TCP/IP Multiplayer trouble, please help!

If you do a search on this forum there is a set of detailed instructions of how to set up a TC/IP game follow those and you should get it to work. It’s also worth trying PBW as an alternative if you find the procedure a little fiddly.

I would also recommend inviting your friends round as it plays very well as a hot seat game and it will get them in to it .

Are you sure the host ip is correct that the other two are trying to use to join the game? The players joining must be given a WAN IP address not a LAN IP address. If the host is behind a router the router will normally give your computers a 192.168.*.* address, when the router will have a WAN IP of something like 12.218.*.* ( * = any number ). You have to log in to the router to get the WAN ip address, usally on an status page in the router settings. The players joining to a host who is behind the router have to use the WAN IP of the router to join since it is the router that is directly on the internet and not your computer, the router will then forward them to your computer, and yes the game will still say for the host that the compter IP is 192 something. And if the players joining are also behind a router they will also probably have to use the WAN IP address of their router for the player(their) ip. Hope this helps and is not redundent.