Thinking about Hosting a online game

[HouseHobbit]

I am thinking about hosting a online game in the furture..Perhaps the PTO add on, it seems there are several men hiosting ETO and CFS3, But I haven't noticed alot of PTO games..Or MAW games..Any advice will be MOST welcome..
HouseHobbit

 

[one-eye]

Grizz

I am thinking about hosting a online game in the furture..Perhaps the PTO add on, it seems there are several men hiosting ETO and CFS3, But I haven't noticed alot of PTO games..Or MAW games..Any advice will be MOST welcome..
HouseHobbit

The man you need to talk to would be Grzz50.

 

[Tailwind]

I am thinking about hosting a online game in the furture..Perhaps the PTO add on, it seems there are several men hiosting ETO and CFS3, But I haven't noticed alot of PTO games..Or MAW games..Any advice will be MOST welcome..
HouseHobbit

Shouldn't really be any different then hosting CFS3 or ETO. You will have to make sure you have then latest version of MAW or PTO non modified. You will have to make sure you have opened the proper ports on your router if you have one.

You will have to allow Windows firewall to let the game through. You will have to know your external IP address to post on SOH.

That should about do it.

:ernae:

TW

 

[HouseHobbit]

Thank you for the info, I haven't Hosted a Game before..And I do wish to get it right before I announce a game is up..THANK YOU:ernae:

 

[Tailwind]

Thank you for the info, I haven't Hosted a Game before..And I do wish to get it right before I announce a game is up..THANK YOU:ernae:

Well look it still may give you an issue or something. Do me a favor don't worry about it. Happens all the time with new hosts and we all appreciate the effort. First things first do you know if you have a router? If so do you know how to log onto it?

TW

 

[BeauBrummie]

0-1 Driver hosted a few, maybe Stever can pick this up?

 

[DOS MAXIMUS]

Hi

I HOST CFS3 ,ETO,MAW PTO, BUT NO ONE JOINS ITS TAKIN US 2 YEARS TO GET GUYS FLYIN ETO ON A REG AS MUCH AS I LOVE STEVE HE IS NOT THE 1 TO ASK WHEN IT COMES TO ONLINE FLYING WE HOST NEW MISSIONS EVERY WEEK AND THANKFULLY MY BROS COME OUTAND SUPPORT WANNA TRY MULTI PLAYER SUPPORT THE ONES THAT DO EVERYDAY AND EVERYWEEK:ernae:CAUSE ILL TELL YA THE HOURS WE SPEND MAKIN THIS ALL WORK ONLINE ARE WASTED IF YOU DONT JOIN

 

[blacksheep-ghost03]

Hello

Thank you for the info, I haven't Hosted a Game before..And I do wish to get it right before I announce a game is up..THANK YOU:ernae:

A GREAT WAY TO START IS FIRST JUST START HOSTING
A REGULAR CFS3 GAME. A STOCK CFS3 GAME IS A START. AFTER STARTING GAME UP CLICK ON " MULTIPLAYER " THEN CLICK ON " HOST GAME " THEN
ON THIS FIRST TAB SELECT TYPE OF FIGHT IE " DOGFIGHT OR TEAMFIGHT. SELECT TYPE OF AIRCRAFT OR ALLOW ALL. SELECT WHEN GAME ENDS
IE....10 MIN GAME OR 10 KILL GAME ETC.... THEN
CLICK ON " GAME NAME " TAB. HERE ENTER A NAME FOR YOUR GAME. THEN THIS IS A IMPORTANT STEP
" UNCHECK " PUBLISH MY GAME IN THE CFS3 GAMEMATCH DIRECTORY AS MICROSOFTS SERVER IS NO LONGER UP. IF YOU DON'T UNCHECK THIS IT WILL WANT YOU TO LOG IN TO THE SERVER WHICH OF COURSE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. AFTER HAVING SET UP THE ABOVE MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR PUBLIC IP IS.

OF COURSE THE ABOVE IS BASED ON YOU ALREADY HAVING YOUR PORTS SETUP IN YOUR ROUTER. IF YOU NEED HELP SETTING THEM UP PM ONE OF US AND WE CAN SEND YOU THE PORT #'S FOR CFS3.

:ernae:

 

[Lightman]

Hosting on line games

I am thinking about hosting a online game in the furture..Perhaps the PTO add on, it seems there are several men hiosting ETO and CFS3, But I haven't noticed alot of PTO games..Or MAW games..Any advice will be MOST welcome..
HouseHobbit

Hello HouseHobbit

One very important step to on line hosting is to keep it all stock aircraft,
What i mean by this is, If you have downloaded any add on aircraft to any of your installs (CFS3, PTO, MAW, ETO, ETC ) You will most certainly have players telling you they cant join your game because of a mismatch error because they don't have the same aircraft as you do when you try to host one of these games.

This doesn't mean that you have to delete any of your add ons,
All you have to do is disallow those add on aircraft before you post your game.

When you click multilayer, click host game, bottom of window you will see where it says Change, and Aircraft restrictions , just scroll through the list and uncheck (remove the red dot from box) of any of the planes that you may have added to the game

"NOTE"

And it dose not matter how many add ons that a potential player has added to his games , As long as you post with all stock aircraft everyone should be able to get in when you host