Apparently you guys don't read else you would have known that the quite below is correct.. Stop freaking out this is intentional when servers come up after maint...
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Most likely it's because only 500 people can be queued at once, and since the servers aren't up everyone's bombarding that 500-person queue. Once the servers come up 1017 should disappear quickly....(Note: I just got a queue on Balmung, 79 people....let's hope it doesn't go to error 90000....)
EDIT: In game now
Yup I'm getting it on Leviathan for the first time since two weeks ago but I agree it must be because it's right after maintenance .
ITT: people who don't understand that an error code is not a bug to be fixed, but a symptom of an occurring issue (hint: that issue is login throttling, and working as intended)
So, after the expected deduction in players once the charges came in, SE have reduced the number of active signons.... but too low. GG SE. Still, they got our moneys for signing on for 30 or more days. Mug {you can have this}.
If maintenance didn't happen during PRIME TIME then there wouldn't be a million people shoving themselves into the login server at once.
Sigh, really?
Got into a queue! Hurray! ...wait, 1017'd again anyway. The fuck...