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[quote who="Rhonin_the_wizard" reply="3" id="3603602"] It has nothing to do with game design. Educated yourself about servers and how they work. [/quote] It has a *little* to do with game design. They chose to depend on Steam servers / GOG servers, rather than choosing a server ecosystem that would be cross-compatible. They also neglected to include a direct IP option. There are undoubtedly reasons for these choices - perhaps even good ones - but it's not as if

[quote who="pshaw" reply="1" id="3603550"] Devaed, Multiplayer is limited to either Steam/Steam or GOG/GOG. [/quote] No worries, disappointing but I suspected that was the case. Thanks for the reply.

I have my version of Gal Civ 3 on Steam, and a friend of mine has just bought it via GOG. We've tried setting up a multiplayer game, but when I set one up he can't see it, and vice versa. He's using the GOG Galaxy client. So does anyone know if this is a bug, or is multiplayer somehow restricted to Steam vs Steam / GOG vs GOG?