Achillean

Could also try loading a previous save-state, assuming they are available.

They are PST, so that means anytime 6-30 hours from now i might get my server back, f-ing ridiculous.

I am a New York server. Ever since about 5pm EST connecting to the server has been iffy, and then once you are in the game is so laggy that its basically unplayable. I dont know if its something from the patch this afternoon, or something happened with survivalservers. Maybe both. It was taking forever to just get the server to restart. ServerID # 34374

did an update/validate on my server, popup says up to 20 minutes, taking 30+ minutes and no change.

It seems that every day I end up with this same problem. No explanation in game of why it wont connect. Just endlessly dumped to main menu, or worse, some pseudo login, but never actually making it to the game. Anyone else having these problems?

Same exact situation as the OP. Directed to make a new character upon login.

I can confirm that 2 = Relaxed. Therefore, I would guess that : 0 = All 1 = Purist 2 = Relaxed 3 = Hardcore 4 = Roleplay 5 = Experimental

Yes, this is happening for us too. We are also getting items in some containers just simply appearing to be other items. For these, having the person who can see what the actual item is, take the item out and put it back in fixes it.

Yeah, i want to put mine into the Relaxed category. I havent had a single random person join yet.