I didn't abandon Hamachi; I just closed out the networks to experiment with something. The channels are back up now; if it interrupted a game I apologize.
Last night, we were having mostly no connections in Hamachi. I heard 1 group got going. I tried Leaf out and no avail....so technically, I came back to Hamachi and wanted to try hosting while I had 1 Network cluster up, which was how I got it to run in the first place yesterday afternoon. I'm really baffled how I was able to host a few games and then, without any changes to patching/setup, nobody was able to play for most of last night and today.
Right now I have both programs Leaf and Hamachi installed; and I shuffle between the two (and yes, I disable/enable the network connections independently so they don't interfere. Yes, I have ports forwarded and the PC is in the DMZ.) I'm not claiming to be an expert with either...I've used Hamachi for various private game servers many times, and Leaf was just something recommended so my logic dictates: If one seems to be failing en masse; check the alternatives.
I don't care which one has a bigger following; we're all Demigod players and I want to find a solution that works 