Quote Originally Posted by JimboTCB View Post
Not sure if it's the same on every server, but the character creation lockouts dynamically update on an almost constant basis (much more frequently than the 4-hour intervals that the help pages suggest). If you can get on at slow times of day (if such a thing exists on that server) or shortly after the servers have come back up after maintenance, you might get lucky and be able to create a new character there.
Yep. Balmung was open at 7am (CDT) today. I don't know if it's locked now or not, though.