Quote Originally Posted by Gyson View Post
They are, in part, an issue at this point because of a frustrating design.

We have to do this over and over and over again, until we eventually luck out and successfully advance to the character selection screen. At this point we're in a queue that may or may not actually count down (the latter sure seems to be a bug). And after spending a hefty amount of time in this queue we often end up getting a lobby server error, and then dumped back to the desktop.
Pretty much agreed with everything you have said in the above post. If you find the queue isn't advancing after awhile you can try canceling wait a few minutes then select your character again. Canceling sends you to the character selection, not the start screen, and from there you can try again in a few minutes. Sometimes you still get to loading and then crash out again, but it saves you from the connecting to server 2002 & 5006 errors to some degree.