LostSoulFly

Yes, I have seen several of your posts. This would be a completely different undertaking, however. This would simply require changing NETWORK_LOBBY to our custom server, emulating the official Sacred servers. No VPN software and configuring necessary. MUCH more streamlined and simple. Though do not take my words as saying your efforts don't have any merit, I believe you are doing a great job continuing the multiplayer experience of Sacred, but there are also other solutions.

Yes, I saw that as well which is what sparked my interest in this. I can't connect, I've tried before and I just tried again. If you or anyone else can, please do as requested in my first post - get a wireshark packet capture of you logging in/registering an account, it would likely help me considerably. EDIT: I remember reading some people suspected it was a geo-location thing, only Europeans could connect or some nonsense. I don't know if it has any merit, though.

This would be the one true solution in my opinion! I ordered a few reverse engineering books from Amazon that should give me a good foundation, but I'm swamped with classes and work lately, so we'll see how things go.

I know some programming and would like to see about creating an open-source Sacred Open server. I just need a bit more information, perhaps a log of the handshake and lobby packets to get started. I can already make a connection and I'm trying to figure out the protocol Sacred uses for passing CD-key/User/Password/e-mail information at account registration as well as how to respond to the initial login request. So again, if anyone can still connect to the Open servers, please grab Wireshark (or some other program) and capture all the packets transferred between you and the server when you're logging in a few times. The first packet is a bit longer. Attaching a debugger and reverse engineering the network portion is not something I can do yet. Anyone have any guides or experience in that? I want to make this a reality without having to mess with hamachi or wippien.