Would anyone be interested in getting on Windows Live Messenger voice chat with me? I'd like to see if I can host a server; I've got open ports, so unless the code is really cranky, I should be able to do it. But I need someone to help me test it out; I can't just assume that it doesn't work if no one joins for an hour. I've often had a working server with no one joining for an hour, on other simulators. If it works, maybe we could do some duels or something.

I would but I'm at work - it is a problem and gets in the way of my simming all the time

Anyway what I usually do is jump in a server that has people, and ask if anyone will help you test. I do this when testing a mission there's usually someone who will help.

Cheers

I've asked someone to do it twice now and they couldn't connect. My router has the right ports open, TCP and UDP plus the download port. I did a search for threads about hosting, didn't find anything relevant. R.o.F. has a cranky netcode for hosting, hey? How do I do this?

Common problem, I never tried the 'create server' option till recently, but I'd opened the necessary ports months earlier.

When you say you've opened the right ports in your router, do you mean from the ROF launcher? It seems you have to go in and forward the correct ports. Here's what I did:

In 'virtual servers' in my Belkin router interface, I added 3 lines-

1) 28000-28001 in both the inbound port and private port lines, TCP type

2) 28000-28001 in both the inbound port and private port lines, UDP type

3) 28100-28101 in both the inbound port and private port lines, TCP type

I periodically make sure the internal private IP entry is correct using the Windows command prompt 'ipconfig' to check, since it tends to change when we have a power outage lasting more than an hour due to storms or whatever.

We've been flying on my listen server this way for some time now, nice and stable except for a couple of occurrences of #10009 'cannot connect to server' errors continuously for about 45 minutes at a time (I assume from trouble on the master server's end), but that's the only trouble so far.

Hope that's helpful, if not I suggest checking out the support section of the official ROF forums, the devs do keep an eye on them and have always been ready to help folks out in my experience.

Good luck!

[MF] Gunloon

I meant I did the port forwarding on my router from my Internet browser, then selected the correct ports within the game launcher. No dice. I guess I'll have to sign up at the official forum and ask.

Hey Benny

First thing is reset your router as upnp have gone to the wrong ip for me before.

You should also go into rof settings and set your ip manually. It should be your internal ip.

Definitely join the rof forums thats where we lurk mostly

Not sure what you mean. Mind clarifying?



Yep, is.

Just off and on again

What do you mean? Every time I start Rise of Flight to host a server, I should go into the options in the game launcher and check the box that says "Manually enter I.P."? Ports, too?

You were asking for clarification on resetting your router, that's why I said off and on again i.e. how to reset your router if it doesn't have a reboot switch.

For the manual setting of IP you only need to do it once if you have a static IP. If you don't have static, then you have to check your ip each time you play because it could change at any time.