Posts by WilliamWestlake

Quote from red51

Usually the player name will be stored locally, at least if the client was able to connect to the hive in the past. But multiplayer servers reject players if there is no connection to the authentication server (this behaviour can be disabled, as mentioned, but it's not recommendable).

This did not work for me yesterday. I play on Exxter's server, and he had set server_hive_verification=false. He could play with his normal character whereas I could only play as Unknown User. I suspect this was because he was authenticated by Steam whereas I was not.

But anyway thanks for restoring the service. We have to take it as it comes

Quote from Bogus

Kann das mit den grossen CPU Lücken zutun haben

Sicher nicht. Bei mir hing der Browser öfters auf der URL http://www.woltlab.de, die ist im Footer verlinkt. Vielleicht hatten die Probleme. Momentan geht es wieder.

Quote from Exxter

server_hive_verification=false

Das scheint aber nur für Leute zu funktionieren, die über Steam spielen. Mit dem normalen Client ist man nicht authentifiziert und spielt als Unknown User.

Same here - can't find any logs but I suspect the HIVE server is down.

You can play offline and still connect to your server. But then you are an unknown player, which does not help much.

There should really be some redundancy for the user authentication, this single point failure is annoying!