Lich connection issues

[Philiater]

lost my connection to my router because of a power surge or something, and of course my screen freezes and game is unresponsive.

finally log back in, I'm dead and a grimswarm skirmisher is ripping limbs off my corpse. AND another character I'm playing is STILL in the game like 8-10 minutes after the initial loss of internet connection. could interact with him and everything (after I got raised, healed, etc.)

there any way to prevent Lich from keeping characters logged in so long when they suddenly lose their internet connection?

[Philiater]

and yes I know ghosting has always been an issue, but the ghosting has lasted much longer with Lich. before I had Lich I was always REALLY out of the game within a few minutes. you can test this using multiple accounts or with a buddy

[GSBree]

I really really REALLY want to try lich. I am particularly excited by the goto and uberbars. Also as I hunt Old Ta I think it would be useful for finding corpses, and nearly as useful for allowing mine to be found. In short I am truly excited about trying Lich, but I am having major connection issues. More than likely these are being caused by me and I apologise in advance for being a newb.

So I got my SGE, installed Ruby 1.9.2? I run Windows 7. The problem seems to come in when I attempt to extract/install to registry. It seems to extract, but I have yet to see the install to reqistry option. I did get it to connect to Simu, it saw my characters, but I never could start the game through lich. Also tried starting through SGE when lich was installed, it was not recognising the ; commands - I tried repository. I tried completely uninstalling everything including SF, SGE, Ruby... but I have not been able to get this installed and running.

Help?

AIM daglareb

[subzero]

It seems to me that you're thinking extraction and installation are the same thing or tied together somehow. It's really simple to verify if something was extracted. You double click the thing, it opens up winzip or winrar or whatever, I guess even windows can do it now. There is an option to extract within those programs (alt-e for winrar and probably winzip, at least). The files will then be put in a directory on your hard drive. Open windows explorer and look for that directory. If it's there, it should have the extracted files in it. If not, you didn't extract anything and need to figure out what you're doing wrong/not doing. After the files are extracted, you'll see a file called "lich.rbw". Open that and it'll pop up a window with tabs. One of the tabs is labeled "Install". Click it. Now you'll see a button labeled "Install". Click it. Profit.

[Tillmen]

lost my connection to my router because of a power surge or something, and of course my screen freezes and game is unresponsive.

finally log back in, I'm dead and a grimswarm skirmisher is ripping limbs off my corpse. AND another character I'm playing is STILL in the game like 8-10 minutes after the initial loss of internet connection. could interact with him and everything (after I got raised, healed, etc.)

there any way to prevent Lich from keeping characters logged in so long when they suddenly lose their internet connection?

I can't come up with an idea of how Lich could cause anything in this situation. If your router drops your internet connection, Lich couldn't tell Simu to keep you connected even if it wanted to. You're connected to the game through Lich, but that's Lich on your computer, not the Lich server. Maybe you're ghosting longer because you have "set inactivity on" and you had it off before?

[Tillmen]

I really really REALLY want to try lich. I am particularly excited by the goto and uberbars. Also as I hunt Old Ta I think it would be useful for finding corpses, and nearly as useful for allowing mine to be found. In short I am truly excited about trying Lich, but I am having major connection issues. More than likely these are being caused by me and I apologise in advance for being a newb.

So I got my SGE, installed Ruby 1.9.2? I run Windows 7. The problem seems to come in when I attempt to extract/install to registry. It seems to extract, but I have yet to see the install to reqistry option. I did get it to connect to Simu, it saw my characters, but I never could start the game through lich. Also tried starting through SGE when lich was installed, it was not recognising the ; commands - I tried repository. I tried completely uninstalling everything including SF, SGE, Ruby... but I have not been able to get this installed and running.

Help?

AIM daglareb

If you've installed Ruby 1.9.2, then you didn't follow the directions on http://lichproject.org/download.html

It's possible to get Ruby 1.9.2 to work, but there are extra things you'll have to install, and you might have to do some extra work if they conflict with other installed files. Also, some scripts on the repositoy might need edited to work on Ruby 1.9.2 because of some changes in the language. Your reward for all this extra work is that Ruby 1.9 runs about twice as fast as Ruby 1.8... on Linux. On Windows however, there use to be some lag issues which I assume haven't been fixed which causes Ruby 1.9 to run ridiculously slowly on Windows (for what Lich does anyway).

[Tillmen]

You double click the thing, it opens up winzip or winrar or whatever, I guess even windows can do it now.

The instructions specifically say not to double-click on it, because recent versions of Windows pretend that a zip file is a directory, assuming you don't have a real program to deal with zip files. The icon is only slightly different than a folder, the .zip file extention is probably hidden, and when you double click on it, it opens just like a folder, and you can use the files inside. Of course it's not a directory, and it just causes problems when it quietly extracts only one of the files to a temporary directory when you try to use it. Windows explorer doesn't make it obvious what you have or what you're doing with it, unless you already know.

[subzero]

The instructions specifically say not to double-click on it, because recent versions of Windows pretend that a zip file is a directory, assuming you don't have a real program to deal with zip files. The icon is only slightly different than a folder, the .zip file extention is probably hidden, and when you double click on it, it opens just like a folder, and you can use the files inside. Of course it's not a directory, and it just causes problems when it quietly extracts only one of the files to a temporary directory when you try to use it. Windows explorer doesn't make it obvious what you have or what you're doing with it, unless you already know.

I think that's the key part there. I've been so used to winzip|rar over the years that I can't even tell you when Windows started to even support it. Leave it to Microsoft to change things so they aren't similar to programs that have done the job for years prior to their decision to do something about it.

[GSBree]

If you've installed Ruby 1.9.2, then you didn't follow the directions on http://lichproject.org/download.html

It's possible to get Ruby 1.9.2 to work, but there are extra things you'll have to install, and you might have to do some extra work if they conflict with other installed files. Also, some scripts on the repositoy might need edited to work on Ruby 1.9.2 because of some changes in the language. Your reward for all this extra work is that Ruby 1.9 runs about twice as fast as Ruby 1.8... on Linux. On Windows however, there use to be some lag issues which I assume haven't been fixed which causes Ruby 1.9 to run ridiculously slowly on Windows (for what Lich does anyway).

Okay, shoot, I did start by saying I was a newb. So do earlier version of Ruby - I actually think I am doing the extract part correct and I do get to the lich.rbw in a folder - just not the install option. Will uninstall Ruby get the correct version and try again.

[GSBree]

Got it, thanks all!

[Tillmen]

Are you on Vista or Win7? If so, Lich probably doesn't have permission to write to the folder it's in and should be moved to your Documents folder or something. Otherwise Lich should have created a debug file inside a temp directory where ever you extracted it. The debug file might tell you what's going on.

[GSBree]

Are you on Vista or Win7? If so, Lich probably doesn't have permission to write to the folder it's in and should be moved to your Documents folder or something. Otherwise Lich should have created a debug file inside a temp directory where ever you extracted it. The debug file might tell you what's going on.
Yes, win7... was causing the problem. Got it though, thank you!