HolyPaladin
11-23-2005, 01:28 PM
I'm not sure if anybody around here plays or has ever piddled with the online game Maple Story (http://www.mapleglobal.com), but I used to play it a year ago and quit since it sucked on dialup, but I've recently started again since I finally have broadband.
While playing the game, I frequently end up dropping out of the game, and I can't figure out why. It behaves as though I've lost connection, but I have no problems of any kind with my connection. Even when it's in a period of failing to connect with the game server, I have no problems doing anything else over the internet, like come here and make this thread. So, obviously, my problem doesn't appear to be an unstable connection at my end.
I've e-mailed them about my problem twice, and they only replied to the first one, and none of their suggestions helped any (hence the second e-mail to them that went without response). They asked me to make sure I had the most recent version of the client, which I had to have since I had just got done downloading and installing it only like two days before I sent them the first e-mail. They wanted me to make sure my DirectX was up to date, and it is. They wanted me to make sure my connection was stable, and as I've explained already it seems to be. Then they mentioned firewalls, which I did sort of suspect, but I've snooped around and I don't seem to even have any enabled, so that doesn't seem to be it, either.
It seems that I'm fine as long as I don't go from one area to the next. If I were to stay on one single map, I could probably go for hours without dropping out of the game. It seems that about 20% of the time, when going from one location to the next, that I drop out of the game once I've entered that next area. It seems particularly bad with certain specific areas, like the one indicated on the map in the image below. It seems that just about every time I enter this area, I drop out of the game. This trend makes it seem very unlikely that it happens to be an issue of an unstable connection, firewall issue, or anything else that they suggested to me.
http://img500.imageshack.us/img500/5217/maple00004iy.jpg
While playing the game, I frequently end up dropping out of the game, and I can't figure out why. It behaves as though I've lost connection, but I have no problems of any kind with my connection. Even when it's in a period of failing to connect with the game server, I have no problems doing anything else over the internet, like come here and make this thread. So, obviously, my problem doesn't appear to be an unstable connection at my end.
I've e-mailed them about my problem twice, and they only replied to the first one, and none of their suggestions helped any (hence the second e-mail to them that went without response). They asked me to make sure I had the most recent version of the client, which I had to have since I had just got done downloading and installing it only like two days before I sent them the first e-mail. They wanted me to make sure my DirectX was up to date, and it is. They wanted me to make sure my connection was stable, and as I've explained already it seems to be. Then they mentioned firewalls, which I did sort of suspect, but I've snooped around and I don't seem to even have any enabled, so that doesn't seem to be it, either.
It seems that I'm fine as long as I don't go from one area to the next. If I were to stay on one single map, I could probably go for hours without dropping out of the game. It seems that about 20% of the time, when going from one location to the next, that I drop out of the game once I've entered that next area. It seems particularly bad with certain specific areas, like the one indicated on the map in the image below. It seems that just about every time I enter this area, I drop out of the game. This trend makes it seem very unlikely that it happens to be an issue of an unstable connection, firewall issue, or anything else that they suggested to me.
http://img500.imageshack.us/img500/5217/maple00004iy.jpg