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Without hamachi you have almnost no chance of finding a game(Then again you can't find a game with hamachi either) You have to set up the games thouigh messaging BTW.

The reason you won't find games is because for some reason no one's on. Also Hamachi bypasses firewalls thus allowing two people who are in the same network to play useing fake Ip adresses.

Hamachi helps people play RTS because it:

1) Give's you an IP address which allows you to connect to others or host games.  Since many people have routers it simplifies the process.  Otherwise people would have to customize their router settings.

2) Gives you a chat program to see and talk to other players to set up your games.

If you don't want to use Hamachi and you can figure out how to host games yourself then you could use the private messaging on the boards to set up games with other players.

Yeah, RTS only connects through IPs, rather than having a built in system for connecting.

I wrote up a quick explanation of how to connect through RTS in my guide, found here: http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/index.php?topic=12218.msg185593#msg185593 (linked to the part you're looking for)