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read the bold part below before trying to help)
I did. For one day. One frickin day. That's how long it worked before everything collapsed like a house of cards
I was excited to log on to play today, and found that my Ubuntu suddenly can't reach the internet. I panicked about losing what little time I had saved up to play, and I figured it must be the static IP thing that messed it up, because I haven't done anything else. I tried changing it back to automatic, and that changed my frickin IP. The one time it changes is when I no longer want it to change!
I tried launching the server, and when I start the query manager it says "Unable to create server socket (2)!"
At this point I figured I might as well restore to the latest snapshot. So I did that, and then I realized that this might've reset all my early progress in Tibia, forcing me to start over if I get it working again. Please tell me this isn't the case, I don't think I could handle it. This snapshot crap seems to do a lot more harm than good, and all of this Ubuntu crap is just awfully dysfunctional and unstable, how can I ever trust this stuff to work well enough for me to be able to play daily for months to come? I can't even get more than one day of playing... it seems so fragile I barely even dare to touch it because it'll probably just break on me and then it takes weeks to get it working. How can people willingly put up with this torture :S
Anyway, the restored snapshot had
yet another new IP. Go figure! Like, why wouldn't it randomly break on me too? That's what they do, after all. So I re-hex'd the client to be able to connect to it so I can just see if my chars are still there or not before I do anything else. And then I tried launching the server, and guess what; "Unable to create server socket (2)!"
So now I don't think I even have a functional snapshot to restore to. I had no choice but to come here and be a bother again. If this was literally any other game or anything pc-related I would've given up, it feels impossible to even come back from this. But this is the only thing in the world I want to do. I don't care if literally every single other game stops working, I only want to play Tibia. But of course all the others work just fine, and Tibia is the only one refusing to work. "Just my luck" doesn't even begin to describe this bull**it. I haven't been this close to killing myself in a good while now. I don't even know why I'm trying to have it fixed here, it seems so hopeless. But I don't know what to do, all I want is to get to play in peace and it seems there's no way to get to do that
Edit:
I gave it one last chance to fix it myself, since it felt a bit like everything is lost anyway. I went back to my 2nd newest snapshot, and I got the "Unable to create server socket (2)!" error there too. So I went back yet another one, installed the OT scripts from scratch, hex'd the client to the new IP, got the server running and working, set a static IP, made a new snapshot, and launched Ubuntu again to make sure I do get internet, which I did. So, it appears that this time it all works fine (for now). I even had something improve: The strange laggy feeling I described was indeed a problem, because now all of a sudden the game is smooth as hell and that issue is completely gone. So things are even better than the first time, and I now know how to set everything up from scratch to start playing in like 15 minutes on a fresh Ubuntu (but who knows if I'll remember it in the future, I'm not even sure I remembered every detail now). Losing hours of progress was a high price to pay for it though, so here's my question:
1. When things go wrong in the future, how can I avoid losing my chars? If I lose them all to some issue in this Ubuntu crap when I've gotten far on them, it would be too devastating to even imagine (I was already dangerously low last night, and my spirits remain a little crushed even with things working again, it was such a heavy blow). Is there any way to protect my chars and progress?
Also, if you know what the hell went wrong, like why I suddenly had no internet connection in Ubuntu and what the server socket issue was all about, it wouldn't hurt to know so maybe I can resolve it without a snapshot restoration the next time it happens (might be crucial if restoration will no longer be an option in order to preserve my progress).