this maybe my last attempt. I've been trying for years to find the answer to what I want. basically what I want is to play with my friend's, who some are far away and some just across town, with mods and 1.8. sounds easy enough right? not in my case. I do not want to port-forward. I've tried to make my own private server, several different ways. I've bot a small server but for some reason cant get my mods to work. so I made a mod pack on a couple different launchers that some are supported for the launchers, to see if that worked but of course not. I don't have a lot of money to buy server i need. then I heard about evolve. tried all the troubleshooting to get that to work.Hamachi was so close to what I wanted. but only a few of my friends could play. the other that couldn't told me that it wouldn't let him cuz it said he needed to buy it. even sent him the link of the one I downloaded. checked to see if Minecraft/java was allowed through the firewall, which it is. idk what to do any more. I tried so many things I cant even thick of them all. I spent hours trying to make it work. I know I'm doing something wrong. it frustrates me that I cant figure it out after years of trying. I've watch so many videos and read plenty of articles. I asks please help if there is anything that can be done.