queues
No More AFK Shops
Seems NCSoft is none too happy about people using their personal shops as a a means of remaining logged in.
We are bringing the servers down at 6:00AM PST (more), September 25th, for maintenance. The purpose of this downtime is to tweak the way Private Stores work. A timer of 30 minutes will be implemented to prevent these shops from being abused as a means to prevent disconnection and alleviate queues.
The maintenance is expected to run no longer than 1 hour.
My feelings about this are mixed. On one hand, I absolutely hate walking into an outpost or town and seeing nothing but shop windows (the ones about everyone’s heads advertising their oh so cheap prices… fyi numbnuts, a million for a manastone is not cheap, and you aren’t going to trick anyone into buying one).

