Can't see MP games in lobby with this mod.

[billw2009]

Is that normal? Me and my friends have to use direct IP connection and we get a lot of problems with it. Vanilla works fine for us.

 

[Rezca]

The reason many games show up in the lobby with vanilla is because those are Vanilla games. If you load a mod - any mod - and jump into the online lobby only games also running that mod (Gods of Old for example) will be listed - Vanilla games will be excluded.

The same goes for A New Dawn.


However, if both you and your friends are also running A New Dawn and you can't see their games or visa-versa... Then I got nothing. Make sure you're running the same AND revision and everything, just to double-check ^^

 

[billw2009]

Yeah can't see the games with the same mod. We are running 1.75c...

 

[Rezca]

1.75c is pretty old ^^;

I never had issues with MP with that mod since we made the switch to AND 2.0 before my friend and I attempted to MP with it.

 

[billw2009]

Okay thanks we will try that! Have so many problems with this so far . OOS, data can't decompress, people can't connect, can't see in lobby, etc...
Any chance you have seen a definitive guide to what ports need unblocking for MP? I didn't need to unblock any for it to work in vanilla, unblocked a lot to get it to work with this mod and still only in direct IP and only sometimes.

 

[Rezca]

My friend and I have pretty much stuck to regular Civ and Gods of Old for multiplayer and we left AND for single-player games. 1.75c we never tried, the first versions of AND we tried was quite stable but OOSed often in the Late Reniscance era (Ha, I can never spell that right XD) to Early Industrial, the next revision we used OOSed nearly every other turn, and the last revision (pre-345) was stable but lagged a ton.

We haven't tried the most recent revisions, though. We're waiting for the AI's not wanting to expand in BC years to be fixed first


As for your question... No I haven't. Up until AND, we never had any problems with MP so neither of us needed to look into it.

 

[Sgtslick]

Hamachi helps with games via ip - its called logmein now.
https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/download.aspx

 

[billw2009]

Okay about to try Hamachi now, but still can't see each others games on LAN. What precisely does Civ 4 do to determine if you have the same mod installed? MD5? Some config file somewhere?

 

[Sgtslick]

Create a channel in hamachi, then use the ip given by hamachi to look for the host - when ur both in same channel/network or whatever its called.

 

[Sgtslick]

I want to play AND2 MP via IP by the way, if you want another player i'd be keen to join, (or with anyone else for that matter, PM me or add me on steam username: sgtslick )