Playing on OCTGN

[payprplayn]

So I've had the game for a while, but I'm still a fairly inexperienced player due to the difficulty of finding opponents in my area.  I recently learned about OCTGN, and installed it.  However, when I log on, there are never any open games.  How do I go about finding OCTGN opponents?

[lettucemode]

Best way is to start up a lobby and wait. There's a chat window where you can ask if anyone else is around and wants to play. There is also a Matchmaking feature - you tell it what game you want to play and it will find someone else who said the same thing to match you with.

Make sure that you have the Mage Wars module installed. There is a filter in the game list "Show Installed Games", if that is on when you search for lobbies and you don't have the module installed you won't see anything.