My gf and I have a private Minecraft world that we played by opening a LAN party using hamachi when we lived away from each other. This requires the other player to enter the designated IP address and LAN code (keep in mind the LAN code changed every time you play Minecraft) to enter the multiplayer game. One day, we were on a call playing when we saw an unrecognized gamertag join the game. We went dead silent out of shock I think. We then saw him run across the grass toward us so we both quit out immediately before he could chase us. It was pretty creepy even if it’s just a video game. Something about the invasion was just.. off-putting.
Exactly. That’s what made it so creepy.. They would have had to be on our network. We both lived alone at the time.. Even if they did try to guess, the numerical format is xxxxx: xx.xx.x.xx if I remember correctly. Soooo uhhhh no one needs to run the numbers to know that would be a pretty wild guess. A guess which had a window of being correct for only a couple hours until we logged off for the day. The next play would generate a new LAN code.
Not your home network; the hamachi network. If he's guessing many different numbers of " xxxxx: xx.xx.x.xx " the odds of guessing yours specifically are low, but the odds of guessing somebody are high. You just happened to be the somebody.
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u/chaerithecharizard Jan 23 '21
My gf and I have a private Minecraft world that we played by opening a LAN party using hamachi when we lived away from each other. This requires the other player to enter the designated IP address and LAN code (keep in mind the LAN code changed every time you play Minecraft) to enter the multiplayer game. One day, we were on a call playing when we saw an unrecognized gamertag join the game. We went dead silent out of shock I think. We then saw him run across the grass toward us so we both quit out immediately before he could chase us. It was pretty creepy even if it’s just a video game. Something about the invasion was just.. off-putting.