world data could not be obtained

[itti18]

now i can see my character , but still same error

[Tachyon]

Can see my character, can try and log in.

Players in queue : 287

Then same error again

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Ok, so I got on, but it looks like anything I did for the last 5 minutes before crash poofed

[Catwho]

Got in here. Guess it's back up for now.

An educated guess, as someone who has worked in a data center, was a HDD failover and recovery in the array. A properly set up RAID 10 or 50 array would allow for all the data to be instantly inferred from the other HDDs with a simple reboot and applied over to the dead disk. Then a technician comes along and swaps the dead disk for a fresh one, and life continues on as normal. I doubt they're running on Windows or else I'd blame a windows patch, lol.

Regardless of whether it was a hardware problem, a random glitch causing a reboot, or someone tripping over the power cord, the minimal amount of down time is pretty indicative of a server reboot of some sort.