Apolyton CtP2 Lemur Trophy: MP Tournament Thread

[Turambar]

I've a new email by the way:

turambar@shoresofvalinor.com (i've waited 2 months for it)

[Wittlich]

Shadow, I have sent an email to both TheArsenal and Repistes asking if they can join us in our game for this Wednesday...let's see if we can actually pull this together...

[TheArsenal]

Originally posted by Wittlich
Shadow, I have sent an email to both TheArsenal and Repistes asking if they can join us in our game for this Wednesday...let's see if we can actually pull this together...

Apologies for my lack of communication on the boards about the tourney. I got a nasty surprise late last week when this site was blocked at work by Websense under the category "Games". I found a way around it however.

I can play any day this week, including Weds. but it will have to be after 17:00 PST.

[Shadow]

Could you guys in my group set your play times in UTC please (Greenwich Mean Time [GMT], Zulu time, whatever you want to call it), as I'm in Australia and don't know all the different US time zones.

By the way, I'm GMT +10 hours.
Cheers.

[Wittlich]

Ok, Arsenal and myself are both in California - which would place us at GMT -8.

So Shadow, what time is the best for you?

[Shadow]

OK, going on your PST (I mean these are you local times), I'm good for:

Wed 1400 until 2200.
Thu 1600 until 0600.
Fri 1300 until 2100.

Looks like we might have a game on our hands boys...

[Wittlich]

Arsenal mentioned that he could play tonight at 1800 (PST). He can't logon any earlier because of that nagging thing called a "job"

So how does 1800 PST, 17 Sept (tonight) [0200 GMT, 18 Sept] sound for you Shadow?

PS: No word so far from Repistes...

[Wittlich]

Well, I don't know what is up, but I can not seem to get the internet option of joining/creating a game to work (I normally play via LAN).

Yes, I have deleted CTP2 off my system and reloaded it with only the official patch and the latest servers.dat file.

When I choose Internet Play, I get two choices for servers: games.igateway.net and nl.alink.gamepoint.net

I choose nl.alink.gamepoint.net, of course...but most of the time I can't seem to join the lobby; and when I do happen to get in, I try to create a game - It asks me if I want it password portected or not...It doesn't matter what I choose (yes or no) the screen keeps looping back to the passord yes or no screen.

So the bottom line is if I can not join the lobby or for that matter, a game - I guess I won't be playing.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[TheArsenal]

Originally posted by Wittlich
Ok, Arsenal and myself are both in California - which would place us at GMT -8.

So Shadow, what time is the best for you?

Actually, I think this time of year we're GMT - 7, not 8.

In any case, I am available:

Weds: 1800 - 2300 (PST); 11:00 - 16:00 (GMT)
Thurs: 1800 - 2300 (PST); 11:00 - 16:00 (GMT)
Friday: No Can Do
Saturday: 11:00 - 15:00 (PST); 4:00 - 8:00 (GMT)
Sunday: No Can Do

(If any of this is screwed up, rely on PST).

[Maquiladora]

Wittlich if you say you can join the lobby at least sometimes then you might be able to join a game but not host. It doesnt ask you for a password if the host doesnt set one, so you might get in, bypassing that looping back thing. I never came across something like that before.

[mkalthoff]

@wÃttlich: when u are in the lobby and type something in the chatbox:
1.Is the message echoed twice?
2. Are you able to leave the lobby?

[Wittlich]

mkalthoff, the message is not echoed twice and yes, I can leave the lobby (it might take a while, but I can eventually leave).

Maquiladora and whoever else is interested: Shadow and myself just sent the past hour or so trying to get a game going - to no avail. Here are some points that we noticed:

1. I cannot join a lobby unless there is someone already there.

2. Shadow sets up a game, I try to join it...my computer states "Joining Game...." and it will stay stuck on this until Shadow exits his game setup, then I get the message "connection lost."

3. I set up a game and the reverse happends - Shadow cannot join.

So the $100,000.00 question is "What are we doing wrong?"

PS: Oh and the gamepoint server is the only one that will allow us in - the igateway server does not.

[Shadow]

*Hasitly disconnects monitor cables in order to not take CPU with it when it gets hurled over the balcony railing...*

[Maquiladora]

This is getting VERY strange. When me, mapfi and ETB tried to start, when ETB hosted mapfi couldnt join and when mapfi hosted ETB couldnt join, in the exact same way you stated you couldnt join Shadow, yet i could still join both of them. When i hosted both could join me, so we settled on that.

It could well be that some people cant host others, or that some people cant host at all. If you can get all your players in the lobby and try every person as host, see if someone works.

Or if not i could try and host and see if you can join me.

[Shadow]

Thanks Maq, might have to do that.
TheArsenal gets online around... well... soon... LOL
We'll see how he fares.
I've hosted lots of games before, and never had any trouble getting into a game like this, so this problem is all new to me. Can't find much in a forum search either...