I've searched online all over for all kinds of materials to figure this out. I've heard from friends how fun this is, I'm a huge Fallout 2 fan and thus is my dilemma. I really want to play, have all the necessary downloads, master.dat and critter.dat are both configured properly, all that. At this point, everytime I try to log in with a character I created, it will start loading, then return me to the main menu with a message in the lower left corner saying "It was not possible to be connected to the server."
What else can I be doing to fix this so I can login?