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nosoul4evr · 04-03-2004, 11:44 PM

One reason players may not be able to join another players hosted game is because....

the host isnt patient enough to wait for a player to join..so he quits and goes back into the main chat...usualy then spams,
"Hosting, hosting, hosting...join .join join!"
They then leave to create another game....not knowing or checking to see if their previous game was deleted from the list of hosted games...and usualy it's not.

So this leaves a "ghost" of his previous hosted game..wich of course you cant join because the chat has already been closed. The server just hasnt realized it yet and refreshed it's list of hosted games...and basicaly your trying to connect to nothing.

And of course the biggest problem..routers and firewalls..both of wich can/will make it so you cant host/join games...disabling/reconfiguring them, and their subcomponents will 9 times outa 10 fix any hosting/connecting problems you may encounter.

Edited By nosoul4evr on April 04 2004 at 03:59

04-03-2004, 11:44 PM	#2
nosoul4evr Senior Member Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,343 Post Thanks / Like Thanks (Given): Thanks (Received): Likes (Given): Likes (Received): Dislikes (Given): Dislikes (Received): Points: 0 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s) Quoted: 0 Post(s)	One reason players may not be able to join another players hosted game is because.... the host isnt patient enough to wait for a player to join..so he quits and goes back into the main chat...usualy then spams, "Hosting, hosting, hosting...join .join join!" They then leave to create another game....not knowing or checking to see if their previous game was deleted from the list of hosted games...and usualy it's not. So this leaves a "ghost" of his previous hosted game..wich of course you cant join because the chat has already been closed. The server just hasnt realized it yet and refreshed it's list of hosted games...and basicaly your trying to connect to nothing. And of course the biggest problem..routers and firewalls..both of wich can/will make it so you cant host/join games...disabling/reconfiguring them, and their subcomponents will 9 times outa 10 fix any hosting/connecting problems you may encounter. Edited By nosoul4evr on April 04 2004 at 03:59 __________________ Helping to build a better player one beginer at a time http://nosoul4evr.cyberfuturism.com [img:sig_uid]http://nosoul4evr.cyberfuturism.com/images/xf.gif[/img:sig_uid]