BronzeDodger
December 6th, 2018, 04:51
I think I read somewhere that FG only gets good stats on usage if people connect via the alias so I tried to get tonight's test session going by having the player connect that way.
I had the existing alias, and then I renewed it twice - he would get a (paraphrase) "cannot connect to server" error on all of them.
I gave him the real IP and he was connected in seconds, everything worked, boom.
I've never done any port-forwarding or the like so nothing to remap.
So more for curiosity than it's breaking the game - just wondering what would cause the alias not to find me.
On his end he downloaded FG from scratch on the PC just before starting so no history on the client computer end.
(Total aside: we used Discord for audio and we both agreed we'd happily dump our corporate web conferencing system given how perfect the sound was)
I had the existing alias, and then I renewed it twice - he would get a (paraphrase) "cannot connect to server" error on all of them.
I gave him the real IP and he was connected in seconds, everything worked, boom.
I've never done any port-forwarding or the like so nothing to remap.
So more for curiosity than it's breaking the game - just wondering what would cause the alias not to find me.
On his end he downloaded FG from scratch on the PC just before starting so no history on the client computer end.
(Total aside: we used Discord for audio and we both agreed we'd happily dump our corporate web conferencing system given how perfect the sound was)