[Ashman]

I'm looking to start a weekly or possibly bi-weekly Black & White game night on GameRanger. Anyone interested in playing?

[Vash]

I am, whenever I go on Gameranger there isn't a single B&W game.......

[Ashman]

What is your GameRanger ID? Mine is -Ashman-. Surprisingly, I've found quite a few people who have the game on GR. The trouble is that if you're behind a router you can't host unless you forward the correct ports to your machine. B&W online is a riot. It's fun to see what others have done with their creatures. I'm currently writing a utility that will allow you to change your creature type (including the Ogre) without having to go through the single player puzzles.

[Vash]

My GR name is "Vash OS X" Like you said I can not host games because I use airport. Even if I forwarded the ports the ABS has to be restarted, there my machine with B&W would need a manual IP.....which never works out properly.

[Ashman]

I can host, but unfortunately B&W freezes up right after I hit the Start Game arrow in the chat lobby (B&W's chat lobby, not Gameranger). Everything works perfectly until I try to start the game. It gets stuck on the "Sending/Receiving Game Data" screen and the mouse curser no longer moves. I can CMD-Tab out to the Finder and back to Gameranger, so the machine itself is not frozen. On the other hand, when someone else hosts the game, B&W zips right on past that screen and into the game. Any ideas?

[Dair Grant]

Follow-up for anyone coming back to this thread - Ash's problem hosting a game turned out to be the -hostip command line flag being set in the wrong place.

As far as we know there aren't any outstanding Mac-specific bugs with the network code, but if you have a problem let us know at bwsupport@zonic.co.uk.


-dair
Zonic