Whats Your Major Malfunction?

[Warspite]

Please use this thread to voice the particular problem you had or have had with a multiplayer game. You can also voice this problem in the support forum, problem you encounter will be heard and noted.

Please voice only problems you have had with a multiplayer game or function, not solo game play, go to the support forum for solo game problems, thank you.

 

[Mowers]

Its got to be reoccuring loans.

 

[Vulture]

The delay there can be between pressing pause and actually pausing

my responce to that is system lagg , can be remedied/or helped with a good host connect or system setting adjustment

Btw, congrats on modship of MP forumthanks

(warspites reply is in italics)

 

[Janster]

trouble

I have usually experiened crashes when peace deals are made..
last time Turkey-Oman peace deals crashed the game a lot.

Loans suk still yes
Moral not being replenished.
And sometimes a player falls behind in time..(ie being 10-14 days behind)
Pushing pause will make him catch up though..

 

[unmerged(4078)]

I CANT GET A FRIGGIN MP GAME WORKING CAN SOMEONE PLZ TELL ME HOW OR ILL ANNIHILATE U IN THE NAME OF THE SACRED LENIN BANNER

P.S This is a serious post......

 

[unmerged(3236)]

I aoutomaticly took a loan when i had 200dinars, then another one at 600, at 1200 i took one to then i left the game.
I could buy for all the money so there was not a visual problem. I think it was with 1.08.

 

[Waffen]

Crashed game

I don't know if anyone is interested.. But I have a saved game, version 1.09, IGC 2.3, 2 players which crashes 100% of the time a few seconds after time starts passing.

I'd be happy to mail said file if you're still doing debugging on EU I.. I guess I'm assuming everyone's hard at work on EU II. ;-)

Waffen
p.s. Mail me at kklemmick@hotmail.com if you want the file.

 

[unmerged(548)]

Re: Crashed game

Originally posted by Waffen
I don't know if anyone is interested.. But I have a saved game, version 1.09, IGC 2.3, 2 players which crashes 100% of the time a few seconds after time starts passing.

I'd be happy to mail said file if you're still doing debugging on EU I.. I guess I'm assuming everyone's hard at work on EU II. ;-)

Waffen
p.s. Mail me at kklemmick@hotmail.com if you want the file.

I think most of these issues has already been resolved for the 1.10 patch. If you like you can always send a bugreport with the file included to Paradox.
Check my FAQ for how to make a good bugreport and also for the mailadress ,)

 

[unmerged(169)]

I think lag was my problem, but not sure. I cant move my troops or cant build anything in towns. If i give command to build its start building only when new year starts in january. For example at 10 february 1492 i have 100 duc and want build 2x tax collectors. I giving comand to build. But it start building only at 1-3 january 1493 and at this time i havnt 100 duc, only 75. AI takes automatically a loan of 200 duc and start building 2x tax coll. This was a 5 player mp game, 1 min 4 months speed, 1.9(english version was bold already with 1.9 patch), IGC 2.3.

Same settings 2 player mp game. When giving a command to build, it start building a little later. And if i have same 100 duc at whatever month 25-30 day it start build only in new month. And if there wasnt enough money it automatically take a loan. Troops building starts a little later too and they start moving just when i click to move. Moving arrow still in red color and didnt change to green.

In both games host wasnt me. Tried to play 3 times 2 players mp game. After ~5 years game crashes. One serious problem is if someone lost game/connection, others cant see it and continue playing (not sure if host left game and others can still play). Would be good see a message like: Player xxx left the game.

No music in mp or solo games, only at start when you can choose which scenario you want to play. Sounds are ok. Also game would crash at any time and i see again my desctop again in both mp or solo game.

Sorry, i havnt any saved games to send

Computer is Pentium 233MHz, 128 Mb SDRAM, Sound Blaster 64, nVidia Riva TNT 16Mb, Win98SE.

 

[unmerged(548)]

Originally posted by Neon


Computer is Pentium 233MHz,

Certainly on the "lower end" of the spectrum.

