Quote Originally Posted by CBR
I was checking out Apothecary today and couldnt find anything but searching for "ports" or "firewall" gave several hits when searching Jousting Fields instead.
CBR

Ah! I thought it belonged with 'techy stuff'.

In fact, I completely overlooked Jousting Fields. I assumed that was just for people arranging MP meets and so forth. Sometimes I think too logically.


Quote Originally Posted by CBR
Any new program that connects to the internet will cause Norton to ask me about allowing the program access. Maybe there are other firewalls that are better but to me it seems nice and simple.
McAfee has a similar feature to this. On the first occasion a prog does something with your connection, you get an alert. It doesn't so much pop-up but slides in from the lower right of the screen. The prog updated itself a few days ago and I've already spotted a new feature, which is an extra tickbox for 'Game Mode', which suppresses the alert messages so as not to interfere with fullscreen games. Apparently, after exiting the game, the alerts will be shown when back at the desktop.

At the alert, you can immediately block all access or grant just outbound access. To grant full access requires going to a list of application permissions in the submenus. However, this alone was not sufficient for normal play. When I joined games, I got CTDs just after deployment ended. Only after opening ports was I able to join without problems and also host as well.