What the heck is going on? This is crap that a company can't fix anything. Let's hope they don't do any more maintenance. Bypassing the launchpad doesn't even work.
create a desktop icon edit said icon where it says LAUNCHPAD.exe replace with EQGAME.xex after the " after eqgame.exe hit space type patchme logins manually bypassing launchpad
Time to put(well past time)play limitations on the free players, like if there more than X numbers of players on-line free-to-play accounts will have to wait in queue until a slot opens up.
I don't see where this is anyway related to server population. It was very hard to get in this morning when there were about 200 logged in on my server. Took me about 15 tries each but I finally got numerous accounts logged in. Now 10 hours later there are over 500 logged in on my server and no issues logging in and out.