I had some serious issues with starting a multiplayer game.

[Flavorable]

-Friends couldn't join servers.

-User Triptamine had repeated game crashes when logging in to multiplayer until he restarted his computer.

-User UltimateEnd was getting 'Unkown' error messages when trying to join a game.

-It would take several (5-6) tries for Users UltimateEnd and Emperor_Blarg to join the game I had hosted.

-I was completely unable to join Emperor_Blarg's game.

-Infrequent connection drops in the middle of games. This by itself wasn't nearly as frustrating as the problems we had trying to get a game started though.

-Loading an autosave would load us into the wrong factions unless we joined in order.

[SephiRok]

Please keep an eye on the ping (Alt+F1) and if there's disconnects or problems connecting I would need logs from both the host and client right after the error occurs. The simpler and shorter the steps are before the issue occurs, the easier it will be to figure out what is going on from the logs.

Without relevant logs or being able to reproduce it, it's a lot like driving blind.