I can't get through, even bouncing through the EU proxy I have access to. If I miss out on the Risan ship because of this, even though I paid for half the thing in Lobi, I'm going to be livid with PWE, whether or not this is a Verizon issue.
I do have a fast connection, and completely redownloaded/reinstalled the game (yay FIOS Quantum), restarted my router, and the Verizon tech rebooted the ONT outside. It's a node on Verizon's backbone that's dropping it for me (see my previous TraceRT results), it doesn't look like it has anything to do with a feud with…
Update: the Verizon tech tweaked something on their end, now the Launcher at least launches but I get 'Failure to authenticate:' as an error code when I try to login. Launching the game directly results in a login server timeout.
Verizon FIOS, Lutherville MD. Called up Verizon, they insisted it was a problem on my end and remotely reset either my Actiontec or my ONT (not sure which). It's getting dropped between me and PWE. It's getting dropped by one of the hops through an ALTER.NET server, which looks to me like a Verizon enterprise-class…
Having problems at home in Lutherville-Timonium MD, Verizon FIOS. Haven't been able to connect all day. Tracing route to patchserver.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1] 2 7 ms 6 ms 6 ms L100.BLTMMD-VFTTP-14.verizon-gni.net…
/sign this whole thread. The super-high requirements of items that basically _have_ to be purchased to get things done in a reasonable time frame (DOffs) is killing my small fleet's ability to recruit our friends to start playing the game. We've gotten a few to start playing it because it's F2P, but when they realize…