Quote Originally Posted by Nova_Dresden View Post
right now the main problem is specifically with the players
This is absolutely false. The majority of the playerbase doesn't have the time/patience/whatever to sit for hours re-entering their credentials like some do. Those people, which constitute the bulk of the potential load, have already stopped attempting to log in. Already only a small fraction of the amount of players who are interested in playing right now are even trying to get in.

If you're on Balmung or Gilgamesh and you're getting the error then...
The lobby errors are from Aether's load, not from Balmung and Gilgamesh. Yes, Aether is congested because it's housing the two most popular servers, but players from every server on Aether attempting to log in all contribute equally to the same load that's killing Aether, regardless of which server within Aether they're going to end up logging into.