28-06-2002 06:19									#1
	Playing Warcraft III Online Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

Just so people know, there's an alternative to battle.net.

If you download the latest version of Kali (download.com has it), then get the free registration for Kali from their website at www.kali.net, you can add Warcraft III as a game. It tricks it into thinking you're playing a LAN game even though it's over the network.

After you've got Kali set up, do the following:

	29-06-2002 09:18									#2
	Increase Your PM Length

Yes, but it's boring as hell no matter where you play.

	29-06-2002 10:36									#3
	Put an end to popups!

Not to rain on your parade Asher but may I ask why if you are a legal purchaser of WarCraft III you would want to do this. I mean if you legally own the game then why not use the dedicated servers that Blizzard has set up?

Of course, if you have not legally purchased the game then I see a reason...

	29-06-2002 10:41									#4
	Got spare money?

quote: Originally posted by tniem Not to rain on your parade Asher but may I ask why if you are a legal purchaser of WarCraft III you would want to do this. I mean if you legally own the game then why not use the dedicated servers that Blizzard has set up?

Have you ever used battle.net?
It's far laggier than a direct connection.

I never played Diablo II on battle.net either, and I legally own the game.

	29-06-2002 13:21									#5
	Increase the size of your Attachments

Yeah, battle.net is a good service and I respect Blizzard for setting up free servers for all their players - not every company would have done that - but it does suffer from very bad lag,. During peak times it is almost always unplayable on my 56k and my mate with a broadband connection suffers quite a bit too.

	29-06-2002 22:22									#6
	Increase Your PM Length

battle.net is good?! I always thought it was terrible. Having been used to bungie.net's easy as pie way to find good games and players, it's far more annoying on battle.net... the worst thing by far is that after the game is over, everybody immediately breaks up. Plus, if your team is defeated (or yourself without teams), you just get kicked out of the game. This makes it hard to set up games based on a group of fun players, not off a certain map. I mean, you can't even change the map or settings once you've started a Blizzard game, which is utterly ridiculous, and assumes that people joined my game to play a map, not to play with me.

So you have to do all that by hand. I say, just play War3 in the CS lab on a nice and fast LAN with people who are actually fun to play with.

Anyway, it may be worth a try. Are the people on Kali less lame than people on b.net?

	29-06-2002 23:32									#7
	Full PM-box? Change here!

I have no idea, all my Kali games are password protected and with friends online.

Blizzard conveniently left out TCP/IP direct connect in their options, so we're using Kali to trick Warcraft into thinking we're running on a LAN.

	29-06-2002 23:32									#8
	Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

bnet would be good if Blizzard cut out the free crap and charged a few bucks for the online service. The benefits are two-fold:

a) More money for better service/more games
b) Gets rid of the riffraff that lags it up in the first place.

	30-06-2002 07:14									#9
	Remove this text

quote: Originally posted by SnowFire Anyway, it may be worth a try. Are the people on Kali less lame than people on b.net?

It's where the elite players (Agent 911, TillerMaN, Zileas, etc.) go to play the game. I prefer Battle.net though because I've heard that Kali players are quite snobish toward newbies.

	30-06-2002 07:42									#10
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

Zileas hasn't been "elite" since 1.04 when he abused that reaver/shuttle combo.

	30-06-2002 09:59									#11
	Put an end to popups!

quote: Originally posted by Triped Zileas hasn't been "elite" since 1.04 when he abused that reaver/shuttle combo.

I prefer to call it a cunning strategy. Blizzard killed that when BW came out anyway.

	15-07-2002 23:08									#12
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Anyone else tried Asher's suggestion? I think I'll give it a go, cos my dog ate my cd key.

	16-07-2002 14:07									#13
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

quote: Originally posted by Triped bnet would be good if Blizzard cut out the free crap and charged a few bucks for the online service. The benefits are two-fold: a) More money for better service/more games b) Gets rid of the riffraff that lags it up in the first place.

If they charged money for being able to play online, then I no exactly NONE who will ever be able to play online

Pay-to-play is ridicules...