lowew79
August 18th, 2014, 18:45
Hey Everyone,
I got the demo version of the software and played around with. The learning curve was steep and I haven't figured it all out yet, but it seemed do-able. I bought the ultimate license and got to work.
Meanwhile I was watching you tube tutorials, namely Mr. Dulux-oz, to try to continue to educate myself. During one of his videos, I heard some information that really messed me up.
He said that in the instance where the GM has an Ultimate license and the players all have free licenses, that the clients CANNOT connect via a LAN.
NOOOO, why is it this way? I paid the big bucks for the premium ticket lol, but now my players can't connect without internet access?
The reason it is an issue is because we game in person, I wanted a VTT to keep track of HP of npcs and so on automatically. I live in an area with some internet, but certainly not GREAT internet. There is NO WAY that my connection will support 5 computers connected to the internet at once. it may do two or three but its very inconvenient to ask all my players to share the same laptop. I was counting the functionality to prepare my materials, package them in a campaign, and then run via LAN for my friends.
I know that another solution would be to have them all buy LITE licenses, but they won't do that, and I don't want to have to ask them (and I'm not buying a lite license for them). Thus the reason I bought the Ultimate license.
So is this true? I cant run a game for free license holders over a LAN? If so this is a pretty big issue for me, and I'd like to talk about perhaps a refund.
I feel like I should be clear, I'm not saying its a bad product at all, it is immensely powerful and thorough, I like it a lot, but this issue makes it virtually unusable for me.
I got the demo version of the software and played around with. The learning curve was steep and I haven't figured it all out yet, but it seemed do-able. I bought the ultimate license and got to work.
Meanwhile I was watching you tube tutorials, namely Mr. Dulux-oz, to try to continue to educate myself. During one of his videos, I heard some information that really messed me up.
He said that in the instance where the GM has an Ultimate license and the players all have free licenses, that the clients CANNOT connect via a LAN.
NOOOO, why is it this way? I paid the big bucks for the premium ticket lol, but now my players can't connect without internet access?
The reason it is an issue is because we game in person, I wanted a VTT to keep track of HP of npcs and so on automatically. I live in an area with some internet, but certainly not GREAT internet. There is NO WAY that my connection will support 5 computers connected to the internet at once. it may do two or three but its very inconvenient to ask all my players to share the same laptop. I was counting the functionality to prepare my materials, package them in a campaign, and then run via LAN for my friends.
I know that another solution would be to have them all buy LITE licenses, but they won't do that, and I don't want to have to ask them (and I'm not buying a lite license for them). Thus the reason I bought the Ultimate license.
So is this true? I cant run a game for free license holders over a LAN? If so this is a pretty big issue for me, and I'd like to talk about perhaps a refund.
I feel like I should be clear, I'm not saying its a bad product at all, it is immensely powerful and thorough, I like it a lot, but this issue makes it virtually unusable for me.