SC2Mapster

Ok so after 100 attempts to publish a map, I've decided they have done something weird in this patch. Or something is wrong with their servers (if its broken for everyone)

I've been getting numerous errors: GATEWAY_DOWN, Connection to publishing service has been interrupted. Please try again. Stuff about gameplay variants (maybe my fault), etc etc.

I actually had one successful upload, which is the weirdest part. I have yet to get another successful upload, and I feel like I've tried everything.

I read the other thread that said it was getting stuck at 0% due to gameplay variant stuff, but I've honestly tried absolutely everything with gameplay varients, and I actually had one successful upload, which tells me it CAN work with how I have it right now.

Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone know the solution?

Thanks, Knights

@KnightsOfTables: Yeeaaaahhh. I'm still Alpha-ing it up with my (first) project and I'm having a really hard time differentiating between MY scew-ups and ...OTHER. Map Variants were (maybe still are) a huge factor for me. I have all fourteen player slots allocated across 2-4 teams in every permutation. Currently, my cfg for all 14 slots and all map variants DOES actually publish, but when it comes to hosting a game I get an orange-stylee "S2GAME_INTERNAL_ERROR" error box. I've not actually tried to tackle this yet (more juicey things to do) but I'm expecting that when I strip out my map variant cfg, it'll resolve the error as it only seemed to appear after I poured four hours into setting it up. Fek knows what I'll ultimately end up doing :s Do you want to ask anything specific about map variants? I felt like I derived a solid grasp of it. ..The fact my cfg doesn't work, notwithstanding :D

The funny part is, the one time that I got it to upload, I had just unticked the Use Default Variants checkbox, and made one single variant with all the default values but with changing the names, and that worked. After trying again, though, with the same settings, I keep getting different things like GATEWAY_DOWN and various errors. It's a weird issue.

Are you running any jizzum-quality AV or "Internet Security" packages? There's plenty of communication which triggers false positives on those things, could Shitmantec Security Sweep be killing your publish? I use Avast AV (and no hell-spawned internet security package whatsoever) and I actually had it block 1 of my publishing attempts yesterday. First and only time.

@DJSplendid: Go

I'm running AVG but I'll try publishing with it turned off.

I'll edit this with the results.

Ok so, before touching my AV, I figured trying once would be worth it, and it worked! Super weird stuff but at least I finally got it to publish.

@KnightsOfTables: Go

Gateway down generally means that it cant connect to the servers.

If you recently patched and your running on Vista or win 7 you prolly need to re-authorize the program to make internet connections.

If your using AVG and you havent thought to turn that off... then you prolly shouldnt be using it.

Try MSE best non-computer people virus scanner out there and it doesnt touch your firewall settings.

/offtopic but I'd be remiss if I didn't submit my opinion as Security & Infrastructure Engineer for a building society and say: For free home/noob AV, get Avast, http://www.avast.com/ For purchased home/noob AV, get Kaspersky http://www.kaspersky.com/ AVOID EVERYTHING ELSE, very few pll understand the software/implications/stats and simply support the package they like. [Absolutely not aimed at you SoulCarver and no disrespect intended, I'm just a subjective duty whore]

I dont want to double post so here is link to my way for solving GATEWAY_DOWN error: http://forums.sc2mapster.com/development/editor-bugs-and-feedback/2973-publish-error-lost-connection-to-gateway/#p10