Hazards of creating characters on JPN servers?

[Wraithwin]

OK - So I'm really still not able to connect when I'm actually able to play.

Many people suggested making characters on JPN servers as a means to actually do anything.
But then I heard a number of people saying they were unable to access their NA/EU characters.

Apparently... I did not express this to my wife - or if I did - I was mumbling.
She made a character on Tiamat yesterday so she could at least do SOMETHING, but our mains are on Gilgamesh.
Now, when she tries to view character lists, NA/EU won't even display: "Unable to attain list"
Funny thing is - I just loaded, and got the same error for JPN server: "Unable to attain list"

Is it actually denying you the ability to view servers opposite your last log-in?
Did this somehow re-register the players as a JPN player instead of NA/EU?
This would be a tragic tip of the iceberg for her, if she lost her NA/EU characters.

Does anyone actually have information on whether or not the other data is retained, and if/how it can be accessed again?

[ImLikeYes]

You do know the servers are getting updated right? I know a number of people that have made characters on JP servers including myself and I log onto my NA server just fine.

[Atrious]

You do know the servers are getting updated right? I know a number of people that have made characters on JP servers including myself and I log onto my NA server just fine.

I find it very hard to believe that you are logging into Excalibur "Just fine" lol.....

[Wraithwin]

Indeed. I merely thought it strange that I couldn't view JP, and she couldn't view NA/EU at approximately the same time.

There were several threads in the past 5 days where people posted an inability-to-access / fear-of-having-lost their NA/EU characters after creating a JP character.
Most of those posts fell by the wayside though without any definitive answer for resolution, and since my wife has been able to view NA/EU again.
(she indicated this a half-second after I clicked: "create thread")

Figured this post could still contain information for people facing a similar issue and give them answers that never seemed to show up in the others.

[Adamethius]

I have a similar issue albeit on the opposite side of the coin per say. My situation was the same in that since I could not do anything in the Beta and Early Access phases that I decided to indefinitely start playing on a JP server. Lo to my behest, I grew fond of my character and enjoyed playing in the JP server. Although I was on the FOREVER ALONE state I carried on with the thought that heroes are lone wolves and started to please myself (not in that way). Today, this maintenance happened. And I couldnt log in due to the game being unable to retrieve an update. So I went to a friend and copied his 'boot' directory over to mine and it resolved my issue.

"I WAS REDEI!", I thought, as I hastily punched in my great password of 12389179082 characters.
I was able to log in, patched, and my game came up. What greeted me to my horror was a character I was able to create in Phase 2 of Beta... instead of my handsome Drow-ish character (that looks like me IRL by the way, minus the effeminacy that plagues all elf races in lore) that I created in Early Access. My JP server list disappeared!

I am now contemplating crafting a girlfriend made of wood. Maybe she will cheer me up.

[Wraithwin]

I have a similar issue albeit on the opposite side of the coin per say...
...I was able to log in, patched, and my game came up. What greeted me to my horror was a character I was able to create in Phase 2 of Beta... instead of my handsome Drow-ish character (that looks like me IRL by the way, minus the effeminacy that plagues all elf races in lore) that I created in Early Access. My JP server list disappeared!

I am now contemplating crafting a girlfriend made of wood. Maybe she will cheer me up.

Guessing the phase-2 style character was not on JP servers, eh?
Since, my wife's been able to see both, but still not log into her US character.
I got lucky it seems and logged in last night for a whole hour, but didn't want to play without her, so I just crafted/gathered.

Best I can tell, is that with the issues (now) hitting both server sets, they're having inter-communication issues.
Can usually be resolved by X in the lower left, then selecting "Play" again - provided the servers aren't actually down, of course.

My first character is always self-symbolic ~ Then my alternates are always far from myself.

As for the girlfriend made of wood... Dude... All I can say is "splinters" and quote Sterling Archer: "Dannnger Zooone!"