Hello, I've been trying for a couple days now to start my own server so my friends and I can play together, but I'm stumped as to what to do. Let me do a play by play for you and tell me what I did wrong.
Last night, I first start up the server, the command prompt pops up and it loads the default ruleset and the default 5 A.I. players. I followed the instructions on the wiki and type in "metaserver up" (without quotes), and I can see it on the metaserver webpage, and in the game. So far so good. Then whenever my friends and I try to connect to it, we get this error "operation completed successfully", but none of us are in the lobby. Wtf? Ok then, let's see if they're connected. "list connections". No connections. Oook then? "start". the game says that at least one human player need to be connected. Let's try this then "set minplayers 0" followed by "start" The game starts up, yet everyone is still on the server browser. "end". The game ends, and the A.I. are taken back to the lobby, while everyone who tried to connect gets "game has ended" or something like that. Then this morning, I tried it again. We can't find it on the metaserver anymore, I can only see it on the LAN, and I can't even connect to it. It gives me "failed lookup host" I don't have a firewall blocking it, my AV is not the problem (running COMODO, wish I had the money for Norton though), but I can't open the ports if that's what it takes (and from what I've read, I don't think you need to open the ports to host). So what am I doing wrong? Is there a way that I can fix this? In any case, I love the game. Keep and the awesome work, and thank you for your time. Nickalaus Ewing, A.K.A. Sgt_V3n0m
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