O...kay we're now entering the twilight zone. I did an strace run to see what was going on, and instead of 12057 this time I got 12037 - which is the "certificate expired" error. So I figured I'd set back my date to before the cert expired and lo and behold, I was able to log in. I was also able to create a character (yay), but when trying to enter the game it gets stuck on the loading screen and throws me back to the login screen with the following output on console:
Forgot to add: this is by running the net7proxy directly and not through the launcher.
01/04/09 00:00:13 Starting E&B...
01/04/09 00:00:17 Launch E&B successful
01/04/09 00:00:17 UDP packet optimisation selected (reduces server load).
fixme:d3d_caps:init_driver_info Unhandled vendor 8086.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f580,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:swapchain_init The application requested more than one back buffer, this is not properly supported.
Please configure the application to use double buffering (1 back buffer) if possible.
fixme:d3d8:ValidateVertexShader (0x1a2f220 (nil) (nil) 1 0x33f3fc): stub
fixme:d3d8:ValidateVertexShader (0x1359610 (nil) (nil) 1 0x33f3f0): stub
fixme:d3d8:ValidateVertexShader (0x1359980 (nil) (nil) 1 0x33f3f0): stub
fixme:dsalsa:IDsDriverBufferImpl_SetVolumePan (0x143e38,0x18efe0): stub
fixme:dsalsa:IDsDriverBufferImpl_SetVolumePan (0x143e38,0x18ef68): stub
fixme:crypt:CRYPT_CriticalExtensionsSupported unsupported critical extension "2.5.29.32"
fixme:crypt:CRYPT_CriticalExtensionsSupported unsupported critical extension "2.5.29.32"
01/04/09 00:01:30 MVAS thread running
01/04/09 00:05:13 Received Master login confirm, new UDP port is 3637 Avatar_id = 1073827255
01/04/09 00:05:13 <server> Master Login received - UDP sector port: 3637
01/04/09 00:05:13 >> Commence Login check
01/04/09 00:05:13 Sending Login packet - connection active
01/04/09 00:05:23 Error in packet format for packet d
01/04/09 00:05:23 Bad opcode through to Proxy: 0x3f00 Length: 0x0
fixme:d3d8:IDirect3DDevice8Impl_ResourceManagerDiscardBytes Byte count ignored.
01/04/09 00:05:24 Bad opcode through to Proxy: 0x3f00 Length: 0x0
01/04/09 00:05:24 Bad opcode through to Proxy: 0x3f00 Length: 0x0
01/04/09 00:05:26 Bad opcode through to Proxy: 0x3f00 Length: 0x0
01/04/09 00:05:28 Bad opcode through to Proxy: 0x3f00 Length: 0x0
01/04/09 00:05:29 Bad opcode through to Proxy: 0x3f00 Length: 0x0
01/04/09 00:05:29 Bad opcode through to Proxy: 0x3f00 Length: 0x0
01/04/09 00:05:31 Bad opcode through to Proxy: 0x3f00 Length: 0x0
01/04/09 00:05:33 Bad opcode through to Proxy: 0x3f00 Length: 0x0
01/04/09 00:06:03 >> Login check: Login FAILED
01/04/09 00:06:03 login failed, go back to the login screen
01/04/09 00:06:03 TCP connection on port 3500 closed gracefully
01/04/09 00:06:04 TCP connection on port 3801 closed gracefully
01/04/09 00:06:31 Received Master login confirm, new UDP port is 3637 Avatar_id = 1073827255
01/04/09 00:06:31 <server> Master Login received - UDP sector port: 3637
01/04/09 00:06:31 >> Commence Login check
01/04/09 00:06:31 Sending Login packet - connection active
01/04/09 00:07:21 >> Login check: Login FAILED
01/04/09 00:07:21 login failed, go back to the login screen
01/04/09 00:07:21 TCP connection on port 3500 closed gracefully
01/04/09 00:07:22 TCP connection on port 3801 closed gracefully
01/04/09 00:07:30 Client has terminated. Sending termination signal.