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Damn it! I'm stuck! I was exploring town, trying to figure out the controls to this game due to the lack of a manual, when I got a little bored and logged. Now whenever I log back in, I can't move my character at all, all he can do is speak.

I'm on tile:
x:29 y:6 z:-3

I logged in to help you but you were not there.

Martin

I can't stay on for too long, after a while the server kicks me out saying I'm flooding it with commands accusing me of using macros. I can assure you I am not. I don't even need to press or click anything and it says this.

It would help very much if you tell us your number and your characters EXACT name.

Martin

This has happened to me before, what I did was log out than logged back in. I was able to move again.

You're not downloading anything in the background are you. If you have a slowish connection, or are doing other things with your bandwidth while trying to play, illarion tends to throw a tizzy fit.

I've been using Kazaa while playing. I'll kill it and see if that makes a difference.
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Didn't work.
By the way, my character's full name is Senk Kluuspointe Gren, with 'Elder' being the title. I don't know my number.

use F12 to see your number.
Then I would PM it to Martin. I wouldn't post numbers here unless you want everyone in Illarion to know who you are. If you have nothing to hide than go ahead.

You could also try rebooting your computer.

I'm not sure but I believe Kazaa still runs in the background even if you hit the x button. You have to go to the menu bar at the bottom of the screen and right click on it to close it.

...it could have something to do with the evilness of Kazaa...

...Kazaa loads spyware onto your computer...

...My father's computer crashed from Kazaa...

Thats why us geeky people get Kazaa lite. It only has ONE spyware in it... And its deletable Not to mention using firewall programs... With zone alarms... Yup the goverment is out to get me.

Firewalls are illegal in the US, or will be, because it blocks your IP address. Thats what I heard.

paul laffing wrote:Firewalls are illegal in the US, or will be, because it blocks your IP address. Thats what I heard.

LOL, land of the fries. Free. Sorry.

Is it illegal to breathe in the US?

Martin

Okay, there is no excuse, that is just dumb. Period.

Hehe, land of the fries, thats a good one.

Have you tried pushing yourself?

I'm going to keep my firewall up for as long as I can, but not too long. The ATF might come and storm my compound... errr, I mean house.

I don't think they will make firewalls illegal just because it blocks your IP address. That's like saying it is illegal to have an unlisted phone #.

That would be crazy. Large cooperations use firewalls to protect their computers. I believe you just heard a rumor somewhere.

Hehe thats Paul for ya. LETS OVER RUN HIS COMPOUND!!!

Hehe...there's nothing illegal about using a firewall. At least not the United States I live in

seems there are some people who know all about computers here... <sigh>
a firewall doesn't "block your ip"...
it merely blocks access to your computer...
it just decides which other computers may receive an answer fro your computer and which don't.
you can't hide your ip...
except by not having an internet connection

Miliae wrote:Hehe...there's nothing illegal about using a firewall. At least not the United States I live in

No, not illegal... yet...


Hides deeper in his compound in Waco, Texas... watching for the ATF...

I guess you mixed it up with something else.
Cryptography or something.

Martin

PS.: For certain purposes it is possible to hide your IP adress. However, this is not done by a firewall.

it's not.
you only have the possibility to use a proxy or something similiar to make someone believe your ip is the one of the proxy... but you still expose an ip adress... and it's still possible to track back to your original ip...

thats it. I believe they are going to make proxy's illegal, but I need to check. Sorry for my other mistake.

Shi'voc wrote:it's not.
you only have the possibility to use a proxy or something similiar to make someone believe your ip is the one of the proxy... but you still expose an ip adress... and it's still possible to track back to your original ip...

Yes.

You just need to read what I have written, everything will then turn out to be the same as you say here.
You can hide for certain purposes on certain places, e.g. you can prevent people from seeing your IP when visiting their webpage (by using one or multiple proxies).

There's nothing more I said.

Martin

The only thing they could conceivably think about making illegal is off site proxy servers.

That is, you connect to a machine out there on the internet somewhere and use it as a proxy. There are a number of companies, very discreet, that acutally do this, they allow you to use their computers as proxies, for a fee, and they dont' keep any records.

The normal proxy server, however, is nothing like this.

1. If you are using an on site proxy server the IP address is of a machine on your LAN (Local Area Network) and would be either your residence, or your business address. They got you.

2. With the limited IP addresses available under normal IPv4 there just aren't enough addresses available to give every machine on the internet a public ip address. So they are implementing IPv6. Which gives a number of factors more available IP addresses. But, IPv6 is still being rolled out and there are a large number of machines, networks, routers, hubs, switches, etc... that wouldn't know what to do with it yet until they get upgraed. This means that for all the computers in a business LAN to connect to the internet they use a Proxy server, or a NAT server (NAT is N<something> Address Translation). A NAT server for most intents and purposes could be considered a form of proxy server.

Making proxy servers illegal would bring down large corporations internet access.

3. It's just stupid.