" can`t join host this way. They can do it by typing virtual IP of host, or much better - just press "Join by LAN". The host will appear there. If there is wrong version, host will have grey color.
Two things to mention
1. It is rumoured that Hamachi is down sometimes, which gives unreliability. So if anyone knows alternate program, please post.
2. All EU2 processes are done via host. He accepts signals from everyone and send them. So while you are in the same LAN group with host, you get everything all right. Except one thing - in-game chat. It is specially done via separate port (47624 if i remember correctly), so when your EU2 lags to host, you normally still can talk with everybody in real time without lags, if your connection is okay.
But then Hamachi and non-Hamachi groups doesn`t see each other, except host. (maybe only non-Hamachi group doesn`t see). So it is recommended that all players would use Hamachi if one player has to do it. Besides it may influence on overall game stability to keep that smooth.
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