The SSSE form of the eqgame.exe error and cause

[John Adams]

Originally Posted by sonicintuition

Does this so called survey packet refer to that pop up in the character select screen from sony asking if they can gather anonymous data?

No, Sonic. This is not the data collection option in the client. Occasionally during login (before the server select screen) SOE would dish out news bulletins or mini surveys (very rarely) to users to select before arriving at the server selects.

This thread is brilliant. Excellent detective work.

[Darkonig]

4 of my accounts yesterday got a successful survey. The survey pack contains the question Is this thing on? and 4 possible answers. With responses of submit and skip. So, when I stated before that you always got a survey packet of one size, then list of servers, then 1 or more additional survey packets I was incorrect. The actual transmission is a survey packet, then the list of servers, then zero or more additional survey packets less an 8 byte custom udp header. If no bogus survey packets follow then you get the survey displayed, if 1 or more bogus ones arrive then you crash.

I answered all 4 the same way, as above. One of them crashed again several hours later when I went to log it back in. So, answering the survey does not guarantee the login server will not ask again.

As to the other poster about cannot packet sniff the login server, all of the survey packets are identified as coming from the login server IP and Port with appropriate sequence numbers to suggest they really did.