I was playing for a while on the babel 0.75 server this afternoon, and I was getting constant lag spikes, up to 1000 ping. Upon restarting the client, I could no longer connect (“Server connection failed” every time). I’ve tried reconnecting with both BnS launcher and client.exe and both don’t work. I’m not using a proxy, and have never been banned/votekicked.
I’ve gotten this error sporadically in the past, but usually after a couple hours or the next day I can connect successfully. However, this is pretty annoying, so any solutions?
EDIT: I’d like to add that I CAN connect to all the other aloha.pk servers, only babel doesn’t work. Weird.
EDIT 2: BnS launcher crashes after receiving the error message (“BnS Launcher has encountered a problem and needs to close”)
Hm, I’ve experienced this issue before, and it seems to be a result of faulty internet connection more than anything else. I’d suggesting investing in some ethernet cables (if you don’t have any already), as they’re cheap and will improve your connection strength and consistency a lot (if only I’d take my own advice).
EDIT: If all of them except for babel work now, then it’s probably just because babel is routinely a packed server, full for hours at a time. The “Server Connection Failed” may just be a result of the server already being full, as my client sometimes does that too when I’m trying to join a server and it’s full.
No, the server was not full. The full message is different, I’ve gotten it plenty of times before since babel is a popular server.
Oh, forgot about this: the BnS launcher crashes after receiving the error message (“BnS Launcher has encountered a problem and needs to close”) I’ll add this to the main post.
Huh, I don’t really think this is our field of specialty, as even though it may be our server, it seems like your problem lies with either your current installation(s) of the game or your launcher. I’d suggest going to buildandshoot.com and tell them basically what you’ve told us, either making a thread there or hopping on their IRC (channel #buildandshoot on webchat.quakenet.org) and asking your question there. Sorry to waste your time. If it makes you feel any better, I really like your avatar. Anyway, good luck.
It’s my suspicion that when someone disconnects during a map load, someone else will end up taking their name (the name glitch), but they’ll still keep a connection. Thus the babel status page can show 28/32 connected, but I still need to !kickafk players from IRC (especially after a new map), and it’ll say “0 players kicked, x many connections kicked” (or something to that effect). Then I can join.
When trying to connect, it’ll just say Server Connection Failed until these erroneous connections are disconnected.
I don’t have any experience with the BnS launcher, so idk about that.
Also, I would guess that the Server Connection Failed and bad ping are actually 2 different issues.
Lol my avatar wasn’t created by me, credits to whoever’s signature that is in the bottom left 