Noob help

[onekccs]

Hi,

I am a new player here at planet mule, and every time I try to join a training game, the system will not log the plays, as it says it cannot connect to the server.

Every time I try to join a tournament, the other players "smurfcheck" me (which I have no idea what that is) and sometimes it says no result, other times it says possible smurf, and then they all unjoin.

What am I doing wrong, and how do I fix it to just play mule online??

Frustrated

Onekccs

[Chuckie Chuck]

You can't create a game because you have not opened the appropriate port in your wireless router.  (Must manually route port 6260 to the ip address of the computer you are playing on to host a game on the server.)

There are a great number of players that don't understand how smurfcheck works and that it is not a full proof identifier of smurfs.  It can and does incorrectly identify potential smurfs.  That is why mainstream wrote it to say "Possible" smurf.  You are in the same subnet as another player that has played a game on one of the bot servers (meaning someone with in at least 400 miles of you has also played, and quite likely, much closer than that)

I happen to know that when I was using AT&T as my ISP here in California, that I could be posted on any one of five different subnets.  They were based in Chico, Redding, Sacramento, Stockton, and Reno, NV.  I currently use comcast.  If the bot has records of me playing on all those different subnets then it will tag me with other players on AT&T or comcast almost any where in the north half of the state as a possible smurf.

It's unforunate that we don't have a large enough user base for your problem to be more typical than it is.  People just believe you are a smurf despite claims that you are not.

You just have to get lucky enough to join a game where people will play with you, and make it through the full 90 minutes without quitting for several games consistently, and you'll get past the stigma.