So it's been awhile since I've played this game, and my friend and I decided to launch up a multiplayer match because it seemed custom multiplayer races was working again. However, it seems the game seems to still be having difficulty working. Our first match ended on turn one because my friend who was connected to my game couldn't build anything on his planet. Ship movement and research were able to be picked, but whenever he tried to que up something to build on the planet, nothing appeared in the que list. We were on patch 2.7, so we reverted our clients back to no opt-in beta. Except now that whenever we start a game, my friend is immediately disconnected when we load into the map.

My friend and I enjoyed this game a lot before Crusade, and we were excited for the expansion, but it seems every time we try to play something is broken and we aren't able to play the multiplayer matches. I understand that custom race multiplayer matches is not the priority around here (or so I remember when I frequented the forums during the expansion release) but I figured issues like these would have been resolved by now.

Is there any logs I can collect and post somewhere that will help? Has anyone else ran into this issue? Or should I just wait some more months before expecting multiplayer to be where it needs to be?