It's a temporary bug that got highlighted by the influx of new players. We had this sort of thing before, it's being looked into and will be squashed relentlessly.

In any event, coming from EvE it is nice to see Devs and GMs in the Help and general channels and being extra responsive to player base. I also like the mechanics of the game so far and the familiarity of it coming from that other MMO.

Good job. Keep on doing a good job and players will reward you with years of subscription fees!

It would be wasted development time, as they arent planning on having a server cap any time soon.

This is just a temporary fix until they modify the overloaded server to handle the new players.

Hell, I'd say to the vets to log off for the time being and let as many new players access the game as possible right now.  Shutting a new player out the first time he tries to play is much worse than an 8 month vet not logging in 1 day.

But I wanted to play

With all due respect, and your post doesn't garner very much of it, but that's about the worst idea you could have suggested.

We aren't spilling over to PO in order to "ruin" it, a lot of people are jumping ship because CCP has utterly lost the faith of the playerbase.  blocking free-trial accounts would be an incredibly poor corporate move because they're literally doubling and tripling the number of trial subs within a couple of days.. responding by blocking people who want to play the game would be a fast track for all the potential new customers to go somewhere else.

Give the devs a chance to fix the problem and as far as the influx of new players...

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Just for clarification: Does this necessitate a client update?
If so: Will the client inform me (if I am already on the Login screen) or would I need to re-start for the client to notice this?

BoyC: What I meant is: If you fix the current relay-issue.
Is that purely server-side?

Thanks for the detailed info   I'm a noob player here and I'm enjoying the heck out of this game and the community.   Stuff happens - good luck with a quick resolution to the problems!

Yes this is a server side issue, we'll need to do a hotfix once the issue has been addressed - we'll also most likely deploy a client to go with it for some of the requested features like chat channel search. You'll see the patch notes in the server status, this might take 1-2 days to work out though. Until then we're gradually increasing the user limit until the point we can so more of you can play the game.
Again, sorry for the limitations - we figure it's better to have a stable server for a limited number of players than an unstable one for everyone. The sheer number of new people caught us with our guards down. We're doing our best to resolve the problems.

I'll gladly sit out the next couple days, and give my 2 spots to the trials.

I'm just glad to see many more players in the PST time zone, it was so too quiet.

Server Full.

Def.

1.  You are too popular.  Much more popular than anyone in the corporation knew.

2.  Demand for said product was severely underestimated.

3.  See #2.

4.  Making a single shard, single MMO, is hard.  See the entire history of EVE.

5.  Not what I want to see after 8 months, past beta.  But summer is when "students" have
     a lot more free time.  Why couldn't they go to eve?

6.  Please not another STO.  Nooooooooo! 

7.  I am not happy.  Major understatement.

8.  See number 7 to the exponent of 1999999.

9.  I luv what you've done with the game so far.  Missiles are nerfed to hell, but I don't
     use them. 

10.  Keep up the good work. 

Note : don't take any of this seriously.  I am just not happy.

This is another useless reply in a thread that will be lost in space and time, forever and
ever.

Have a nice day.