Few games maintain such an avid fan following as Verant’s online role-playing game EverQuest. That’s partly because Verant created an impressive game to begin with and also because Verant has consistently appealed to its many dedicated subscribers, both by adding new gameplay features and also by adding entire new regions to the game’s already enormous world. As such, it’s understandable why some of EverQuest’s more skeptical players felt as if the new expansion, The Ruins of Kunark, was a ploy to milk its customers for more money for the same sort of additions they’d already been getting as part of the package. But as you explore the new continent of Kunark, it’ll become increasingly clear to you that the expansion’s value is as immense as that of the original game.

In addition to the huge continent, the expansion also introduces an interesting playable race and scores of new monsters to fight and items to find. Furthermore, many of the new graphics in The Ruins of Kunark looks noticeably better than in the original EverQuest, which isn’t surprising given that the expansion was published more than a year after EverQuest’s early-1999 release. Kunark’s many indigenous life-forms look outstanding by EverQuest’s own high standards, or by any others: From conventional creatures like rhinos and scorpions, to stranger beings like the draconian Sarnak and the ravenous nibblers, the sheer variety of Kunark’s dozens of new monsters is certainly the best thing about them.

Unfortunately, the improved graphics do have consequences: You’re likely to experience a significantly lower frame rate in Kunark’s more densely populated zones than anywhere else in Norrath. Although the expansion has higher system requirements than the rest of EverQuest does, and although the frame rate can be improved by reducing the clipping plane so that you won’t see as far into the horizon, you’ll still find that some parts of Kunark run slower than you’d like. Nevertheless, the general improvement in the expansion’s visual quality makes the frame-rate sacrifice worthwhile, just as the new regions in Kunark help make the great-looking game look even better. Unfortunately, there’s little new sound in the game and no new music.

The expansion’s new playable race, the Iksar, also look good. Newcomers to EverQuest may like the Iksar because they look so unusual: They’re snarling, hunched lizardmen with long, whipping tails. The Iksar are inherently easier to start out with than most EverQuest races, not only because they naturally regenerate their hit points faster than other races except trolls, but also because they’re inherently able to see in the dark, to run and swim quickly, and to forage food and drink. In addition, the four zones outlying the Iksar’s huge home city Cabilis are filled with many different types of monsters to fight. These zones themselves are huge, varied, densely populated, and interconnected. They look good and they’re fun and dangerous to explore.

I recently updated (enabled and updated) firewall setting using this guide on wiki.ubuntu.com.I followed Method 2 UFW. However, after completing the process am unable to download torrents in Transmission.

The guide mentions Transmission port rules:

And now our Transmission rules

Under Preference -> Network in Transmission

The Port for incoming connections (which is) 51413 shows Port is closed when I click Test Port.

Please help me resolve this issue. Am just an average user (also new to linux), so please kindly break it down so that I would be able to understand you.

Ubuntu version 16.10

result of sudo ufw status

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Your port 51413 appears closed because you didn't allow incoming connetions, you only allowed outgoing connections. The guide you followed is wrong in this point.

Delete the rules related to port 51413. To do that run

and then delete the four related rules with

Replace # with the numbers you got before, you will have to run this command four times to get rid of all of them.

Now add a new rule which allows incoming connections with

To apply the changes reload the firewall rules with

or

Remind that this port (51413) needs to be forwarded in your router, if the port is not forwarded in the router, incoming connections will get denied in your router before they reach your computer and the port will still appear as closed.

The Bittorrent-network is a peer-to-peer network and lives from connectivity. If a client on the network does not allow incoming connections, this client can only connect to clients which allow incoming connections. If not even a single client on the network allows incoming connections, no client would be able to connect to other clients, the network become useless.

You would still be able to download torrents if you don't allow incoming connections, but you can't connect to other peers which also deny incoming connections. Thus, the number of peers you can connect to is limited and this reduces download speed or, in the worst case, you can't download at all.

I think it is a common problem with bittorrents, many people don't know to configure their firewall and router correctly.

How to forward a port in the router is a topic which is not in the scope of askubuntu. You will have to refer to the manual of your router. For some knowledge about this topic take a look at https://portforward.com/ .

To learn more about the usage of ufw take a look at:

Following the guide you used you have a firewall which is very restrictive, you set the defaults to deny all incoming and all outgoing connections. You will have to add rules to allow connections for each application which needs Internet-access and uses ports which are not defined in your rules yet. Remind that when you install a new application and you wonder why the application does not have access to the Internet.

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