New record for account going bad

[Bantu]

<p>So with the 2 months free thing, I decided to come back <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p> I installed the game last night, then I let it patch through the night.</p><p> I wake up this morning around 6 am and login and play for a couple minutes just because I'm excited.  Everything worked fine.  I even turned in a quest and started the next in the chain.</p><p> This afternoon I come home for lunch...literally 5 hours later and I immediately have the same problem that it seems other people have been having.  No matter which character I log into, the game loads like normal, but my character has 0%HP/Mana and I can't interact with anything in the world (doors, nodes, etc).  It sits like this and then just kicks me back to the login screen.</p><p> So my question is:</p><p>Why would it work this morning,but not 5 hours later??  I haven't changed anything...in fact, I didn't do anything this morning except login, complete a quest, harvest a flower for the next in the chain, then log out.  Mind you I exited EQ2 without camping...but would that really break it entirely?</p><p> I know this is a moderately normal issue, but I'm wondering if anyone has had it happen this fast after a fresh install.</p><p> **TSR:  Since I only logged one character for a couple of minutes and then it screws up at next logon, wouldn't it be really easy to go through the logs to see if anything changed?</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p>Greetings,</p><p> As a first step, you will probably want to remove the game and launch pad from you firewall's exception list, and then add it back on.  Sometimes when the game updates certain firewalls will view it as a new program, but wont prompt you to add it since there's a similar file name already on the list. </p><p>Assuming that doesn't correct the issue, you may want to post your connection related info as requested in the 'read before posting' thread at the top of the forums.  It could be that you're getting routed through that AT&T problem area and the issues you're experiencing is caused by the traffic they get during peak hours(explaining the difference from 5 hours ago).</p>

[Bantu]

<p>Wow, that actually seemed to fix it...</p><p>I'll let you know if I run into the problem again.</p><p>Thanks for the prompt help <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Wingrider01]

<cite>Bantu wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Wow, that actually seemed to fix it...</p><p>I'll let you know if I run into the problem again.</p><p>Thanks for the prompt help <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" /></p></blockquote>On any application orientated firewall you will need to remove and readd the applications to the firewall anytime it is patched. Application orientated firewalls store a chksum based on the size, creations date, modification date and a few other paramters of the application if any one of these change, when the firewall checks the request it will block it thinking it was modified unintentionally and could be malware. The main modules for eq2 can change at any time with the patcher, when they do the application orientated firewall will block functionality thinking it was done by a virus