big mp probs (2.3)

[Laffertytig]

hi,

tonight we started a mp game which realy didnt work out. the main problem was ctd's every few months but there was another weird bug were battles with barbarians became neverending. the battle would end with no casualties on either side and then it would begin again with the same result.

this went on and on for many months until we had to rehost to fix it.

 

[Descartes]

Yep, it was really annoying. Also, everytime we saved and reloaded, things changed. I lost a CB on my neighbour and saw a couple of character objectives changed. Not to mention that the character portraits changed every time.

 

[Camara]

Also, I had provinces occupied that were reseted when we rehosted, and one of my armies disappeared, and a barbarian one appeared out of nowhere.

 

[Descartes]

When I come to think of it, I actually experienced something similar in SP. Barbarians occupied one of my provinces and then it suddenly became barbarian (not colonized, that is). At the time, I thought it was a hidded feature of the patch.

 

[Camara]

That's not what I'm talking about in the barbarian thing. I'll write it again.

1) Provinces occupied by me in my Pontus-Colchis war were reseted after we re-hosted

2) One of my armies disappeared

3) A barbarian army appeared in one of my provinces (in one where a Colchis army was seizing). I don't remember if the army that disappeared was in that province where barbarians appeared when we rehosted (so I don't know if my army become the barbarian one, doubling in size).

 

[Haramir]

Out of synch

I got similar problem with my friend that got out of synch instantly after we begin a game, its worst with 2.3

 

[Laffertytig]

yep i was receivin these out of synch errors everytime we rehosted as well.

 

[Laffertytig]

we tried again tonight this time with 2.2.

result = a waste of 2 hours due to ctds and players droppin all the time.

out of 6 people, only one player was able to host a game on meteserver.
the rome mp forum is dead and its no surprise why that is. its unplayable for most players. really hopin a patch can solve these issues

 

[Descartes]

I don't think the fact that only Monster could host is Paradox' fault. Hosts need to have certain ports open, the same goes for EU III. Still, I'm getting away from the point here. The game is far from stable and needs a patch badly.

 

[Laffertytig]

I don't think the fact that only Monster could host is Paradox' fault. Hosts need to have certain ports open, the same goes for EU III. Still, I'm getting away from the point here. The game is far from stable and needs a patch badly.

the reason why i mentioned that was the fact that everyone on the lobby insisted that they had the their ports open. now unless they were all lying bout that?

i know i had my ports open and noone could join my game. somethin defo wrong there.

ps,

did u guys start a eu3 game? did u have any such problems there?

 

[Camara]

We did, we tried the metaserver and nothing, game not found thing. However we tried with Hamachi (that simulates a LAN game) and it worked. Maybe we can try a Rome MP with Hamachi? And EU3 MP seems bugfree up to now...

 

[Laffertytig]

maybe its a paradox server issue, hamachi may be the way to go.

im startin a hoi3 game tonight, will be interestin to see if we hit the same brick wall.