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Due to an unexpected outage in our network center, all SOE websites, forums, and login servers are currently unavailable. This outage does not currently affect the game servers and players who are currently in game should not be affected.

The SOE network and operations teams are working toward a resolution at this moment, and as soon as we can provide an ETA for a restoration of these services, this post will be updated. We apologize for this unexpected outage, and thank you for your understanding.

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UPDATE:

The network team appears to have solved the problem, and things should be getting back to normal in short order. Thank you again for your understanding and patience, if any further maintenance is required we will update you in this post.

Let's Play "Where's Ashlanne?"

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Just remember that we love Ash so don't do anything horribly mean and not fun to her! Also, don't break the forum rules in the process!!!

This morning we experienced a brief network outage that affected all SOE games and websites. Crack SOE Network and Operations Ninja’s flashed to the scene and worked their kung-fu furiously to get things back in action for you. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused, but things look to be under control and stable pending any other giant monster attacks on the server room. Thanks for your understanding.

No hamsters were harmed in the restoration of network capacity…

(I know I don't post here on normal days, but I don't want you guys to not get the word. Please forgive my attempts at humor, the EQII folks are used to it... )

UPDATE:
It also appears that a great number of people have lost their forum ranks and can not post. I have contacted the forums team so they can look into this. (/me heads off to find out who invoked Murphy's Law today.)

Today I traveled to Las Vegas to attend CES. This is my first ever trip to CES so I was fairly excited as I woke up and readied myself for the airport and short flight from San Diego to Sin City. The flight was good, and I soon found myself in Vegas.

My expectations for CES were based on my memories of E3 at it's peak, lots of cool things to see, and hordes of people with very little room to move. I was pleasantly surprised to find that while there were indeed a lot of cool things to see, there was also plenty of room to move! I spent my day exploring the show floor with EM Stock and having a fantastic time. There is something about technology that makes row upon row of geek toys a peak experience.

I had on my comfortable shoes, so even putting miles and miles under my feet was no trouble. The day went fast, and I learned a few lessons that are quite useful in Vegas:

One cab ride costs as much as 3 days of the tram!
Single day passes for the tram are $9; 3 day passes are $40. Do that math...
CES is just plain cool. I wanted every booth to have a contest, because they all had something I wanted!
Quarks is cool! Yes, EM and I got a preview of the bar before our meet and greet tomorrow!

We ended the day with a fine meal at Benihana, surrounded by good people. Talking casually about our games with folks who know them is one of the best parts of these show. It's also one of the best parts of the meet and greets, which makes me very excited about tomorrow night. Online games are social beasts, and any opportunity to meet with the people behind the avatars is a great reminder of how inter connected we all are by the games we play.

It's midnight here, so I got home early and behaved! My mother and wife will be proud! So far the money eater has only cost me a dollar, I really didn't have time to gamble beyond the token "I'll feed this to the loot destroyer on the odd chance that I hit."

I should have quit when I won 80 cents.. SMILEY

I'm going to try to shoot some pics from Quark's tomorow with my phone, so I can upload and share them. If you are anywhere near Vegas.. come join us!