netplay issue

[Sabre21]

ORIGINAL: Maple Leaf

Still having a problem with the login to net play. I changed the two lines in the net play reg txt file as suggested and I still get "Unable to access seeking opponents database" any further suggestions? Very frustrating.

I had to experiment some with my password and log in name. As it turned out my password had a capital letter in it and the reg text file wouldn't accept that. So I used all non-capital letters and it worked.

[Maple Leaf]

Thanks for the prompt response. However there are no capital letters in my password. I even had Matrix re-send my user name and password to me to make sure I had it right. I changed my user name to all lower case. Still getting same error message.
This is Not very player friendly.
Any other suggestions?

[paulderynck]

Is it possible that you have capital letters in your username within your NetPlayReg.txt file? (Or the other way around if you changed it in that file.) They must match exactly.

This was a problem for others.

[KritterVA]

I am also unable to connect to Netplay. I have updated the NetPlayReg.txt to my Matrix account. There are no caps in the password.
This is the error I receive in a popup message:
"Unable to access Seeking Opponent database."

Chris

[Empire101]

Having the same issue, cannot find any players or games in the lobby.

'Unable to access seeking player database' comes up every time [&:]

[Empire101]

ORIGINAL: WIFinToulouse

hourra !!!!

i'm in haha [&o] [&o] [&o] [&o] [&o]

so to solve the issue (thanks to the community) I registered an account at Slitherine web site. As I could not use the same name as I used to register for NetPlay I had to change my NetPlay name by opening the netPlayReg.txt file (in the default WIF folder).
Once I had the same user name on the NetPlay and on the Slitherine web site I could log in NetPlay without the error message.

An alert should be posted because I know many others have this problem.

thanks folks....
ready for Barbarossa if anyone is interested .... (very happy man here) [:D] [:D]

This sorted me out too!!! Huzzah !!!!!

Thanks WIFinToulouse.[:)]

You must use your Sliterine Username and password...and all is sorted.

[KritterVA]

The fixed my problem also. Thanks.

Chris

[AxelNL]

ORIGINAL: paulderynck

Actually I checked all mine and they are all different. (I have two different ones for Netplay as I have two PCs for beta testing.)

So nothing to do with the discussion forum username/password.

It has to do with when you first access the NetPlay forum and create a username/password there. (I'll register my real copy of the game - versus the beta copies - later on and make an exact record for this so I can post detailed instructions. It's been long enough now for my beta versions that I just don't recall.) Once you've done that, then you should be able to log-in to the NetPlay forum and that should get rid of the problem for those who see: "unable to connect to seeking opponent database". The catch here is that folks who have played other (different Matrix) games using the Slitherine servers - already have usernames and passwords and must use the ones they already have.

Next, when starting a new game, you need to ensure that both playernames are absolutely identical to the NetPlay forum usernames. If you can both log-in to the NetPlay forum but your game does not launch automatically (assuming both of you have done the Restore of the matching game files) - then you need to check the player names in the game files (you can do this with Notepad - the names are near the top - however I'd advise against trying to edit game files - and compare them with the names in the NetPlayReg.txt file. If they are not absolutely identical - including what is capitalized - then edit the user name in the NetPlayReg.txt file to match the one in the game file.

Note you can't just make up player names when creating a new game - they must match your Netplay login username. The above editing procedure was found to fix an issue where some letters were captialized in one place but not the other.

I am trying to help a friend to get through this.

When installing the game he entered his first name. When going to the private netplay forum, he used that as well. Result: "Unable to.."
Digging into this thread I instructed him to register with Matrix. It turned out his first name is already in use.
He registered under a new name, and I instructed him to change the user name/password in the NetPlayReg.txt and his username in the serialreg.txt
The result is still "unable to..."
We are now at a point we are lost. Don't know how to proceed.

Lesson is that a customer first needs to register at the Matrix site, before installing the game and entering the Private Netplay forum. this prevents having to change earlier chosen usernames.

Any idea's anybody?

[Centuur]

Is the password exactly the same in all places?

[AxelNL]

ORIGINAL: Centuur

Is the password exactly the same in all places?

I could not check for myself, but he explicitly choose an all-lowercase password so not to make mistakes.

[paulderynck]

ORIGINAL: AxelNL

ORIGINAL: Centuur

Is the password exactly the same in all places?

I could not check for myself, but he explicitly choose an all-lowercase password so not to make mistakes.

