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Disconnections from outdated client.
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:52 pm
by Lord Cavewight of GL
I have noticed when your not patched to the right point you get disconnected after a period of time.
I just ran into a new player who just found secondage and he complained about this issue.
It got me thinking, this small issue might be driving away ALOT of potential players and I was wondering if something could be done to prevent this? Sadly people are lazy and not everyone will stick around to figure out why they are being disconnected.
Re: Disconnections from outdated client.
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:00 pm
by nightshark
I think this is an issue with all RunUO shards, the same thing happened to me on Divinity or some other shard I was playing years ago. I thought it was some serious issue with my connection, but I did take the time out to visit the forum and find out wtf was going on.
Maybe have it as a login message or something... "You must be patched to client 5.xx or you will be disconnected". Especially on new accounts!
Re: Disconnections from outdated client.
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:13 am
by Dagon
I don't know what the version threshold is but if you log in here with anything under 5.0 i believe it is you get a message saying you need at least version 5 and will be disconnected in 20 seconds or something like that. theres nothing to be confused about there.
Re: Disconnections from outdated client.
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:33 am
by esteban
It seems like a well-known speedhack for UO was supported only up till client 4.x
Perhaps the shard admins know of this, and decided to curb cheaters by forcing a client version that is incompatible with it?
If so, I'd say good call.
Re: Disconnections from outdated client.
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:00 am
by Batlin
Perhaps the shard admins know of this, and decided to curb cheaters by forcing a client version that is incompatible with it?
It's actually a technical issue related with RunUO. RunUO, just like Razor, does not work with clients prior to 4.x. I forget the exact version number. A year ago, 4.x clients were allowed here, back then there was a poll about the subject :
http://forum.uosecondage.com/viewtopic. ... 08&start=0
Re: Disconnections from outdated client.
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:42 am
by Derrick
We restrict the client version to 5.x +, however this isn't a hard kick, only a suggestion until the account reaches a significant amount of playtime. There are a lot of warnings prior to reaching this threshold.
Clients prior to 4.x are simply not supported at this time for technical reasons due to changes to packet protocols, encryption schemes, etc.