Read the side roster on the network game paths
FixedPlanned for 0.2.0
In network and internet games, the sides now take their order from [Sides] in rules.ini, as they already did in skirmish and client-launched games. Those games used to read only the countries, so the sides took the order in which the countries named them. The two orders differ only when [Houses] does not list the countries in the order of their sides.
Credit: ZivDero