From 846fa8ea37688133c374bb427e8bc2890a88709b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: George Tokmaji <tokmajigeorge@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:25:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] C4Network2IO: Log socket connection errors as warning instead
 of error to alleviate error spam with no to low user impact

---
 src/C4Network2IO.cpp | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/C4Network2IO.cpp b/src/C4Network2IO.cpp
index 0978f5da..1fd5fd1c 100644
--- a/src/C4Network2IO.cpp
+++ b/src/C4Network2IO.cpp
@@ -250,8 +250,9 @@ bool C4Network2IO::ConnectWithSocket(const C4NetIO::addr_t &addr, C4Network2IOPr
 	// connect
 	if (!pConn->Connect())
 	{
-		// show error
-		logger->error("could not connect to {} using {}: {}", addr.ToString(),
+		// log error as warning - it's not of the same severity as other Network2IO errors
+		// and may happen rather frequently with no impact to the player
+		logger->warn("could not connect to {} using {}: {}", addr.ToString(),
 			getNetIOName(pNetIO), pNetIO->GetError() ? pNetIO->GetError() : "");
 		pNetIO->ResetError();
 		// remove class