I too suspect lagg. You won't notice in SP games since your comp doesn't have to "keep up with the rest".

Anyway, what was the played game speed and what connetion did you and the host have?
Remember that EU sends a lot more data then you average FPS game and 56k is a bit on the lowside.

 

[unmerged(169)]

Originally posted by Huszics




Anyway, what was the played game speed and what connetion did you and the host have?
Remember that EU sends a lot more data then you average FPS game and 56k is a bit on the lowside.

I have dual ISDN 128kbps. Dont remember correctly which one had host, but in 5 player was cable modem and 2player ADSL. Not sure.

 

[unmerged(169)]

Originally posted by Neon


I have dual ISDN 128kbps. Dont remember correctly which one had host, but in 5 player was cable modem and 2player ADSL. Not sure. 4 motnhs-1 min

Crap! Wrong button

 

[unmerged(1236)]

MP problems

Are you kidding? The MP has never worked for more than 2 players. We tried for months to have LAN parties on excellent machines only to suffer the same problem every time. Inevitably, time will stop on one or more machine while everyone else keeps playing. We very much wanted to play, but we were so disapointed and frustrated both with the lack of functionality and evident disinterest by the developers to fix these problems that we will not purchase EU 2 when it comes out. We had bought 11 copies of EU when it came out because we were so excited by the game and wanted to support the company. However, we felt that we were neglected and frankly lied to concerning what is to us the most essential element of the game, the multiplayer. I hear now, finally, that there might b a patch that addresses multiplayer concerns. It is too little, too late for us.

 

[unmerged(5915)]

We have played three and even four players. Didn't have much problems... except the usual. The loans - it seems like the game starts to think that your 100 ducats or whatever is acctually 0, so it takes a loan any time you drop under it. And people have been known to automatically take loans when annexing someone. That's kind of a drag.

Once, the clocks went out of synch, so I was playing some years before my friend, at the computer right next to me. Very interesting, to say the least. And, of course, some peace treaties just make the game take a dive... that's easily fixed, though, since you can load from anyones save, not just the hosts.

But the biggest problem with MP - not being able to change the speed... that's what is killing me. When you are fighting three wars, two monts every minute is good, but not when you're consolidating your gains.

Hmm.

 

[Elijah]

I have played 4 player games where we played for hours without crashing, one game I recall we got to 1635 or so. More than 4 tho becomes increasingly unstable, at least before 1.10. I'm curious to play some again with the 1.10 patch...

 

[unmerged(4269)]

games hosted on my computer players are kicked off, games in which i join freeze for me but work for other people. whats up?

 

[unmerged(4269)]

i fixed the part about not being able to play in the first place, that invovled removing all senario stuff and puttin in all original settings which mind you is a pain in the butt, at the same time so is trying to add new settings.
after fixing it my friend hosted the game and it sucked. It lagged so bad, i was months behind, raising troops was no prob, but building buildings, and diplomacy was a month slow, and after declaring war my troops refused to move...or it just took along time i noticed one army move 2 years later.
this game would be so cool if multiplay acctually worked. how come eveyone alot of people have complained about it not working and in the last month nothing has been done? and yes i have patch 1.1 (why such minor changes it looks like the whole thing needs an overhaul!)

 

[AndrewT]

One thing I discovered in the EU 2 beta was crucial, and I assume it would be for EU 1 also. The Host needs the be the slowest PC and connection, not the fastest. That way all the clients can keep up with the host.

 

[Warspite]

Originally posted by AndrewT
One thing I discovered in the EU 2 beta was crucial, and I assume it would be for EU 1 also. The Host needs the be the slowest PC and connection, not the fastest. That way all the clients can keep up with the host.

I disagree, all you need to do is run the game at a speed both computers can handle. Honestly the most stable computer, if you know which one that is, should host the game. However if using the slow computer to host works for you, im happy to hear it. All we care about is stable, lasting MP games.

 

[Shadowstrike]

Valkyrie.net is somewhat underpopulated. Games with more then 4 people tend to have conenction problems (there was a ten second lag between me ordering an army to move and the pointer appearing)