Spring RTS Engine

Ta is great and until now the best rts i've seen, but there's this thingy buggin me... Must have been asked before but anywayz here it goes: when i want to host people cant seem to join, right, forward the correct port: 8452 in your advanced connection settings. I did this: added a port udp for spring and later also for tcp, but i don't think the last one was nesscecary, still red people in in my game, it's not that im a racist, but i prefer them green. Also i'm recieving an ip from my internet provider but i host on a port right? And my ip stays the same for months, so this should work, but as u can guess it doesn't. I don't have a router just to make sure that i don't get any of that. Am i overlooking something?

ViziX(Ta spring name: oioioi)

tried the 4 different ways of letting people connect in the host menu?

Are you forwarding to your machine's internal ip address and not the ip address assigned by your ISP?

Are you using a hardware firewall?

4 different ways of letting people join? At least the ways i know. I' m forwarding just the port in my advanced conection properties of the firewall menu. Also tried to use my ip (internal) as computername. This firewall thingy sucks but i can't just turn it off.

Viz

ViziX wrote:This firewall thingy sucks but i can't just turn it off.

If you can't just turn it off, it really sucks indeed
I think you should ask your ISP how to set up port forwarding correctly. Note that forwarding ports can and will lower security (if you have a firewall, it's the difference between being separated from a dangerous animal by a steel cage and living on another planet than it).

Tnx for the information and people trying to help, but apperently i am doing something wrong since i don't see anyone else with this problem... It's just the XP firewall and ofcourse i can turn it off but i'm afraid it has something to do with dynamic ip stuff(not tested jet). If u read this and u know something about this plz set me free.

oi

P.S.: i will try turning it off
P.S.2 : i think this can be solved quit easily, but i just dont't see the problem.

the problems most of the people here have are firewalls...by turning them off, hosting is no longer a problem.
choosing hole-punching under NAT-traversal seems to help also sometimes. perhaps you try this.
i dont think dynamic ip is problematic, as long as it doesnt change ingame. i also use a dynamic one.