I have the same problem so you are not alone wiith it.

I was having the same exact problem today Seevtastic, in fact on my screen you were one of the people having problems connecting in my games.

Like you said, a lot of the time I can connect to 4/6 or 3/4 of the other players and vice versa but there always seemed to be one or two people who couldn't connect to any of the others.

I have to do more router work after my work to see if I can fix this...

If not, I'm bummed. I really like the game.

Me and a friend are having these issues and more. The odd thing is we were able to play 1 game. Just 1 but that tells me that our settings are fine. It's something on Stardocks side.

Current issues,

When connecting, would always recieve a "NAT facilitator" error between the 2 of us.

On most games I try myself I recieve the immediate "join failed" but on about 25% I can load fine and play.

On one occasion my friend attempted to log in but the game failed to list his name, and was logged in as "blank" (what?)

I appreciate the menus not taking forever to load, and single player runs beautifully for me. Just hope these multiplayer issues are ironed out soon, because it seems all the time I spent in beta testing just multiplayer seems for naught.

Thanks for the join failed hint, but the ports being diffrent shouldn't matter. We aren't on the same network.

Our main issue is the NAT facilitator, every time we try to join each other that is the only error we see.

The exact error reads "You have been dissconnected from the NAT Facilitator"