A System Error has occurred-2146697211 - HTTPS System Error

[Geist]

EU player here - on Ragnarok, Chaos datacenter (I was previously on Excalibur, NA).

This has been an episodic occurrence for me, too. I'm under the impression that certain routes to the lobby server and on occasion the forums aren't working reliably at all times - most likely because of nodes experiencing problems down the pipeline (somewhere in between your point of origin and SE) and failing and/or operating erratically under duress.

This seems to be corroborated by the fact that you could get the client to work as expected and access the lobby by using a different connection method:

- tethering to your smartphone;
- tunneling through a VPN service.

The first one is probably the most accessible and painless temporary solution for average players, but in both instances, please make sure that there's some degree of encryption turned on. Then get ready to switch back to your "regular" connection once you're at character select, and everything should work as expected (the issue isn't affecting the datacenters).

So, it's most certainly a network/bad routing issue, rather than a client configuration/software-side problem. Hopefully the routes will stabilize in time for the release of patch 4.1.