[Feedback, kinda] The character creation restriction - worst experience I've ever had

[Niwashi]

Sorry to hear you're having this problem. It's unfortunately not an uncommon one for certain servers. Which server are your friends on?

The way the server restrictions works is just by checking the number of players currently online against some threshold, so trying at odd times of day (like really early in the morning) when fewer people are playing improves your chances quite a bit, though on one or two of the busiest servers even that might not always work. Another option some people use is to start on a different server and then purchase a server transfer onto the one they wanted. It's frustrating to have to pay to bypass a server limitation, but at least that way the automated transfer system is the one rechecking over and over again until it finds a chance to get you in. So even though SE's official stance is that server transfers aren't immune to character creation restrictions, they effectively seem to be.

Wish you better luck than you've had so far


p.s. The 1000 character limit on the forums is another strange rule. It's only checked when first making a post and not when editing it, so you can get around the limitation by posting a stub, using "Edit Post" and putting in the rest.