The Ship! Let's all get it!

-budd- · April 17, 2015, 08:13:34 PM

did you put your ip address in? I used single port forwarding, instead range. external port 27015, internal port 27015, both for protocol, then the last part of your ip address.

Do you see any servers?

-budd- · April 17, 2015, 08:28:16 PM

you can try this to join my server.
Start the ship, go to join a cruise,click on favorites, add server, put this in 24.19.66.141:27015

or you can try the server list grog ship server PW=grogs

Slick Wilhelm · April 17, 2015, 08:34:02 PM

Nope, no joy. I added your IP address to my "favorite" servers....and nothing. I also don't see your server in the Steam client. :(

BanzaiCat · April 17, 2015, 08:37:02 PM

I did the same thing...added your IP to my Favorites, but it's not coming up.

As a matter of fact, I see no servers at all.

-budd- · April 17, 2015, 08:40:12 PM

try refreshing the list and scrolling it to find it. I have to refresh a few times sometime to see it. Anyone else get a server started? I'm going to make it public and see if others can join.

BanzaiCat · April 17, 2015, 08:44:12 PM

I've hit Refresh about a thousand times and nothing is appearing.

I'll have to bail. My son is driving me batshit crazy because Steam isn't letting him log in on his laptop, so I have to go figure that nonsense out now.

-budd- · April 17, 2015, 09:07:24 PM

Well, the server seems fine when i look it up, no idea why you guys cant see it. Maybe someone more experienced in the server thing can put one up.

Philippe · April 17, 2015, 09:19:31 PM

Nothing when I tried it either.

Not even seeing a list, except when I go to Arcade, which I don't think is where I'm supposed to go.

-budd- · April 17, 2015, 09:33:06 PM

you have to use the main steam window to get the server list, under view, server, filter by game the ship. The in game server browser doesn't work. I can join a public server just fine, hopefully someone else will get a viewable server up sometime so i can pan kill a grog.

Toonces · April 17, 2015, 10:43:03 PM

I'm on. Using the Steam page as Budd says is key (On the main Steam page, not the game page, go to the very top and under "view" etc. as Budd says above).

Don't see any Grog servers on at 1743 Hawaii time.

Toonces · April 18, 2015, 12:01:11 AM

Well Budd and I couldn't seem to get the private server thing sorted out, but we both joined on a public server for a bit and it was a pretty damn fun time I thought. This game will shine with 5 or 10 of us all on at once.

It seemed like there were several public servers without too many people on; maybe we should target one of those next Friday night...

Slick Wilhelm · April 18, 2015, 07:40:51 AM

I think my problem was that I was looking for budd's server on the game steam page, not the main steam page. Dangit.

Let's try to organize something for next Friday night for sure.

Bison · April 18, 2015, 07:57:29 AM

An option worth trying would to become friends on steam. Once you do that it provides an option on both the server selection screen and your friends profile page to join a friend's game. I'd think that would make your process a lot easier.

-budd- · April 18, 2015, 09:08:07 AM

yea it would be funner :) with known people, only thing about a public server is no choice of game modes or maps. Toonces is right there were plenty of empty server's. The friend thing might be better as Bison said. I Got my pot kill, right to the back of Toonces head...twice....of course he beat me to death with an umbrella a short time later ;D

Philippe · April 18, 2015, 09:26:40 AM

Perhaps what we should do before next Friday is have a logging on rehearsal, because that seems to be the weak point.

And maybe when Friday rolls around, someone could post exactly what to do (and especially where to go) in big bold letters.

Some of us are only familiar with Steam to the extent that we play the games we own on it. When it comes to Steam I only know what I absolutely think I need to know, and tend to ignore everything else. I still don't know what badges are, or how to turn all those little things that drop into my account into game money. (They must be worth something, I've got far too many games).

Having electronic friends and collective social activities may be a bit of a mystery for the rest of us long-in-the-tooth dinosaurs.

I'm reminded of the excessively (but delightfully) detailed explanation of what to do that used to get posted for Dominion games.

There may also be things in people's Steam set-ups that limit the amount of group interaction. I know that until now I've always refused to be 'friends' with anyone.