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I think it's mostly European servers where the lag is too great. The main transpacific cable goes from Melbourne though, so everything first goes 1000km south, across the Pacific to the US West Coast, and then the rest of the world. And then there's the game server's connection. So who knows, it's a...

Cool, this fixed it; it now accepts my Global login. For the record, the config.cfg file on Windows is in the My Documents/My BZFlag Files/2.0/ folder (for version 2.x, obviously). Presumably it will be in a dot-folder in the Home directory on Unix/Linux. This is one for the FAQ I think, and if the ...

No, my modem has a router, though, but I haven't seen anything on ports that need forwarding, or unblocked by the firewall. Are there any ports needed for BZFlag to send/get the player info? Also, as this is on Windows, there's the possibility the Windows client could have bugs the Linux one doesn't...

Thanks for replying. I only recently got Broadband, so only recently started playing, as of a couple of weeks ago. So I only know version 2.04. I'm afraid I don't understand, up until now I've done as the provided documentation has stated, giving a callsign and password on joining a game, no mention...

Various places they mention using something like "/help register" but that doesn't seem to do anything on v2.04, or else there's something they're not telling. Basically, I've registered here, but if I use that for Callsign and Pass when entering a game, it tells me the name's registered a...

I registered here with the same username and password as I use on joining the server, the only difference is that before I could play, now I can't. It wants me to identify myself, which I believe I have by providing callsing and password before entering the game. The moral seems to be, don't registe...