everyone can understand english and port 6112 is pretty obvious.
Some russian newbies don't know english at all. I suppose there's some french, spanish, etc newbies who don't know english too.
And 6112 is just default port. There's about 5% of people with different default port now. Non-default port could be one of possible problems, but it should actually work with War2PLoader UPNP.
Combat 4.01 also allows to use non-default random port.
why does it say port 16112 ?? i thought it was just 6112
6112 is just default. I changed it to non-default because i'm loo lazy to close port-forwarding on my router, while testing this message.
I suggest using the /finger command and parsing the country/language to determine which language to whisper.
Yes, something like that. More precisely it uses this thing
http://server.war2.ru/status/ to parse all such information about each user. It sends a notification for each user with gray game created.