Offline Mode Help?

Nebuzaradan

I have posted stuff about this on the steam forums but haven't heard anything yet...I hope I can get some help here...

My friends and I are trying to play large games of NS in offline mode at our local community college (long story, suffice to say we have a constant internet connection but don't want to use it because our bandwidth is tracked and we are limited in our usage)

Whenever we try to connect to our LAN servers in offline mode Steam still insists on trying to connect to the steam servers (at IP 69.28.x.x, I think). When it does this it gives us an error about our ID ticket being expired and when we try to put in our passwords like it asks it crashes steam!

Basically I just need to know if there is any way to keep steam from trying (or succeeding) in contacting the online servers at this address...I know firewall programs work (I use those on my own computer and it works fine) but we can't install any firewall programs on the college's computers.

Help please?

BlackPlague

ok here is the thing. if you are using the same account and same cd-key, it wont work. you will have to contact steam and tell them you want to run a PRIVATE internet cafe, they will give you a list of cd keys and stuff, they wont work on multi though so dont even try it lol hope this helps.

Nebuzaradan

Hang on....they will send me a list of Half-life CD keys but these keys won't work in multi-player? (or will they simply not work in multiplayer online?)

I actually have five accounts on my own but we frequently have more than five people that want to play....I guess I am basically running a private half-life cafe out of the college's computer labs (yeah, I'm a faculty brat <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) So we could register steam accounts with these CD keys they'd send me but those steam accounts would only work in offline mode?

I'm not sure if I understood you correctly so could you please clarify?

Thanks!

Thansal

they wont send you them, they will SELL you them.

Suggestion:
Play on nonsteam HL <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Either use 1.04 or 2.0 is you want it to work realy well
or just copy the nsp dir into your HL dir and then play (there will posibly be graphix problems)

Good luck <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->