The "Waiting for AutoHost to start" message appears, and at the exact same time, the Diagnostic Log reports "Closing current battle". There also appears to be an error on Zero-K Lobby startup: "Your client doesn't support the 'cl' compatibility flag, please upgrade it!" I haven't had the chance to confirm whether or not this persists on good loads. It seems that if at any point I manage to join my private Springie, the whole session of the Zero-K Lobby application is clean, but as soon as I close the program, I am certain it will be broken next time I run it.