Hi all, First post! I play LFS online a lot at home, now I'm at uni the gay firewall wont allow the LFS port, I'm fine with just messing around offline but I'm still stuck im demo mode even though I have a full license! Is there a way I can activate it offline? Or better yet change the port LFS uses to connect so I can play online. Thanks

Nope, you cannot unlock offline. I'm not sure about the ports, but if you open cfg.txt you'll find that there are quite a few settings with "port" in the name. Maybe messing with them (setting to 80?) could work? Just make a backup of the original first.

I would but its not a local firewall, it's uni so they have a no online gaming policy!

Take your pc home, activate then return it to uni

There are other LFS players stuck in the unfortunate region that is the south west, you never know, someone might live round the corner with an unrestricted home broadband service; I have seen other users with Plymouth as their location. Just a thought.

If you have a cell phone you might be able to use it to unlock S2, I needed to do this once

Quote from Bob Smith :

There are other LFS players stuck in the unfortunate region that is the south west, you never know, someone might live round the corner with an unrestricted home broadband service; I have seen other users with Plymouth as their location. Just a thought.

bit off topic but just noticed, bob when did you move to newcastle?!

Just before I bought S1. I've mostly been here since then (for Uni), although I spent last year living in Portsmouth and working in London, I'm back up here what looks like long term now.

How about a USB drive? You wouldn't need a big one for LFS but you could unlock that somewhere the ports aren't blocked then take it back to Uni and at least have the full content offline.

Alternatively, just go and speak to the tech guys. They're geeks and no doubt have their own stuff set up so they can play games (all tech departments do) so as long as you're not using excessive bandwidth - and LFS won't do that - they shouldn't have a problem. Always worth a shot.

Quote from Dajmin :

How about a USB drive? You wouldn't need a big one for LFS but you could unlock that somewhere the ports aren't blocked then take it back to Uni and at least have the full content offline.

Would only work if the PC used to unlock it is EXACTLY the same (components) as the PC he wants to play it on, as LFS unlocked is hardware locked.

Quote from Bob Smith :

Just before I bought S1. I've mostly been here since then (for Uni), although I spent last year living in Portsmouth and working in London, I'm back up here what looks like long term now.

Ahhh ok, i only remember your location being Portsmouth on here il stop distracting the thread into off topic-ness

If we had offline unlocking, that would mean the LFS.exe would have to have an unlocking code, or worse, all of our unlocking infomation on it. and we've already had many instances of hacked LFS.exe files