| NETPLAY HELP |
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| Starting a Net Play Game Before playing a game, users must agree which options and which screen elements will be used. The home team manager will make these settings after the game starts, and the settings will affect both his display and the visiting team's display. Before deciding on your options you should read the "Ideas for speeding up Net Play" section for information on speeding up playing games. To host a game: - Both users should connect to the internet. - The home team computer runs the internet component version of the Baseball game (Do this by clicking the Start button, select programs, Strat-O-Matic CD-ROM Baseball) - The home team starts a game. "This will be scheduled game". - Click File and Host a game - Click YES to host a home game - You can name the game what ever you like - Make sure the port is set to 6501 - Click OK - Click OK again and Share your external IP address with your opponent. (You can use whatmyip.org to identify the IP ) - You will see the game state 'Ready to take the Field" - Start Game as normal by setting lineups and click Playball. Visitor actions to connect to join a hosted game: - Open up Strat-o-matic (So this by cliking the start button, select programs, Start-O-Matic, CD-Rom Baseball) - Click File - Click Join a game - In server Address, type in your opponents IP adress - make sure port 6501 is set -Click OK The Game automatically saves after every Batter. If a game is lost or a connection is broken. Reestablish a connection and Click on FILE, OPEN FILE, and click on PICKUP.SAV. The game will continue at the point where it was last saved. |
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| SUBMITTING FILES 1)Click the Start ICON in the lower left corner of the Screen 2)Move the mouse up to programs then go to Windows Explorer. 3)Click on the folder CDROMBB on the left side of the screen 4)Click on your EXPORT folder 5)Select all the game results files that begin with "2003cd" by holding down the "Ctrl" botton and clicking with the mouse on the game files. 6)Right click on the mouse button and Send these files to a ZIP file. Name the ZIP file as per the CDDL file naming convention. 7) E-mail the zip file, containing your Game results commissioner. DOWNLOADING THE WEEKS STAT AND ROSTER FILES 1)Go to the Teams page on this website and click on the Roster and Stats picture 2)A screen will popup asking you where to download the files to: For ROSTERS place the file in CDROMBB/ROSTERS For STATS place the file in CDROMBB/STATS 3)Click the Start ICON in the lower left corner of the Screen 4)Move the mose up to programs then go to Windows Explorer. 5)Click on the folder CDROMBB on the left side of the screen 6)Click on the ROSTER folder 7)Click on the ROSTER.ZIP file and unzip the file to CDROMBB/ROSTERS 8)Cick on the STATS folder under CDROMBB 9)Click on the STATS.ZIP file and unzip the file to CDROMBB/STATS. |
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| HOME NETWORK SOLUTION Make sure if you have Windows that the firewall is turned off (Controlpanel/networkconnections/LAN properties/Advanced) When you run the home team software, it spits out the IP address of your machine on the LOCAL network, not the internet IP. The SOMWORLD forum pointed this URL, which detects your real IP: http://www.whatismyip.net/cgi-bin/your_ip_is.cgi http://strat-o-sphere.net/viewtopic.php?t=6 After that, there are two possible methods that have been suggested for prepping your router. A) Port forwarding to port 6501.Contact the commissioner for these directions. B) Another solution, from the SOM World site, is to place your PC into the DMZ: To "position" one of your LAN's computers outside the firewall, change your "DMZ" setting: ** Get the the LAN IP of the computer you'd like to be able to use to host/play Netplay games. For me, the address is 192.161.1.xxx; you'll only need the xxx, and xxx should be between 2 and 253 ** Crank up the router's browser-accessible control site (for me, it's at 192.168.1.1; the default password is admin, with the userID space kept blank) ** Click on the Advanced tab ** Click on the DMZ tab ** Enter the xxx of the LAN IP (as referred to above) ** Save your settings |
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