Very weak connection

[end-user]

I was excited to see/try the game, but, as yet, have been completely unable to even make it through character creation!  I just ran a continual ping behind the game, and my connection to the server was fine; never broken.  Is there something I\'m missing?

Why does the game crash/close when the server goes \"linkdead\"?  All I want to do is read through the character creation options.  Is there some way I can create a local server to get through this stage?

I must say, this is very frustrating.

[Moogie]

The linkdead issues are being worked on- please be patient.

[Kramy]

I had the same problem, but opening ports 7354 and 13331 on my router seems to have increased the time before linkdead for me, to about 10 minutes. That was enough to read through half the char creation info before linkdead, so if it works for you(assuming you have a router/firewall) you\'d still have to do it two or three times to read it all.

[end-user]

Well, is there a way to create a \'localhost\' server?

And, could someone just post all the text (and costs) for the char creation options on the website?