Aion congestion problems solved!
Well it seems that NCsoft has come up with an ingenious method of dealing with congestion problems that have been plaguing them since launch… disable character creation! less congestion when you have no more players coming in 
To be fair, this was only limited to 10 specific servers but still, imposing that type of rule on the player base and causing friends to be unable to join friends is a sure way to get some angry people quick. Of course the devs had a solution to that as well, allow character transfers.
So the choice becomes… change servers to play with BOB over on the other server and abandon the friends you already have on your current server OR stay on your current server and tell BOB to take a hike and find new friends. fun fun.
Read below for the list of servers that were impacted by this:
“Character Creation Disabled on Ten Servers
We are temporarily disabling the creation of new characters on the following servers:
[Oceanic] Nezekan
[East] Marchutan
[West] Ariel
[East] Israphel
[East] Lumiel
[West] Siel
[East] Zikel
[East] Azphel
[East] Triniel
[West] Vaizel
This is intended to provide a population distribution to some of our newer servers and to allow us to ban certain accounts engaged in prohibited activities. We expect to re-enable character creation within the next 24 hours and hope this will improve your overall game experience.
Please note that this adjustment will have no negative impact or extended interruption of service to the logged-in communities of these servers. The servers may disconnect you very briefly, but you should be able to log in again right away.”
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About time… Been hearing that the issues have made players quit the game as soon as they started.