Is anyone else unable to connect to any server? I'm not sure what the problem, I used to be able to play PA until this recent patch where they allow you to play offline. However, for some reason when I go to settings and the server tab both in the main menu and in the galactic war menu (which is what I'm trying to play) they both have the two drop boxes. Under the server drop box it says "nothing selected" and on the local server drop box I have the "auto" selected. When I try to click on the server drop box nothing happens, both in the main menu and the galactic war menu. I am apparently unable to select any server ever. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game a few time and tried selecting the local server "on" and "off" positions. Nothing seems to work, every time I create a war I get as far as moving my commander to a hostile planet, clicking the fight button and within two seconds I get the error "Unable to connect to server returning to main menu" which is the galactic map. Solutions?
That sounds like a network issue. PA is unable to download the server list. As a test, can you try to disable your firewall and virus scanner and see if the issues still persist? It's odd that Galactic War still doesn't work for you when you force the local server to "on" though. Well, unless you are on Windows and have the 32-bit version. A 64-bit OS is the only absolute requirement for the offline server.
That's what I was hoping for, just a simple network error that could easily be fixed. However, Planetary Annihilation has been on the exemption list for my firewall, and I still went through with turning it completely off and launching PA. Same issue persists, the drop box doesn't drop down and I still can't connect to server. PA was not in the list of exceptions for my virus scanner, so I added it there but the problem is still present. I do use windows but I am operating on a 64-bit OS so there shouldn't be any issue there.
So to determine if the servers are there, PA calls the following urls: USCentral: http://75.126.120.254/ping EUWest: http://5.153.6.208/ping Australia: http://ec2-54-79-206-150.ap-southeast-2.compute.amazonaws.com/ping Do those work from your internet browser? You should just get the word "Ok". Additionally, can you post a PA log? They can be found in "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\log" On a typical install %LOCALAPPDATA% will be C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local
From your log: That's really odd! Out of everything, it should be able to resolve at least that. I mean, localhost is your own computer! It also says it can't resolve "4.uberent.com", which is why you are not getting anywhere on-line. There seems to be some DNS trouble going on and it's specific to the PA application... Which firewall and virus scanner do you use?
Just to rule out anything fishy with PA itself, if you use the UberLauncher, can you press [VERIFY]? That will check if all of the files are ok. Just in case something weird is going on there. There is a similar functionality in Steam to check the integrity, but I'm not entirely sure where. Probably under a right-click somewhere. Another thing you can try is resetting the Windows 7 firewall. I don't have Windows myself, but I found these instructions on the Microsoft forums: (source) I imagine that will purge any custom settings you made though. Finally, can you ping "localhost"? So, open a command prompt and type Code: ping localhost It should output something similar to this: Code: PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.018 ms 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.027 ms 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.024 ms
I reset the firewall and re-added PA to the exception list. Still the same problem. I opened up Command Prompt and tried to ping localhost but... C:\Windows\System32>ping localhost Ping request could not find host localhost. Please check the name and try again. I am able to ping the specific addresses though. C:\Windows\System32>ping 127.0.0.1 Pinging with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Ping statistics for PE0: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
Do you have any VPN software installed by any chance? Apparently that can cause these sorts of issues.
As far as I know, the only place where I would find VPN software would be on my router and that hasn't ever been enabled.
Hmm, well, this is getting beyond my ability to fix. It's not your router, since that wouldn't explain being unable to resolve "localhost". It means there is a problem with your Windows install. Certainly not being able to resolve "localhost" is what is preventing you from being able to play local games. I found some commands you can try: This apparently resets a bunch of network stuff that could help Code: netsh winsock reset This one flushes your DNS Code: ipconfig /flushdns
There we go! I had flushed my DNS before and that didn't work, but this time I used the "netsh winsock reset" command and reset my computer and now everything works! Thankyou!
