No Server List?

[bigboobies]

wow some help this forum really gives......i got the server list to come up but its not letting me connect

[trevius]

Please have a little patience when asking for support. We all help here voluntarily.

Your question is a fairly common one and some forum searching would probably answer your question. As for not being able to connect, you need to try to be more specific in explaining your issue. Otherwise, people are less likely to help out because your issue is too vague.

Not being able to connect could be multiple issues:

1. The server you are trying to connect to isn't allowing public connections. Try another server.

2. If you tried multiple servers and can connect to none of them, then you have an issue on your side.

3. If you live in a dorm or are playing at work, you might be using a proxy that is blocking port 5998, which means you won't be able to connect.

4. If you are running a P2P or Torrent program, it might be using all of your bandwidth. Try turning them all off.

5. You may have a firewall that is blocking EQ. Disable all firewalls.

6. If you are running a Dual Core CPU or Windows Vista, you will probably need to read the following post and apply at least one of the fixes listed in it:

http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=25327

7. You may need to adjust your Windows Desktop and/or your Everquest Resolution settings.

And there are other reasons as well. So, you can see why being more specific can help us to help you. This also explains why people were probably reluctant to post a reply to help, because there is no simple short answer to your problem. Reading the forums and searching can help a lot, and being as descriptive as possible also helps us to define your problem better.

[Flare83]

i get this issue alot, just keep trying it eventually shows you the server list. I know it sucks but o well.

[bigboobies]

trust me i read the forums and searched and you gave that exact same answer to everyone else


lawlz

[trevius]

If you don't want to be appreciative when offered help, then you should stop asking for it. So far all you have offered is lack of patience and lack of appreciation.

As I said, we all help here voluntarily, so being disrespectful isn't going to get you very much help. We aren't paid customer service, so we don't have to deal with people who don't appreciate it.

The reason I took the time to write the post I did was to try to help you even though you only gave very limited information on your issue. The reason it is similar to other responses I have given to others is because it is a fairly common issue and so there are some fairly standard resolutions to that issue.

If you have already tried all of the suggestions I made and ruled out that none of them are your issue, then you will need to give more details on your issue. Maybe stuff like posting your eq log files, or more descriptive details on exactly what you are seeing when you have this issue. If you have read the forums as you said, then you should have seen plenty of people asking for help that give very good details of their issues. You could use those posts as a guideline for your own when asking for help. The more information we have, the easier it is to help.

I don't claim to be the Magical Emulator Guru or anything. But, I do have a decent amount of experience with it and with resolving many common issues on it. I try to offer any help I can, where ever I can, even if it isn't the perfect answer or solution. I normally try to make a few common suggestions to try first and if none of those work, I try to give any other suggestions if I can think of any. I think the list of 7 things I suggested in this post are plenty of things to get started with. For any more help, I would need more information. Though, maybe someone else has a better solution.

I am sorry if this post sounds rude. I normally try to refrain from posting anything negative. Maybe I am reading your posts wrong, but it sounds to me like you are being a little disrespectful. And if that attitude continues, you probably aren't going to get much help from the people on these forums, and I definitely wouldn't be helping any further.