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[ZIM!!]

You know the more I play this game MP the more frustrating it is. I'm still having trouble getting into games although not as much as before.

Joinable games to begin with are usually too few

Of those games that are joinable and unlocked some of the games listed are corrupt like the games been listed there for like 5 hours with 3/4 people.

Then if you get into a game it sometimes takes forever for people to join

And then you finally get enough people everybody hits ready(cross your fingers) you drop into the game and people lag out this happens in too many games

Then there's always somebody that either didn’t listen or just wasn’t told the rules and in a game that was 1 ship only somebody brought 7 heavy first rates, and he just steamrolls everyone despite calls to have the extra units withdraw.

Of course there's the mid game lag outs( I hate this) or the host quits and the game crashes so others cant continue.

And the quiters due to excessive and unsportsman like taunting.

Ive spent hours before Ive actually had 1 game that was actually smooth running and went from beginning to end with all players present.

It just takes way too much time trying to find and get into a good game.

[Prussian to the Iron]

i agree. almost no games available, even fewer you can join, even fewer without passwords, and even fewer i actually want to do.

at the end, i end up narrowing it down to either 0-3.

[Yun Dog]

This has always been the case with TW titles;

you can sit around waiting for an hour for a game, then you've goto hope that its idiot free

This is why the TW community became a strong and tight group, with codes of conduct etc, because when you might only get 1 or 2 games in a night - you want them to be fun games - not a waste of time. So its a closed group and they wont play with strangers.

Thats also the reason for the lock games - its the community locking out the random losers (and lets face it, in online games there are lots o losers).

My advice join in the community via repspected clans and competitions and get yourself a big group of fun players who want to play for the excitement and challenge and not FTW. And in no time there will be planty of games to be played.

This would be helped by CA coming to the party with mo maps and mo game types and balacing of the units. Otherwise there might not be a community to join.

[Tomisama]

Gents, that’s what your Friends List is for; building your own private community of trusted dependable and respectable players.

Select the Players button (lower left of Steam overlay) and see the list players of any game that you are currently playing, or have recently played (not sure how far back it will keep). And when you find people you would like to play again, you can select to add them to your friends list. They have to ok the listing, but that should be no problem if you have been a decent opponent or teammate. So there you are, with a verified list of people that you don’t have to worry about playing again.

If you make a mistake and pick a person that turns out to be a jerk, you can fix that real quick. On the open Friends list, right click on that person to see a drop down menu of very useful options. You can investigate them with View Steam Page and View Aliases, our dump them with Remove This Friend and Block All Communication. I don’t know if you can unblock them in the future, so be careful with that one.

Sweet Sailing All

[Prussian to the Iron]

i am in a steam group with like 109 people in it, so i cannot view them, and thus cannot join. kinda sucks.

[Tomisama]

i am in a steam group with like 109 people in it, so i cannot view them, and thus cannot join. kinda sucks.

Steam Groups can help you identify common interests, but there is no link other than the Group page.

But Steam Friends can be viewed across different servers, and called into games no matter what server you are on.