Managed to have a streak of luck this morning and by cleaning up the network code the mysterious packets being lost bug appears to have been vanquished!

EDIT: Encountered it again 🙁 Not as prevailant any more but there is yet more work to be done.

So go ahead and play some games, it’s fun being able to get to the end and rub it in your friends face when you win as my friend did to me when we first played…