by Malnorma » December 22nd, 2018, 7:51 pm
This happens all the time, you just have to put up with it. The connection fails, but the server takes a while to realise it, so you get a 'ghost' user hanging around until it times out. This causes confusion, because if a ghost is the room owner, anyone joining the room does not synchronise successfully by default.
The most common cause of this in my experience is lack of activity from you. If you are using a separate program to communicate with other players (e.g. discord, skype) and not interacting with Vassal in a way that sends packets, it is more likely you will get dropped. Toggling the LFG flag every few minutes is like a poor man's keepalive that doesn't affect the game itself.