SO glad to find you guys

[Biggvs_Richardvs]

Hello,

 My Name is Sheldon and I am super glad to be here.

 First let me say you guys (and gals?) have done an AWESOME job on this game. I installed it on Ubuntu just to check it out and I can't tell you how impressed I am, even in alpha.

I don't know how many hours I spent playing AoE back in the late nineties and I have been Jonesing for something similar but totally unwilling to boot up windows just to play it (I know it runs in wine, but still).  This is totally awsome.

 I do have one question - about the networking/multiplay - how do I change/specify the port number?

 I'm a fan of ancient history so I would be interested in helping out with the effort to create campaigns. My coding skills are there, but I've spent my last decade or so as a system engineer and mysql dba so I'll need to brush up/practice.

 Looking forward to it!

 

Sheldon

 

[Imarok]

1 hour ago, Biggvs_Richardvs said:

 I do have one question - about the networking/multiplay - how do I change/specify the port number?

This will be in for the next release (coming soon).

[FeXoR]

Hi Sheldon and welcome to the 0 A.D. forum

Thanks for letting us know you like the game so far.

Yes, there are some female team and community members but AFAIK not that many.

Joining a game via the lobby server should always work (with an internet connection that is ).

To host a game via the lobby server 0 A.D. Alpha 20 uses UDP port 20595.

Fully fledged routers should also support port mapping (but some so called routers nowadays have hard times correctly providing IPs to connected devices allready...).

I thought linux has it's own port mapping utility you and the people you want to play with could use but I can't find it.
EDIT: Fixed that double typo - though it's much less fun now x)

To get involved in the development of 0 A.D. I reccoment starting here:

https://play0ad.com/community/participate/

http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki

 

Enjoy the game, your stay in the forum and trac

[Biggvs_Richardvs]

Thanks so much guys!

 

" ....the people you want to pay with could use but I can't fund it. "

  It's ok,  linux is free - no need to fund it!    LOL cool double typo (I assume?).

So I assume you mean that I would just forward/remap whatever port I want people to connect with to port 20595 on the server, right?

 Really I don't need to change the port so much as know which port to open up in my firewall config. I usually look in games for the place where you set the port so I know which port to allow traffic into.  If it's listening on 20595 and that's all I need open for clients to connect, then I'm good. I'm only going to be running on my local network, but ubuntu and fedora have a pretty locked down local firewall. I'll give it a try and see.

 

Thanks, and keep u the good work! Hope my donation went through....

 

Best,

Sheldon

 

 

[Biggvs_Richardvs]

 Oop. Found a possible bug in multiplayer. Creating new thread to report it....

[WhiteTreePaladin]

On 9/18/2016 at 0:39 PM, Biggvs_Richardvs said:

It's ok,  linux is free - no need to fund it!    LOL cool double typo (I assume?).

The second typo was very possibly caused by autocorrect as it often tries to guess the next word by context.

On 9/18/2016 at 0:39 PM, Biggvs_Richardvs said:

If it's listening on 20595 and that's all I need open for clients to connect, then I'm good.

I believe that is correct. UDP port 20595 should be all you have to allow.

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 Oop. Found a possible bug in multiplayer. Creating new thread to report it....

You can post reports in the bug reports forum or create an account on trac.

http://trac.wildfiregames.com/

https://wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?/forum/378-bug-reports/

Edited September 20, 2016 by WhiteTreePaladin

[Lion.Kanzen]

Create campaigns huh?

We have 2 types campaigns ,but what you have in mind?