usually the game starts to lag, gets even more laggy, then goes out of sync. tonight we tried to play 5 games and they all went out of sync (the 5th game wasn't even lagging). i've tried from 2 different pc's (3 games on 1, 2 games on the other tonight). we alternated being the game creator (host), still no luck. after about 15-20 minutes we lose it.
we read on another forum that it's common for more out of sync errors if you have a population of 200+ so we dropped it to 150 and it still went out of sync.
we can't play anymore =( any ideas?
some more info:
* we both have all proper ports forwarded in our routers: 2300-2400, 47624 & 48792.
* we are both playing the same version (1.1)
* i use win2k sp4, he uses win xp
* we are running ventrilo while playing (port 3784)
* games are fine when we play on LAN in same house, problem only occurs on internet games
* ping seems to be all over the place, usually it's 21 (green) but sometimes it jumps to 1000 (red) then right back to a low number (green)