Cross region : Matchmaking on or off? What's the deal. Can't see a summon sign of a friend in US.

[binom]

Using password for co-op. Invasion works into both worlds but we can't see the white summon signs of each other. Tried toggling the abovementioned flag on and off. No effect.

His SL 88. Mine SL 136.

Any ideas, guys?

[Pirate]

Is the password an exact match? They are cap sensitive. With passwords matches, level difference isn't much of an issue, butthe greater the difference, the longer it takes for the signs to eventually appear.

Also, make sure the one doing the sumoning is embered and does not also have his/her summon sign down. Placing your sign down prevents summon signs from appearing in your world.

[ardoon]

Originally posted by Pirate:

Is the password an exact match? They are cap sensitive. With passwords matches, level difference isn't much of an issue, butthe greater the difference, the longer it takes for the signs to eventually appear.

Also, make sure the one doing the sumoning is embered and does not also have his/her summon sign down. Placing your sign down prevents summon signs from appearing in your world.

[binom]

password = exact match
embered = yes

still not working, hence the question, you know. BTW, didn't know the effect of the Giant Tree's Seed has a timeout... Friend tried to help me as a mad spirit. He timed out after a very short time.

Is it documented? How long is it exactly?

[Morbiusly a Beast]

There are only two "regions", Japan and the rest of the world. Cross region matchmaking is pretty much nothing unless you're Japanese, funny enough. As for your inability to summon, from my experiance, traveling to firelink (or any other area) and back, switching passwords, restarting the game all helped me and a friend see eachothers signs when we couldn't before. Sometimes it just doesn't work, and trying again some time later seemed to fix it

[binom]

Thanks a lot. I'll try that next time.

[Pirate]

Only other thing then is to be patient. Summoning outside of normal level ranges takes time. *shrugs*

(though I do want to re-iterate that only one of you is putting their sign down, not both at once. I know it sounds like a silly thing to harp on, but I used to do LOTS of co-op in the previous DS games, and some people still did this (among other things) and inadverantly prevented themselves from partaking in jolly co-operation)

[binom]

Nah. We are not that daft. :D

[Velkhana's Summer]

Yo, make sure you haven't killed main area boss or are summoning in a solo area.

[binom]

I have killed Midir, but not Gael. I get invaded too. So I guess the area boss -- Gael, I guess -- isn't dead.
The BF is "Ringed City Inner Wall". I get sumonned there a lot. So... Weird.