Can't join official multiplayer games

[Toni Ruottu]

1) Click "Multiplayer" in the title screen
2) Choose "Join Official Server"
3) Click "OK"

A pop-up message appears:

The server requires version '1.1.11' while you are using version '1.1.8'

[Alec Wright (alecjw)]

It's because the official server uses a newer version of wesnoth than is available in the repositories. There is not cure for this other than to upgrade to feisty.

[Markus Majer (mpathy)]

Its because the Ubuntu Package Maintainers seem to not know that this game is only playable on the official server if you use the stable or the current development version..

The development version changes way too often for a half-year-released distribution - so they have to stick to the official stable versions.. And have to put them ALSO in the backports if it changes to far away from releases.

Because a version not equal to the current stable or current development version is UNPLAYABLE for Multiplayer.

So I compile wesnoth every time for myself because I cannot use this package.

[Áron Sisak (asisak)]

Thanks for you all reporting this. However this is not a bug in the Ubuntu Wesnoth package.

A public server for players using the version in Ubuntu would be great, though...

[Toni Ruottu (toni-ruottu)]

It is a bug. The options for fixing it are:

1) Ship a Wesnoth version which is compatible with the official server.

2) Provide a public server compatible with the shipped version and change that to be the default for Ubuntu packages.
  This option has the disadvantage that users might not find their friends who are using another operating system. Say Windows.

3) Do nothing. Don't care that the users feel Ubuntu and/or Wesnoth is broken.

[Frederic the wise (fredericthewise)]

And it is 2011 and this is still broken. Ought I to move to windows to play open source games? I have waited four years.

[Rhonda D'Vine (rhonda)]

* Frederic the wise <email address hidden> [2011-07-23 14:13:15 CEST]:
> And it is 2011 and this is still broken. Ought I to move to windows to
> play open source games? I have waited four years.

 Actually, I can't follow you. There is no supported Ubuntu release that
can *not* connect to the official servers. Can you please be more
specific on which version of wesnoth you are speaking about?

 While saying that, 1.6 servers might go away upstream wise during the
lifetime of lucid. I am willing to provide backports of the later stable
releases if that would be acceptable to solve this bug. Actually that
would be the only option to provide that because the official server
won't even host 1.8 stable release forever, and this will happen again
for the subsequent releases.

  Other than this, I fear the Ubuntu project/Canonical is not
able/willing to afford to provide a server that would host network
games. So running a server on your own to host network games for older
releases is the only option you've got.

 Enjoy,
Rhonda
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[Toni Ruottu (toni-ruottu)]

I have not been following the discussion lately. The problem used to repeat every now and then when the game server and the version in Ubuntu went out of sync. This might be solved, or it might require serious pondering to get right.

[Rhonda D'Vine (rhonda)]

  Hi!

* Toni Ruottu <email address hidden> [2011-07-23 21:42:33 CEST]:
> I have not been following the discussion lately. The problem used to
> repeat every now and then when the game server and the version in Ubuntu
> went out of sync. This might be solved, or it might require serious
> pondering to get right.

 The Games team is looking for sponsors of a server that will be able to
solve this issue for wesnoth and other games properly. Unfortunately
noone turned up yet that is willing to do so. Without a dedicated
server for that task this won't be solveable, sorry.

 Though, like written, it's not something to worry now with respect to
wesnoth, and I plan to offer backports for major upstream versions that
would mean not being compatibility for old clients (but even then,
upstreams keeps the old stable release running for a while -- it
currently still has 1.6 running)

 Enjoy!
Rhonda
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