completely baffled about hosting direct network game
Hi - I'm a noob here and am having no success hosting a direct network game with a couple friends. I actually played dom 3 a few years ago and hosted successfully, but I have no idea how.
When I choose network/setup a dominions server, it appears to ask me to choose a random port number, and that's it. no one can ever link to the IP address and port.
I recognize that my IP address may change, but I check and use the real IP address (rather than the one dominions gives me). But that doesn't work.
I have a router but don't think I have a firewall.
What gives? I'd troubleshoot this if I had any idea how to do that. Is there some port number I'm supposed to be using (I don't really even understand what "port" means). Help!
ps. we may host on Gandalf's server, which is great, but still it seems like there should be a way for me to set this up myself.
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