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Sola_III
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Why does The Political Machine 2008 Quick Games Need to Connect to Web?

October 4, 2008 6:35:54 PM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

I was having some trouble getting a scenario started through the Quick Play tab on the main menu to load the scenario I had chose (Obama vs. McCain).  It would get to the "loading" screen and just hang.  Firewall wasn't warning me or anything.

Figured out that TPM2008 exe needs to connect to the internet - enabled through Zone Alarm (keep in mind never saw a popup from ZA), and my single player non - campaign games load just fine.  This started after the multiplayer updates with v. 50

My question is why does it need to connect for single play scenarios?  I can understand if you want to play MP, but why for a single player game?

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Sola_III
Sola_III
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Reply #1 October 5, 2008 1:34:19 PM
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Wondering if the v .50 is just setting up to listen on a port in case you click MP later/uses the same executable?

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Reply #2 October 16, 2008 7:21:21 PM
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because it has the option for multiplayer.

Company of Heroes requires you to be online  (the web is something different than the internet.  Sounds like an AOL user).  When online the CD isn't required and will list your friends and online chat rooms to start a multiplayer game.  Or you can just play a single player skirmish or campaign.

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Sola_III
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Reply #3 November 7, 2008 2:12:31 PM
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MaarekStele, it is a fair question.  You don't need to connect to the internet/web/be online for alot of games.  I figured it had something to do with the MP functionality.  Not a big deal, was just curious.

By the way I am not an AOL user.  Let's stick to the questions asked without the commentary.

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