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No Real Multiplayer in Australia

in Australia

February 5, 2008 3:55:06 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
Hi guys,

In another post entitled "No Australia vs. the World" Australian gamers have voiced their concerns that they cannot access American games, due to a ping limit. I personally have not played the game, but I wanted to make sure from the devs that this can be fixed. I honestly think if this is not addressed then a huge part of the Australian market will ignore the game. I, for one, don't want that to happen, at least partly due to my loyalty to SD and, indeed, to IC.

Could someone please help?
Thanks,
Sib
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Dr.Gonzo
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Reply #1 February 5, 2008 4:39:53 AM
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I don't suppose it's possible to play over other services... Kali for instance?

Devs:
At least implement a user specified max ping for a game... it is a bit shady that Aus can't play with teh rest of teh world....

Could it be related to those cable outages...? I don't know where Aus gets their backbone lines to the states from... so likely an ignorant question
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3HavoC
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Reply #2 February 5, 2008 5:21:28 AM
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have you got the right port open?
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Blair Fraser
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Reply #3 February 5, 2008 5:25:01 AM
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As I said in the other post, there is no ping limit. Everyone in the world is invited to join. This more likely the result of people not having their routers setup correctly for hosting or a known ICO issue that shows "dead" or "full" games in the game list that can't actually be joined resulting in the "rejected by host" message. This is just annoying but should not prevent you from joining actual games.
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Reply #4 February 5, 2008 5:28:14 AM
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Thank you everyone; this post was basically a repeat of the other one, and probably shouldn't have been put up, more so since I haven't played this yet
I ask your forgiveness.
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Reply #5 February 6, 2008 11:51:58 AM
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well im from perth and ive played two complete games with no lag
on timeout on the second one it read my ping as 340 or so (easily the highest around in an 8 player that lasted several hours).

no ping restrictions, but definately something funny going on as i have no troubles connecting to games advertised as aussie which is why this thread got started by someone in the first place.

apparently no troubles were had by aussies in the beta and this problem seems introduced (by all accounts).

anyway im proof that multi DOES work you just have to try connecting to 6-7 games and fail for every one you do (hope you've got time set out for that 10 player game thats the only one you can get on at the time lols)

peace all.
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