Antmanbrooks
Prince
Hello,
I'm having problems setting up a 4 player game of Civ where previously with a 2 or 3 player game there was no problem. The additional player is my GF who shares the same router and Internet connection as me.
Let me explain the background. Me and two friends have been playing Direct IP MP Civ IV BtS (Realism Invictus Mod) for a few years through Hamachi without any major problems.
We can all host games and we can all join games.
Recently my GF decided she wanted to play too, so I installed my copy (old school disks) of Civ IV, Warlords & BtS (patched them to the same versions as we all have) on her seperate PC and loaded up the same version of the RI Mod and tested a Direct IP Game through Hamachi. It worked, we played MP Civ and it was great.
So naturally I assumed the other two guys I normally play with would have no issues joining in either. They also updated their mod and joined the same Hamachi network as me and the GF (I deleted all the old Hamachi networks, including the one we all played 3 player Civ on).
So we all have the same versions of Civ IV, Warlords, BtS and RI and we are on the same network and version of Hamachi. The other two guys are in their own houses and me and the GF are sharing the same Internet connection and router (Technicolor TG582n Tesco BB).
When we come to connect, any two players can connect(including the host) but as soon as a third player tries to connect we get the following message for the connecting player "You were unable to connect to the player 'Mark' This player may not have his firewall environment properly confgured."
The second player (already in the lobby) gets this message "An incoming player has failed to connect to you and is unable to join the game. Please verify that your firewall allows incoming connections for Civilization IV."
I then tried Pitboss and we have the same problem, but interestingly if I host Pitboss on my PC and then load up Civ and connect I can get in but the GF then gets the same message if she connects via Pitboss. Without Pitboss we can Direct IP connect to each other no problem, so it's the additionl third player that seems to be the issue every time?
One of my friends has also tried hosting a Pitboss game and joining, he can join the lobby fine, as soon as I or another player try to join we get the messages as above.
So to summerise I think it's a hamachi issue but I don't know what? Any advice?
I'm having problems setting up a 4 player game of Civ where previously with a 2 or 3 player game there was no problem. The additional player is my GF who shares the same router and Internet connection as me.
Let me explain the background. Me and two friends have been playing Direct IP MP Civ IV BtS (Realism Invictus Mod) for a few years through Hamachi without any major problems.
We can all host games and we can all join games.
Recently my GF decided she wanted to play too, so I installed my copy (old school disks) of Civ IV, Warlords & BtS (patched them to the same versions as we all have) on her seperate PC and loaded up the same version of the RI Mod and tested a Direct IP Game through Hamachi. It worked, we played MP Civ and it was great.
So naturally I assumed the other two guys I normally play with would have no issues joining in either. They also updated their mod and joined the same Hamachi network as me and the GF (I deleted all the old Hamachi networks, including the one we all played 3 player Civ on).
So we all have the same versions of Civ IV, Warlords, BtS and RI and we are on the same network and version of Hamachi. The other two guys are in their own houses and me and the GF are sharing the same Internet connection and router (Technicolor TG582n Tesco BB).
When we come to connect, any two players can connect(including the host) but as soon as a third player tries to connect we get the following message for the connecting player "You were unable to connect to the player 'Mark' This player may not have his firewall environment properly confgured."
The second player (already in the lobby) gets this message "An incoming player has failed to connect to you and is unable to join the game. Please verify that your firewall allows incoming connections for Civilization IV."
I then tried Pitboss and we have the same problem, but interestingly if I host Pitboss on my PC and then load up Civ and connect I can get in but the GF then gets the same message if she connects via Pitboss. Without Pitboss we can Direct IP connect to each other no problem, so it's the additionl third player that seems to be the issue every time?
One of my friends has also tried hosting a Pitboss game and joining, he can join the lobby fine, as soon as I or another player try to join we get the messages as above.
So to summerise I think it's a hamachi issue but I don't know what? Any advice?
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