Migrating?

I was playing Vasari, but they seem to be fleeing rather than migrating...

I've started to get into multiplayer, and I'm really enjoying it. However, I've only managed to finish one game out of 3, meaning I doubt I'll venture back into multiplayer until I have a solution, which saddens me, as sins is an awesome game.

In the other two, I've gotten a little into the game (I say a little, maybe 30mins, 60mins...ish... wasn't counting.) when suddenly the network screen pops up and claims that me and my opponent(s) are migrating, and gives me buttons telling me that I could "drop" myself or others. Last time I checked, I didn't have wings, so I was confused as to what this meant, not being a tech enthusiast myself.

The first time I left it for... well, for about an hour, doing other things. But when I came back, nothing had changed. I was mildly dissappointed - while I had no chance of winning, it happened just as I was making a famous last stand, and I was damn well sure I was gonna take out his ships while I could - I'd already taken a capital down.
The second time, I immediately clicked drop, trying on both of us. But yet again, nothing happened. This time I was infuriated - I had a very large chance of victory.

So, whats happened? Is this "migrating" the dreaded minidump I have heard so much about? I don't seem to have gotten any error messages and my game window didn't close - my ships and research just stopped (I seemed to be able to move the focus of the game around though). But if it isn't the dreaded minidump, have I got some sort of cursed router? Is it because I'm playing off a computer in england against people who are (probably) in America? Or has my computer simply decided I'm not getting enough exercise and is gently prompting me to go outside and stretch my wings?

Figuratively, of course.
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Reply #1 Top
Migrating means the game host has quit, and the game is trying to find another player who can take over hosting. It's not always successful, but typically if it hasn't resumed after a short while (minute or two, at most) chances are it isn't going to.

Since the game is P2P, it does need port forwarding on routers for hosts, which means the pool of people who can host is smaller than some other games since they either can't or don't want to tweak their router settings to be able to host.

Sins v1.1 will introduce new network code that players will be able to enable as an option that should allow hosting without the need of tweaking router settings, so host migrations should become more common then.
Reply #2 Top
Hmm... so if I get off my ass and mess around with my router (in a productive way) I'll never get stuck in the migrating screen because it will just throw the hosting privilege on me? Sounds like a plan, I guess.

Thanks for the help.
Reply #3 Top
Well, it gives up after a while, but if you make sure that you are able to host there's a decent enough chance it'll manage to pass it on to you, yep :P
Reply #4 Top
Well, it appears that that would require my dad knowing what our router password is. I guess I'll just have to wait for the update.
Reply #5 Top
I think all the default passwords are 'admin'
Reply #6 Top
Yeah, I found that out from tech support about 2-3 hours ago, and fixed everything.

I'm so glad my parents are lazy.
Reply #7 Top
As long as you got it figured out ;)
Reply #8 Top
Does no-one else like this thread? It seems to be a private conversation...
Reply #9 Top
I uh, smell funny in the evenings sometimes :P
Reply #10 Top
Does no-one else like this thread? It seems to be a private conversation...
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How is this any more constructive of a reply? If you don't like the thread you don't have to post in it.

There's a known issue with migrating in that the sound dies after the game migrates. Hopefully that'll be fixed in the next patch..
Reply #11 Top
Its not meant to be a constructive reply. I derived humor from the fact that this post has been open for a day or two and yet only two of us have joined in.

Silliness can be fun sometimes, you know...

Is this why its just us, Annatar11?