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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:06 pm

Was the list shortened in anyway?

I just got a system that had been dying back on its feet. And now that I am installing everything back on it.

Even after updating the local mud list online, i cannot find my MUD listed anymore.

Its one of the simultronic games: Gemstone IV (though labeled as Gemstone III when last it was included in the mud list)

Add if the list was shortened, why?

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:34 pm

I made one by force, and managed to connect to my account, but when i got to the char selection window... there where no chars to choose from.

Any clue whats going on here?

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

You might be connecting to the wrong instance. Zuggsoft has no control over the server data sent back, nor does it really have any idea what level of access you have with an account so it can't offer proactive errorchecking to ensure you aren't supposed to connect to the server you told it to.

On the other hand, you might have an invalid gamecode and while CMud has no problems connecting, the server doesn't understand/accept what it's saying.

For Dragonrealms, this is the information I use:

eaccess.play.net|DR <-- prime server
eaccess.play.net|DRX <-- plat server
eaccess.play.net|DRF <-- The Fallen server
eaccess.play.net|DRT <-- Test server

port 7900

For GSIV, the code in ZMud is GS4.

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:19 pm

actually... its GS3

my problem was i had GS4 in there, changing it to GS3 fixed my issue, but thanks!

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:08 pm

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:10 pm

I am aware that the list is on that tab. And I did update it before posting here.

The simultronics games ARE missing from the list however. Neither GS3 nor GS4, or ever DragonRealms did i see.

Enchanter Joined: 09 Sep 2007 Posts: 605

I think that CMUD has troubles with muds without host\port\ip information. If you click on "Update all MUDs", you'll get the mudconnector.xml file in your CMUD folder. Although there will be no Gemstone III MUD in the list, you can find it in the mudconnector.xml:

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:39 pm

Yes, that is true. If there isn't any host information in the list from the MUD connector, then CMUD doesn't add it to it's list either, because there is no way for CMUD to connect to anything without a host name. Sounds like Simutronics must have edited their record on MUD Connector to remove the specific host information because of their specific login mechanism.

Unfortunately, I think this will also effect zMUD, so someone might want to let Simutronics know that by doing this they are preventing a lot of potential players from even learning about their MUDs. No wonder their player base is dropping. I've tried to convince them that they should really have a top-ten icon in zMUD/CMUD especially because of their proprietary login mechanism (which zMUD and CMUD support), but the people who used to care about zMUD/CMUD no longer seem to work at Simutronics, so I no longer have any contacts there.

I should also point people to the article: http://www.zuggsoft.com/page.php?file=zmud/simutronic.htm which also describes how to setup zMUD with Simutronics games. Even though the article is for zMUD, it still applies to CMUD. I'll try to update that to include the GS4 entry for GemStone IV.