I've really been enjoying Sins Rebellion and therefore decided to get my friend a gift purchase of it on Steam.

We played one small 1vs1 map successfully and then moved to a 1vs1 with 23 planets and had no issues. Each time I hosted through ICA.

Yesterday we wanted to try a Hard AI and do the 5vs5 Large "Gateway" map. We were about 2.5 hours into the game when he lagged out. I didn't see that he left and thought the AI was him for a little bit. He then realized himself that he dropped and called me on the phone to let me know.

I saved the game, exited out and waited for him in the lobby. He came in, I started the game, and the game appears to start for me, and he appears to be joining the game, but the game is kind of in a frozen state? The resource count won't increase and when I look at his connectivity, it says "Lagged" for him and occasionally he spikes up in to the 1000 - 6000's.

He says his game looks odd, he can see the map, but he says the lines look different and he can't do anything either and that it gives the same latency numbers for him.

I tried sending him my save-game files (the one from when he disconnected, located in the my docs/my games/.../SaveGame_MP folder) and it would still not work. Then I sent him the last Autosave game files from the AutoSave-MP folder and it wouldn't work either.

We were both doing rather well and really don't want to start over... is there anything we're missing?