I was surprised to see a group of 9 players online with v 1.191 last night. They were probably hosting in other countries. Last Sat afternoon I saw a whopping 11 players on three matches in v 1.191, so where are all the new players who start with small scenarios? Can they not host on the ICO servers? My attempt at hosting compatibility showed that my IP was invisible or something, but I was able to start my own small scenario. I waited an hour for other players, but no one joined so I logged out. What exactly happens when a small scenario hosted match is set up and why aren't there more open matches when I try to join a multiplayer? Sincerely, P4QmA1
The problem is that nearly everyone who wants to play multiplayer Sins plays on the Diplomacy expansion, which is on a separate server from the vanilla Sins (1.191) server. On Diplomacy, there are often 40-50 people online, and you can get a game going relatively quickly if you're only looking for a few players.
If you want to reliably play against other humans, you're going to have to have Diplomacy.
