ChaffCommanderCoffey Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 (edited) I know a lot of people have been having issues with the 0AD servers, and I've been meaning to ask this question for a while. Has 0AD tried to get a hosting service through Voobly? Voobly is a hosting platform for games and is the most popular platform for the game that 0AD was based on. Age of Empires. I think it would make a lot of sense to try get 0AD onto Voobly, it might help the community grow, get some more activity in general and possibly help with connection issues people have had joining games. Have the staff of 0AD considered this at all already or is this not possible? I don't know all the things that would be required to set this up but I thought it would be worth asking anyway. Edited October 27, 2017 by ChaffCommanderCoffey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 The thing is there are no 0ad server. When you host you are the server. So if something goes wrong it's your connection. There had been talks and WIPs about a dedicated server option. I don't know how dare @elexis has gone with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elexis Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 Last time I checked its about 1 in 10 persons that can't connect to every game in the lobby. That can be solved by just connecting to some other game and playing with someone else or communicating with these players that person wants to play with. If we want to solve any issue anyone could have, WFG would have to host everything and rent one (if not more) servers. (To solve the rating fakery issues, one would also need a dedicated client which would require more CPU power, likely much more servers too). (Not really motivated to look at Voobly services and licenses now.) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundiata Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 1 hour ago, elexis said: Last time I checked its about 1 in 10 persons that can't connect to every game in the lobby. Are you sure? I have this UDP port issue or that STUN endpoint-thing almost every time I go in the lobby and try to connect. It usually eventually starts working by repeatedly trying to join a game, but sometimes there's no point in trying. I've had friends experience the same thing almost systematically. It kind of spoils the fun, If you're not computer-savy and just want to play a game. Makes you give up trying, especially seen as it seems to be totally random/unpredictable... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elexis Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 In theory, a STUN connection should be as good as reliable. If you say that the connection is established only after retrying sometimes, perhaps the timeout in the config could be changed. (lobby.stun.delay = 500 in the user.cfg for instance), wiki/GameDataPaths Can you reproduce that observation reliably to determine whether the config change actually influenced the outcome? (That delay is the number of milliseconds that the appication freezes while waiting for a server response. If it's too short, the connection won't be established. But the longer it becomes, the more noticeable the freeze becomes. It should be threaded to avoid the freeze ideally.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundiata Posted October 29, 2017 Report Share Posted October 29, 2017 @elexis Thanks! I guess it's related to my sometimes intermittent internet connection... Sometimes it's perfect, but other times it makes you want to bash your head against a wall. I'll try your sollution and get back to you when i play some more online games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elexis Posted October 29, 2017 Report Share Posted October 29, 2017 Tell me if it works, because we can make that timeout value a slider in the lobby options (which is the lazy mans fix). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion.Kanzen Posted October 24, 2022 Report Share Posted October 24, 2022 necromancing this post. I think it would be better choice than steam for now or are we not ready yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted October 24, 2022 Report Share Posted October 24, 2022 9 minutes ago, Lion.Kanzen said: necromancing this post. I think it would be better choice than steam for now or are we not ready yet? I could look into it at my return. I'll put it in my ToDo list. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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