Dunedan

All right, enough is enough. After I had to remove a few responses, I'm locking this thread now.

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/wiki/FAQ#what-shall-i-do-when-joining-multiplayer-matches-fails-with-an-error-message

The best way to report abusive behavior is to send a private message including screenshots and other details to one of the lobby moderators here in the forums. That's much more effective than pinging people or complaining in public posts. And if you ping moderators in the lobby please include what's the issue. You can't expect people to be looking at the lobby at that moment, neither can you you expect people know why you're pinging them when you just write their username.

I mean, we all know that there is only one country with proper bread.

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The symptoms are the same as here: Even though I went back and forth with the user there in private messages, we weren't able to figure out the cause. At least we managed to narrow it down to the specific PC, so something is somehow wrong with the Windows installation. It'd be interesting here as well to get answers to the questions I posted here:

You can be glad you don't see the amount of spam they're trying to post.

The account "tata12" is not registered. So if you tried to log in with that user account, that's probably the reason why it's not working, even though you should get a different error message in that case.

Ok, this is a different problem then.

As per the Terms of Use of the multiplayer lobby registering multiple accounts is prohibited. Please contact me via private message so we can sort out which of these two accounts to delete again.

That's definitely interesting and the first time somebody reported this problem. Can you please send me a private message with the lobby username of your friend so I can have a look if we got something in the logs for these connection attempts?

What's the version of 0ad she's using? Are you 100% sure it's r28? Can you confirm that it worked with the same internet connection before? What's the name of the internet service provider? If you can test, does it work when using another internet service provider? When running "certmgr.msc" and selecting "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" -> "Certificates" in the left pane, does the list of certificates contain one or more containing "ISRG"?

You probably disabled TLS encrypted connections to the multiplayer lobby in the past. See:

And for completeness sake here is the announcement post the banner links to (for everybody who stumbles over this thread after the banner is gone):