Originally Posted by Zandel

Well I do normally get to log into the game less than an hour after maint has finished so perhaps that's the reason I never seem to have any trouble. Except for the server crashes they had last event I have not had a serious issue with the game for about 12 months and I only clear my cache when there is an issue. As an IT professional I can confirm that your own PC does make a difference to things like this and that a clean machine causes far less problems than one you have not cleaned in a while (software wise, not physically tho that helps sometimes as well).

The same can be said of me: that I usually get to log in immediately after maintenance. (Also that I have a clean machine - and one that I otherwise have no trouble with -, and even that I have education in IT.) And I still had absurd amounts of problems this event. I have ideas as to what the difference may be, but I'm practically sure it's not the login time.

Probably has something to do with internet providers then, I'm Australian so other than rather slow internet (compared to the rest of the world) my connection is stable and reliable. I know a lot of American ISPs are not as reliable and tend to restrict odd data flows at times for no obvious good reason.

Originally Posted by Zandel

Probably has something to do with internet providers then, I'm Australian so other than rather slow internet (compared to the rest of the world) my connection is stable and reliable. I know a lot of American ISPs are not as reliable and tend to restrict odd data flows at times for no obvious good reason.

That's one of the things I've been thinking of. I'm from a country that shall remain unnamed (not American), and the internet connection has been, shall we say, not flawless for as long as I remember. I didn't immediately draw a connection to that as I am so used to that problem (and as the same problem had not happened before this last maintenance). But it could be.
The other thing I can imagine, and the one that is my primary theory, is a difference on browsers. I base this on my experience that sometimes when one game element doesn't work in one browser, I can use it in another until it gets properly dealt with. (For example, once for a day I could only use my garden in Firefox. But that was a while ago, I forget when.) So the first thing I tried is to play the game in different browsers. One browser I am unwilling to use though, for my own reasons, is Chrome; so maybe it was working in Chrome long before other browsers. Is that what you use?

Yeah I use Chrome before anything else, it has been the browser with the least problems for me out of all of them, firefox being the one with the most, then IE and puffin.

Originally Posted by Zandel

Yeah I use Chrome before anything else, it has been the browser with the least problems for me out of all of them, firefox being the one with the most, then IE and puffin.

Ah, that would corroborate my idea then.
Firefox does have a lot of problems for me too, and even when it doesn't, it seems to be very slow; but I'm not about to rule out using it sometimes, seeing how it proved useful during the garden incident, and also at other times I don't recall now. I'll admit that now I am even considering maybe using Chrome in the future when there are problems like this. So this was a fruitful discussion for me, and I thank you.

try desktop puffin

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Ah, that would corroborate my idea then.
Firefox does have a lot of problems for me too, and even when it doesn't, it seems to be very slow; but I'm not about to rule out using it sometimes, seeing how it proved useful during the garden incident, and also at other times I don't recall now. I'll admit that now I am even considering maybe using Chrome in the future when there are problems like this. So this was a fruitful discussion for me, and I thank you.

If you haven't tried Firefox in a while, try out the latest build (61.0 "Quantum"); it's significantly faster without sacrificing privacy.

Originally Posted by Taon

If you haven't tried Firefox in a while, try out the latest build (61.0 "Quantum"); it's significantly faster without sacrificing privacy.

Does it require a full reinstall of the browser or can you just update your existing Firefox into the new version ?

Also will you be able to transport your search history, bookmarks etc into the new build ?