Unnerved by the resolution restriction of the old 2D Client, I tried to connect to my current freeshard of choice, by configuring a custom free shard in the GUI Menu, as
- server: sphere.alathair.de
- port: 2593
(Checked this data several times to be sure)
The login fails, giving the console messages
Code:
initializing packets for 6.0.1.7 or later
Account_Login_Failed 4 communications failed
disconnect
In the client itself only the second line showed up as a popup.
Trying to login to the other servers listed in the client, where I don't have an account, I did at least get a "wrong username/password"-response.
Using the default client distributed by the shard patcher worked just fine.
What could be the reason?
By the way, the server doesn't show up in ./config/shards if configured in the GUI, and doesn't show up in the GUI if configured by copying and modifying one of the files from ./config/shards.
The server should run on sphere 0.51, though I'm not sure about that.
I'm using the latest stable version of iris from the mainpage.