Red's Map Pack - Failed to connect to map server.

[Anathema]

Heyo! so there's a bit of an issue I've been having, and I thought I'd report it here. About a week or so prior to this day, just after the server restarts had ceased, I was wandering around with one of my characters in Red's Map Pack and my path took me towards the map of Advance - however, upon entering the map, I was stuck on the loading screen for quite a while, after which time it told me that it had "failed to connect to the map server". I thought "Alright, this is fairly common! I'll just persist until it works."

Unfortunately, after several futile attempts, it was still failing to connect - so I went and deleted the map, which as far as I know, should have taken me to "the void" as it usually does, and from there I could teleport back to home. Much to my dismay, that didn't work. No matter how many times I tried, it gave me the same error. I attempted reinstalling the game about five times (literally), tried uninstalling and reinstalling the map pack, deleting the map again and again, yet nothing had worked. It was done; my character was gone.

By that time, I had pretty much given up - so I just went into the character creator and re-created my character. I got him all duplicated exactly the same as the original was, and for a while everything was fine. During the week between now and then, I had been occasionally plying at getting the original back, but always getting hit with the same "failed to connect to map server" message - no matter what I tried. Well recently, I was browsing the forums and I saw a screenshot which I thought to be in Red's Shrine - so I said "Methinks I'll visit the shrine and see what's happening therein!" I took the recreation of my character that I lost, as I'm rather fond of him, and I went to the Cape of Lost Worlds. To my total obfuscation! upon entering The Grounds, I got the "failed to connect to map server" error again - and after persisting several times, I was still getting the aforementioned error. With a sigh, I deleted the map and tried it several times again, only to keep getting the same exact error.

It would appear as if I've lost both characters to Red's Map Pack - which is a shame - both because I really liked those characters and because I really liked Red's Map Pack. I'm not sure if the recent server downtimes have had anything to do with it, but I hope there's some kind of solution available. Until that time, I'll just recreate the character again.

Thanks in advance for any help. :3

[CloudFish]

As it stands, and in the past; Red's map has always had problems with the maps getting stuck on the servers. Not really sure why his go down more than most, but it really is a common thing. I'm sure he's more capable of answering the "why" or "how".

In relation to the server problems though; there have been a lot more problems for users getting into private maps as of late. So while the problem existed before in Red's maps, it has been intensified with the problems concerning the server.

However, with server restarts; that occur usually once a week, this should be solved the next go around, and you can get your characters out of there.

[angelre]

Hmm...Have you tried deleteing all the files serperately? Not just the whole file? The  same thing happened to me once, and this fixed it, but I kinda haff to know this ._.

[BigSkippy]

It is still due to the server issues Redsmappack tends to do this GENERALLY because it is a complex system of maps but once there is another restart you should be able to explore it until the next server derp.

[Anathema]

Yup, Rocker101, I've tried that and just about everything else - but to no avail. Thank you for the suggestion anyways. :3

To Skippy and CloudFish, thanks for the information! I suppose I'll just re-create the character and wait for the next server restart to retrieve the original(s). He's going to have so many clones, rofl.