How to host games on starcraft

Brood War En-3 in the US West Server so you can chat to each other, but the game list that you see is different and you cannot join games that your friend hosts, because your lobby list is different. I just tested this with yotto. I can confirm that what he experiences also happens to me - the game list that I see is different from the game list that he sees.

However, the chat channels are separate and unaffected by this bug, so we can be in the same channel, chatting together, but we see a different game list. I can also post pictures of this:. This is the main problem - On the left is my view of the lobby list, on the right is the view of my friend, yotto, of the same lobby list, in the same server US West.

However, we see completely different games and if I host a game he cannot join it and vice versa. This shows what happens if I try joining a game that another of my friends had joined when i switched the server.

Just a small note on how to reproduce the issue - restart the game a few times, for me the lobby list changes at least once when i restart the game times, so I see a different lobby list. Sometimes it is broken, sometimes everything works fine.

But most of the time the issue is present. And the last two-three days it was nearly to impossible to join to almost all the games. Restarting SC:R sometimes can help too.

I cant join hosted games of my friend and he cant join my hosted games. July 1st, , AM 2. The problem probably is your router has changed you ip number. They do that every 24 hours unless you make some changes. Client Lease Time: 0 0 means one day. I have been know to change that , but it is done in minutes. To check your IP number. Does it match what you set in port forwarding. If not change the IP in port forwarding. Most players find it quite rude for someone to create their setup while a full public lobby is waiting to play the game.

If you do so, you will almost certainly receive a good deal of backlash and likely be repicked. Instead, the advisable way to host a game is to, rather than joining through the Join a Game screen and being the host, choose Save Slot from the dropdown-box before clicking Join a Game , this will allow for free time to customize your setup.

Once the setup has been created, you are free to either invite others to join your game The -Mafia- channel on Battle. The system will allow you to emulate games by rolling all of the random possibilities, as per the roles or role categories you have selected.

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