The day before posting this, I had a blast in a four-player multiplayer game with some friends that I hosted, in Alpha 19 Syllepsis and changed nothing afterwards, no firewall settings or network settings. It worked flawlessly.
However, this afternoon we attempted to play again and it simply did not work. If i hosted, others couldn't join, and I was unable to join them if they hosted a game. What's interesting is I was able to join a random player's lobby in Lobby Play, and so were they.
A note I should add is the servers we were able to join in Lobby Play were colored red, whereas if we attempted to host the server would appear green.
The day before, I never manually port forwarded. so I assume my router (Securifi Almond) automatically port forwards. (There's an acronym for what exactly it does, I can't seem to find it anywhere at the moment). However, today when we try again none of us are able to connect. The error message corresponds with one that would be fixed by port forwarding, and yet the other day it worked fine without.
Did something change with the way 0AD handles hosting overnight? Is it a problem with my router/modem? Is it just a temporary problem that will sort itself out?
I would really appreciate some support, thank you!
