creamy_smooth: Thanks guys! This is awesome! I do have one question though: can you tell us which firewall ports to open to make things work? It looks like UDP 514, 5001, 5002, 6001, and 6004 get used consistently. However, I'm also seeing a lot of seeming random ports used while connecting to various compute.amazonaws.com IPs. I've attached one example. Thanks again!
Raff: Hello,
Like with all galaxy games, the ports are random and cannot be determined. Even if you could force your local port on your machine, then your router can assign a random port for you and the same is for everyone that do not have a public ip.
Regards
Thanks for the response Raff. I appreciate it. However, I'm still confused. Are you essentially saying that we need to completely turn off our firewalls to use multiplayer? That seems like a very bad idea.
Since my last post I've been researching alternatives like dynamic port forwarding with SOCKS, but I haven't made much headway. What are other folks doing out there? Thanks again.