The username must match all letters as the same case too. I know that is irregular on almost any other site, but for the NetPlay server combined with your NetPlayReg.txt file, it is mandatory.

And when you start a new game, both the player names you manually enter must also exactly match what's in the server and respective NetPlayReg.txt files.

[Sabre21]

ORIGINAL: paulderynck

ORIGINAL: AxelNL

ORIGINAL: Centuur

Is the password exactly the same in all places?

I could not check for myself, but he explicitly choose an all-lowercase password so not to make mistakes.

The username must match all letters as the same case too. I know that is irregular on almost any other site, but for the NetPlay server combined with your NetPlayReg.txt file, it is mandatory.

And when you start a new game, both the player names you manually enter must also exactly match what's in the server and respective NetPlayReg.txt files.

Evidently that isn't always the case. I had to use no caps at all despite my log in name having caps in them.

[paulderynck]

Sorry, I didn't explain that well at all.

I mean the names manually provided when starting a new game must match exactly letter for letter and in upper or lower case with the usernames in each player's NetPlayReg.txt file. If you don't do that then you won't ever get the games to load on both machines when you meet on the NetPlay server. Of course at that point you already are past the "unable to access" error.

The problem of not being able to access the opponent database occurs when your username/password combination in NetPlayReg.txt does not match your username/password combination recorded on the Server. (And in this part of the process I agree that matching the case in the username doesn't matter.) This can be due to making an error when entering them on the server or it can be due to having a previously existing Slitherine username/password that you used to play a different game and have since forgotten about.

[Sabre21]

ORIGINAL: paulderynck

Sorry, I didn't explain that well at all.

I mean the names manually provided when starting a new game must match exactly letter for letter and in upper or lower case with the usernames in each player's NetPlayReg.txt file. If you don't do that then you won't ever get the games to load on both machines when you meet on the NetPlay server. Of course at that point you already are past the "unable to access" error.

The problem of not being able to access the opponent database occurs when your username/password combination in NetPlayReg.txt does not match your username/password combination recorded on the Server. (And in this part of the process I agree that matching the case in the username doesn't matter.) This can be due to making an error when entering them on the server or it can be due to having a previously existing Slitherine username/password that you used to play a different game and have since forgotten about.

Oh Ok..I agree with you completely there. One fat finger on a wrong key when typing the names in for a game for Netplay will stop that game before it can even get started.

[rogerdubbs]

I was finally able to get this to work. The trick was making sure that I was registered at Slitherine and that I used the same username. I note that until I logged in, I could also see the Index Out of Range = 0 dialog. You can get this when you click on the Player that shows up by default when you are not properly logged in to the server.

[paulderynck]

Welcome to MWiF, Roger.

Edit: BTW same username as what?

[Joseignacio]

So, guys, is netplay working acceptably by now? Provided that I can log in correctly et al, of course...

[ParJ]

First time attempting this, and I have a friend that seem to have similar issues. I've read throuch all the posts in this thread and I made sure to register a Slitherine account and have that exact same information in the NetPlayReg.txt file. I seem to be recognized by the server, but still get the "Unable to access opponent database" message. I once saw another person logged in (probably using the same non-existent database) but no luck finding any other information, posts or opponents. But I'll try this again tomorrow with my friend to see if we can see each other.

I get an early nineties feel about this procedure, maybe I'll have more success using a Windows 3.x PC?

[Sabre21]

ORIGINAL: oto02

First time attempting this, and I have a friend that seem to have similar issues. I've read throuch all the posts in this thread and I made sure to register a Slitherine account and have that exact same information in the NetPlayReg.txt file. I seem to be recognized by the server, but still get the "Unable to access opponent database" message. I once saw another person logged in (probably using the same non-existent database) but no luck finding any other information, posts or opponents. But I'll try this again tomorrow with my friend to see if we can see each other.

I get an early nineties feel about this procedure, maybe I'll have more success using a Windows 3.x PC?

Bloodybill and I tried today and neither one of us could log in. We both were able to do so a couple weeks ago, no idea why not today.

[rogerdubbs]

ORIGINAL: paulderynck

Welcome to MWiF, Roger.

Edit: BTW same username as what?

Thanks!

I made sure I used the same username (rogerdubbs) for Matrix account, this forum and at Slitherine.

On the other hand, the private forum seems to be down again - and it's been really spotty of late. It seems to be down more than up.