Spring RTS Engine

Thanks for the answer. That clarifies it a bit. One more question: If two players -both behind a NAT- what to play together. One has to open a server and do proper port forwarding. The other one connects and hosts a game. Then the "hoster" also has to do port forwarding (whatever port he s...

Peet wrote:Just so this is completely clear, you were hosting a TASServer behind NAT, and then trying to host a game from a machine on the same lan (or same machine) as it?

Yes, this was one of the setups we tried and that did not succeed.

Hi, I've read what I could find about the hosting/server/NAT/network setup, but it is still a bit unclear to me. What does the server do and what the host? And which part needs which port (and protocol) forwarded/open? We tried to set up a game over the Inet yesterday. 2 computers behind NAT, 1 dire...