If you are having problems logging in try this!

[Kosmos992k]

No, not trolling at all.
I think the characters remains online until your connection/ip is active, even if you are out of the game.
If you turn your router off, the characters crashes and you can log back in, it really worked for me, and I doubt SE fixed it for me, since last time I got this error I couldn't login for a whole day.

Hmm... been thinking, aren't SE doing hourly house keeping on characters in the 3102 situation and forcing a logoff on them? You may simply be seeing your character come back because of that.