hiya. i'm a returning player and have recently been unable to log into the game. when i try to enter the world the window goes black and crashes to desktop with the "disconnected from login server" error. some potentially helpful things for troubleshooting: i'm running windows 10. i've been able to log in to mapleroyals before using the same modem and router setup i have now. i do not use any vpn. HOWEVER, i do have a large amount of sites blocked in my hosts.txt file. it's the only thing i can think of that would potentially be the issue. (edit: just checked. this doesn't seem to be the issue.) i use windows defender and have added the mapleroyals folder to exceptions. i have uninstalled and reinstalled mapleroyals and had no success. i have tried changing my MAC address to a different address. there's no indication from the program i used to do so that the original MAC address is broken or corrupt though.
figured out that it's a combo of not having it in my firewall and also having royals installed in two places for some reason. this is solved now