Hey guys there is a way to play your games without novaworld all together , all you need is a program called Battle.Lan get someone to host or start up a server then they give out their IP address to the ones that want in and they enter the ip in the Battale.lan program click add and save then start . Then load the game click on lan , instead of novaworld and then click on search and when it finds the server you click on join and start playing . The host or server doesn't need to start Battle.lan just the ones wanting in game but each person will need the Battle.lan program installed and running to get in game . This can be done even if Novaworld is up and running . I have found a few problems with this and that is some may not be able to find the host for some unknow reason , firewalls or something . For those that can find the host it works great . Oh yes when you enter a game thru lan you do not need to login thru Novaworld
Hey guys go to Jabber.org and register and then go to wippien.com and download wippien , install it , click on i have existing jabber account ,use your jabber.org address in wippien in the (JID) box , the password you used on jabber then click on test account it should in a few seconds pop up saying sucessfull , you are ready to go >>>and get the others you play with to do the same and add each other to the contact list in wippien program .Then someone needs to load wippien and load game and host game in lan and then the ones that want to play load wippien program and then start game and click on lan /search when host shows /join game . Setup for wippien is pretty easy for XP but for windows 7 there is a little more work involved . Program works with most all if not all the games so Have Fun Guys . Hope Nova comes back soon but until then you can still injoy the game this way.