This is what we find when we try login: 1 - SERVER DOWN 2 - UNKWON ERROR 3 - NO CHARACTERS 4 - YOU HAVE BEEN DISCONNECTED and we pay for this...
There is one more: the black screen with the text "The Server is not responding". I just had that 3 times in a row over the last 30 minutes but was unable to screenshot it, as the window was not allowing access (program running amok or something).
Yep, the last two hours have been a case of 90 minutes trying to get three accounts logged in, facing the timeouts, unknown error occurred, server not responding, disconnects. Got in for about 20 mins (long enough to start an adventure), then "You have been disconnected" again. That's near enough two hours of trying to relax and enjoy myself, and instead being faced with frustration. It's worse than work, as at work I can actually knuckle down and trace and fix the back end systems. From what I've gleaned so far, I understand that fixing isn't a simple thing, and it may take time, but please, give us a location that we can look at which details the core issue(s), with stage releases from customer support when significant milestones have been reached. That way we can see things for ourselves, without having to spend time ranting on the forums because our server has crashed several times in a day, wasted hours, and leaving us completely in the dark about what's really going on..
The strange thing is: yesterday where the most people should be on there was no disconnect and esp. early morning the net was fast as hell. This also happened to normal surfing - Allah was fast as hell. Perhaps the NSA had a server crash too and the internet has now the normal speed or the "American Gods" liked us for a day....
Yeah...typical AB...spent 15 minutes getting past the unknown error message @ server select, only to spend another 10-15 minutes staring @ an empty character select screen waiting for my toons to populate. Multiply that by 3 accounts and we should just rename the game nEverQuest....FFS lol.
It would be great if someone could do a video about all of this just to show how is 1 hour of EQ playing in AB server.
When trying to setup trader I had the following multiple times :- [Fri Sep 08 17:37:58 2017] Your attempt to become a trader has failed.
It happens to any account, no matter if you are free to play or gold member. I took that picture when I was logging my mule with TS stuff but my main account is gold with all expansions bought and has the same problem.