"Unable to select __ as a destination for Return to Home World requests at this time"

Hi there!

I travelled to a different datacenter to practice sparing/PvP with someone. I jumped from my homeworld, Siren (Aether), to Diabolos (Crystal). I spent a few hours there, then attempted to return to Siren.

Upon logging out and selecting "Return to Home World", I received a message:

https://imgur.com/8ah7nP8

"Unable to select Siren as a destination for Return to Home World requests at this time."

I spent several minutes attempting several times with no luck. Eventually, I tried "Visit Another World Server" from the drop-down menu, and within literal seconds, my character "arrived" on Goblin (Crystal). Almost immediately, I was able to select Return to Home World with no issues.

I am aware this issue has been brought up before, but the last mention on the forums was from over 6 months ago. I'm also aware the situation usually occurs with congestion, but I don't believe that Siren was congested at the time. (Based on the time it took me to get into Siren upon actual login and the number of people in Novice Network - neither of which is an actual indication, admittedly, but both are useful for judging how busy a world is). In addition, I found it very odd that I was almost instantly able to transfer back as soon as I was on a different world than that which was giving me the error.

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