Quote Originally Posted by scorpnode View Post
Thanks it worked! You're a lifesaver!
A lot of MMOs have integrated their web presence with the main account. Consider this-

There is NO AFK kick currently in FFXIV. In most MMOs, if you DC the character is left in the world and you can't log into another one until it has timed out. Is there a timeout for FFXIV? I'm not sure there is... every time I have experienced issues it has been due to a disconnect- I get DCed, and can't log into my main thanks to the fact that the server is full of AFKers and the que is full- 1017. I can't log into another toon because my main is still active on my account because I didn't log out gracefully (got DCed)

Unfortunately, I've made other characters to give me something to do while I wait for my main but since I've never actually played them, they don't yet "exist" to Lodestone- my only option is my main.

Going through Lodestone and changing characters is basically forcing your bugged character to log out of the game and allowing you to log into another, otherwise who knows. I bet my main is still standing next to the tree I was logging when I DCed as I type this, hours later.