We are currently experiencing an ISP outage. Our internet service provider, RoadRunner Communications, is experiencing technical difficulties in our area and a technician has been dispatched.
Our websites, games, and other internet-based services became unavailable at 5:06 PM EST. I spoke with a Mr. Tod Clark, the senior manager over in RoadRunner tech support for the area and he dispatched someone to handle it A.S.A.P. I also spoke with him at great lengths about the frequent daily outages (lasting for a few minutes to 15 minutes sometimes) ans well as the entire history of outages we've had and so we may be arranging for some maintenance if the problems continue.
As I spoke with him, someone hand-delivered him a notice that there are at least a hundred users without internet service in this area, so the problem is not with just us, for once, unfortunately it also means the outage will not just last a few more minutes, but possibly up to an hour or longer.
Unfortunately, due to the nature of this outage, we have no access to the internet and can therefore not notify you, our players (this forum only loads up locally at the server right now), so this message is really only for the benefit of "finding out what happened" once we do return online.