1.14 MP server login requirement

[enclave]

I mean, is it really that hard to say that you don't want to talk right now/talk about that right now?

It is for me.. Because I understand human psychology If they see me online or playing games for next 5 hours but not find time to talk it would look like I hate that person or something They will obviously make up the reason, and it won't be the same as your real reason.. So it will upset the person, when it doesn't have to..

[Pentarctagon]

I mean, is it really that hard to say that you don't want to talk right now/talk about that right now?

It is for me.. Because I understand human psychology If they see me online or playing games for next 5 hours but not find time to talk it would look like I hate that person or something They will obviously make up the reason, and it won't be the same as your real reason.. So it will upset the person, when it doesn't have to..

Every person who wants to talk to you in MP can't possibly be that easily offended.

[name]

Aren't you effectively ignoring people by constantly changing your username in order to avoid them though?

it's different they think you are not there.. so it can't upset people. People are such beings that get upset easily if you tell them something bad or ignore them.. but they totally dont care about anything that happens if you are just not there So YES you are ignoring them, but in a very very very nice way... they are 100% happy about this type of ignore..

I feel the same way. Also, after the typical long hiatuses, I can forget people who still remember me by my non-anonymous name. Or expect me to still be a decent player.

[Zap-Zarap]

I wonder, why there is a "registered users only" button in game creation screen, when all users on official server must be registered anyway.

[Ravana]

Button was added before it was decided to require registration.

[Toti83]

1) It appears the Linux version is only available as source code; means less players
2) Ubuntu 16.04 is required, and apparently (after checking quickly) there's not even 16.04.1 available yet, while it's not recommended to install "16.04.0"; means less players
3) Apparently more system requirements for running 1.14 which my mini-laptop for example wouldn't handle - means less players, some like Wesnoth-like games for their low system requirements
4) The problems mentioned in this thread regarding 1.14 multiplayer

---> stick to 1.12 for multiplayer at least for now

Using 1.14 for multplayer has its problems, splitting the playerbase. For now I hope people stuck to 1.12 for MP games because of these reasons.

EDIT:
Two problems solved.
- there's a ppa that may solve problem 1
- I confused 16.04 with 18.04 which means problem 2 never existed except in my head

[Pentarctagon]

1) It appears the Linux version is only available as source code; means less players

Uhh...
There's a ppa.
There's a flatpak.
It's on Steam.

2) Ubuntu 16.04 is required, and apparently (after checking quickly) there's not even 16.04.1 available yet, while it's not recommended to install "16.04.0"; means less players

16.04 means 16.04.x, not 16.04.0.

[octalot]

Ubuntu 16.04 is required, and apparently (after checking quickly) there's not even 16.04.1 available yet

Erm, 16.04 doesn't mean 18.04. 16.04 has been out for 2 years.

[Toti83]

Ubuntu 16.04 is required, and apparently (after checking quickly) there's not even 16.04.1 available yet

Erm, 16.04 doesn't mean 18.04. 16.04 has been out for 2 years.

Sorry, I got confused. You're right. 18.04 would be a possible problem but 16.04 isn't.

On ppa etc, thank you, problem probably solved. Others on multiplayer 1.12 had similar problems.

Thank you Pentarctagon & octalot.

[GunChleoc]

I have Ubuntu 18.04 running on a Core Duo and it performs better than 16.04. You should give it a try.

[chol]

I suspect it has something to do with whether you are logged into wesnoth forum or not
It was happening all the time until I posted something on forum. After that no matter what it remembers my password.

Can this be still the case?
I updated Wesnoth 1.14.2 to 1.14.3 (cmake from tar-ball on Linux, running fine) and set up a GitHub for my UMCs, eventually -- only to now being unable to:

#1 get on MP server and
#2 get access to add-ons server (error msg.: "connection refused")

The server rejection is so fast that I suspect some detail in one of my local config files that shuts me off?

Can anybody please help me with tips, hints what to do? Thanks

Checking lua scripts... ok
20180723 19:29:51 warning network: Failed to connect to 144.76.5.6: Connection refused
20180723 19:29:51 error network: Tried all IPs. Giving up
20180723 19:29:51 warning network: poll Rethrowing: system:111
20180723 19:29:51 error network: caught network error: Connection refused
20180723 19:29:51 error general: Verbindung fehlgeschlagen: Connection refused

[Pentarctagon]

Whether you are currently logged into the forums or not has nothing to do with being able to connect to the MP server or add-ons server. My guess would be some sort of anti-virus, but this sort of issue is better suited for Technical Support.

edit-
I have also moved the subsequent posts to the Technical Support thread you made.

[chol]

Whether you are currently logged into the forums or not has nothing to do with being able to connect to the MP server or add-ons server. My guess would be some sort of anti-virus, but this sort of issue is better suited for Technical Support.

edit-
I have also moved the subsequent posts to the Technical Support thread you made.

The move of my response removed my answer to your handy "anti-virus" suggestion, which is wrong.
There's no anti virus involved - it's some weird behavior of the wesnoth client on Linux.

If I am shut out of access to add-ons server and MP server, as I reported, despite my flawless access to these before I updated from 1.14.3 to 1.14.4, I had to reboot my Linux PC if I wanted to get an empty credentials log-on prompt window. For the deletion of the user config dir and cache did nothing, each time it got overridden by malfunctioning credentials and access was denied.
My problem has to do with autologon and no chance to get an empty log-on window with empty prompts manually. I was searching for the source of the problem and got lost in dirs and sub-dirs and defaults - across multi install/instances of wesnoth (for play/quality check and development of UMC and test of the steam version) ..

[Pentarctagon]

chol: If there is some issue happening regarding how Wesnoth handles connecting, then the correct place to try to resolve it is either in Technical Support or by posting an issue to Wesnoth Github, not in this thread. Particularly since the add-ons server doesn't even have an account requirement.

[p1zza_steve]

Why I can't login?!