Whenever I click "create" then click "start muliplayer," it's always a local game and my friend can't find it. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong

sv_public 1 ?
I'm not sure, i don't know much about servers

I guess your friend would get a very high ping anyway..

But you can play at a private 1on1 server

ladder.tchr.no:26000
ladder.tchr.no:2600
ladder.tchr.no:26002
planetnexuiz.de:26500
planetnexuiz.de:26501
delight.vapor.com:26500
delight.vapor.com:26501

you have to type in the console this for example:

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connect delight.vapor.com:26501

and press enter.

Mirio wrote:sv_public 1 ?

Looks like I jumped the gun, it looked like it was going to work, but it didn't.

Keep in mind that the performance on servers run by that "create" option is quite low. The ideal solution is using the dedicated server binary.

Running a listen server on your client generates lag when your fps is low on the client, which is kinda lame :p

Mr. Bougo wrote:The ideal solution is using the dedicated server binary.

The problem is, I don't know how. Here are the steps I took:

1. I edited server.cfg by changing some values and deleting the "//" before the ones I changed.
2. I copied server.cfg into the data folder.
3. Then I doubleclicked server_mac.sh, because I have a mac, and it didn't work.

I'm probably doing something wrong here, but I don't know where.

Try running it from the console, to see if it throws some errors (I don't know how to do that on macs, though)

Mr. Bougo wrote:Try running it from the console

How do you do it on Windows?

Weren't you just on Mac OS X?

On Windows, read the instructions in the server/ directory. There is a .bat file there for you.

div, but if the server exits immediately, the console disappears

In windows, just open the bat file, add a new line at the end:

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pause

For linux/mac I guess the simplest way would be

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exec /bin/sh

(anyone knows a POSIX way to wait for input? :p)
(is "read" POSIX?)

EDIT: so yeah, "read" is POSIX, so for linux/mac add these lines at the end of the .sh file launching the server:

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echo "Press enter to continue..."
read foo