If there is any interest,  I've fired up the node again.

Received one connection   Someone is out there
 

 gamecoind getinfo
{
    "version" : 80402,
    "protocolversion" : 80402,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "blocks" : 279231,
    "connections" : 1,
    "proxy" : "",
    "difficulty" : 1.03807955,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1410634487,
    "keypoolsize" : 102,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "mininput" : 0.00010000,
    "errors" : ""
}


gamecoind getpeerinfo
[
    {
        "addr" : "192.99.8.126:42589",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1495253030,
        "lastrecv" : 1495253029,
        "conntime" : 1495253028,
        "version" : 80402,
        "subver" : "/GameCoin:0.8.4.2/",
        "inbound" : true,
        "releasetime" : 0,
        "startingheight" : 279231,
        "banscore" : 0
    }
]