I had this issue when I first started, and it was really upsetting. Despite the game saying that my server was open for character creation, I was not able to create a character. I had to wake up at 3am just to be able to create a character on my server.

I understand the queues and stuff but I don't see why creating a character is such a problem. Why can't we create a character and still wait to log in due to queues? Absolutely ridiculous having to either wake up super early (the only time the server seems to accept creations) or to freaking pay for a transfer.