Empty game list after clicking "Lobby" - Version 2.0.8

[gypakk]

Hello...

IP games work fine. But I can't use the "Lobby". When I click, an empty game list appears.

I use WZ version 2.0.8, WinXP.

Anybody out there who knows what's going on?

[Buginator]

Perhaps nobody is playing a online game?

[Serman]

Dude, it's only empty because nobody is playing.  ???

[gypakk]

Never playing someone in the lobby?

I also didn't understand how to host a game in the lobby. The lobby button appears only inside the Join Game menu.

Or will every game I host be listed in the lobby, regardless I want to play via IP only...?

[Serman]

Any game you host, will appear in the lobby, regardless.

The one who joins has the option to either look through "whats supposed to be" a giant list of servers in the lobby, or can narrow it downto IP address.

though i dont think we'll ever see a "giant list of servers"  :-\

[gypakk]

Thanks! Now I know why an unknown user "grey" appeared on the list while I was trying to connect with a friend for a private skirmish.
To prevent this, I think I simply could block the lobby server by firewall...

A few minutes ago I checked with ethereal:

• When I host a game, my computer connects to the lobby server (by tcp).
• When I click "Join Game" and then "Lobby", not a single packed is sent or received. How could this be? (The firewall does not block any packets.)

Maybe, I simply shold try and see what happens. Now I'm sitting in a train and have only a 2G connection with about 5 kBytes/s, but it could work anyway...

[gypakk]

A new observation:

• I start WZ
• I click MultiPlayer, Join Game, Lobby
• -> Lobby is empty.
• I click Back, IP, leave the IP field empty, click Accept Settings
• -> One game appears
• Click Back, Lobby
• -> Now, there's a game listed in the Lobby: "No join biatches". Whatever this is...
• If I click at this game entry, the host screen appears, but I cannot start a game (no start button showed)

Is this behavior normal?