Connecting to the Game

Lorelie · Post by **Lorelie** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 5:17 pm

Is anyone else having problems connecting to the game? I get a connection to the host but the login screen never loads, or it does load but freezes on me logging in.

Vaemar · Post by **Vaemar** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 6:00 pm

Several people on the Discord were reporting impossibility to connect to the game, especially I had the impression this hit users from North America.

I was unable to connect in the same way you describe from around 2 p.m. GMT up to around 7 p.m. GMT, and now I am able to play again, although with a certain amount of lag, as I experienced also yesterday.

When it wants to work, disconnecting and reconnecting seems to fix it.

Yemin · Post by **Yemin** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 6:30 pm

It was extremely laggy this morning about 10 AM GMT ish.

To the point I had to log out or risk dying in the Agro zone I was in.

Yemin · Post by **Yemin** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 6:52 pm

As of right now I can't connect,

Heavy lag seems to be the reason as I'm not recieving any errors client side and when I try and reconnect it behaves as if its connecitng to the server

Zethanon · Post by **Zethanon** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 7:06 pm

It takes me multiple attempts but after at least 5 I can connect with no lag after the login screen.

My mobile connection doesn't even have troubles, immediately works. But I'm connecting via the same Wi-Fi signal, so it's a little stange that mobile is zero troubles while my zMUD seems caught up.

Ailyn · Post by **Ailyn** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 9:26 pm

I have been having the issue with CMUD, however anytime I try on my phones BlowTorch app, it connects no issue. And here I thought it was just me.

Noella · Post by **Noella** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 10:01 pm

I'm also having issues connecting to the game via Mudlet. On one occasion it allowed me to connect earlier today, but it took an astounding amount of attempts and then once I left I was once again cut off from FK. For the record, the game was somewhat lagging while I was online today, when it did allow me to connect. I don't think it has anything to do with my own personal internet or MUD client as everything else is right as rain.

Zethanon · Post by **Zethanon** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 10:05 pm

Ailyn wrote:however anytime I try on my phones BlowTorch app, it connects no issue.

Same here. And it connects quickly with little lag whether I'm on Wi-Fi or 1 bar of 4G mobile signal. Strange strange.

Vaemar · Post by **Vaemar** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 10:31 pm

Also, it seems MUDportal works fine for playing, but not vt100 support: http://www.mudportal.com/play

Ghan · Post by **Ghan** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 1:30 am

Coming up on 9:30pm est. Haven't been able to get past the very first "Connected to " line since I got home ~3hours ago. I'm running out of news to watch instead of playing

Daerin · Post by **Daerin** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 3:36 am

I too am experiencing issues, and have been for most of the week, using Cmud and Mudlet. I can't play on mobile, it makes my brain hurt. XD Anyone have any ideas how to fix things?

Lyndin · Post by **Lyndin** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 4:03 am

If the game's administrators wouldn't mind, we could try to set up a proxy from some endpoint that has a decent connection to the server. I'm sure we could get a AWS micro or something along those lines going without too much effort. Of course, that comes with a natural risk: you're sending your username and password to the proxy, not directly to the MUD.

Lyndin · Post by **Lyndin** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 4:21 am

I was able to connect to the mud using PuTTY and SOCKS proxies from Brazil and the United Kingdom. For reference, I'm from California and was experiencing issues.

https://www.socks-proxy.net/ has a bunch of free proxies, but you do have to take a leap of faith and trust the proxies with your credentials.

Lorelie · Post by **Lorelie** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:55 pm

I wanted to note that I am still having trouble. I was able to get on after about twenty attempts to connect. I am on now and the game is a big laggy.

Ghan · Post by **Ghan** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:11 pm

Similar to Lorelie, a few hours ago, I got in. The game played normally for about 20 minutes, then tanked. Haven't gotten back in since.

Aysa · Post by **Aysa** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:39 pm

The MudPortal site works... just need to change the color profile. Anything gray is hard to read.

Areia · Post by **Areia** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:38 pm

I don't doubt it's being looked into. Just have to give it some time.

Until then, just so peoples know, I won't be around. I can likewise connect by phone, but it's essentially impossible for me to play that way. So if there are any hopefuls or anyone else who needs Areia, she'll catch you when possible.

Brelc · Post by **Brelc** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:58 pm

FYI..

I am still having the same issues as everyone else. However, downloading and connecting VIA putty is working. Just set it to telnet forgottenkingdoms.org port 4000.

Not a perfect fix but it seems stable so far.

Lyndin · Post by **Lyndin** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:46 am

I'm surprised to report that putty works for me even without a proxy, though it still drops/lags on occasion. It seems to do so less often when I enable TCP keepalives, but that might just be confirmation bias. I wonder what putty does differently than most mud clients and the native telnet client?

Noella · Post by **Noella** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:38 am

Putty also works for me, but I don't think that this necessarily means that the issue is client based. There's a few things I've noticed in the past few days that dispute this.

1) The forums themselves. I've noticed that I can enter the forums and browse to my hearts content on my phone but when I do so with my PC I often get a page that says the page cannot be reached or something similar in nature. This is after a long wait for it to say anything at all.

*As of this post, and I'm writing this bit last, a second tab I have opened with the FK Forums currently says "Waiting for response from". I took my time with this post too, so I'm not sure what is going wrong.

*edit* I'm not sure if this is helpful, but I just noticed that after a forum page times out it will immediately load on a refresh. Takes awhile for it to time out though.

2) MUD clients on my phone work well, but anything with my PC is lagging or simply cannot get passed connection established. The only exception was Putty here, it worked okay when I tried it. Mudportal worked, but I'm not sure if the lag I was getting was from the awful interface they have or the server itself. (For reference, it's the same Wi-Fi. I'm not using phone data.)

3) The few times in the past couple of days that Mudlet has managed to get me into the game have been met with some ugly lag that comes and goes. I checked other MUDs with mudlet, just to be sure. They all seem to work.

In short, I don't really think it's the clients or my own connection to blame, but considering that my phone allows me to connect with next to no lag, I can't agree with the idea that it's the server either.

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