People are joining my game

[grimfrid]

Hi, what can I do to prevent other people from joining my game when I play singleplayer online?

[cazfi]

My first thought was "Why are you playing online, if you want to be the only player?", but maybe by "online" you mean freeciv-web?

[grimfrid]

I found the game on play.freeciv.org and just selected the singleplayer link. Not sure how to play the game offline.

[cazfi]

Yes, that's freeciv-web version (one you play with your internet browser, not a standalone program). AndreasR is the one who knows everything about freeciv-web.

[Jim-11]

Not sure how to play the game offline.

Do a web search for freeciv download. Freeciv-2.4.2-win32-gtk2-setup.exe is the installer for the latest version of Freeciv on a Windows computer. With a different system, you will need to choose a different installer. Install on your computer, and play as long as you like.

[grimfrid]

Great, thanks a lot
Miss the old civ games, so was happy to find this game. Will search for the downloads later today.

[cazfi]

Some other people are repackaging freeciv, but I recommend getting official package from www.freeciv.org -> sourceforge.

[grimfrid]

Wow, thanks! Will check it out

[AndreasR]

For people to have joined your Freeciv-web single player game, it could have happened in two ways:

1. Someone joined your game as an observer, clicked the Nations dialog, and clicked the "Play as this nation" button. I thought it would be fun for people to be able to join other people's games. How do you suggest this be improved?

2. The other case is could be a Metaserver bug, where the Freeciv C server is out of sync with the Freeciv-web metaserver. The number of human players in the Freeciv C server is reported to the Freeciv-web metaserver,
but the Metaserver is only updated for certain event and at regular time intervals. Since the number of human players for each server in the metaserver is used to find a new un-used server for new players, if the number reported
in the metaserver for your server is 0, but should have been 1, then someone could join your server. I'll try to fix this.