This is a guide about creating and joining a network game. Here are the ways of how to play games with each other online.
Once at the main menu.
Select Preferences.
Select Network.
Make sure Run as Server box is ticked.
Click Confirm.
Start a New Game.
Load a game as normal.
Load as many leagues as you want but the fewer you load the quicker it goes.
Create a new manager profile and select a team to manage as normal.
Then go to http://whatsmyip.net/ and tell the person joining your IP.
Joining a game (Client)
After the host has created a game, other players, can attempt join the network game.
here are the steps to join a game :
Select Join Network Game.
Select Join Other Server.
Enter You friends ip then you should join his game.
When you do this you should see the game status screen.
To add a user u will need to click the drop down FM box and click add manager.
From then on you play normal as you would offline.
Hamachi is a free application that establishes links between computers that have firewalls , it establishes a connection over the Internet, to create conditions very similar to that as if the computers were connected over a Local Area Network (LAN).
Link: Hamachi Link: https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi2/download.aspx
Hosting a game
Open up FM.Once at the main menu.
Select Preferences.
Select Network.
Make sure Run as Server box is ticked.
Click Confirm.
Start a New Game.
Load a game as normal.
Load as many leagues as you want but the fewer you load the quicker it goes.
Create a new manager profile and select a team to manage as normal.
Then go to http://whatsmyip.net/ and tell the person joining your IP.
Joining a game (Client)
After the host has created a game, other players, can attempt join the network game.
here are the steps to join a game :
Select Join Network Game.
Select Join Other Server.
Enter You friends ip then you should join his game.
When you do this you should see the game status screen.
To add a user u will need to click the drop down FM box and click add manager.
From then on you play normal as you would offline.
Hamachi
Hamachi is a free application that establishes links between computers that have firewalls , it establishes a connection over the Internet, to create conditions very similar to that as if the computers were connected over a Local Area Network (LAN).
Link: Hamachi Link: https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi2/download.aspx