I first created my Jare Baav character back in the days of Molecular Blue, but I don't remember seeing the following notice when creating my Crystal Blue account and used different login details...

Important Notice: If you migrated your character from MB release, please do the following: Create an account (using link below) with the same email you used to migrate your MB char. Download the game, and use the created account to log in. Press New Character, enter the first name exactly as it was in MB, enter any last name. If email and first name match the migrated char, you will get the trias and item migrated from MB.

If I were to delete my Jare Baav character and recreate it with a new account using my old MB login details, would I possibly receive a Ring of the Past, or is it too late to consider now?

Thanks for any advice.

How often do you see likes of "Try using the search button - your question has been addressed many times before"?

Using "simple machines forum" has now made this simple solution less appealing as it automatically implies a wildcard search e.g. searching for "pet" will find everything containing the consecutive characters p, e and t - i.e. petition, carpet, perpetual etc. etc. I thought enclosing the search term in double quotes might work, but it doesn't.

Sorry for the whinge. 

Any one seen anything like this?

Entered the Death Realm in the prone position and couldn\'t get out of it. Of course, no one could see me like this, like I\'d used the \"/sit\" command... only animated.

Originally posted by The Doctor
Try lowering the MTU on either your router, or your PC if you cannot set it at the router.  I have seen a lot of routers with a MTU of 1500 essentially flood themselves off.  Setting the MTU to 1492 might solve the problem.

Well I\'ve set the MTU down from the pre set 1500, but no one\'s said whether I actually need to forward these ports, seeing as PS plays reasonably well for me without doing so.

My basic setup...

Router: BT Voyager 2100 wireless (combining ADSL modem}.
PC1: BT Voyager 1040 PCI wireless adapter, and onboard LAN (connected directly to router).
PC2: BT Voyager 1040 PCI wireless adapter.

The router setup has been configured not to designate either PC as a DMZ host...

Those IP packets from the Internet that do NOT belong to any applications configured in the port forwarding table will be: Discarded

I can\'t remember the exact chronology of events, but when I first installed Planeshift (May/June 2005), I could play without having to forward any ports. I can still play now without needing to forward ports but, somewhere along the line, I spotted several posts in these forums about forwarding ports 13331 UDP and 7354 UDP. I forwarded these ports thinking it may help prevent some of the random PS crashes I was experiencing, but it didn\'t. In fact it introduced a whole new problem.

Intermittently (more often than not), when I logout of PS or when psclient or the server crashes, I find I either have limited or no access to the internet at all.

By limited access I mean...

I can browse some websites and not others.
My email client will  connect to some mail servers and not others when trying to retrieve mail.
My news client may or may not be able to connect to the various news servers I subscribe to.

The next thing leads to a clue I think... I can not access the router\'s configuration pages by the normal means of typing http://voyager.home into my web browser. I have to use the router\'s IP address 192.168.1.1. This leads me to believe that a DNS problem has occurred somewhere.

To resume a normal service, I have to reboot the router, either by the configuration pages or by pressing the router\'s reset button (not factory reset). Rebooting the PC has no effect.

None of the above happens if I don\'t forward ports 13331 and 7354.

I don\'t think there\'s a problem with the router itself as, for example, I need to forward ports for the p2p client that I use for file sharing to work properly, and I must forward ports for other software to communicate properly with the internet.

Should I need to forward ports 13331 and 7354 and why do I get this problem if I do?

Thanks for any advice.

P.S. I use NIS 2005. Disabling it doesn\'t help when the problem occurs, but I haven\'t tried disabling it before a game session.

What files do I need to back up, to preserve the changes I\'ve made to options, before trying to reinstall PS?

The reason being, I posted elsewhere, that since the update I can no longer select \"Load all maps\" or the new \"Keep maps loaded\" in PS setup. It was suggested I edit \"psclient.cfg\" by changing the relevant options from false to true. This works for \"Keep maps loaded\", but not for \"Load all maps\" which gives me the \"mgbhelp.dll missing\" error.  I tried deleting the file then ran update to renew it, but this didn\'t help.

Thanks.

Partiularly troublesome if you fall into the abyss in he Death Realm. This happened to me, unfortnately unstick only sent me back to the place I landed. Tried petitioning a GM to relocate me, but after waiting a couple of hours I decided to delete and recreate the character.

1: [SHIFT]/\"run\" messed up. I\'m sure after releasing [SHIFT], walk would resume, now it causes you to halt needing you to release the direction key and re-apply it.

2:\"Default Run/Default Walk\", switchable by [=] no longer works.

3:[TAB]/\"mouselook\" was switchable but now functions like [MOUSEBUTTON3]/\"mouselook\" used to.

4: No \"mousecamera\" functions work i.e. zoom in/out, [MOUSEBUTTON3]/\"mouselook\", \"mouserun\" etc.

5: Can\'t jump over water wheel shafts in sewers, I get stuck in shaft for a second or two before being released back to point of take off.

6: Rarely used to suffer from the \"darkness\" thing and if I did, it only took a couple of seconds to reach normal brightness. Decided to logoff/on just at bottom of steps by Kada-El\'s... pitch black for 5 minutes!!! Thought I\'d /spawn back to the fountain, but no more /spawn... just had to wait it out (I can just imagine trying to defend myself against hostiles in this situation). Trying 16bit doesn\'t help.

7: I like my Command bar full width across the bottom of my screen. I notice that when clicking on the Guild Info button, the text field for naming a new guild appears behind the Command bar at the location the button was clicked, and can\'t be accessed unless the command bar is closed or dragged out the way. Similar with the Petitions text field, it\'s barely noticeable behind the main Petitions window.

8: Get stuck against surfaces and have to stop and then sidestep or backoff, whereas previously you may have expected to glide along the surface (depending on approach angle).

9: \"Load all maps\" and \"Keep all maps loaded\" are not selectable in PS setup.

10: what is \"Show relight panel\" in setup? Whatever it is, it crashes setup if I mess with it.

11: \"blue_freeze.wav\" is always offered for download if you  keep trying update.

12: Can\'t use key combinations like \"sidestep\"&\"rotate\" to circle.

Ummm... I think that\'s all for now.

Oh... shortcut number keys now work.

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