Multiplayer problems

[{JF-25} Max]

anyone else having problems playing mp?
7/10 of every game the conecting to host times out and with the other 2/10 attemps it gets stuck on a peer or player or something

[Grogpigi]

Yes I'm having the same proble as well. Have you solved it? because in case I might ask you how you did it as I'm wondering since January about this problem.
Thanks a lot in advance

[{JF-25} Max]

I am sorry to say I didn't solve the problem, All i found out was that it might have something to do with Gamespy not working as it schould or a problem with the firewall.

[Grogpigi]

ok thanks anyway.....because to me happens only when I play with some friends in Italy (I'm in UK) and even with my firewall completely off. Otherwise, as you wrote, the game keeps connecting to the host without ever reaching it (which happen majority of the times).
At this point I'll try to check on gamespy website/forum if someone else told them about this issue.

[go4broke]

Yeah, this was happening to me a lot as well. Not sure why it would also affect playing LAN though.

[death7]

All multiplayer action for Civilization 4 BTS is done through EVOLVE (https://www.evolvehq.com/) client these days. Google it, There are lots of good old players registered there, and many games especially in the mornings (CST). Has a chat room. Mostly teamers. Took me a while to find them myself, tried a bunch of different places.
You will need to have a standard alone (no-steam) version of civ though. Its pretty easy to download it from the internet. May be it is possible to use steam version, not sure.
When you get there, join civ4bts party, and send some friends requests. To access the games, go to you civ->multiplayer->lan games. Some games are almost always there.
PM "gristur" there, I will help you if you need. The partly you want to join is called "civ4bts".
See you around, and gg.