Hi there, first of all thx for the great game and keep up the good work!
Today and yesterday some friends and i tried to play the game on mp. With two players it works fine but with three or more it dosent work. It seems, that the first player, who connect to the server can play the game, but the rest have bad luck. We tried it serval times and everty time the first player on the server can play it and the rest stucks in the loading screen.

Greetings
XT

Hey XT-19, welcome to the forums!

I've only ever tried multiplayer against one other person at a time, so I can't say that i've not encountered this problem before because I haven't tried. I've not heard of other people mentioning it before though.

The only thing I can think of is that you need to check whether you all have the exact same game files; any differences, no matter how minor those differences are, could cause the game to crash. The best way to do this is to make sure you all have the most up-to-date version of the game by forcing an update. That way, you'll all have the latest version of the game, and get rid of any game modifications that might interefere with the multiplayer. If you all click on the options menu, then click on the updater tab, you'll see an update option in the screen that then displays.

I've mentioned this as the most likely cause because it's entirely possible that someones game is trying to download an update when multiplayer is initiated which is causing a freeze, or someone hasn't performed an update yet, or even has modded their game files but hasn't told the others and passed on the modded files so the game crashes because their files are different to those that the other players are using.

I haven't got any other suggestions at the moment, but i'll try and contact Mike (The developer) and see if he has any suggestions that can help. He's absolutely swamped with his job at the moment though so it might take a while to get a response. I'm sorry that your first multiplayer experience results in problems, but i'm sure we'll be able to sort out a fix before long if you're willing to wait.

Okay thanks for fast response. I will ask the others if the had modded there version and check for differents in the files.

This isn't definitely the cause of the problem, but it's a good start. If it still happens after you've all checked, i'll keep pestering Mike for an answer. I managed to speak to him on MSN but only for long enough for him to tell me that he's swamped with his work to talk. (His colleagues use MSN to contact each other so he's always online, just rarely able to talk to non-work people)

Me and 2 friend also had this problem. We were using direct connect over hamachi. When we tried playing with 2 it worked fine, but then our friend logged in and wanted to join so he DLed and updated. Then when we tried to play with 3 one of us always wouldnt load. It seems to be random as to who cant load the game. We tried it with all 3 of us hosting. We also have fresh unmodded and updated copies of the game.

Thanks for the confirmation report, thokkthokk. I'll add it to the known issues thread for the time being. I'll let Mike (The developer) know about it as soon as I can but he's swamped with his work at the moment.

By the way, welcome to the forums!