James Kuyper

Yes, I was setting up a hotseat game, something I've done many timrs before for testing purposes. I wouldn't expect firewall settings to be relevant to a hotseat game. If I'm wrong about that, the problem might be do to our néw FiOS router. I no longer remember precisely when it was installed. It's possible that the installation occurred sometime between the last time I successfully set up a hotseat game, and the first time I failed to do so. I might eventually want to play a game against my son...

Freecol files

The appearance of %city% rather than an actual city name in the message is not a bug? At the very least, if there is no city name available, the message should be modified to not require one.

You're posting under the "Discussions" tab on the menu bar. The next tab to the right is "Tickets". That's where you're supposed to report bugs.

He mentioned the version because your subject line asked "Which Version". What you're asking about is called a command line option, and as he's already told you, he's not aware of any version of the game that provided such an option.

Couldn't start a multi-player game.

I have the tree planting mod enabled. I started a new game, put a fully-equipped pioneer in a Tundra tile, but I couldn't find an order to tell him to plant trees.

Default IP address inconsistency.