Post your most ill-timed or inconvient server crash experiences here .. for the fun!?

[Enkidoh]

I rememebr once I was doing the Vanu beasttribe quests in The Sea of Clouds during HW's time, and I was flying along midway through the objective of a particular tribal quest when all of a sudden the sceen went black with a error 90000 window. Then the game crashed back to the desktop. Upon logging back into the game, I was suddenly on the other side of the map (back at Camp Cloudtop) - presumedly when the server crashed it couldn't restore my character's last known location so defaulted to sending me to the nearest aetheryte camp as a failsafe (it had also reset my current status in the tribal quest to all objectives incomplete). Annoying, but could have been so much worse.

I think nothing tops 1.0 though for instability and errors, with the standout for me was when on the day of the Calamity (the last day of 1.0's original operation), I was hit with a server calamity in a different way, half an hour before the end, I was suddenly booted back to the title screen with a weird 'time out' error, and I couldn't log back in, the servers were just that congested, as shown on this picture (this was kind of replicated in the launch days of ARR, SB and EW where massive cues and server lockouts were the norm):



And in an touch of irony, it's now a little over 13 years since that day..

Par for the course during 1.0 of course, but was still annoying that Enki disappeared from Eorzea half an hour ahead of schedule.