@david_solomon1
The game currently only supports a connection between two people.
Best,
Aaron

Aaron,
Any hints whatsoever about this last manamon that no one's ever seen before? I'm slowly starting to work on my manamon catching by levelling the things I have so they evolve and whatnot, hoping one of the prizes I get will do something.

Of course, this will necessitate either me figuring out my port/connection issues somehow, or you making things like Mortrex/Lamgurk available via in-game trades the same way you have with Bearran. I intend to get my hands on a Grizzlord, see how good it is. It sounds badass.

Okay, gonna try now.

Well that was sort of a hassle and a half but I think we both walked away satisfied. Haha. Thank you very much for both the server and the trades, DavidSolomon1.

Now I can focus on a pile of others available to me already, like Effigem and Groller and stuff. This is literally the only thing I have left to do in the game I think.

For anyone else able to host (I can't, I know that much), I'm looking for a water or a grass starter, and can provide a flame starter.
Beyond that, I think I will be able to have a complete manapedia. Or nearly complete, except for that last one of course.

And then I'll be backing off a bit. Once you know a game inside out, and burn yourself out like I have, there are really only two options. Drop it forever, or play more casually.

If and/or when I play again, I'll be trying different mons (will probably start with Aquaffe as well). I might actually give Trumer a try, or Wizz over Jackanaipe (hell, maybe even Gronk). I'll probably still have my trusty ice type because I really do hate that Irroadium fight, but beyond that, I want to get a better idea of who's good and who's not, and more importantly, why.

Does water have a 95-power equivalent to Torch, by the way? Because so far most of what I've seen is like Drench, Tidal Wave or Storm Rush. Flame gets not only Torch but Fire Stream, which sounds kinda cool but yeah.

Sorry, rambling.

Loxias, I'd be glad to trade you a flammea for leafox, whenever you have time. Just let me know when you're available and I'll set up the server.

As for port forwarding, I'm not sure about private and public ports, I'd probably just set them both to 15000 and 15001 if they both have port ranges.

A note to anyone setting up trades, remember that for some reason, online messaging is turned off by default, so if you want to communicate with your trading partner at all, you need to press shift f2 to turn it on. For some reason the command doesn't seem to work sometimes, I had to use left shift, whereas someone I was trading with said left shift didn't work for him.

Loxias, I don't know if you can host but if you have Leafox, I have Flammia, and can do you a trade. You're far enough in the game that you can breed, right? If so, you wouldn't have to lose your own Leafox, I'd be perfectly happy trading two level 1 mons.

And yeah, you're absolutely right. This sort of thing usually involves messing around with routers and whatnot. I'm not sure if there was another way around though, since a server of the sort that would support this would also cost for its upkeep.

On a totally unrelated-to-servers note: Effigem's line really, really underwhelms. I'm trying to get Simulon, and I just had a gander at his stats. He's nearly level 40 and neither his attack or special attack is above 38. Now, he has no trains on him, but still. He's defensive, but has very little Hp. I dunno, maybe Simulon suddenly becomes awesome, but somehow I doubt it.

155 seen, 90 owned now, and many of the ones I don't own are because I haven't evolved stuff, or haven't caught the common stuff.

Ok David, you've got a PM with my IP, let me know if it doesn't work here.
@Jayde, looks like I'm settled, although if you have Aquaf through trading, I wouldn't mind having one of those as well.
Also: slight spoilers:
Sheepit and Apparision (probably spelling that wrong) are the only trade transformations, is that correct? Might as well get that done and over with while I'm here.

Actually there are lots of games that use online communication that don't have a central server, I'm thinking here particularly of games like crazy party, sound rts or palace punchup. One person hosts a server and others connect to them, but there's no need mostly to mess with actually giving out an Ip or messing with rooter settings or the like.

I do rather like the collection aspect, I'm up to 57 species now, and I probably will have an expedition to go and find a sprusal if I don't decide to evolve saple, one reason why I hope online trading gets changed somewhere along the line.

Btw, one thing I notice is your character doesn't actually change in the game. Though your manamon level, you! don't, which is rather odd. That actually might be a nice way to change the grind a little, by giving your character levels and experience as well as your creatures,, th with the higher the level of your character, the more xp you get from battles representing your abilities as a manamon tamer increasing (since obviously the more manamon you tame the quicker you can do it).

Sure, I can do that, Loxeas. I'll need your IP though, since I'll have to have you host.

And Dark, I think what I'd rather see is an item you earn which can be turned on or off from the inventory, and basically boosts exp. It would be easier to code than actual character levels, and it would serve essentially the same purpose. You'd get it either at a fixed point in the story, or (and I like this one better) as a reward for catching a certain number of manamon (say 50-60). You've got to be pretty dedicated to get this thing.
And by boost, I don't mean double or anything. Say 1.25x or 1.5x, max. Because trainers really can give quite a bit of experience even without bonuses.
And hell, for all I know this sort of item is in the game already. I did just get an item that boosts gold earned when equipped to a manamon, after all.

If anyone would be willing to trade me an aquaf for a flammea or leaffox, I'd really appreciate it.

OMG, i'm at the first leader and she's owning me. own own own own own! rofl, i have a grass type, i'm not sure what be water at this point of the game. oh well, at least i'm leveling my party with pretty much no gap in between my 3 mons and i'm planning to throw away chingle because it sucks!