Help Can't Access Wonder Trade

[ReeNormies]

the ping windows is fine, it pops up regardless now, part of the security, I'm guessing, it isn't relevant to the message that followed

It doesn't have to do with security. It is a temporary fix for a stability problem with the game's online handler. It was meant to check if you had an internet connection before trying to go online. That window wasn't actually supposed to be visible. Hopefully I should be able to remove it in the next update.

You know, I wonder if that's the change that "broke" my ability to get on Uranium's servers on that hotspot.  On a lark, I've tried that ping trick that L told me to do on all the hotspots I've used recently, and the ones that get the same "timed-out" error message are also ones that I've learned don't do certain things (like access other gaming servers).

So apparently, for some reason these hotspots are blocking these pings to check for Internet connection.  I still don't understand why, unless that's just an easy way to block computers from accessing gaming servers for... I don't know, bandwidth concerns?

Which leads me to ask... @ReeNormies, had it not been checking for a connection that way before?  And since you said it was a "temporary fix", is there some chance that it'll not be doing that in the future?  (Not asking to reverse it just for me, of course.   But if this is a method that's going to be around for the foreseeable future, then I'll just know to stick with the hotspots that I know work for me and avoid the others if I want to do some trading.)

Well the problem before was that it wouldn't check the connection it would just connect, which would be fine normally but RPGMaker can't properly handle connection errors, so if it couldn't connect with the server the game would freeze and go not responding for a while. I tried to fix it by having it do this before doing the actual connection but that was a really improvised fix which I do intend to remove. I have the team working on a better way to handle internet connections and I think they are almost done.