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aerich

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Can't Connect
« on: November 03, 2004, 09:09:30 pm »
Help me! I made my character and everything... but apparently, I can\'t connect to the server!
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« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2004, 09:28:40 pm »
Really?! OMG!!! 8o





:P We need more info. Tell us what is actually happening.

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« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2004, 01:21:12 am »
Ah! I\'m sorry!! >.< I\'m such a ditz... well I make my character, and then when I\'m done, I click connect.  then another screen shows up, saying to put your registration.. and I don\'t really know my registration and I\'m just trying to check out the game for now, so I leave it as guest. When I click connect again, it sits there doing absolutely nothing for about a minute (giving me a small incriment of hope that MAAAAYYYBE it\'ll work) and then a small window pops up saying that the service is either down, or could not be reached. And then, the program shuts down completely. Now, I looked at the bugs page and I read the bit about how if it fails the first time, you have to exit by pressing \"quit\" and try again, but 1- I\'m not given the chance to exit and start it up again because the program exits out, and 2- When I started it up again, thinking that perhaps closing itself is semi-considered exiting the program, it still doesn\'t work: Gives me the wait a minute schpeil and then that window pops up and closes the program. :( So, I hope that\'s enough info! Sorry about that!
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« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2004, 01:35:02 am »
Well you dont have to do anything special to make an account, so just click on the \"create\" button.   You dont have to supply any info/email/etc. if you are concerned about that.

Once in the create section, just go through the character creation quickly (only appearance and name is important in the current version).
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« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2004, 01:37:12 am »
Oh! Thankys, Ghost.... but that part isn\'t what I\'m having a problem with. I just cannot connect to the server. And I\'m pretty sure that the server isn\'t down, or else you guys would have told me. :-/ so, I\'m worried that I can\'t connect and that it\'s something wrong with my computer.  T____T
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« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2004, 01:56:29 am »
Well if you are putting in \"guest\" instead of the correct information that would be a problem. Put in the information from the character you just created.

EDIT: Also to see if the server is up just look at the top of the forums page where it says...

Laanx: Server: runnin World: loaded. Clients: 15  
« Last Edit: November 04, 2004, 01:57:44 am by Boldstorm »

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« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2004, 01:59:30 am »
In the login window you need to put in 3 things.

1. The server - planeshift.fragnetics.com (is it .com?  I always forget...).  If this isn\'t working try the ip address of the server instead - 203.81.47.74

2. Character name - the name you chose for your character at character creation (you can\'t leave this as \"guest\", you need your character name)

3. Password - the password for you character that you put in at character creation

If you are still getting the error that the server is unreachable (after trying the IP), then my guess is that you are behind a firewall/router and you can\'t connect to the server.  Make sure you have UDP traffic open on port 13331 in both directions (at least for IP 203.81.47.74).

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« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2004, 02:19:29 am »
Ahh! Thankyou sooooo much!! You\'re a lifesaver!... I\'ve gotten on and then I got off... but when I went to go back on, it said that I was \"linkdead\" Hmph. I never can get it right, eh?
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« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2004, 02:34:56 am »
Hmmm, maybe you should read the stickie entitled \"About Linkdead.\"

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« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2004, 02:35:01 am »
Read This Sticky: About Link Dead