Quote Originally Posted by nuyu11 View Post
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ouch, that really sucks. Tonberry is one of the more popular servers to boot. >_<;;

Ignoring the capped server debates- My biggest advice then is to find out when the peak hours are for Tonberry Server. Avoid those times and do your best to create your character during off hours. I would also suggest trying to do it during the work week when you might have a better chance of having the server open.
I think if you saved your character appearance data you can simply select it quickly, name your character, pick a class and go.

Also, what other players have said is to make a character right before or after a maintenance. Luckily for you patch 2.5 is about to go live (still got several hours to go! >_<). I would update your client and just be ready, maybe you can get in quickly while others update and the like. If you cannot get in today wait for the inevitable hotfix patch that happens shortly after every big patch. Some layers will start to log out anywhere from 15-30min before the servers go down and that will hopefully enough time for you to get into Tonberry.

Keep in mind that this can take some time but keep trying since ultimately that is the server you want to go to and the one that best suits your play style.
Best of luck! ^^