MP: not possible to connect

[Sbire du Mal]

Hello everyone, this is my problem:
I want to play with a friends that got his computer in my house. But we aren't able to connect i try to host the server on my comput er and on his computer. I think the problem is that we got the same IP adress, can you confirm it to me or give me advice.
Regards.

[JarateMan]

Sorry I dont have this game, but you both cant have the same ip address.....

[That's Not Nuts]

Originally posted by Pfeligio:

Hello everyone, this is my problem:
I want to play with a friends that got his computer in my house. But we aren't able to connect i try to host the server on my comput er and on his computer. I think the problem is that we got the same IP adress, can you confirm it to me or give me advice.
Regards.

I often play MP with my brother and we are in the same house using the same network, just make sure you port forward with the correct public IP adress (you can search for it online) and make sure you are forwarding the correct port (it tells you which one in game).

[RoboJon]

If you're playing on the same network you should be able to use your internal IP address and skip the port forwarding.

This article shows the steps for finding your internal IP address on Windows 10
https://www.groovypost.com/howto/find-windows-10-device-ip-address/
(you can type ipconfig into a command prompt to get your internal IP on all versions of Windows if you have an earlier version)

[Coosh]

RoboJon, has this been removed? I am trying to setup a dedicated server for friends on a private network without internet in the country.

[Ra-Ra-Rasputin]

Originally posted by Coosh:

RoboJon, has this been removed? I am trying to setup a dedicated server for friends on a private network without internet in the country.

It can't be removed, as it's a networking level system, something that the game, or even your OS can't affect.

You can see your internal IP by pressing winkey+r typing in "cmd" without quotes and hitting enter. Then simply type in "ipconfig" to the command prompt that appears.

Going to google and asking for your IP does not give you your internal IP.

[Coosh]

Ra-Ra, I have my internal IP but if notice in my text, I specifically said without internet so I would need to connect directly to the IP.

If like you say this is still available please point me to where in the client you connect directly to an IP Address?

[Ra-Ra-Rasputin]

If you don't have internet then you won't be able to connect to anyone and anyone else won't be able to connect to you. Because even if you try to bridge the connection it is not possible to be able to connect someone else's internal network externally without an internet connection.

[Coosh]

Ra-Ra, Maybe you should fully read the text. It's a private network that me and my friends are trying to use while out in the country.

[Ra-Ra-Rasputin]

I did. If you do not have access to the internet, you cannot access an external private network.

Unless you mean you're out in the countryside with friends and have a LAN setup or something, as that's a communication issue between us then. It should function just fine. Just remember that internal IPs always start with 192.168. so if you try something else than that, you're always off the mark.

That is, barring you have some aggressive software firewall or weird router setting preventing this.

[Coosh]

I think at this point RaRa your just getting the drift now. I understand networking, I know how to find IP's. Your input here is so far not valuable or productive.

You are incorrect regarding internal IP's also there is 3 ip private ranges 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16. Before you answer questions please do the research and do not give out false information to people. (there is a 4th but I will not get into that specific as its a special use subnet)

To be vividly clear it is a private network (local lan whatever you want to call it). There is no internet access at the cottage where we plan to play. We would like to play together, however, in stormworks I cannot find an option to do that without the internet. It appears that stormworks uses the steam api to locate games and there is no way to connect directly to a game server.

In my previous message I said, please point me to where I would connect to a direct IP using stormworks you seem to be starting to catch on to my initial question however still have been unable to provide that information. So to my question of the developer is this even an option still.