The patcher notes say this:
All servers are up except:
Antonia Bayle
Guk
Butcherblock
Nektulos
Kithicor
Unrest
Crushbone
Runnyeye
Blackburrow
Najena
Befallen
Permafrost
Mistmoore
Oasis
Steamfont
That's 15 of 17 servers down. "All servers are up except", these guys have positive spin down to a science.
When it crashed out last night, I tried to log back in and got the screen where your characters are standing, and I didn't have any anymore. Apparently they are pulling the character list from the servers and if the server is down it doesn't show your character. Of course, I'm hoping that's the case...
edit: and why is it that still we have to go to a SOE website to find out they are doing a scheduled downtime for 4 hours? Is it THAT hard to put that information on the patcher message?
Edited, Thu Nov 11 07:21:51 2004 by Samatman
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