Ok heres what happened: I changed internet service providers and i now have a static ip. the only difference is the length of the ip address. and when i open the play.exe it goes all the way to the log in and says it can't read my server.dat file. and i have to re-install the game. i have everything server side like it should be. my server has been running for about 4 months. i can put a normal ip address in it and it will try to connect. here are the differences in the ip these numbers are hypothetical but resemble the placement of the digits.
used to be 11.11.111.111
and new one is 111.11.111.111
this 2nd one is a static ip.
please any help i can get would be greatly appreciated.






