# Event message connection timeout + pet layover makes game inaccessable

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/event-message-connection-timeout-pet-layover-makes-game-inaccessable/68667>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [February 17, 2021, 7:18am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/event-message-connection-timeout-pet-layover-makes-game-inaccessable/68667 "2021-02-17T07:18:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jerry\_the\_skunk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jerry_the_skunk/32/53897_2.png) [@Jerry\_the\_skunk](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jerry_the_skunk)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 7:18am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/event-message-connection-timeout-pet-layover-makes-game-inaccessable/68667/1 "2021-02-17T07:18:21Z")

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Since a couple of weeks, I cannot reach the servers anymore when the event message shows up on game launch (it works when opening the event window manually ingame). Normally this is just a minor annoyance, that takes me half a minute until the timeout message shows up.  
When there is a pet, I got a slightly bigger problem.  
Both effects appear to overlay each other, leaving the map screen in a greyed out state with an unfinished pet message, that I cannot interact with. All I can do at this point is to kill the game task and restart.

Forgot to make a screenshot when it just happened again, and I won’t get the event information again for at least a couple of hours, so I can’t reproduce it right away. I hope, it is still clear, what is the issue.

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**Author:** ![Sytro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sytro](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sytro)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 7:57am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/event-message-connection-timeout-pet-layover-makes-game-inaccessable/68667/2 "2021-02-17T07:57:15Z")

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I’m assuming you’re plaing on Steam… or maybe other platform? (your bug report is missing such info, which is nessesary for DEVs)

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**Author:** ![Saltypatra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/saltypatra/32/59750_2.png) [@Saltypatra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Saltypatra)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 9:25am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/event-message-connection-timeout-pet-layover-makes-game-inaccessable/68667/3 "2021-02-17T09:25:20Z")

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